PENHALIGON'S Lily of The Valley Eau de Toilette

Nice. Very Clean. Very Spring, Very LOTV.
Smells like Jessica Mc Clintock.

BTW, & IMHO; Jessica Mc Clintock smells nicer. JM also has better Silage, Projection, Longevity & is inexpensive.

I just recieved a sample of this from Lucky Scent and I almost cried when I applied it because it is so beautiful! This is Lily of the Valley perfection! I really do not pick up other notes on myself personally. It is fascinating to read how different it can be from person to person- one smelling roses, the other many notes, while me I really just smell LOTV. When I smell this, I am transported to a happy place- rolling in a green meadow of flowers as a child, on a gorgeous spring day, the sun shining through my light, champagne blonde curls, with my grandmother in her soft white blouse reading a book on the wooden swing bench.

This is Lily of the Valley in all of its delicate, feminine, sweet, slightly green, very sligjtly powdery, beautiful splendor. I have officially found my new signature scent- which I have been searching for ever since Creme Bouquet was discontinued for the 2nd time.

This feels so clean, crisp but soft, sweet- but in a subdued, slightly earthy way. This feels oh-so feminine and demure! It is not loud or overly complex, but not so simple or faint that you have to dig your nose into your wrist to smell it. On me this gives a good 2-3 feet of a hand laced white veil, adorned with a crown weaved of these beautiful flowers, stems included. It's official- i am addicted! I am surprised at the sillage and longevity of this actually! For such a delicate smell, they usually fade ridiculoualy quickly on me. But then again, even the strongest, most punch packed fragrances that last for hours upon hours on everyone else, fade quickly on me. This doesn't! It has been 5 hours and I feel as if it only has grown stronger as time has passed! I am blown away by this in the best way possible. Blown away to a fairytale dreamland, my own pixie hollow.

I absolutely must have a full bottle! It is rare for me to love a fragrance so much so that it is worthy of a full bottle. Most of my collection is samples and decants for this very reason! The only full bottles I have ever been compelled to buy were Stila Creme Bouquet, Guerlain Champs Elysees edp, Serge Lutens Un Lys, and I just semi- blind bought Guerlain Meteorites. This is another to add to this highly picky list!

This somewhat reminds me of Serge Lutens Un Lys, but in a different way. Un Lys would be my dream meadow at dawn, with the moon still visible in the sky and the sun starting to rise in the horizon, while Penhaligon's Lily of the Valley would be my dream meadow in the late morning, on a 65F sunny day with white fluffy marshmallow clouds in the sky.

If you love soft, sweet, simple, realistic florals that are happy, white, lean delicate, but crisp and green at the same timw- you will love this.

This is extremely beautiful, an eerily accurate floral scent with the added bonus of stem and slightly dirty root included. When i smell this, i imagine the early days of spring when it's a little wet out and the flowers are blooming and you can smell them as you walk past. But with this, it's like you smell that but you're up closer with your nose in the flower bulb itself and the rainy soil scent is in the background. Honestly speaking, this perfume can give me spring fever even when it's still summer or winter. It doesn't smell old at all, i honestly don't know how people can think of it that way (no offense if you do). It just smells like a beautifully ripe flower. I'm really sad i ended up losing this one at my sorority house, but honestly it mightve been stolen, not that I can blame them!

I'm not sure how to describe the performance since it was quite awhile ago since i had this and i didn't understand how to really wear a perfume. I just used to spritz one spray on my neck and maybe one on each wrist for my own pleasure and i don't think anyone could smell it unless i asked them to. And when i did ask them... Well let's just say it was a crowd pleaser for both young and old. I really wish they would make an edp of this scent because it really is so wonderful.

If you get this, my advice is to keep a close eye on it so you don't lose it or get it stolen! I would also like to warn you that once you try this, it might spark a Penhaligons addiction... So please do be careful if you're on a budget LOL. But seriously, this is one you can't go wrong with and it's SO much better than most other perfumes that are being produced nowadays. Definitely one of the best soliflores in production!

Perhaps the name is supposed to be a metaphor, but, if not, Penhaligon LILY OF THE VALLEY strikes me as misnamed, for a few other notes--including jasmine and geranium--seem just as important as the eponymous lily of the valley. (Hmmm... have I used the word 'eponymous' correctly?--I'll have to check!)

Anyway, this is a very green floral green--more green than floral, in fact, to my nose. I definitely register the presence of oakmoss in the drydown, which also surprises me, again, given the name. I think that specifically for lily of the valley there may be better choices, DIORISSIMO, to name one, but this edp seems to me to be a well-crafted fragrance evocative of a nocturnal green pasture in which a variety of petals have been strewn.

A gorgeous springtime scent - green and refreshing. On my skin it's a bouquet of lilly of the valley, jasmine and a bit of rose. It gives me a wedding day kind of vibe!