Any thoughts on this one? Vintage Blades has a closeout special on it.
Floris No. 127?
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I have a dab of it at home that I will try when get home if I remember. I think it is like Floris No. 89, only more wood and less, if any, of the floral/rose that 89 has. Has that Floris dustiness, classic feel, if I recall.
EDIT: According to the description: "The Special No. 127 Eau de Toilette from Floris of London is a refreshingly original fragrance that combines orange and bergamot with neroli, petitgrain and orange-flower." Thus, I must be wayt off. Sounds like the a typical Eau de Portugal from this description which is a long way from whatever it was that I was thinking of.
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It strikes me as about the perfect scent for wearing with formal (white tie) attire. Not that you'd want to wear it all the time, but it seems to really capture the spirit of "white tie and tails" ... maybe from about 100 years ago, but if that is what you are after ...
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Tails rock, but this is seven years too late for my wedding. I guess there's always a chance I could get invited to a state dinner.
I enjoy it very much- a very complex scent. It is the flowers of those plants so it is not fruity at all. The Neroli plays a large part.
I guarantee you will not bump into anyone else with this on.
I guarantee you will not bump into anyone else with this on.
I like it, it doesn't like me. Comparatively, 4711 lasts a long time.
Personally, I really like this stuff. I don't like the supplied atomizer, unless you want everyone in the room to drown in the scent. Applied with restraint, it is quite nice, a bit formal, but well liked by all I asked, after that accidental bath in the stuff.
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I tried the Floris No. 127 when I got home. I had some No. 89 to compare side by side.
To me the 127 is 89 with neroli instead of rose. Very dry, very reserved, very British, fairly complex, I would not have said necessarily formal, sort of floral but quite masculine, old school but does not smell so old-fashioned to me. I think the neroli actually makes the scent more accesible than the rosey 89. I am impressed.
To me the 127 is 89 with neroli instead of rose. Very dry, very reserved, very British, fairly complex, I would not have said necessarily formal, sort of floral but quite masculine, old school but does not smell so old-fashioned to me. I think the neroli actually makes the scent more accesible than the rosey 89. I am impressed.
I've been on the hunt for neroli products for summer wear and thanks to this post I might get some for half what I saw some for on Amazon.
How does this compare to Tom Ford Neroli Portofino or Czech & Speake - Neroli?
How does this compare to Tom Ford Neroli Portofino or Czech & Speake - Neroli?
I do not know the Tom Ford. I am very familiar with the C&S Neroli, perhaps to the point of being unduly biased in its favor. 127 is more reserved. Dirty, almost dusty, and sort of soft, as if aged. Old School. Classic. The C&S is sort of dirty, too, but more cleanly cut and right up in your face. Modern. Perhaps youthful. Crisp not soft. Defined.
Thanks for the comparison, I'll get a sample and maybe put some C&S on my wish list for Father's Day. If it is as you've described, folks will start to wonder what's come over me.
Given that the percentage of men donning luxurious fragrances, much less those of little known houses, is very small, I'd say the chances of bumping into anyone who smells out of the ordinary are slim to begin with. Heck, Tabac is available at practically every store in this country, and I've never smelt it on any other male yet. They all wear Acqua di Gio or some Hugo Boss or some Bruno Banani or some Axe; more sophisticated fragrances are a rarity.
(Which reminds me: the husband of a co-worker of my girlfriend had purchased a bottle of Acqua di Parma Colonia much to the pleasure of the co-worker's olfactory senses, and so had recommended the product to several other people, including my girlfriend. So she came up to me asking whether I'd ever heard of this 'Acqua di Parma'. Well yes, I answered, Colonia, Intensa, Assoluta, some of the Blu Mediterraneo fragrances perhaps? The look on her face was priceless. Of course, she retorted a few moments later that not only was I a nerd, a shaving geek, and a boardgaming geek, but also a scent geek. And then snuggled up to me saying that I was still her nerd and geek.
)As for No. 127... Compared to modern fragrances (and with that I do not mean the dime-a-dozen artificial scents you can find for a few dollars or euros the gallon at the major retail stores) it is indeed sophisticated and unique. Very floral, but not in a seductive female way. Which is not surprising since the formula was developed over a century ago or so. You are basically wearing a piece of fragrance history. This is serious white tie-stuff. (However, it is white tie only if you can act the part. Donning No. 127 and then assuming that smalltalk involves gossiping about the antics of the yokels' daughter next door while getting roaring drunk on cheap Budweiser is wrong.) Personally, No. 127 is not me, so I won't wear it, and to be honest I hesitate to believe that many men would want to wear it daily. If I had to purchase it, I'd do so in a very small decant.
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Good post, cymric! I would suggest, however, that you cannot truly be the nerd/geek you claim to be, as you actually do have a girlfriend! 
<As for No. 127... Compared to modern fragrances . . . it is indeed sophisticated and unique. Very floral, but not in a seductive female way. Which is not surprising since the formula was developed over a century ago or so. You are basically wearing a piece of fragrance history. This is serious white tie-stuff. * * * Personally, No. 127 is not me, so I won't wear it, and to be honest I hesitate to believe that many men would want to wear it daily. If I had to purchase it, I'd do so in a very small decant.>
Just to make sure my comments were clear, I would not consider this scent nearly so formal or old-fashioned or not easily accessible as cymric does. To me it is not nearly that "dusty," "old school," or "reserved." Floris No. 89 seems pretty popular around here and elsewhere. James Bond's scent and all that, even though no James Bond book every mentions what scent he wore! I would consider No. 127 at least as versitile as No. 89, and really more versitile. Again, flowery dry orange-citrus-neroli versus rose. I only had a small decant of it. I might change my mind it I had more of it and could really focus on it over the course of a day or so. To me neroli is almost inherently less formal than rose. I think No. 127 might work for white-tie, but I do not seem it limited to white tie. I would think of MPG Jicky or MdM as more white-tie myself. Something rich and deep and floral. although I will were either of those quite contentedly with jeans. I think I would be willing to wear No. 127 with jeans, too. It is British, dusty, dry, and reserved, but neroli still says to me Portugal and Sicily, and warm nights on the yacht, with silk shirts and linen tousers (or jeans and Hawaiian shirts), not wing collars on stiff fronted shirts and tails!
<As for No. 127... Compared to modern fragrances . . . it is indeed sophisticated and unique. Very floral, but not in a seductive female way. Which is not surprising since the formula was developed over a century ago or so. You are basically wearing a piece of fragrance history. This is serious white tie-stuff. * * * Personally, No. 127 is not me, so I won't wear it, and to be honest I hesitate to believe that many men would want to wear it daily. If I had to purchase it, I'd do so in a very small decant.>
Just to make sure my comments were clear, I would not consider this scent nearly so formal or old-fashioned or not easily accessible as cymric does. To me it is not nearly that "dusty," "old school," or "reserved." Floris No. 89 seems pretty popular around here and elsewhere. James Bond's scent and all that, even though no James Bond book every mentions what scent he wore! I would consider No. 127 at least as versitile as No. 89, and really more versitile. Again, flowery dry orange-citrus-neroli versus rose. I only had a small decant of it. I might change my mind it I had more of it and could really focus on it over the course of a day or so. To me neroli is almost inherently less formal than rose. I think No. 127 might work for white-tie, but I do not seem it limited to white tie. I would think of MPG Jicky or MdM as more white-tie myself. Something rich and deep and floral. although I will were either of those quite contentedly with jeans. I think I would be willing to wear No. 127 with jeans, too. It is British, dusty, dry, and reserved, but neroli still says to me Portugal and Sicily, and warm nights on the yacht, with silk shirts and linen tousers (or jeans and Hawaiian shirts), not wing collars on stiff fronted shirts and tails!
Hello everyone, first postI recently purchased both Floris No 89 and Special No 127 but after a while I found out that I couldn't stand to wear them on a daily basis, these are nice scents but not for daily wear and Special 127, my favorite at first has become a bit too flowery for me.
Welcome aboard. Thanks so much for the post. Good comments. I do find that I have to wear a scent more than once to really know it, or at least to know whether I really like it. I just did not have enough of the No. 127 to really analyze it. No. 89 seems a little to rosey to me, which is a flower! makes sense that the No. 127 might seem too flowery, too!
You got me! I went and ordered a bottle! 
Folks,
It just arrived and I put some on right before I head out for a 20 mile bike ride. We'll see how it holds up!
Very nice and refined scent. I quite like it although I do remember going through Floris in London quite a few years ago and not finding anything I liked in there. It proves that tastes change!
I've always heard that your taste in scents runs in a seven year cycle and I believe it to be true. Scent that you liked seven years ago are not necessarily ones you like now and you are now open to new scents and like scents that you didn't like before! Strange, ain't it!
It just arrived and I put some on right before I head out for a 20 mile bike ride. We'll see how it holds up!
Very nice and refined scent. I quite like it although I do remember going through Floris in London quite a few years ago and not finding anything I liked in there. It proves that tastes change!
I've always heard that your taste in scents runs in a seven year cycle and I believe it to be true. Scent that you liked seven years ago are not necessarily ones you like now and you are now open to new scents and like scents that you didn't like before! Strange, ain't it!
Make sure to report back in detail. I am fascinated with this scent for some reason with all perfect for white tie discussion, etc.! I have never been a big Floris fan, which is not to say that I do not like Floris. It is just that I have liked Brit houses like Pens and C&S better. Perhaps my tastes have evolved, but I would not have thought so. I do think in fairness to Floris, that the fact that its scents are a bit reserved, may make them harder to get as excited about as the more forward and dramatic scents of some other houses.
I tend to think of tastes in scents like tastes in, say, wine. Folks relatively new to scents, tend to like simpler, more forward, less difficult scents. Folks relatively new to wine may tend to gravitate toward white, fruity, simpler, less minerally and less tannic wines. Over time, whether in scents or wine, we may start to enjoy and seek out more things that smell like a barnyard and/or that have tarry notes to them, and that are dark and disturbing in some respects.
Until you end up where I am, living in a cardboard box because you are utterly broke from ADs of various sorts, sniffing some dark sticky oil that smells of rotted tree resin in conbination with notes from the botom of the monkey cages at the zoo plus something that stings the nose, and sipping an Italian Barolo the color and darkness of ink, the mouth pucker of ground apricot pits, the mineral content of San Pellegrino, the aroma of La Brea on a still morning and Old MacDonald's farm. (I realize that the farm reference is not really apt for a Barolo as it would be for a red burgundy!) But like a beggar living on the streets of Benares confident that he is the lucky one because he is the one closest to achieving Nirvana!
I tend to think of tastes in scents like tastes in, say, wine. Folks relatively new to scents, tend to like simpler, more forward, less difficult scents. Folks relatively new to wine may tend to gravitate toward white, fruity, simpler, less minerally and less tannic wines. Over time, whether in scents or wine, we may start to enjoy and seek out more things that smell like a barnyard and/or that have tarry notes to them, and that are dark and disturbing in some respects.
Until you end up where I am, living in a cardboard box because you are utterly broke from ADs of various sorts, sniffing some dark sticky oil that smells of rotted tree resin in conbination with notes from the botom of the monkey cages at the zoo plus something that stings the nose, and sipping an Italian Barolo the color and darkness of ink, the mouth pucker of ground apricot pits, the mineral content of San Pellegrino, the aroma of La Brea on a still morning and Old MacDonald's farm. (I realize that the farm reference is not really apt for a Barolo as it would be for a red burgundy!) But like a beggar living on the streets of Benares confident that he is the lucky one because he is the one closest to achieving Nirvana!
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