Penhaligon's The Terrible Teddy - Portraits Collection

Penhaligon's Terrible Teddy, part of the Portrairs Collection, was launched in 2019 and Created by Quentin Bisch. This leather fragrances has notes of Incense; Leather; & Ambroxan.

REVIEWS

Fragrantica - Absolutely adore this scent. Of all the fragrances I own this is definitely a top 3 contender...I feel you can get away wearing this pretty much anywhere, the versatility is brilliant...

Fragrantica - This is gorgeous, beautiful smokey amber and leather fragrance. Another masterpiece from a master perfumer.

Fragrantica - Compliment machine. I traded a bottle of Aventus for this masterpiece. Simple yet powerful and effective to get tons of attention.
Opens with a smooth smoke and leather and quickly get even smoother with an overload of salty citrusy ambroxan. I've heard actual ambergris is used in the masterful compilation. To sum it up very masculine and easy to pull off. Compliments roll in by the ton. Lasts for eternity and sillage is a room filler. You won't find performance like this often. The ambroxan jumps out to carry the heavy notes. Pink pepper and green spiciness attributes the forefront.

Fragrantica - bow down again to another masterpiece of my favorite nose: Quentin Bisch.  Terrible Teddy wants to represent an aristocratic man, who lives in the English countryside, with an apparently hard and strong, virile and sensual character, but which hides tenderness inside. In short, a hunter who in turn is hunted.  Here we have a peppery opening, which paves the way for incense and finally leather, giving life to a decisive, strong fragrance that I would always wear. I love it . He is virile and sensual at the same time, and, I will repeat myself because I often say it, a perfume like this on a woman gives her that something extra, it makes her stand out.

Fragrantica - The peppery opening doesn't even matter because it immediately settles into straight up Dragon's Blood incense and I just want to sniff myself all day. This is not the Nag Champa kind of incense. So glad I kept giving this chances because I've been looking for a scent that captures that dragon's blood smell and this does just that perfectly. 

Fragrantica - This was love at the first snif. Opens up smooth leathery and delicate smoke, in the dry down the leathers becomes smooth like suede, and the ambroxan tones out the smokiness perfectly. Classy, gentleman's fragrance, really versatile and absolutely suited as a year round personal scent. Absolute class.

Fragrantica -Terrible teddy is a beauty. I love the warm opening. This is a soft, spicy, elegant amber fragrance with a touch of ginger and maybe citrus under it all. This is for the opening. It slow down very fast after the first blast of spices to be close to the skin. It stays natural and after 2 minutes we are on a naturel zen discrete fragrance, like a spicy ginger infusion but really warm. This is my impression, the pyramid tells me that I am wrong! I can feel the cashemere as it is very warm and cosy, but I have to think about it to find incense. This is not smoky at all in my opinion except for the stunning overture. . I see a man near a fire by a cosy night, reading a book. This is more meditative than seductive for me. I would wear it as a woman too. This is unisex, but it leans more masculine.

Fragrantica - If I have a signature, go-to fragrance, this is the one. I love it, it has a unique scent and is by far and away the one I receive most positive comments on from both women and men. I note some comparisons to Creed on here, but I really don't get that. It may just be the combination on my skin, but this gives a strong, rich, spicy long lasting effect. Initially it starts off quite peppery, but settles in to warm rich spice, my partner loves it.

Fragrantica - I love it, other reviewers are losing the point of this line i think. The point of this line is to let two of three notes stick out. This one is spicy and very masculine without having to be very leathery or smoky. The opening is peppery so that part of other reviews is correct, but i love that part and wifey does as well. I just got coffee christian x and it's in that family, 

Fragrantica - An amazing quality juice from start to finish. For the 3 listed ingredients I find this to have an amazing wide range of hints of this and that. There is a bit of citrus at the start and some sweetness from somewhere. I find this about 2 hours in to be similar to Baldessarini. Both are slightly dusty, sweet and a little musky. This is a fantastic juice. A top ten for sure. I would try before you buy due to pricing. Otherwise, Enjoy!

Fragrantica - I personally found it fantastic, it smells kind of like incense and spices, just delicious and authentic, after a couple of hours it gets softer less spicy smell, but no less pleasant, still great.  Perfect for fall and winter.