Hammam Bouquet by Penhaligon`s

Noelia

I had the chance to smell it today and I can say that it is one of my most beloved Penhaligon's!Woody,spicy middle notes, and refreshing top notes with a hint of lavender!Definetely a unisex!Well done!

1blondeangel

Penhaligon's Description:
Inspired by the scent of the Turkish Baths on Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, Hammam Bouquet is an daring oriental created by William Penhaligon in 1872. Animalic and golden, it is warm and mature, redolent of old books, powdered resins and ancient rooms. At its heart is dusky Turkish rose, with jasmine, woods, musk and powdery orris. Heady and glamorous, Hammam Bouquet is evocative of the Edwardian era of decadence and excess.

My Description of edt:
Mature, old books, powder, ancient rooms-YEP for sure...mix it with a deadly strong dose of Green Grass and a nursing home and there you have it! In the south we have a green grass called Johnson Grass that grows really tall if unkempt & is literally "sharp" it can cut you if you run your hand along it. It has a super strong "green" smell, not a fragrant green either. The fragrance does tame after a bit.....into a 100 year old powder that is. Not a fan of this one at all!

yvashche

Matches perfectly with the oriental hammam theme. It smells like a complimentary scent to Red Flower's Hammam line of bath products. I was so happy to find this scent. I thought I would use the bath products and douse myself in a matching perfume afterwards. I did. It wore off in minutes. What a disappointment.

the_good_life

Orientalism captured in a bottle. This is the olfactory complement to Ingres’ Turkish Bath, which is, of course, what a Hammam is. A brilliant projection of repressed Victorian sexuality upon the foil of an imaginary Araby. Fantasies of a Sultan’s absolute power and unrestrained sexual indulgence with unlimited numbers of women, of reversing the strict codes of the British social veneer in the dreamland that Stephen Marcus, in The Other Victorians, labeled Pornotopia. What better way of scentualizing these desires but by combining the rich floral power of rose attar, naughty jasmine, and the violet-like orris, supported by a hint of cedar that adds a traces of oriental spiciness, with the smell of sex created by musk and amber. Hamman, we realize, is just a code for what a Victorian perfume could not be called, despite deliberately intending the association: Harem bouquet. This smells like a heady opulent boudoir in which people have just had sex, pure and simple. And certainly everybody in fine society knew this and yet did not – Victorian doublethink. Few scents could be richer in cultural history and this, seriously, should be smelled by students in seminars on the Victorian Era, British imperialism, Orientalism - and gender history, since quite likely many present-day individuals would experience gender confusion here, associating femininity (perhaps even of the Queen Mum sort)with the flowery aspects and then stumbling over the sexual-animalic component.

rosesbecomeme

Very unisex indeed . I'd love to get my husband to wear it . I wear it alongside it's sister Malabah. A great perfume to found a perfumery on. I wish it came in pure perfume.

cimbal_ess

I LOVE U PENHALIGONS, please open a boutique in toronto at least, i can't go to Vegas anytime i want to smell classic.

Auguszta

I have a secret love affair going on with this scent... I don't know if I'm ready to wear this in public, but I keep applying it in the privacy of my home, solely for my very own enjoyment, as if it was my dirty little secret, some kind of guilt-inducing pleasure. It opens with an overload of exotic spices, heavy, rich, some might say even a bit masculine or suffocating, but in about 10 minutes it develops into the most wonderful, dark and deeply mysterious rose scent I have ever encountered. I generally don't even like scents that focus on rose, but this intoxicates me like no other. It stays pretty close to the skin so in the end, when it gets to that lovely, still not too sweet, powdery phase, you'll find me sniffing my arm like a mad hound to find the spot. Must be love, love, love.

afraafra

Great soft opening and musky drydown, very unisex