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IonimbKib – :
Somewhat similar to Hard Leather without the animalic notes.
vg_3000 – :
When i first sniffed this around 1.5 years ago it wasn’t as what i’m sniffing right now! maybe it got changed and maybe my nose has developed quite big that this fragrance became more interesting than i thought it was!
A powdery sweet & sour fat-free amber.
Begins boozy woody, and settles soft powdery boozes. No vanilla as much as it’s tonka covering the boozy note (i wonder if it’s really brandy!) with doses of sandalwood and light sweet amber. The settles whiffs between sweet tonka and sour brandy as you keep on sniffing that calming joyful sweet and hintly hazed and hits by that sour boozy note.
Now after the settlement, i get “Sohan” by Penhaligon’s vibes! a more sweet and lighter “Sohan”, i can sense the “Sohan’s” type of oud.
I can classify it as slightly a gourmand ONLY when it settles down & that’s what i sensed when it’s on a plotter and not my skin.
Dleshabloni – :
The thing with penhaligon’s perfumes is theyre bot consistent. First time i smelled this at the shop, i got a huge hit of a boozy note. Almost like replica jazz club. Then it dried down into a warm vanillic tonka note. Then settled as a very dry shaving cream scent. Second time i tried as a sample, I immediately got the shaving cream smell. No boozy notes at all. And it starting to have a vanillic dry down. Im so confused cuz that’s what happened with my oud de nil too. First time i tried it i got florals at the opening woth an oud dry down. The one i purchased was the opposite, oud at first then dries down as a jammy rose wirh hints of oud. Penhaligon’s get your shit together cuz you have wonderful scents!
EdizeZedcew – :
It is a very masculine amber woody scent which reminds me of a 40/50-year-old traditional, decent, well-educated English noble gentleman wearing a three-piece suit and a top hat with gloves on and stick in his hand. If he would use a fragrance, this would be the one. It is indeed what a lord would smell like.
OggY – :
Huh? The notes are all wrong!
This for me is very aptly named, almost too much, haha!
It’s baaad alright. I get a straight up late 80’s barbershop on the 1st spray. Yep. Mossy green, semi-pungent and totally non-sweet that immediately made me think ‘fougere’ or some weird cocktail of beer spiked with very slightly sweet black tea. Huh??
I had to spray twice more just to not kid myself at Selfridges after having the lure of the ‘sweetish notes’
and some kind reviews online stuck firmly in my mind; thank God for testing/samples!
Yes, it warms up to be vaguely nice n sweet but anyway why wait when scents like Tom Ford Vanille fatale gives you the nice warmth and sweet-addiction virtually from the very start?
And with a cooler name, though the minimalist TF bottles does sadly lose out to that Magnificent Antelope-horn thing for the cap.
BUT – let’s talk about THAT cap. Believe me; I did a tensile-strength test on those horns just to test Quality of the metal; it’s staggering – strong and possibly the Highest Quality cap I’ve ever come across; I spent 10 minutes just playing about admiring the strength of the whole thing while trying to be careful not to go too far and bend the horns if they eventually ever would (they would neverrr!) So; 10/10 then,,,,,,
for the bottle =)
My rating: 4/10
sauberm – :
A woody, amber scent with a slightly sweet vanilla feel from the tonka. TOLG does have a boozy vibe; a brandy note seems accurate. This fragrance is pretty linear and not too complex but that isn’t really a bad thing. Smells natural with high quality ingredients. I can see Lord George sipping brandy, sitting in his Queen Anne style wing-back leather chair, looking forlorn into the fire. He tells us about the tragedy that changed him forever.
Projection and sillage feel pretty average. Lasted about eight hours on me before becoming soft. Better suited for colder weather and more formal occasions. Seems okay for work. More mature, “masculine” and I think it’s sexy in an older gentleman kind of way. The bottle is pretty cool and the juice color fits the theme. Far too expensive though. Nice composition and performs decently but not exactly my style.
gen1384 – :
Lord George.
Fragrance for billionaire.
score : 999+ /100
vkontakte456 – :
great fragrance for rich men !!!!! very calm, drunk and classy !!!
very stylish. soft performance but for this parfum is fine because I imagine it used to an elegant class dinner in an elegant house. and too strong it would bother. masterpiece. but the price is indecent.9 / 10 only for the perfume and not for the price.
malish23 – :
Alberto morillas indeed is an artist, super masculine fragrance, definitely suit and tie.
The only bad thing of this is the cap and the price is just too high in my country
korchagin16 – :
I bought one because of the flacon. The scent doesn’t suit me, sadly.
Not a really boozy one, tonka bean and ambre are not the main characters here as I hoped. It is a very strong aromatic woody scent, kind of reminds me of cold winter day in the woods, or maybe someone just got back from a fruitless hunting?
gizaz – :
Now imagine if they could put out something like Opus 1870 in this sort of bottle…
Sorry, you’re on point with the gimmick but the contents do not measure up. Damn shame as it’s a gorgeous flacon. Good news is there’s always next time.
extreeme – :
a boozy “Infusion d’Homme” Prada , after several hours… Charming
talaponec – :
Based on the notes, I expected The Tragedy of Lord George to be a boozy, heavy and slightly sweet scent. Nothing can be farther from the truth. I had to check the sample bottle a couple of times to verify I was wearing TTOLG. Although not listed, there is a prominent lavender note in this one. I also get a herbal vibe, similar to a herbal shampoo. This gives TTOLG a barbershop feel to my nose.
TTOLG is a linear scent on my skin, with moderate projection but great longevity. I am 12 hours in and can still smell it on my skin. I see TTOLG as more of a formal scent, but it would work in trendy casual attire as well.
So what exactly was the tragedy of Lord George? Being overcharged for a decent, but not earth shattering haircut, perhaps?
kdv.xxx – :
I smell some unlisted notes:
* A big dose of neroli in the first 5 minutes;
* plenty of lavender mixing with the tonka.
It’s basically a creamy fougere with shameful longevity. Initially smells very formal and stuffy, but after 5 minutes the shaving cream Accord keeps things very nice for an hour before it all fades to skin level.
Those hoping for a boozy note better have their noses tuned into the first 30 seconds.
ovh334Diobtetty – :
This was a blind buy from an on-board duty free magazine. I blame it all on the champagne, it actually had nothing to do with me! 😀 When I saw that marvellous bottle and read about notes of Tonka, brandy and shaving cream I just had to have it, I thought oo la la you sexy little minx, come to Daddy!
So, this smells like a Laird of the Manor’s expensive aftershave. Yes, it does. Nothing wrong with that, I’m happy to smell like that. This is for guys of a certain age, class and financial staus; perhaps. I can imagine a 40 yr old Scottish farming tycoon wearing it as he floors the throttle of his top-down Aston DB5 with his wellington boots, wearing his tweed jacket and singing Fly me to the Moon at the top of his voice. A guy who is no stranger to a lusty affair, a Cuban cigar or a bottle of Dalmore single malt at whatever time of the day he bloody well likes. This guy doesn’t give a sh¥t about compliments, he has a vintage DB5 for God sake and a cheeky smile to go with it.
I agree with the reviewer who noticed that there is a hint of Bulgari Man in Black in here, that is a really nice little feature. It’s all a bit of a simple, jolly and aristocratic affair. Boozy and manly and subtle. I do like it, very much!
“Oh, let me see what spring is like on, Jupiter and Mars…”
GrooveH7 – :
I’ve worn this a few times now and am still perplexed as to if I want to buy it or not. It’s got an overall shaving cream vibe. Almost a very slight incense I’m picking up. Very sharp type of fragrance when I’m wearing it which sometimes kills my sinuses lol. For the most part it’s got all of the notes described in the fragrance notes section above. I’ve had a compliment or two while wearing it in regards to it smelling really nice; almost like a fresh out of the shower smell. It radiates out there quite a bit for the first hour or so and then sticks to skin level for the duration. Like another reviewer mentioned you feel a kind of regality when wearing this. The bottle is incredible and would be totally welcomed in my collection. I’m looking to buy Invasion Barbare before this one, but this is still on my radar. Just a blip though.
xcvefkrded – :
In complete agreement with Melbourne Man here, sadly. Having received this as a sample from the same service. I wanted to love it for the same reason, but all I got was a screechy metallic mess.
Yes, I may not get it and yes, I may have it in for Penhaligon’s that overcharge quite criminally BUT I do know that this scent isn’t nearly as complex as it sounds.
Starts out somewhat interestingly, then it just devolves into an ‘ambroxan and tonka puddle’ with strong and harsh metallics going on in the back ground.
I refuse to even touch this again, just because of how frightening it is. Do I love other scents by the house? Hell yes! This one sadly just didn’t deliver.
Slash102 – :
HThe perfect scent to wear with formal occasions or professional events. It gives off a vibe of success and class, yet also subtlety and gentleness. A refined fragrant.
I tried Lord George at Penhaligon’s store in Singapore. The staff guy there is so nice and knowledgeable about his product.
I’m in love with both the scent itself, and a visually stunning bottle. I’m considering purchasing this one , but the price range a bit to high, so I really need to consider.
critredsrek – :
The Tragedy of Lord George
Penhaligon’s
Notes
Brandy
Tonka Bean
Amber
Woodsy notes
MONARCH OF THE GLEN
Lord George Penhaligon’s profile is as follows:
“Lord George is a wealthy and respected man, the archetypal patriarch. He seems to embody the noblest values of the aristocracy: virtue, respect, loyalty and faithfulness. His fragrance reflects his essence; seemingly traditional, yet with hidden secrets. The flesh is weak.”
This description of his character in this Portait series sounds like it should be more complex and more of an engaging fragrance, especially with the title of “Tragedy”, suggesting there should be a melancholic aura. But no. This lacks character. It would have been better had the formula included notes of leather, musk, and green accords. With such a small amount of notes the fragrance is dull, and flat. Smells like malt liquor with a vanilla flavor, and not a brandy, over a base of amber soap. Ultimately this is a shaving soap scent, very much out of a domestic setting. I know what you’re thinking. Why would I care about a man’s cologne? I happen to wear both women and men’s fragrances and enjoy unisex frags, especially scents that are more than the sum of their parts and have the power to fire up your imagination and establish a mood, a character, a setting. Fragrances can do so much for you, more than just make you smell good.
I love the bottle with the deer stopper. It reminds me of Sir Edwin Landseer’s painting The Monarch of the Glen. Like that painting, which has been replicated many times and used as advertisement for products such as soap, this cologne can be used many times throughout the year because it’s just a casual and very bland kind of scent for a man who might not care for cologne.
I usually find something I like about a fragrance but this time around I had little that pleased me. I like the bottle and the touch of vanilla via the tonka bean, but this is not the brandy boozy scent I was looking for. The amber is the aroma chemical ambroxan which turns up in most of today’s men’s colognes. This is not a bad smelling scent. It’s just common. It does not smell of an aristocrat with multiple estates, horses and who is good company to the king but of a commoner, a blue collar man in the city. Normally I don’t care for such thing but if they are describing it as a Lord George cologne, it would have to smell more refined.
This is why I wish it had leather as in expensive leather on his horse saddle or the interior of his coach, and more aromatic green or heavier woodsy scents to smell like being alone in the forest. If they had made it a chypre it would evoke the lonely spirit of Lord George as he retires into the deep woods to contemplate nature an the nature of man. And where is the tragedy? Has something happened to Lord George that made him fall from grace? Is this the Lord George that was married to Lady Blanche who took revenge on him and based on the smell, he went broke? No longer surrounded in luxury, he is smelling of a bar of soap – as in prison soap? Or did Blanche take revenge by murdering him? What exactly was her revenge on Lord George? Oh well. I wish that the notes could actually match up with a storyline. For me this is a simple ambroxan with vanilla and a dash of wood, no nonsense and soapy, quite soapy. This cologne is almost a variation on Coty Stetson but without being so powdery.
The fragrance can be described as clean and that’s the best compliment I can give it. This is a clean scent as in your skin but better. Smells good after a shower and worn with a suit and tie, conservative and a fragrance that shows it’s public face and not it’s private more passionate side. This is the male equivalent to The Revenge of Lady Blanche which is also Blanche’s public persona and her mask, that is the hypocritical and fake side of her as opposed to her true nature. Lord George’s cologne is for day wear with clean puffy shirts, cravats, waistcoats, pocket watches, hats, and walking canes, top hats, and Prime Minister Parliament type of conservative attire, the gentleman façade.
It’s more of an 18th century men’s fashion type of smell. It would have scented a cravat. Alas the cologne never reveals the hidden and dark side of his character which I’m assuming is a sexual and deviant side. In those days some of the men of the aristocracy were what we would call bisexual today but their homosexual relations they kept hidden from the public and their own spouses and families. Notes like tobacco, patchouli and chypre ingredients would have made this more interesting. Not bad but not exciting. If you like soapy vanilla scents for men in the vein of Coty Stetson or Pinaud Clubman and the smell of aftershave this is for you.
vireshnik – :
However much I like this scent it is still the price point that holds me back from purchasing a bottle. This is a scent that is built around accords. Most notibly in my mind it has a shaving soap scent. I feel that other scents can be mixed in order to create similar scents. This reminds me very much of Bvlgari Man in Black. It just needs mixing with a perfume with more amber in it to create something similar in scent
accomfops – :
Tragedy of Lord George is one of Penhaligon’s Portrait Series released 2016.
$268 AUD can get you a 75 ml bottle of this. That is one of the better prices I’ve seen quoted.
Listed notes are brandy, amber (ambroxan), woody notes and tonka bean. Other sites also list shaving cream, which I do pick up.
I was keen to smell this because of the brandy, but boy was it a fleeting whiff in the opening. Brandy for about 30 seconds and then straight into a heart of, well, shaving cream. Not even really classy smelling shaving cream of the Rive Gauche variety, but cheap shaving cream. I got no real wood notes and now in the dry down all I get is a sickly, plasticky ambroxan and tonka puddle.
This was very disappointing from a house that I keep wanting to like, but apart from a couple of fragrances, has continued to disappoint.
Don’t let the impressive looking bottle and cap fool you, I think it’s meant to be a distraction from how cheap this fragrance actually smells.
Dridgeidorbiz – :
goes on sort of like Oud Saphir then quickly becomes a sweet (brandy), powdery tobacco (woody) vibe then dries down with that spicy feel like SJP Stash; total skin scent and barely there after two hours; it has that powder base like a HdP scent
P.S. NOT for men. Absolutely unisex.
aleshalesha – :
I found this instantly attractive when I smelt it on my husband. The price is way too high. Can anyone tell me of a similar perfume that is less pricey? I love the gourmand, peppery, tonka smell. It is seductive and not harsh in any way.
torya – :
This goes on boozy sweet and smoky woody (almost oudy) at the same time; it’s quite nice but expensive.. I might get it just for the deer head lol
*I second Houdini4
FDSservi – :
Quick review update here, while backtracking slightly on my initial appraisal, I will both agree and take issue with some of the things said by Nick Zee.
I don’t know if it’s just the fact that I actually like ambroxan but I kinda expect modern compositions to contain it and this didn’t immediately scream it to me. However upon wearing it on Christmas day I will concede that the shaving cream element is that soapy, clean, ambery, musk that some people might consider cheap or doesn’t belong in a high end fragrance like this one… I don’t agree but I notice it more now I’ve had a few proper wears I think it’s unfair to slate the perfumer for this as I still think it’s a very interesting composition and worthy of the Penhaligon’s name. I also agree that this stuff is overpriced and the performance is a bit lacking. It’s strange because I did sample it extensively before I got the full bottle, maybe this one is a little style over substance but I made it clear I was getting it for the bottle mainly, something I never do but this one was too good to miss.
Satidogssot – :
This is good. You may say I’m crazy, this is similar to Creed Original Vetiver.
I’m certain this contains vetiveryl acetate.
Performances are excellent.
RadioXyLigaN – :
On my skin, The Tragedy of Lord George revolves around ambroxan or something very similar. Its airy, ambery warmth is further enhanced by creamy tonka bean, while its vegetal/mineral aspect manifests like the fresh woodiness of vetiver. The booziness of brandy brings vibrancy during the opening, while its dry undertone overlaps with the vetiver-like nuance.
Sometimes, the tonka and the woody amber hinting me of men’s fougere fragrances with a discreet aromatic undertone; sometimes, the particular woodiness of vetiver makes a nutty accord with the tonka bean. But these are eventually all minor variations from time to time. 2 hours in, The Tragedy of Lord George settles into a woody vanilla/tonka (which I think is something similar to Ambroxan, then adorned by creamy tonka), and remains almost unchanged until the end.
The fragrance is quite velvety in texture and lightweight as well. Its comfortable et restrained creaminess makes it feel like a smooth body cream applied on the skin. The sillage remains relatively close to skin, and the longevity can reach further than 10 hours.
The Tragedy of Lord George is a lovely woody ambery fragrance, streamlined, modern, undemanding and easy to wear. However, its price is still an issue for me personally. Because ,even though The Tragedy of Lord George maintains the chic and versatility of a few Penhaligons’s fragrances that I know, it’s neither original enough, or rich, layered enough compared to other Penhaligon’s offerings. I think The Tragedy of Lord George worths a try if you’re looking for a nice-smelling, soft woody amber fragrance, but I don’t think it would be too difficult to find something similar and less expensive in this popular genre.
drink123456789 – :
Firstly, the main note is not Amber, it is ambroxan, the synthetic ambergris that plagues designers at the moment. Secondly, there is no brandy, not in the sense of some of the stunning boozy fragrances on the niche market today. This is a standard designer-level woody lavender thing with ambroxan screaming on the side and making it all very bright. Honestly, this has nothing on some of Penhaligon’s other offerings like Sartorial or Opus. Alberto Morillas needs to hang his head in shame for pouring this generic drivel into a bottle that sells for double the others in the Penhaligons range.
Karpyxa – :
To say I want this perfume more for the bottle than the fragrance itself, might make me appear fickle and diminish the status of what is a very lovely smelling thing. However, we must face facts…the stopper on this bottle is awesome and seeing the bottle in real life is no disappointment, it really is that cool.
The fragrance itself displays the typical restraint you get in most Penhaligon’s, trading off truly deep opulence with genuinely wearable appeal. They might not always (in fact rarely) reach dizzying heights but they consistently release fragrances I believe to have been steadily crafted and considered, Lord George is no different.
It opens with a boozy amber, instantly warm and likable which settles to a exotic wood/vanilla vibe. It’s undeniably sweet but offset by it’s grown up booziness and some of that bitter, coffee type element from tonka bean. Lord George isn’t a full on gourmand such as other recent Tonka releases like Feve delicieuse. Instead it’s focused on the woods and amber to give it that more male emphasis.
I enjoyed it tremendously, opens great and just gets better in the drydown due to some great notes which complement each other well. Lord George is the definition of more than the sum of it’s parts and like the other one’s in this range, has some notes or qualities that are hard to place. It is quite long lasting, especially on clothes but nothing monumental and showing the usual lack luster performance of the brand. (although I found it completely acceptable) This is where most people take issue with the brand and if you’re forking out this much then you are entitled to moan. However, If you do decide to buy you will be treated to a nice smelling winter fragrance and a wonderful bottle to adorn your perfume shelf.
I will probably get this one at some point.
Rufet648 – :
Lord George is unique as I have not smelt something like this before. Really good Wintery fragrance, very warm and cosy, love it~
Sillage is not huge, though it is quite long lasting.
Price is very steep though, 178GBP for 75ml