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THE CRUEL DESECRATION OF YARDLEY ENGLISH LAVENDER (1913)

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  1. Old Herbaceous
    January 13, 2019 at 4:11 am

    Have you discovered another lavender to love since this post? I don’t recall — have you tried or written about Caldey Island Lavender?

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    • ginzaintherain
      January 13, 2019 at 11:38 am

      I didn’t like the laundry musk finish with that one, much as I liked the opening to a certain extent.

      The only lavender I like is one I made myself, or remixed myself rather – I found an old apres rasage of Ungaro II, which is a lavender based vanilla/musk fougere, and added several different essential oils of high quality lavenders. It doesn’t quite hold up all the way to the base, but it works divinely at night as a calming scent.

      There is a ferocity to this review that goes perhaps over the edge, but I do feel that it was justified here as the carnage wreaked on the tranquil original beauty was too awful to be ignored. I think I have read somewhere though that the original is still available, perhaps just under a different name.

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      • Old Herbaceous
        January 13, 2019 at 2:02 pm

        Your mix sounds great! And ferocity is understandable when a beloved original gets trashed. I mean, how hard could it have been to keep it the same? Caldey Island is still very reasonably priced, and it uses real lavender.

  2. Tara C
    January 13, 2019 at 8:24 am

    Luca Turin says the same fate has befallen his Caldey Island Lavender. Reformulations are the scourge of modern perfumery.

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  3. Fragrant Wanderer
    January 15, 2019 at 9:13 am

    Neil! Just saw your book in one of the Chron. subsidiaries and ordered it for our store. We’ll get to see the physical book at the LV Gift Show in 2 weeks. VERY exciting!

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  4. Fragrant Wanderer
    January 15, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Email me at fragrantwanderer@gmail and I’ll send you a shot of the catalogue page.

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  5. MrsDalloway
    January 19, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    I was just coming here to say it’s available for pre order on Amazon UK too! They say released 21 March. Exciting – I have my order in!

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  6. MrsDalloway
    January 19, 2019 at 5:06 pm

    I am giggling at what Amazon considers ‘products related to this item’. First five titles are

    Hygge: Cozy Living The Danish Way
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
    The Art of Manipulation
    The Science of Mental Toughness
    The Science of Getting Ripped

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  7. Tara C
    January 20, 2019 at 12:19 am

    Just placed my order as well – Amazon suggested a bunch of plant-based cookbooks. Whatever!

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  8. MrsDalloway
    January 21, 2019 at 12:41 am

    It’s now suggesting Practical Stoicism and The Marriage Mantra: 10 Guiding Principles To Build A Beautiful Marriage. Must be quite a book!

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  9. Bibi Maizoon
    January 21, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    Ok, so I just came back from our local “departmental” store here in the boonies west of Kathmandu with a new bottle of Yardley’s English Lavender. I bought it because the shop girl was opening a new case and put out a new tester. The tester smelled like the original English lavender prior to the recent sickly sweet fougere-ish abomination!!!!
    The new bottle doe indeed smell like the original and my vial of brilliantine from Yardleys! But…I sprayed my linens with it & and it seems quite a bit weaker. The faux tonka bean overload is gone though and the lavandin and clary sage are baaackkkk!

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