This is a new line of contemporary fragrances by UK perfumer and tattoo artist Freddie Albrighton. The inspiration is memories and nostalgia... teenage romance, love and loss, family, adventure, life. Each perfume is deeply personal and relatable; a dreamscape of colour and texture, wearing on your skin like hazy, distant memories.
Bernadette Margaret Evelyn Theresa is an amber floral fragrance that launched in 2021 and is Albrighton's ode to his mom. It opens with syrupy orange and apricot mixing with warm spices and exotic florals before it all settles into soft patchouli, resins, musks and woods. BMET is ethereal, nostalgic but contemporary... a love letter. With notes of blood orange, apricot, carnation, frangipani, clove, cinnamon, patchouli, ambergris, musk and woods. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Freddie Albrighton Bernadette Margaret Evelyn Theresa Reviews
The Sniff.com: BMET is a nostalgic love letter to Freddie’s mother. It opens with a warm, sweet muskiness undercut with the sharpness of orange peel. It isn’t so much orangey as pithy and a little bitter, to balance out the accompanying sweetness. There is the round, fleshiness of apricot. You can almost feel that dry, velvety texture of apricot skin. A little further into the composition the warm spices that have begun to rise take a slightly earthy twist from the patchouli but it smells honest rather than dirty. I also detect a faint bready – or baking – type feel which is very nebulous and airy, like you are smelling it from outside an open door or window. In the latter phase of the fragrance’s lifespan, the fruits and spices take on a creamy aspect before sinking into musky, sweet woodiness. Again though, this is a big perfume that projects magnificently and lasts for ages. Definitely one for those who enjoy their scents on the bolder, but friendly, side.
Fragrantica: I'm wearing BMET today and I'm really impressed with it. To me the floral accord in here is massively impressive. At first I wasn't really sure what the floral accord was emulating but as it dries down I get the creamy, lightly spiced aspect of carnation. It's very clever. The fruity aspect of BEMT is a peachy/apricot and it feels thick and textured, not the light peach fuzz you might expect in a classic chypre. The overall feel is one of spice. It reminds me still from the first impressions, to wearing it properly today, of Jamaican ginger cake washed down with that thick apricot nectar. I guess the spice of the clove in the carnation is giving a gingery roughness or by association when often used together. The florality has that quintessential natural smell like dried petals and a woody/floral smell of unburned incense sticks, that's only very lightly in the background though. BEMT is lovely perfume, it's just so pleasant to wear and smells like nothing else I can think of. Great first outing.
