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.

Love Ardent and wanted to like this one but the dusty plum opening reminded me more of over ripe almost mouldy plum; such a shame as the dry down was amazing soft and so pretty-but couldn't get past the first few hours

I was really curious about this one because of listed notes and I eventually could try it at Caleri in Genoa! It's not at all what I expected to be, but it is an extremely interesting fragrance. As for other Boadicea's perfumes the opening note is so evident that it almost smells like a single note perfume, then the fragrance starts "speaking" to my skin and pass through many stages. In this case plum is the queen of opening! If you are used to plum-flavoured bath gels and lotions or fake plum note in many commercial scents, forget about. Here plum is a beuatiful heavy ripe fruit mixed with some other fruit and it much recall plum in Femme de Rochas. The rest of the composition is very strong yet mellow and all together this fragrance gives me the impression that it could have been made in the '50s! It is a complex kind of fragrance. Calling it just floral fruity is reductive. It smells like a beautiful diva dressed in satin with a complicated hair style and red lipstick would smell! It could be Moulin Rouge Satin's perfume! I can't imagine a man wearing this, still it's up to personal tastes. For me this is a somptuous, ripe, exuberant and not demure feminine scent with a beautiful vintage edge. It lingers on my skin for hours giving me different stages of olfactive pleasure that thrill my mood. Very longlasting and the typical Boadicea's bottle is very beautiful.

(This review is for Eau de Perfume) ALLURING is mostly patchouli combined with the woods and dry fruits on my skin. The opening is strong with balmy and dry plum. It does not have a typical fruity light scent but more of a smoky and earthy feel. The heart notes are more mellowed with the rose layered on the patchouli notes with a bit of dry fruity accords lingering in the background. The base notes are dry patchouli, woods and galbanum with slightly sweet notes. The dry down has a bit of a soapy feeling. Most Boadicea the Victorious fragrances invoke sense of peace and tranquility and associate with nature in my mind. But this one is rather dark to me. I imagine going into the deep forest with overgrown trees and stumbling on an old dusty cabin. I come inside and get rather ominous feeling of being in the place of darkness like from a dark fairy tale or a Celtic legend. The fragrance is balanced and executed well but it just does not bloom with beauty on my skin. I love MIDNIGHT POISON, which is also a patchouli rose but MIDNIGHT POISON is vibrant and gorgeous on me. ALLURING seems to have less rose, a bit strange dry and dusty fruits, darker patchouli and wood notes. But if you love patchouli, I would definitely recommend giving this a try.

More and more I seem to be pulling my first impressions and replacing them. Alluring is still a nice fragrance, but what I pick up a month later is a 'pine' note. 'Precious woods' is listed, and it must include cedar and/or eucalyptus. I would give Alluring 5 stars if it came without this, because now I find it rattles the nose. Dry down is dusty, as advertised. I think this wears better in humid weather (my first wearing was during the bay area's wet season). This setting amplifies the fruit, which I found so lucious. Now I'm wearing it during our dry climate, and thus, it's more reedy. I like how some reviewers have brought up a 'vintage edge'. I agree, and I'm reminded of Sonoma Scent's Vintage Rose. Do I still like Alluring? Yes, but it has slipped off my 'consider buying' list for now.

Wow, this is bold maximus! Ancient, fermenting (read: rotting) plum saps. Very spiced, almost arabian-like resin overpowers all else very rich and overwhelming! It's not to my taste sadly but it seamlessly melts into the 'dusty plum' note that is very real and just that - sort of molded but like ancient-type stored plums near a liqour cellar caskets. Strange but intriguing in it's own way. It's definitely a daring one so do always test out with this,, it can certainly put some way off with the odd theme on the oudy-sweetish yet moldy dank fruits/plum - very much of the dark, oudy-plummy sort. Not for me, but very good quality and an interesting creation. Scent: 5/10. Quality: 9/10.