Description
Penhaligon’s: “Being secretly the son of Lord George and Clandestine Clara certainly explains Radcliff’s weakness for the flesh, but his illegitimacy may have its advantages. Unburdened by title or propriety, Radcliff indulges in fast cars and even faster women – his raison d’être parties and provocation. A prominent note with Roaring Radcliff is of course tobacco – strong, smoky and distinctive to his set. He also always carries with him gingerbread – adding its sweet spiciness to his father’s love of liquor – in Rutherford’s rum. Sexy and rebellious – what well-bred girl would not succumb to his charm? As he is wont to whisper in their inclining ears… The night is young…”
The nose behind this fragrance is Daphné Bugey. Top notes are bergamot, tarragon and rum; middle notes are ginger, rose and tobacco; base notes are amberwood, beeswax, cinnamon, honey, leather and tonka bean.
Available as a 75 ml EDP. Roaring Radcliff was launched in 2016.
Lokomot – :
Over-composed to the point where it turns into a mess. A horrible grey, playdoh fennel scented, unpleasant experience.
I feel there are too many of these portrait fragrances now. A lot of them are quite generic and don’t seem very much like the classic Penhaligon fragrances.
Most of them are well made, Lord George and Sohan are the highlights, a lot of the others are passable or have likeable elements.
This one starts off ok, an over fussy floral. Later it developed into something that seemed like it was trying to be everything at once but failing at it. Metallic, marine, honey, tobacco, floral, aniseed, fruity, it is just too much and too badly composed.
Like in Nausica where the giant world destroying monster is revived, but too early and it just melts and dies.
Here we are at the bottom of the barrel. Hopefully Penhaligons will slow down or move on from all these portrait fragrances.
ibr-77 – :
I agree with Jamie81 it is similar to Chergui. Despite what others have said, the HONEY IS PROMINENT and in A VERY SWEET WAY. Not sure how I feel about it yet, but sweet honey and baby powder is really not my thing.
LArqtIF – :
The guy at David Jones was adamant that scent has no gender and picked this out for me to try.
Boozy leather with honey background, tobacco & gingerbread-y.
Yum!
I don’t care if this is supposed to be a “Men’s” scent,
It’s wonderful; I wore my sample to the Rocky Horror Show, then went and got a FB.
I love it, I love it a lot.
Bottle 10/10 Scent 10/10
vasindzhon – :
In the realm of Chergui and Un Crime Exotique.
kes – :
Just bought a full bottle at fragrance net and have been testing it for the last 7 days. Well, the good news is the box is nicely designed and the initial smell when sprayed is awesome. For a parfum I would expect it to last more than 60 seconds before turning into a skin scent, but unfortunately that is what I have experienced. Let me add that my spray routine is about 20 sprays now with Radcliff. I can see a little shimmer of the parfum oil on my arm and wrist after this insane spray routine. Im trying to get some sort of longevity and silage but even with that many sprays its still a Zero on the longevity. As a skin scent it will last a few hours. The scent notes are as advertised, with emphasis on the sweet tobacco, but I also smell a little warm spiciness. The animalic and rum notes vanish about 30 seconds after the initial spray, and your left with lingering sweet honey tobacco, which is done right. The bottom line is I feel ripped off because there is absolutely zero longevity or silage.
scent: 9/10
compliments: 2/10
longevity: 1/10
silage: 1/10
Summary: Beautiful overpriced skin scent. A rip off in nice box, bottle and cap. TF tobacco vanile will smell almost the same and have better performance. Mancera Red Tobacco will offer similar notes and last longer and get way more compliments in my opinion. . Nasomatto Baronda is nice rum, spicy pirates of the caribbean scent that might be money better spent. I own all of the above and am very disappointed with Radcliff.
dusik142 – :
I had high expectations based on you tube reviews. Not sweet, somewhat smokey on my skin. Not what I expected from the note breakdown. This combines with poor longevity and sillage doesn’t make this a bottle worthy purchase.
prestigio111 – :
I definitely get sweetish powder but combined with the beeswax and animal themes described above on the accord graph.
if I smell closely on my skin I do get some smoothness to, and a slight boozy-syrupy theme which get weirder by the hour.
Was about to pass it off as a general, non-descript sweet powder sponge that ladies use to pad their faces but sadly the smoother syrupy-booze accord never comes off and really dominates and I’m left with the sticky-sweet animalic powdery oddness.
Not good =/
Like the honeyed tobacco (both quite faint with mainly the thickness being the vanillic-booze still) towards the end and then slightly more tobacco though, but the animalic accord is too strong at the start
My rating: 4/10
sindik85 – :
Fragrance -Roaring Radcliff Penhaligon`s
Bottle from – 2016
This fragrance reminds me of a sophisticated,intuitive and profound gentleman with a bit of wilderness in his heart. Roaring Radcliff is an intelligent interpretation of tobacco with a nice touch of spicy gingerbread and finest warm rum sweeten up with honey.I can detect a wisper of vanilla,but it’s not listed in the notes.It has some similarities to Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford.
Longevity – 10/10(10+ hours)
Silage/Projection – 8,5/10(heavy to moderate projection and silage for the first 3-4 hours)
Weather -Best in autumn and winter
Age – 28+
Compliments – 7/10
Scent – 8,5/10
Main notes according to me – tobacco,honey,rum,ginger,tonka bean.
The drydown is a bit spicy,smokey and moderatly sweet and I get some -rum,tobacco,cinnamon,vanilla and spices.
Emotions –
dark vibe elegance,sophisticated,intuitive,profound,class.
Occasion -special occasions,formal and semi-formal events and nights out.
Definitely will get everyone’s attention.Try before you buy.
Pischer – :
Roaring Radcliff is a nice
tobacco scent with a slightly
gourmandish vibe, the beesway
and honey combined with rum and
tobacco makes it rather sweet
but never cloying, i think it’s
a very nice scent but the price
is rather high for a 75 ml bottle,
and there are tobacco fragrances out
there that projects and lasts way longer.
Tauptusty – :
I already own a bottle of Tobacco Vanille. I don’t need another.Will not be purchasing a bottle of this
машуничка – :
This one starts very differently than Tobacco Vanille but the dry down on my skin is exactly the same. This is quite weird because the notes are not exactly the same, I guess honey gives the sweetness of vanilla, while tonka plays the role of cacao. Not sure why someone would prefer this to TV, maybe the price or the bottle could be a reason. It is very nice scent whatsoever.
*This review was written after several full wearings of the perfume and not just after smelling this on paper or on wrist.
boOwetty – :
Notalara bakıp zengin , güçlü bir tütün odaklı parfüm bekliyorsanız üzülürsünüz. Alakası yok çünkü. Hatta tütün orada mı onu bile anlamak zor. Deri için de aynısı söz konusu. Sadece tonka on planda. Notalar çok hoş görünüyor ama sonuç oyle değil. Sise güzel ama parfüm bence vasat çizgisinde kalmış.
vothsteesia – :
This is a decent scent and I’m not just saying that because of my usual enjoyment of all things Penhaligons, it really is.
Starts out with a new approach which is typical of the house, complex yet understated and apart from fruity top notes and a tobacco/Tonka general nature, it’s something I hadn’t really come across before. However, after the first few minutes it settles and completely changes to a honied, more powdery but ultimately the same scent as TF Tobacco Vanille. I haven’t got a problem with this and even less so for two reasons, it’s not exactly the same and that it has a different opening and drydown, which we will get to in a moment. The problem is that on the whole is this a better fragrance than TV? I don’t really think so. It doesn’t quite have the same balls out strength although the longevity was excellent to be fair. The drydown was much more Tonka bean and a sweeter more playful vanilla than the Tom Ford.
So in conclusion interesting opening which fools you into thinking it’s not a clone of TV, then the heart of it IS TV, then the drydown reminds you it isn’t with some softer, refined tones. A good effort, worth trying but I won’t be buying it.
olesmax7 – :
I’ve had 3 samples of this now and finally took the plunge and coughed up the expensive asking price. 100% amazing rich strong scent, not something I would wear daily but it does last all day and it does receive compliments. To date my favourite scent!
карниа – :
Tried this out today along with Mac Velvet Teddy as I’m looking at tobacco/honey frags at the mo and these 2 were recommended.
Well, what to say about this one?
Its stunning, plain and simple.
Almost as complex as Back To Black with a sublime Tobacco/Honey/Cardamom type opening, a tad boozy, although I couldn’t detect specifically rum but definitely a cognac type thing going on, a touch of something floral, all combined beautifully to provide a rich, smooth, smouldering opening.
20-30 mins in and the honey and tobacco take centre stage, with the odd waft of leather and Christmas spice joining in for good measure. Totally sublime.
HOWEVER, this wonderful experience lasts but a fleeting moment as inside 3 hours this died down to nothing more than a very faint skin scent on me.
I was so disappointed as it smells incredible but alas I will not be buying a bottle.
troyan – :
Zero similarity to TFTV
Long: 2 days on my skin , but after 8 hours sit close but still radiates within arm lenght.
Compliment monster.
10/10
Stephen.r: these kind of rev,. are the complete disaster for a community
Ishtwan – :
Love this. It has citrus in the top but quickly leaves to become a soft, powdery tobacco with a hint of sweetness. The honey is not prominent. It’s there but not in a sickening sweet way. This entire Portraits line reminds me of Histoiries de Parfums. That kind of soft, powdery base. Of those I’ve tried so far, this is my favorite. It is not boring, gourmand or boisterous. In the complete dry down there is serious musk or civet. Six hours later: like vintage Habanita had sex with Salome.