Mayfair

A medieval mead drink with extra cloves and spices - and civet juice! :) To my nose, this fragrance is led by (and structured around) a gigantic honey/beeswax note - most of the other elements simply reinforce and highlight aspects of this note, with wood and leather providing a base. For example, the excellently-blended civet enhances and brings out the animalic aspects of the honey. I'm picturing a medieval stable, leather saddles rubbed with beeswax hanging off the walls, the smell of straw, wood and warm animal fur hanging in the air. The dark corners of said stable are the scene of furtive, lusty liaisons... as others have pointed out, this is a very sexy and carnal perfume. Boadicea Mayfair is the fragrance I imagine certain Game of Thrones characters wearing. In fact I'm certain that they do! Very rich and well-blended; smells top-notch and expensive, whilst retaining a certain unpolished, rustic quality. Somehow, it manages to be both refined AND rustic!! Because of its warming qualities and overall richness, I anticipate Mayfair would work best in cold conditions.

BTV Mayfair has become my most worn fragrance. It is animalic amber, with a prominent note of tamed, warm but still slightly fecal and urine like civet. It starts off with a bitter, mouth drying cypriol, spicy honey, and piercing, warm animalistic leathery civet. Cypriol evaporates in 30 mins and the fragrance settles down to golden bed of sweetened tea like civet. Civet urine qualities are more prominent in heat, while tea and leather are more noticeable in cooler weather. Normally I am not wearing more than two sprays of any perfume, but with this I prefer to go harder on the trigger. Which means that the projection and sillage are average, or just above average. Though it stays for whole day as a skin scent and lasts days on clothes. It is gorgeous, decadent and absolutely unisex fragrance. Recommended for those, who are into smooth, elegant animalics.

2 years ago I was looking for something different and then I found Mayfair. It is very potent , provocative ,nocturnal and masculine. I think this perfume was created for the nightlife. I can imagine a sexy and elegant man , the one that has warm and big hands, the one who gives hugs and handshakes intensively. This perfume is not for shy personalities , because if you wear this , all eyes will be over you. I love it , but it could be a monster if it is over applied, and could be cloying in order to create headaches , so in my experience don’t apply it if you are in a hurry, take your time and wear it directly to the skin ( specially put a little bit in those points where you would like to seduce your partner). This perfume has provided me, pleasant and intense romantic memories.

Mayfair, so uncompromisingly seductive. Dirty, woody, dry, animalic alluring perfection. With a drop of labdanum in the opening and the inherently subtle sweetness of floral beeswax, there is just enough nectar in this fragrance to hook me in without ever becoming cloying. At the fore is dry, musky civet and spicy oud, perfectly pitched against the cedar, birch, leather and patchouli. Yes, woody, woody, woody! Vetiver shows a dark rooty facet here that gives great structure and earthy integrity. Oh my word. My heart is exploding at the scent of Mayfair -- meditative and soberingly sexy.

Beeswax candles and church incense burnt in a wooden stave church. There's a strawlike undertone, or maybe it's an animalic tone that reminds me of animals' cages with straw. Medieaval.... nice. On account of all this wood, a fairly masculine scent but without any sharp edges. Intensely comforting.