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This week, the Penhaligon’s Peoneve Multi-Sensory Terrace opens on the fifth floor at Harvey Nichols. The stunning terrace brings a quintessential English Garden to the Knightsbridge department store with pretty cocktails and desserts inspired by the notes of the fragrance.

The terrace is a romantic, whimsical hideaway with traditional garden furniture and a trellis pergola covered in vibrant over-sized peonies and laser-cut insects. It feels like the ideal place to wear a floaty summer tea dress and catch up on girly gossip over fragrant drinks.

The innovative cocktail menu includes delicate, floral-inspired cocktails such as Penhaligon’s Peoneve Punch, Violet Breeze, Rose Garden and Wild Flower Fizz.

Of course, Head Chef Jonas Karlsson’s desserts are not to be missed! Try a White Chocolate and Peony Mousse, Jazzy Jam Bakewell Tart, Gooseberry Fool or delectable Summer Garden Macaroons. However, you could go for a cocktail-dessert combo with Boozy Pops – The Posy, The Rhuberry or The Brambleflower.

Created by Master Perfumer Olivier Cresp, Peoneve is a fresh, sparkling, modern rose fragrance with a touch of green. Notes include Violet Leaf, Peony, Bulgarian Rose, Hedione, Vetiver, Musk and Cashmere Wood.

Peoneve is available now exclusively at Harvey Nichols (in 50ml and 100ml EDP) and in Penhaligon’s boutiques, concessions and online from 13 August.

The Penhaligon’s Peoneve Terrace is open now until the end of August. For more info, visit: www.penhaligons.com and www.harveynichols.com

If you’re interested in more Penhaligon’s perfumes, read my reviews of Equinox Bloom, Ostara, Iris Prima, Vaara and Blasted Bloom & Blasted Heath.

This summer, Penhaligon’s looks to the flower of the moment, the peony, with its stunning new fragrance, Peoneve.

Master Perfumer Olivier Cresp (the man behind last year’s fresh, gin-like Juniper Sling) was inspired by ‘a blooming English garden in the summer’.

Peoneve includes notes of violet leaf, peony, Bulgarian rose, hedione, vetiver, musk and cashmere wood.

Peoneve is pretty, sparkling and refined and has a young, English eccentric appeal. It doesn’t follow the current trend of sweet rose fragrance. Instead, it’s a greener, earthier fragrance with a ‘vintage’ rose scent, which comes from the inclusion of Bulgarian rose. It has a very ‘English’ and really does evoke memories of summer flowers. It takes me back to childhood visits to the walled garden at Wallington Hall in Northumberland, where the heat would bring out the scent of the roses.

Penhaligon’s hosted a preview event with Olivier Cresp on hand to discuss the fragrance over afternoon tea in The Rose Lounge at the Sofitel St James.

The Peoneve cocktail was created by the head bars specially for the launch and included a blend of rose liquor, jasmine syrup and pink Champagne, paying tribute to the notes in the fragrance.

The delightful afternoon tea also reflected the English summer garden theme with an elderflower scented Napoleon cake, rose and raspberry macaroons, geranium and rose strawberry jam.

To celebrate the launch of Peoneve, Harvey Nichols is transforming its 5th floor terrace into a peony-filled English Garden with a cocktail and dessert menu inspired by the notes within the fragrance. Look out for the gin-based Penhaligon’s Peony Punch, served in a five litre Penhaligon’s perfume bottle for six to share. The Penhaligon’s Peoneve terrace will be open from 16 July to 31 August 2012.

Peoneve will be available exclusively at Harvey Nichols (in 50ml and 100ml EDP) from 16 July and in Penhaligon’s boutiques, concessions and online from 13 August.

For more info, visit: www.penhaligons.com

If you’re interested in more Penhaligon’s perfumes, read my reviews of Equinox Bloom, Ostara, Iris Prima, Vaara and Blasted Bloom & Blasted Heath.

Photos by Chérie City

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