Prince Charles Launches His Own Perfume – It’s Inspired by Summer in His Beloved Highgrove Gardens

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A bottle of the perfume costs $180, with 10% of the proceeds going to the royal heir’s charity

The 18th-century country house, Highgrove House, owned by Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is the retreat of the heir to the British throne.

Prince Charles worked with her Penhaligonas People writes, to launch a new fragrance inspired by his beloved gardens at Highgrove.

Highgrove Bouquet is a new fragrance inspired by the Prince of Wales, a tribute to his gloriously fragrant summers in the gardens of Highgrove,” according to the gardens’ website.

It is a time when the smell of the flowering linden fills the air and the Highgrove gardens are full of its branches, with their blooming, refreshing, floral notes“, say the officials.

The fragrance has “notes” of geranium, lavender and hyacinth and other… hidden ingredients.

A bottle of the perfume costs $180, with 10% of the proceeds going to The Prince’s Foundation, the royal heir’s charity, which offers a wide range of education and training programs for all ages, from traditional arts to architecture , design, science, engineering, gardening and hospitality.

Last year, Prince Charles expressed his passion for gardening on a BBC radio show.

My sister and I had made a small vegetable garden,” she told host Simon Armitage about bonding with Princess Anne. “We had a lot of fun trying to grow tomatoes, probably unsuccessfully, and things like that».

Prince Charles worked diligently on the gardens of Highgrove House for four decades, which he designed to be “pleasing to the eye and in harmony with nature”.

Since the early 1980s, Charles has regularly invited groups, schools and charities to tour the gardens.

One of my greatest joys is to see the pleasure the garden can bring to so many visitors and that everyone seems to find some part of it that is special to them.s”, he said.

A highlight of Prince Charles’ garden is a treehouse built for Prince William and Prince Harry. In 2015, the treehouse was renovated so that Prince Charles’ grandchildren could play there.

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