Roaring Radcliff

Over-composed to the point where it turns into a mess. A horrible grey, playdoh fennel scented, unpleasant experience. I feel there are too many of these portrait fragrances now. A lot of them are quite generic and don't seem very much like the classic Penhaligon fragrances. Most of them are well made, Lord George and Sohan are the highlights, a lot of the others are passable or have likeable elements. This one starts off ok, an over fussy floral. Later it developed into something that seemed like it was trying to be everything at once but failing at it. Metallic, marine, honey, tobacco, floral, aniseed, fruity, it is just too much and too badly composed. Like in Nausica where the giant world destroying monster is revived, but too early and it just melts and dies. Here we are at the bottom of the barrel. Hopefully Penhaligons will slow down or move on from all these portrait fragrances.

I think this is the best of Penhaligons Portraits guys along with The Bewitching Yasmine.

I've had the luck of buying this beauty a few days ago in a town near by, here in Italy. I've had a sample from the blue juice version and it was very spicy and sweet from the honey, loved it..but when i bought a full bottle, i got the Brown juice one, and oh my god, this is something unbelievable, Tobacco Vanille ? Yes, but is much classier, elegant. A bit gourmandish, but a smidge, nothing close to a full gourmand. It's spicy, with much more tobacco (early on is very dry on me) the honey gives it a comfortable feeling that envelopes you and into the dry down. This smells like late fall-winter-christmass, ginger bread and tobacco. Simply amazing. I love when perfumes houses take a famous fragrance and tweak it, refine it and put their own spin on it. 9.5/10

Roaring Radcliff is a nice tobacco scent with a slightly gourmandish vibe, the beesway and honey combined with rum and tobacco makes it rather sweet but never cloying, i think it's a very nice scent but the price is rather high for a 75 ml bottle, and there are tobacco fragrances out there that projects and lasts way longer.

Honey, what else can i say, do you want to smell like you’re inside of a beehive, baptized in honey, and then sprayed with more honey, this is honey if it was honey flavored.