LP No:9 Penhaligon`s for women

weird look to a prestigeous perfume house like Penhaligon's... i would love to try but the color of the perfume scares me too much.

A very modern scent from Penhaligons. Like other reviewers, I also found this scent to be quite masculine initially. The cedar, patchouli and citrus are quite overwhelming at first. As the scent dies down, it becomes very creamy, with Vanilla, Musk, and Jasmine predominating. Good silage for a reasonable four hour longevity. I couldn't wear it myself but a great scent for a modern woman of any age.

This came across on my skin as quite masculine. I do love a spicy oriental, but this one doesn't work. The cedar - and I would swear there's sandalwood in the base, too - is just too manly for me. It has some extreme longevity - 24 hours after applying I could still detect it on my wrist.

Has some powerful sillage, too. All day, I kept getting whiffs of it that made me feel as if I had just been very close -- intimately close -- to a man wearing a very sexy, spicy cologne.

It's sexy but for all the wrong reasons. And if I'm gonna smell like that, I'd prefer the real thing. Give me a man wearing Fahrenheit...please.

LP remembers me a lot dune by dior.i find it feminine and to use for office.the combination of citrus notes and spicy ones confere it a casual tone that make it perfect for everyday use.

Penhaligon LP No 9 is a spicy little number (love potion?), with a unique combination of aromatic and oriental elements which leave me feeling highly perfumed!

The tarragon, lavender, and lemon all swirl together with the basenote cinnamon and the spicy carnation to produce a pretty heady mix! This is strong stuff, but also likeable. The longevity is excellent, and I think that this would make a great wintertime fragrance also because of the substantial sillage.

One curious feature of this composition is that, as it unfurls, it becomes more and more similar to Dior DUNE. By the drydown, I find no significant distinction between the two. Since I already have DUNE (1991) in ample supply, I won't be adding LP No 9 (1998) to my collection. Well, not anytime soon! (-:

well, i own midnight poison, and that's the best i've ever had. BUT, when i smelled it, it smells better. just because it's sweeter, not smoky like midnight poison. i hate to spare midnight poison and this LP because they're different. i love both tho.

This one is just gorgeous; to me, it smells all the way like the opening of Dune- and I've been looking for a perfume like this ever since I discovered Dune. It's exotic, warm, sensual (but innocent). I can't say: Oh, this is fruity or Oh, this is a floral smell, like I said, it's just like the top notes of Dune. I've obviously not got a much educated nose, so I can't pinpoint all the individual accord in this peefume, I'll just say a conclusion: it smells good, not offensive to anybody, lasts moderately long and could be appropriate for any occasion.

LP9 for women and LP9 for men have one thing in common, and alarmingly, it is a heady overtone in the bottle, of two stroke petrol. No kidding. However, there is less of the volatile substance in LP9 for women, and it rapidly disperses once the juice leaves the bottle. The first burst is citrussy, with a cypress/petrol note, which is absurdly "toppy", frighteningly toppy in fact, enough to put you off at first whiff. Come back to the scent at irregular intervals though, and the notes begin to come to the fore. The florals, a spicy carnation, lily of the valley, jasmine and rose, waltz, vienesse style in big pastel puffy dresses with 30,000 sequins which each flower and her mother sat up all night sewing on themselves, and as the middle notes begin to melt into the darkness, not to disappear you understand, but to sit quietly upon gilded chairs with their tulle arranged about them, the base notes shuffle into the spotlight, in all their spicy, earthy, green glory. There's a glorious cinnamon and vanilla, tonka mix which hints at fresh cherry pie, which is rapidly joined by a deep creamy, buttery note which, once appears, hangs around long after the rest of the fragrant dancers have left the building. A final deep dry down of oakmoss with a vague androgynous hint of patchouli checks it's petticoats before it slips out of the exit doors dusting it's waxed moustachios with face powder. Glorious.

I've heard that LP stands for Love Potion. I don't know if it's true. Did they need to make 8 tests before n.9? I don't know. I just know that this fragrance on my skin smells very weird at first, then it settles in a nice way, very interesting, yet not completely my type. It reminds me of an elegant tall lady dressed in a classic and feminine way. Not me.
It starts with a strong green note that I always associated with galbanum, but there is no galbanum listed. Could it be tarragon? It doesn't smell the same way tarragon smells in Samsara anyway.
Cranation is at the heart, perfectly tamed by other flowers without killing its bright energising smell.
The dry down seems very typical, classical and if smelled very close it brings out a very faint medicinal note similar to dentist stuff. It might be Virginia cedarwood.
It's strange there is no group listed for this one. I would call it an oriental green, if it makes sense.
For reference I can say it smells very similar to Must de Cartier, but a little less vanillic and more green sharp with a more delicate sillage.