Alluring

Oh thins is just so cozy, borderline sexy. I agree there is a vintage vibe to it - but it is just a referral to a very expensive and alluring indeed invitation to take an encounter at an exclusive mahogany panelled club one step further. To me this scent is as if you are dating a person much richer and a few years older than yourself with a wealth of experience and patience to wait till you make up your mind. You know when you keep a sherry cognac for a few years and smell the tip of the open bottle - kind of sweet boozy smelling practically drawing you into the thick and heavy glass of it. Edit: it’s almost leathery-animalic , probably the “fault” of vicious combo of dusty plum & honey - veeery sexy, unapologetically. Shame it’s discontinued!

What Boadicea should have done IMHO, is to re-launch it in autumn, ditching a young girl promo campaign and doing something rich and adult:-) and launch a New fragrance just by adding some actual booze (cognac or rum) with tobacco , leaving all the dirty notes (honey and plum and dories fruit) - I would pay for that beauty like I did for their Valliant creation before.

On first spritz this smells like an "off" vintage chypre, although no oakmoss is listed in the notes. I think it may be the way the ylang ylang and honey interact with the fruit and almost overpowering patchouli, but in any case there is an opening "rotting fruit and forest" smell - wet moss and leaves and overripe fruit and honey, with a dusty and powdery finish. It's familiar, but not altogether pleasant. I thought at first it was a scrubber. But then, THEN - within minutes "Alluring" magically blossoms from rotting fruit and grandma's potpourri into something very lovely, autumnal and complex. The woods are still strong, more oak than cedar; the honey too, not too sweet but definitely at the forefront. The patchouli settles, though, and the fruits go from wet and sloshy to dry, flesh-bursting plum becomes dried apple. And suddenly the scent makes sense. The honey-patchouli-woods-dry fruit that is given off throughout most of the life of the perfume is interesting and grownup. I keep thinking about an old house in New England - like the one in House of the Seven Gables - the tapestries looming on the shadowed walls at dusk, the woods outside in autumn as the sun sets, the oak and apple trees creaking in the wind. Alluring has medium sillage and medium staying power. It wasn't an immediate like for me, but now I've worn it for a day I find myself strangely addicted to it's autumnal beauty. I already got one compliment today. As it's almost October I can see this being perfect for that month in particular. If I can get past the top notes, that is.

Boadicea the Victorious Alluring has a vintage,old era smell which I didn't appreciate at first.The opening is very loud and harsh,makes you wondering if your sample has gone bad!It reminds me of old classics,the same class and mystery. I get tones of plum and resins. Also,there's something else like pine or fir..I smell pine very often in Boadicea,see Explorer and Seductive.Must be one of Boadi's favourite notes!!Overall,I would classify it as a chypre fruity,it has that dry part,I can't get over .Imagine oakmoss,pine tree,resin,plum all in one. That's how Alluring smells to me. It has good lasting power and medium sillage.

What the hell are people talking about? I love Boadicea but this one has nothing to do with plum or rose or the notes listed. I have a nose. From the top, this is herbal, medicinal, oakmoss. Smells like an old vintage chypre. In there somewhere is some buried rose. But this is NOT a floral fruity fragrance. It is not sweet like honey. It is bitter.