Green Sapphire

I have done multiple tests with Amouage Epic Man, Boadicea The Victorious Green Sapphire, and this fragrance Fragrance World Green Sapphire all worn at the same time on different but comparable parts of my body. I find these to be the three most similar in notes and scent profile. Here’s how they compare Longevity: longest to weakest 1) BTV Green Sapphire 2) Amouage Epic Man (very close) 3) FW Green Sapphire (distant third) Cost: cheapest to most expensive 1) FW Green Sapphire (easily the cheapest and best budget pick) 2) Amouage Epic Man (easily found 120-180 USD. Very fair price) 3) BTV Green Sapphire (you pay for premium and this is as premium as it gets) Performance and Sillage: strongest to weakest 1) BTV Green Sapphire (monstrous) 2) Amouage Epic Man (beastly but slightly below BTV) 3) FW Green Sapphire Detailed review: - Fragrance World: initially has a very strong Sillage and projects the first 20-30 minutes. It is a strong green pine and moss accord early that is beautiful and captivating. Soon thereafter the green notes subside but don’t disappear. The sandalwood and cedar comes to the forefront and there is a beautiful green smooth creamy woods. In the deep dry down (about 5-6 hours) there is a sweet nutty spicy saffron that takes over but it still holds on to the green woods throughout. - Amouage Epic Man: masculine earthy chypre with a dirty spicy earthy woods. Mesmerizing burst of spice with earthy green to open that projects very well. As it goes into the mid the spices most notably the pink pepper and nutmeg subside and the woods from sandalwood and cedar come to surface and take the reigns. There is still strong performance about 3-4 hours in but this is when it goes from projecting to more close to a personal bubble, but not quite skin scent. It is still mossy patchouli earth green with myrrh in the mid, less spice more gentle. In the deep dry down dry down about 7-10 hours the woods becomes extremely creamy but the earthy patchouli turns slightly chocolate and mixes well with the sandalwood. I live for the deep dry down - BTV Green Sapphire: starts very pine and coniferous. Has some incense and smoke that makes a very strong opening. Not repulsive but not what you'd expect based on most reviews. I get a light raspberry that softens the initial pungency. About 10-15 minutes in the coniferous notes settle and the Raspberry balances it out. There is a saffron that begins to emerge that adds what smells to me Almost nutty to make a combination sweet green nutty accord that is drop intoxicating. From about 30 minutes in to about 7 hours these notes dances and project like a delicate symphony each playing their part then returning to below the surface only to rise again later. To a passerby it's as though wealth itself is announcing its arrival. The projection is sneaky on this as I didn't even realize I had a scent but people nearby would frequently stop me to ask what I was wearing. For some reason it was often female who would be drawn by this. The dry down lasts 7-12 hours and sometimes beyond depending how active I am. It is the same balanced symphony with more of the spiced woods and less pine and raspberry. It's pure magic what this perfume does to the nose Conclusion: Each one is worthy to own. If I were to compare the FW Green Sapphire is closer to Amouage Epic Man than BTV. The FW Green Sapphire is the easy blind reach, any occasion, easy and cheap but still well appreciated. The Amouage is more formal but can be used for work settings if sprayed lightly. The BTV is for serious and only formal encounters. I can see it being too much in casual settings and making you seem out of place

Cost aside, the scent is fantastic. Opening has some saffron, vetiver, and raspberry, but that doesn't last and the drydown comes quickly. The vetiver stays, and the sandalwood, musk and cashmere arrive. Very masculine and dense, but at the same time light. It's not flamboyant and doesn't shout, it's got a quiet confidence about it. I can't think of anything that smells like this in perfumery and it's difficult to describe, but I'm going to give it a shot. Have you ever been to the greenhouse section of home depot? It smells like that (green plants and grasses (vetiver), potting soil (vetiver roots and violet),outdoors (oud and musk) and processed lumber (sandalwood and cedar). Now imagine luxurious versions of these things I've described. I know it's a strange description, but that's the best way I can describe it. -------------------------------------------------------- Wonderful masculine scent with heart stopping price. I can see why some don't understand it, but I think it's great. Scent 9/10 Performance TBD

Point blank, my favorite woody scent followed by Kilian Sacred Wood. Green Sapphire is a phenomenally regal woody scent that smells like Flagship offering. To my nose Sandalwood, cashmeran, violet and raspberry carry the scent. Other woods like cedar and agar join the party later on in the heart and base but act more like spices on food than the actual dish. The cashmeran used here amplifies the "creamy" feel of the sandal to a large extent and IMO is a great combination. The violet and berry add facets to the scent that make it 3D and not overly simple, which is okay, that most wood dominant scents tend to come off as. Performance wise this stuff is very powerful and diffuses in the air with ease so it will most definitely fill up a room if over applied. Brest sprayed to the back of the neck or any area away from the front as it will cause the nose to go agnostic to the creamy aspect/illusion of the wood which elevates this above all other wood dominant scents I have ever come across. 10/10

This is a really interesting piece. The opening moved through stages of 'gasoline' violet leaf, 'leather' saffron and juicy sweet raspberry - a TF Tuscan Leather opening, no less! Those elements then danced and intermingled until the journey revealed the core of fragrance towards the end. First impressions were that it resembled more a Leather Woody rather than an Amber or Oriental Woody, until further wear into the late dry down revealed it to be what the maker says it is - raspberry, pine and oud. That's possibly why it might seem challenging to some I think (nuclear performance aside). Although this leans unashamedly masculine in my view, a bold and edgy woman could easily nail this, in leathers, if the fragrance is seen from that perspective; a softer, woodier, more powdery, and more versatile Tuscan Leather. Superbly versatile and addictive. 2 sprays only, maybe 3, indeed. I just wish it came in 50mL. Enjoy!

Had a hard time at the begining with this fragrance and did not like it at all regretting that I blind bought it. After few wearings something clicked finally. It's super woody fragrance, I dont see it on a female unless you are type of boss bitch or CEO than maybe. Everything is blended to perfection like every higher Boadicea tier fragrance, its hard to pick up the notes but I don't smell any rasperry at all at least not from sweet side. Performance for this type of fragrance is amazing, first 2 hours it project's like crazy than becoming weaker and sit closer but still is detectable. Longevity full day, on clothes its 1 month at least(did not test if more because I had to wash the shirt but even after 1 month it was saf) Scent: 9 Performance: 8 Longevity: 10 Price: 5 - well Boadicea is overpriced everyone knows that but better to buy 1 Green Sapphire than few other's which you will not fully use anyway

I got my full bottle today. I have always loved Green Sapphire from the moment I smelled it. I passed it on for Blue Sapphire some days ago but returned for it today because it is unlike anything in my collection. It opens creamy green... violet and raspberry with hints of oudy forest floor smell. Then comes the pine and cashmere in the middle. Like freshly washed wool. It dries to dense woods. Like shaved pencils (the cedar wood) and creamy musky oud (sandal wood, musk and oud). This website missed some notes in this perfume. Visit the Boadicea website for the complete notes (Oud, vanilla, patchouli, musk and amber are listed in the base notes). Lasts super long for days on the paper strip I tested it on again and brought home last week. 9/10 (It would have been a 10/10 if not for the super high price and soft projection). My new signature perfume.....sorry Amouage King Blue and Outlands

Probably the best green fragrance I've ever smelled. First test spray I picked up on the raspberry but my friend didn't. I got a petrol violet vibe too which I love. Gets a bit piney yet retains some sweetness. The violet transitions to a slight powdery vibe but not overly. It gets creamy from sandalwood yet retains dryness from the cedar. Very pleasant. Not beast mode projection but friend thought so. Longevity is good. It's a gorgeous green fragrance - I heard it was labled the middle Eastern GIT... I can see that but the oud is far in the background and it's soft.

Green Sapphire was my first bottle from Boadicea and has become a special piece in my collection. I was initially underwhelmed by the scent but this really grows on you. It is a charming fragrance. A woody backbone cloaked in piney cashmere carrying a soft air of sweetness from the raspberry. The performance took me by surprise. I sprayed it once in the air in my room before bed, woke up in the middle of the night and was shocked at how strong the scent was radiating. This has become a favourite. Simple, mature and classy.

@Hadi Koko That's interesting because I swear Boadicea's website didn't have vanilla and patchoulli in the pyramid at the time I had purchased a few years ago. Can't say I read any vanilla at all in my bottle, or patchoulli, although the latter could always be enmeshed in that green, woody profile I suppose. I wouldn't say the opening on my version is creamy in any way either. Cashmere is there definitely. Be interesting to see if they've reformulated things.

Sleeky blended Vetiver and Violet opening ( with a hint of Pine Needle ) sliding down into the cashmere base. Throughout the mid to base there is a tangy cedar note similar to the one on Penhaligons Halfeti Cedar. Not quite the powerhouse I expected though. Does well for a couple of hours but then a skin scent for 4-5 more. Very lovely, very pricey. Honestly, try Rogue Perfumery Fougere L'Aube at 1/10th the price. Same wheelhouse, decent performance.

I don't know what fragrance some of these "reviews" are referring too. For me this was a monster for both over the top compliments and reactions then performance. I mean don't buy it if you don't want strange beautiful women and genuinely curious guys to ask you "what's the name of the fragrance you're wearing!" Seriously though the responses even surprised me. And, yes I do love wearing this one. I won Valiant, BS, Almas, Nemer, and GS.

Am I the only one who smells the raspberry and wood together and picture a wine barrel? Like one that had carried a pinot noir or malbec, just a deep berry soaked into this now very aged and dry wood. A good olfactive experience if I ever did have one.

Get some samples. Then decide for yourself if you are ok with the price point. However, the fragrance itself is outstanding. The opening is very lively but the dry down is where you get the magic. Definitely worth the price of a couple samples.

What I imagine opulence would smell like. A truly beautiful culmination of oud, raspberry, cedar, saffron and cashmere to my nose. A fantastic fragrance for 3 out of 4 seasons that smells like absolute heaven!

This is addictive. First time I sprayed it, I was far from impressed but as time went by, I couldn’t get enough of it.

QUICK UPDATE: I went on a forest hike and every time I lifted my camera to take a picture, I smelled my wrist and to this day, it's one of the best olfactory experiences of my life. Opens with the most appealing vetiver ever that’s pungent, sun-soaked, dry grass with a gorgeously balanced dank, raspberry edge. Also reads as luscious, supple leather. Purity slightly diminished by soap, but isn’t terrible as dry cedar helps. Projects a fall-time walk with the appealingly bright/musty decay of leaves - but damp moss keeps it from being Autumnal. Up close, the vetiver is exquisitely rich and complex. The name + design “Green Sapphire” made it hard to appreciate the gorgeous vetiver it excels at because I was expecting green. Strength and projection is incredible. It's mostly boatloads of brilliantly dense vetiver - which is enough for me. Dank, rich, dry spice. (Deleted 2 previous reviews because this took multiple attempts to understand)

Oh my what a gorgeous composition this is! BTV never fails to disappoint and the note breakdowns are basically useless in my experience owning many of them. This is beautiful but for $800 I can’t justify it. Stylistically it shares a lot in common with Ursa and Ecstasy from Tiziana Terenzi (I own both so that isn’t a guess). If someone gave me a bottle I’d be ecstatic and humbled but for $200 or so...for my money I’ll take the Tiziana’s that are similar and project a little more. Scent: 8/10 definitely high quality and very well composed. Projection: 5/10 for the first couple hours. Longevity: 7/10 it sticks around but gets very soft after a few hours. Sillage: 4/10 it does leave a train behind you but only for the first hour or so. Would I buy a full bottle? No.

Classy but overrated (and overpriced) woody aromatic scent that has a sensual allure to it. The scent opens with aromatic notes of saffron, violet leaf, raspberry and a liquor accord. The heart is pine, cashmeran and patchouli. The perfume settles on a powdery woody base of sandalwood, slight oud, vanilla and synthetic musk. Overall nice masculine leaning scent with moderate to strong projection and excellent longevity. But it’s only a slight variation on Blue Sapphire really. Enjoy!

This perfume is very heartwarming. So I can somewhat see it being used as a daily grabber. However, it does remind me of high school days for some reason in the opening. (As how scents can trigger memories) It comes across as extremely gentle, but at the same time it has vitality. Dry down is powdery, which elevates the maturity of the scent. Overall pretty good but probably not for the price point.

The raspberry smell i get from the start is really nice and reminds me of those 'blue raspberry' sweets that i love However, it has a fancy aura that means i cant wear it for any occassion. I feel like this would be the perfect scent for a confident man wearing a coloured suit for prom.

Green piney sandalwood fragrance. The sandalwood here is dry and mildly bitter. Masculine and I don’t get any sweetness. Office safe and elegant. I consider it suitable for all seasons. Shukran Habibi!

Cashmere! That is the dominant scent with cedar in background. Performance moderate. Received as a sample, I like it but not bottle worthy for me for the price. Easy to wear though, leans masculine.

انه عود مثالي والجميل به انه خشبي تماما لم استطع ملاحظة التوت والبنفسج ولا يقدم العود بطريقة مميزة وانما مقبولة رغم اني احببته واستمتع به ولكن السعر مبالغ به جدا

Cuoium, is that you in your fancy outfit? Edit after 4 weeks of use: I still can’t fully understand this perfume—or the reviews about it. What I’m smelling feels completely different, with nothing in common to what others describe. I’ll probably need to search for and try other batches, as I have no other explanation. Season/Time of Day: Still very difficult to wear during the day or in spring/summer. Definitely feels better suited for colder weather. Projection: Massive. Even with just two sprays indoors, I get a lot of eye-rolling looks—it can come across as almost offensive. Longevity: Easily 8 hours. You’ll still notice something lingering even after 12 hours, unless you deliberately rub it off.

Hmm, although I don't hate this one, I don't particularly like it that much either. Bowtie guy hypes this one to heaven & says it gets him tonnes of compliments but I found it to smell very petrol like & not all that appealing. Thinking perhaps the ladies like it more than the guys, I let both my mum & sister have a whiff of it & both of them recoiled & said it was awful! My sister went as far as saying she would avoid anyone wearing this lol. Make of that what you will but a mass appealing compliment getter this is not. Not blind buy safe at all! Maybe works better on different skin types.

Blue sapphire was a true revelation for me and is an amazing perfume, the opening of Green Sapphire is a bit harsh, the dry down a bit better – friends of mine do love this one but I do not like it very much

There's some confusion arisen ... does Green Sapphire have oud in it? I was in the Manchester branch of Selfridges in the boutique in the basement, which any Manchester perfumista MUST know as ultimate perfume shop within probably a hundred mile radius, telling them about my urges to put my scorn of oud aside, and they said to me "this has only recently come in", and led me to the BtV counter, and passed me this on a card. The bottle itself had the notes hand-written on a sticker on the bottom, and one of the listed notes was oud. On the BtV website, on the page to this, it says there is 'Dehnal oud' in it, whatever 'Dehnal' means. Is someone about to tell me "oh, that means an accord that mimics oud"? Because oud is not listed in the notes here. But I can tell you what I thought of it. I was simply blown away! I have always kept away from perfumes at this sort of pricepoint, but this one overturned my ideas! An image that kept coming to mind as I held the card to my nose was of a pool of crystal-clear water in a cave complex in Ingleborough Yorkshire I remember being shown through one time I went there as a child on a family outing. The water was so clear it made the pool seem about 6" deep when in fact it was 5', according to the guides. This may seem a strange image for a perfume to bring to mind, but I think it's the way it seems to sparkle and tinkle through your nasal passages, like you imagine the water in that pool had sparkled and tinkled through its subterranean passages on its way to that pool. I've never known a perfume smell anything quite like this before. And I could smell the oud in there, as before I saw the notes list on this page I had no reason to doubt it. But this time it was a totally different experience to any of my previous samplings of it, either deliberate or accidental. It's not that it smelt like a different smell, but imagine there's some piece of music with a loud congested passage in it that you've only ever heard before over tinny little loudspeakers ... and then one day you hear it over Quad electrostatics, or whatever it is that sound-istas use, and all the instruments become distinguishable, and it now makes sense instead of a cacophony. The transformation was like that! I can't think of a better way of putting it, but then I don't think I need to - it will do fine! The absence of oud in the notes list here has rattled me a bit, as I thought I had gotten a nice bit of coaching in good quality oud, trying this stuff. Maybe I still have, though. I know of one big error in the notes lists on this site if one of the contributors (a certain Mr. Grenouille) and the information supplied by the staff in Selfridges boutique are correct: and that is, the SoOud Jamil notes list. But I love this fragrance anyway, whether it is guilty or not-guilty. And it's a dangerous love, I think, with perfumes at this pricepoint! And can someone tell me what 'Dehnal Oud' is?

"b-house boadicea" cranks out so many fragrances per year that even buyers with deep pockets feel lost in what to buy, and green saphire is one of the more popular ones in the house this fragrance is very woody, leans masculine, very polarizing. you may like it, others may not. marketed as unisex, i'm a female, bought a bottle, and it is truly a struggle every time i wear it. doesnt smell bad to me, but still dont like it the first day i wore it all the way to now. never have i seen a frag get so many negative comments from strangers and get positive comments from online reviewers it is a very woody fragrance with a few standout notes: cedar wood, cashmeran, raspbery, pine. performance is strong. 3 sprays max. high longevity and sillage. the opposite performance wise is creed spice and wood, but s&w is much better in all respects except performance. sold my 250 ml flacon becuase performance is awful opening is harsh and strong but smooths out a few hours later. try before you buy. 6.5/10. good if you love woody masc scents, bad if you dont. cedar overdose. it may smell good to you but very polarizing, may be awful to others

All new perfume launches by Boadicea create a great deal of interest and discussions among frag lovers the way a new movie of James Cameron does among movie lovers. Tobacco sapphire is the latest. I tried some Boadiceas at the Dubai Airport Duty free about six years back and immensely liked Blue sapphire and since then have never been without it. And what a great customer friendly team they had at Dubai Airport that made trying out different Boadiceas a delightful experience. I interacted with Boadicea, London recently to buy something and the experience was amazing. Thanks Yulia. That said I didn't like Amber Sapphire but Green Sapphire is a different story. It's very woodsy with a bit of right sweetness. Gives the impression of a visit to a forest where trees have been cut or you are inside a sawmill (in a good way) And doesn't smell synthetic. A super fragrance for me. Try it.

Yeah, I don't get it. No oud listed, but this essentially just smells like straight up oud to me - the clean 'new furniture' type, not skanky/cheesy. With the smell of a smoke bomb from the 90's (the little wicked colored ones you'd light and toss into the grass). Guess I disagree with the notes. Creamy? Raspberry? Nope. It's not a bad scent, but it's, well... really plain and boring - just oud. Pretty boring.

Phenominal fragrance...masculine, woody, exuberant, regal and sexy! Alpha male scent...for the true gentleman. Two sprays maybe three and you're done! Please don't overspray this...it will become a bit cloying in my opinion. My wife loves this scent as well as Knight of Love! Price point...ehhh! Well, if you have the money....buy it! Enough said...enjoy fragrance lovers! Q-Scents!

My Husband tryed it one mounth ago and it was very pleasant masculine scent for me. The drydown can be unisex becouse of the softness. Sillage is heavy and the longewity? That's why I wrote this review: I wash 2x His shirt and I can still smell Boadicea Green Sapphire. We have never have this before, I don't know what kind of perfume is it but it has a beast longevity:)!!!

Scent - light cashmere, saffron with a light presence of violet. Season/Time of Day - I prefer to use this one all year round, day or night. Projection - I didn't get noticed, I didn't get a compliment. Longevity - I get 8hrs consistently.

Always same story with Boadicea...they put a nice existing perfume in their luxurious bottle and charge it x5 ! this one smells exactly like Oud Santal from Brecourt !! Please BTV stop your mess

I ve never tried original one, just copy of it with same name.... To me more luxury version of pal zileri sartoriale... Woodsy, crispy... I like it a lot

It's a statement. Thrilling wood bitters, tamed florals, perfect dry, got the real neat entity activated on that 5°C foggy Budapest stroll.

Very very interesting. The whiskey note is strong for Me. Smells like I spilled a drink on me. Perfect for the niche heads out there.

I am not quite sure this fragrance is for me. Willing to let my 100ml go for a good deal if anyone interested, PM me.

Raspberry mixed with with diesel my first impression sniffing from mi arm,in the air it’s exceptionally beautiful

The official notes are Top: saffron , violet , raspberry Heart: pine Base : oud, amber,cedarwood,sandalwood

@YYY_Delilah to answer your question "Dehn Al Oud" literally translates to "Oil of the Oud"

If anyone has this and wishes to move on from it, I have blue sapphire to trade for it.

There’s definitely oud in this. It’s in the notes on the website. I love it.