Tralala

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Beautiful. Amazing parfum and complex! It will take time to understand it, and absorb it for good .. but it is something wonderfully strange and nostalgic. Transports me in a ancient times, in a theater, the nineteenth-century music, but after a while everything is turned upside down and carries me in an amazing place, as an Luna-Park full of roller coasters, fun, sugary sweets,candy... antique dolls etc ... it's almost as if I carry in "the land of toys" holding me here for a while, before getting it back again at the beginning ... transports you in a way a little "drunk" is a perfume .... crazy, with the note of whiskey that keeps the other notes in the background. The aldehydes were a touch of genius in this composition, B.Dutchfour is a great artist .. every note has assigned its rightful place, everything is in constant motion, everything changes and returns .. it is something magical !! advice for "expert noses" .. is a very complex fragrance .. to me it will take days to figure out ... although I already know that will become part of my collection .. Council use in Autumn/Winter because it makes it much better .. (It would be a nice Christmas day). Fascinating and intriguing, Tralala - fancy name that leaves room for interpretation,evokes well the mutual influence between glamor and the retrospective vision privileged by Meadham Kirchhoff. Can not miss Tralala .. I hit me. I see many "Dislike" which honestly do not understand .. how can you not love this perfume ?? it's wonderful. The sillage is great, (6 feet) with 3 spray and longevity huge (12 + h) of me .. Just a few sprays to last many hours .. go easy :). [◣The curtain closes◢] This composition deserves a big round of applause ... !! ♛ Highly recommended! Sillage: 8.5/10 Longevity: 9/10 Scent: 10/10 Overall: 10/10

Penhaligon's offers an absolutely fascinanting scent. An appropiate way to describe "Tralala" would be "Guerlain meets Comme des Garçons". Its funny, playful, weird, excentric, romantic and mysterious. I can imagine Helena Bonham Carter wearing this. The scent is evocative of decadent pubs (the whiskey accord), vintage boudoirs (the powdery violet accord, a beautiful homage to Aprés l'Ondée and L'Heure Bleue according to the nose Bertrand Douchafour), Xmas celebrations (the marzipan-cherry main note) and mysterious chapels (the dark incense, leathery notes). Bravo Penhaligon's!

I am HELLA excited. I blind bought this NIB from a US private seller. This has been on my radar for awhile, I love leather/boozy/vanilla/spicy/vintage/strange smelling scents. And I love the idea that it could be named after Tralala from Last Exit to Brooklyn. That is a GRIM book and Tralala is a very tragic character, but I love Selby and "dark/depressing" books. I can't wait to get this!!!!!!! It's here! A quick sniff from the bottle has def Shalimar vibes- I'm so excited! Shalimar is def my Top 3! Will update with my wear!! I haven't been this excited in.... months!!! ;) My thoughts: I LOVE THIS. THIS is perfect! Art! I understand and agree that POWDERY is about 70% of the scent. Creamy, sweet, waxy makeup/baby powder. The booze in the first 1-3 hours is JUICY- so much I could swear there is fruit in this. The vanilla is always a strong note- making this creamy plastic candy sweet. The vanilla/sweet/leather reminds me very much of L'Artisan Traversee du Bosphore (same nose/perfumer). If you like TdB- you must try Tralala if you come across it. Same goes for Tralala fans- try TdB! This also reminds me of my faves- a bit Shalimar (but not really) and a lot like Habanita. If you remove the smokey-incense-darkness from Habanita- you get Tralala. If Habanita is Bettie Page, then Tralala is a bubbly red headed pinup with a knife in her pocketbook. Tralala is Clara Bow! Goes along with the cute bottle- playful! Tralala has interesting artistic "pops"- I did get something animalic-funky like Dzing briefly. More like body odor than meat. I'm a bit shocked the first "categories" on this page are Warm Spicy and Leather. For me, it's def Powdery first, then whiskey. The drydown after about 5 hours is nice smooth incense/vanilla- polite churchy light incense. I don't detect any aldehydes, saffron (saffron is prob to blame for the body/funk in the opening tho), or tuberose. The booze is very juicy/wet- but it's not overly alcoholic. You won't smell drunk. ;) Lasted fantastically on clothing all night. Dries down back to creamy vanilla powder/incense, again- similar to Habanita but in no way a clone. I'm so happy I found this affordably (well... haha.....) and from the US. I will treasure this! OMG! I love it!

Meadham Kirchhoff, the eccentric duo who were once the darlings of London Fashion Week with their kooky good-girl-gone-bad and bad-boy-gone-good presentations that echoed the sheer vim and verve of early John Galliano tableaux, commissioned this as their signature house scent; prior to this they had been saturating their theatrical sets with other Pengaligon’s Fragrances, literally misting their venues from gardener’s spray bottles filled with Hammam Bouquet (their favourite Penhaligon’s fragrance). Their influence has outlasted their brand, much to the chagrin of many a British fashion follower - you see it in heaps on the Gucci catwalk now, and their putting boys in streetwear overlaid with embroidered tulle dresses or broderie Anglaise predated all the current furor for less aggressive male dressing that still maintains a degree of wearability Only maybe a handful of intrepid Japanese menswear designers ever moored their ships on that ethereal coastline of the Lolita-boys before they did. So you see, in light of my sheer admiration of them as designers, my review may already be the biased one of a rabid fanboy. But Tralala truly is a wonderful perfume by a great creator. Like Meadham Kirchhoff’s refined Gothic Lolita confections, this scent evokes a perversity beneath its prim powdered demeanour. The booze does hit you right off the bat, but a bright quality whiskey garlanded by Fantin-Latour blooms - unfussy, masterstrokes of translucency. For a moment the gourmand associations hit you along with the whiskey: Parma violets, pastel-hued bonbons and butterscotch. But the leather and musks with the delicious girlishness of deftly-used saffron rein it back in from Marie Antoinette territory and bring forth scenes of a Prohibition-era speakeasy, cheap booze laced with a dry sweetness and the effulgence of Shalimar and cigarette smoke in the air. It’s been said before by other reviewers, but there definitely is a tribute to early Guerlain in this, and yet it is a thoroughly modern reworking of the 20s. Spray this on if you have the good fortune to find it (it’s been discontinued) and play ‘My Name Is Tallulah’ from Bugsy Malone, recline as decadently as you can, and let Tralala take you places before it peters out into a shy musky violet wisp, the kind you wouldn’t mind smelling on fresh sheets. As for that packaging, it’s a small wonder Penhaligon’s let them go to town on that almost ridiculous velvet bow and music box presentation; it stuck out joyously from all the other prim little bow ties in their boutique. This is the perfume that drew me away from my usual love of ‘manly’ orientals and woods and I am sad that it went the way of the Meadham Kirchhoff label. But perhaps, some things are too good to drag on forever.