Advertising feature from Penhaligon’s

Penhaligon’s: perfumes that tell timeless stories

A seemingly respectable patriarch hiding ‘brandy-soaked secrets’. His alluring wife, ‘dangerously charming’ on the outside while plotting revenge on the inside. A handsome young Duke who sets hearts aflutter, and a captivating, anything-but-innocent Duchess. Add the rebellious, rule-breaking Constance, a newly arrived Baroness who’s long been pulling the strings behind the scenes, and Mr Thompson, the butler who sees everything, and you’ve got an aristocratic cast of characters as mesmerising as any created by any Victorian playwright or modern TV scriptwriter. But look closely and you’ll find one among their number whose story is perhaps even more captivating than fiction.