Park Royal
Anglia Perfumery (1929)

I've been testing the vintage Crown Perfumery version of Park Royal, vie a manufacturer's sample labeled "Crown Park Royal", and it's great!

My first impression is that it's a very classed-up version of Brut, mixed with the violet leaf of Geoffrey Beane. To go into further detail, the top is a mix of greens (labdanum? vetiver? bay laurel?), which reminds me of Duc De Vervins, but brighter with citrus. It feels like there's a full chypre structure in here, with lemony bergamot over mossy, leathery patchouli. But then there's also a metallic lavender fougere as well. And it's all tied together by the green notes and violet leaf.

There are a lot of this style of classic men's scents out there. Most reviews of Park Royal compare it to Eucris (Eucris is more leathery and less fresh), but it's fresher and more appealing than most of its brothers. My only issue is that it takes its cologne concentration seriously, and fades quickly, leaving only lingering traces of a leathery chypre base which I would really have liked to smell more strongly.

Not ever so much to see here. Some galbanum and woods. Dry in the manner of Eucris, some warmth via cinnamon in the manner of No. 89. If that makes it sound interesting, it really is much more underwhelming than that description warrants.

Anglia.

Imaginationland: I'm riding a galbanum bomb through clouds of clove, now and again. Like a buckin' bronco. You can call me Slim.

For those of us that do their own yard work, consider the fresh cut twiggy smell of a few hours worth of hedge/bush trimming bundles. Not good, but I kind of like it... at times.

Review of old Crown version, not Anglia

Park Royal is a near copy of Trumper's Eucris (or Eucris copied Park Royal since it used to be a light lily-scented toilet water). Park royal is spicy, dry, earthy, and musky all at the same time. The opening is citric yet dark with bergamot and lemon rind that gives way to a heart of spicy mace, nutmeg, and clove. The base appears shortly, which is a dry and earthy oakmoss with resinous patchouli and cedar. Park Royal is overall a very unusual scent that does not fit well into the modern world, but is darned good for what it is. I prefer it over Eucris as it is richer, sweeter, and less dry (I don't normally like sweet scents, but Eucris is bone-chillingly dry).

As well as the others underlined the opening of this Victorian aromatic fougere, in full Penhaligon's style, is  citrusy, laundry and aromatic. This traditional british style beginning characterizes in my opinion all the following development because the smell remains aromatic, green and orangy throughout the journey with a sufficient level of hesperidic angularity to be it ranked as a green baroque fragrance. It's not clear if the aromatic feel is determined by eucalyptus-cloves or by the chord galbanum-cloves; what is plain, as well as Odisseusm asserted, is that the kind of aromatic greenness of galbanum is quite different from the one exuded by eucalyptus. I think that in this composition is present the galbanum and not the eucalyptus because the aromatic feel is more green, resinous, mossy and shadowy than effectively balsamic at all. The dry down is basically moss and patchouli under my nose but still very aromatic and sour of orange (in its already known link with cinnamon or nutmeg) and lime. The slightly prickly and anyway virile subtle final effect is produced by a well orchestrated accord of ambergris and spices. The smell holds on to be dry, green, slightly herbal and citrusy till the end, unveiling a sort of "old english" stiff  royal kind of olfactory experience. A good scent for the lovers of the uncompromisingly classic aromatic-hesperidic style. Nostalgic of a left back ege of lords, clubs and courts.

Wow, two fragrances from the same house that fit into my "stuffy floral clove bomb" category. Okay, so this one is not as floral, or as clovey, or as stuffy as Richmond, but it's still pretty clovey. The notes listed on the Anglia website differ from the note listing above. Top: lemon, galbanum, cedar leaf, rosemary. Mid: lavender, nutmeg, clove. Base: patchouli, amber, moss, and "precious woods." To my nose, clove and patchouli dominate the fragrance through the heart notes. Something sitting in the background smells a bit like violet even though there is none listed in the notes. The base gets mossier the further into the development you go, until the amber shows up at the very end, providing a lightly powdery sweetness. Like the other Anglias I have tried, this seems like a relatively simple and basic fragrance, a good way to train your nose in what certain notes smell like and how a top, middle, and base differ, but not all that exciting or interesting.