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Terrible Teddy is a 2019 Eau de Parfum for men from Penhaligon's Portraits collection, composed by Quentin Bisch and inspired by Theodore Roosevelt. It is a deliberately minimal leather composition — just incense up top, leather at the heart, and ambroxan in the base — and comes in the collection's 75 ml portrait bottle with the rhino-head cap.
Think of entering a temple just as the dhoop is lit — that resinous smoke — while someone in a leather jacket walks past. Terrible Teddy is exactly that: smoky incense giving way to raw, animalic leather, finally warming into an ambery, musky ambroxan glow. It's bold, dark, and unapologetically masculine, and it thrives in Indian winter nights when the smoke can breathe. Beginners should steer clear until they've tried lighter leathers; this one is all swagger, no training wheels.
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