Eau de Wooster

Bertie Wooster Style Fragrances

 

~ Sartorial Eau de Toilette by Penhaligon's ~

 

The scent of Savile Row, created by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour.

 

Head Notes: 

Aldehydes, Ozonic Effect, Metallic Effect, Violet Leaf, Neroli, Cardamom, Black Pepper, Fresh Ginger

Heart Notes: 

Beeswax, Cyclamen, Linden Blossom, Lavender, Leather

Base Notes: 

Gurgum Wood, Patchouli, Myrrh, Cedarwood, Tonka Bean, Oakmoss, White Musk, Honey Effect, Old Wood Effect, Vanilla, Amber

 

 

 

"Sartorial is a contemporary interpretation of a classic Fougère; traditional notes...have been exquisitely stitched together...to create the perfect illusion of a tailor’s workroom". 

More importantly, would Jeeves approve of this choice?

 

Handwoven in the Outer Hebrides

Poetic descriptions of various Harris Tweed cloth:

1) At first a grey twill and back of a blue shark blue pinstripe. But underneath the shark is a cloud grey with subtle notes of what sky is behind the cloud blue and lowland moss green.





2) A Valentine red offered by a sheep hoof brown 10 by 10 herringbone.



3) The island is looking like this 8 on 8 herringbone. Nae clouds and any surviving green growth is burnt orange from the cold. The sun is causing squinty eyes and little grins.



4) A crisp checked early March morning on the moor. Deep orange of the moor grass against the yearlong green gorse bush. The sky is nice.

 

 

5) Lost in the Stornoway castle grounds, mid winter, late afternoon. An 8 by 8 herringbone of wet bark on hardy green leaves.

 

 

6) Here's a washboard twill of 'before grandads hair went white' grey next to a slightly slimmer underbelly of a brown trout brown.

 

 

7) Honeycomb held to the sunlight twill.

 

 

 8) A blonde woman sitting on the harbour wall in Ness painting her nails red with the turquoise blue sea below her, clear blue sky above her and white beach sand behind her.

 

 

9) A complex houndstooth-esque weave of today's cloud white and 9 of 12 month drying peat brown, split by a wide check of plum maroon and roasting carrot orange.

 

 

10) A sun dried lavender sprig green and flower purple, sea rust brown and a flat white houndstooth.

 

 

* Information gathered from the Harris Tweed Authority *

Poems inspired by Harris Tweed

Haggis a'like Harris Tweed - Robert Burns

 

Ye Pow'rs, wha mak
mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae
skinking ware
... That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer
Gie her a haggis!

 

 

The Strand
I met a man in Harris Tweed
As I walked down the Strand;
I turned and followed him like a dog
The breath of hill and sea and bog
That clung about that coat of brown,
And suddenly, in London Town,
I heard again the Gaelic speech,
The scrunch of keel on shingly beach;
... I saw the little lochs where lie
The lilies, white as ivory;
And tumbling down the rocky hills
Came scores of little foaming rills,
I saw the crofter bait his line,
The children herding yellow kine,
The barefoot woman with her creel
The washing-pot, the spinning wheel
The mounds thrown up by patient toil,

To coax the corn from barren soil.
With buoyant step I went along
Whistling a Hebridean song
That Iain Og of Taransay
Sang on enchanted day.
I was a man renewed indeed
Because I smelt that Harris Tweed
As I went down the Strand.

 

 

 

 

* Information derived from the Harris Tweed Authority *