Thread: Sartorial?

"Designed to evoke the mingling aromas of a tailor's work room."
I've had a suit altered, I think the guy was a tailor. Perhaps tailors are defined by someone who can make a suit from a bolt of fabric....but look that up if you must....I am too busy laughing at the copy writer who decided that in an Eau de Toilette Spray you would want to smell like a tailor's work room. I think they got that description from the name of the product from Penhaligon's, Sartorial. But what do you imagine a tailor's work room smells like? I'm thinking cigar or cigarette smoke, light machine oil, body odor, methane gas.....in fairness to this expensive product, they later tell you what you are supposed to be smelling: aromatic fougere (so far so good if it smells like my MDC fougere), metallic effects (this might be the way scissors smell if you put them under your nose and open and close them real fast), honey (how could that be wrong?), spices (whoa, we have about 46 of those in the cupboard and I know there are a lot more, so this is cheating a little), tobacco (my old man used to smell like tobacco, Old Spice, and beer farts, not the most sartorial combination), chalk (come on...you know to mark the fabric), fabric (that is a hard smell to pin down), and finally, wood (somebody is sporting wood in a tailor's work room, pretty standard knowledge). So, has anyone tried it? Personally, I'm not a Eau de Toilette guy, strictly aftershave.

I love it, in fact it is pretty much all I wear these days to work. It is a very masculin scent: wood, leather, pepper, lavender and very long lasting. The metallic and ozonic notes of the fragrance remind me of the smell of freshly pressed fabric.

Yup - the Sartorial is a very nice soap and AS, one of my favourites to use, one of those you can't go wrong, that and the English Fern are really quite stellar IMO.

Ozonic Notes?

Yep, I'll second that. The Sartorial Soap is just about my favorite. I'm not good as analyzing scents but it smells great to me.

Note the OP says Eau de Toilettte.

Yes, ozonic notes. The smell of fresh laundry, due to the use of synthetic musk.

Originally Posted by WW243

"Designed to evoke the mingling aromas of a tailor's work room."
I've had a suit altered, I think the guy was a tailor. Perhaps tailors are defined by someone who can make a suit from a bolt of fabric....but look that up if you must....I am too busy laughing at the copy writer who decided that in an Eau de Toilette Spray you would want to smell like a tailor's work room. I think they got that description from the name of the product from Penhaligon's, Sartorial. But what do you imagine a tailor's work room smells like? I'm thinking cigar or cigarette smoke, light machine oil, body odor, methane gas.....

I think most people are desensitized to how things happen and when they're asked to imagine something nice that's exactly what they do, the less they know the nicer they can make it.

I grew up with chickens in the yard so I don't imagine the process of the eggs appearing in this world every time I make a breakfast or desert with eggs. But for somebody unfamiliar with bird anatomy egg-making is something like this:


Penhaligon's generally makes nice scents, and while Sartorial hasn't convinced me yet to buy a bottle, it's definitely high quality, well made and perfectly fit for office wear. I may be influenced by the marketing, but I smell machine oil in it and it's perfectly fine with me. I also like the smell of cured whale vomit a.k.a. ambergris but like with the eggs I don't try to associate it with a nasty image.
As with any smell I think it's silly to buy it based on the marketing description - even if I test it at a store I still get a sample to try over a week or two and decide if it's something I'd like to wear for decades, which is how long it takes me to go through a bottle.

Got to smell some a couple days ago at a barber I do work for and it smells good. Got a spray on a card and it has held up well over the last 4 days and the Mrs liked it too.

I recall getting a suit tailored once by this old Italian guy that was eating sardines not 30 seconds before he started taking measurements. His breath stunk so much I could smell the salt from those oily sardines. The stench continuously hit me in face as I turned my head from side to side trying to find a pocket of unmolested air space. I don't think you'd want a cologne to represent this experience.