Seductive

Boadicea Seductive is rather odd name for this fir tree sap intense drying down to a cedary base. If you forget about the name, the scent is outstanding - the top and middle is a beautifully natural smelling fir tree with a side dish of rosemary. This is nearly linear for a long time, gradually leading into an Atlas cedar base with some musk and patchouli. If there is jasmine in there it is hiding well from my nose. My first Boadicea the Victorious experience was with Complex (aka Burned Rotten Flesh) and I am glad that didn't scare me off trying another Boadicea perfume. I am not yet convinced that they make *great* scents, but they are at least excellent (even Complex achieves an amazingly unpleasant effect), and the bottles are gorgeous (even better in reality than they look in their pictures), each scent with one of several Celtic inspired motifs rendered in thick lustrous metal.

Wow. Not for the faint hearted. Powerful pine/fir leaps from the bottle and engulfs you. However once the pine calms down the blend of this perfume is terrific. It's sexy as hell and really unapologetically so - in your face and flamboyant. This is a fragrance of overt confidence erring on the side of arrogance - and it's made all the more compelling because of that "I don't give a ****" approach. AMAZING. Balsamic, woody, not remotely floral on my skin. More masculine than feminine but I wear it regardless. I love it. This is a fragrance that could enslave a person - both the wearer and the "sniffer". Give it a few goes, and prepare yourself to be startled!

يوماً ما كنت في احدى ضواحي بلاد الشام كانت هذي اول مرة تمطر فيها صيفاً .. ما ان خرجت الى شرفتي حتى اسرني عبيرٌ اخّاذ .. ما هذه الرائحة و من اين اتت و كيف لعطرٍ ان يملأ الدنيا بعبيره هكذا .. كانت هذه اول مرة اشتم فيها رائحة اشجار الصنوبر التي كانت تملأ الجبال والسهول .. و منذ ذلك اليوم و انا ابحث لسنوات عن تلك الرائحة ، افتش العطور حتى وجدت عطري هذا .. رائحة اشجار الصنوبر ممزوجة ببخور اللبان يا الهي كيف لي ان اصف هذا الجمال !! ام ان شدة فرحي به تكفي !! .. العطر فخم جداً اجمل مايكون في الشتاء و ليالي المطر .. الثبات جيد جداً الفوحان جيد يستحق ثمنه لمن اراد ان يتميّز

Entrancing woody floral musk composition. The perfume opens with a note of mint surrounded by resins and iris. The heart is jasmine, rosemary and a prominent fir. It settles into a synthetic musk surrounded by hints of amber, sandalwood and patchouli. Like being in a mythical forest of fairies and goblins. The only complaint is that it is a rather soft unisex fragrance with moderate sillage and longevity. Enjoy!

Sexy original perfume, I love it! Expensive smelling and unique!

Now that I joined Fragrantica I re-post my review of Seductive by Boadicea the Victorious. Oh wow! I bought this fragrance saturday and I can say it's marvellous! A very masculine green-balsamic-spicy opening with a pinch of something like incense, an oriental, refined, intoxicating heart, a woody-dark base, Seductive is a very good example of all I want in a perfume. It gradually changes during a long time but conserves in every phase a sensual musky and resinous character. Very masculine but not rude, refined but not snob, classical and original at the same time. I think Seductive will remain for a long time in the closet of my favourite fragrances.

First off, the bottle is beautiful - love the ornate design, cap stays on, sprayer works well. The scent itself reminds me of what an updated version of polo green might smell like, made for the "modern man". It's got that nice green piney thing going on, but it's much more subdued and natural than polo green. There is also something fresh in the dry down, almost like a hint of lemon...but just a hint, hiding in the background. This fragrance is long-lasting on my skin, but projects nicely for around 4 hours. A nice scent for Fall, Winter, and early Spring.

Usually most perfumes houses in our days,use the word ''seductive'' just to describe perfumes with lots of sensual vanilla,almond,spices,anything that have the power to awake senses. Seductive can easily be the sister of Explorer,or may I say the wife?! When Explorer smells like a 'tough' guy,Seductive can be the ultimate 'conqueror',still tough with a sense of a two-faced woman. Fir,pine trees,lots of resins and amber,that's what I get.Eventually it gets calmer and more feminine.Very sophisticated and special.Lasts well too.P.S: Dont buy unsniffed.

I find the perfume really nice, very longlasting and the sillage is quite good. I can also find a lot of incense and patchouly in it. It is dark and the bottle is really sutable for the scent. The hole range is sniff worthy: they are all very loud at the beginning, but setteled very nicely. I can`not find so much flowers in it, not shore for the category- I would say oriental woody... Very special and sutable for both men and women.

this is an awesome fragrance really menthol camphorous green and balmy.

Picked this up for what I thought was a bargain price as a blind buy. It's an unusual scent and certainly not an easy wear, especially immediately after the initial application. The earthy forest floor description of this from another review sold this purchase to me. However, it's not the pleasant, natural woodsy smell I imagined that I find inside this bottle. In its favour, Seductive isn't at all a linear fragrance, it transforms all the way through each wear, it's just a shame none of the phases are particularly enjoyable to me personally. The initial blast is heavy on the pine and resin and is rather reminiscent of toilet freshener, unfortunately, with, to my nose at least, a slight urinelike undertone. It settles down into a woody smell reminiscent of fresh cut planks for the mid and then the latter part of its life is a slightly sour musk. This latter stage was the one that resonated with me the most, being slightly repulsive yet alluring at the same time like most good musk scents. Don't do what I did and buy this blind. I got it very cheap and I'm still not sure I want to keep it. While it is unusal, I'm not sure it's a fragrance that many people will enjoy. The rating on here is surprisingly high for me and I'd suggest you test before you buy. I'd have been disappointed to pay the RRP for this.

The opening is a very strong pine, with something wet and musty underneath. Like a pine tree that's fallen and started to decompose in a damp, rainy forest. It doesn't change a lot during the dry down - a whisper of mint peeks through like the first sun's rays over the pine. Sandalwood, patchouli and amber become the base. But it is still primarily that natural pine forest floor scent. It does tend to grow on you as time progresses so give it a good few hours of a chance if you're testing. I can see how some people would like this fragrance. It's like a vegetarian animalic scent, creating sweaty sensuality through forest notes. I can imagine this being a seductive scent on a masculine person. Try wearing this on a balmy night, not to cut the heat but instead to meld with your sweat to enhance your sensuality.

This is one you shouldn’t spray and run out the door. It needs time to develop, calm down a bit. Initial blast is intense. It’s almost shocking because I always associate seduction with warm smells, so upon first spray I was taken aback. Seductive doesn’t smell “bad,” it’s more “peculiar,” if anything. I think it’s masculine oriented. Not my thing, a tad too Christmas tree/resinous for my liking.

At first sniff I thought why would anyone want to smell like sauna infusions with pine flavour, that you pour every hour on hot sauna stone, unless you catch cold and need Wicks cough balsam. I wouldn't call it seductive, but rather expectoran (mucus solving) I thold my self.Then 30 minutes after the resinous part, accompanying from the beginning, really kicked in, and the fir became less prominent, so it turned to a formidable attractive masculin scent in my regard, but still not attractive enough to call it seductive.I could say that the product deserved its name, if Patchouli and Musk were more perceptable. It's mostly fir and resin, a very high quality resin by the way . I couldn't notice floral ingredients (iris or jasmine) .Musk entered after another 30 minutes to the game, a faint but beatiful, animalic barn-yard type of musc.I couldn't identify patchouli or sandal in the list either. But my girlfriend said that it smelled like Paco Rabanne Black XS on me.Hmmm... Strange... I used Black Excess in 2006 it was a far more sweet composition. However this one is everything but sweet (and luckily so) then I washed my hands for some reason with our coconut-almond hand soap and I smelled the same spot where I sprayed Seductive on. Wauww, yes this time it did smell like PR Black XS to me as well. But don't worry it doesn't smell like that unless you wash it.I am still not there to order a full bottle though.

I met these perfumes from Boadicea teh Victorius by chance, after having being curious for quite a long time. As it often happens I stumbled in a beautiful perfume shop called Caleri in Genoa while I was there for work. I passed by the shop in the centre of Genoa with my group of work and my gaze got immediately catched by the familiar image of a big decorated bottle... OMG! Boadicea's perfumes! This is what my friends call the perfumista's gaze, LOL! I couldn't stop right there because I was in a professional moment, but I carefully took the name of the street and fixed some reference points in a city I don't know very well. Of course, I managed to find some time to spend at Caleri before going back home! As you enter Caleri's shop you feel welcomed by a very soft, pure, elegant yet cosy atmosphere. The two blond super-kind ladies in the shop will make you feel at your ease and well advised. So this could be a great deal if you ever go to Genoa in Italy: a very interesting historical city close to the sea and great perfumes put together! Back to Boadicea... I tested 4 out of a good bunch and Seductive is one of them. I like to smell the tester spray first, then spray on paper, then on my skin. Seductive is a very special scent to my nose, but not one I would sport around easily according to my every day style, because it smells very resinous and very incensey in a strong yet mellow way. I would rather put myself into a vat of this perfume in a very private context! It is seductive indeed, but not in a girlish, standard way. It is confortable, warm, empowering, charismatic. Think of a very good churchy incense, which is not even listed here, I know, minus the usual cold feeling of incense plus a very forest-like background. All the other notes are very well blended and don't show up one by one, rather they make a smooth symphony as a landscape. I noticed that all the Boadicea's I've tried give the same effect: they start with a very clear strong note that makes you almost think it's a soliflore (or solinote) then they go changing all the time as if they were "speaking" with your chemistry and not just sitting there like a guest on your skin as it happens to me with many mainstream perfumes. It has no man/woman connotation. It goes for everyone who enjoy it and it lasts for a very long time. The bottle is heavy and beautiful to hold in hands.

(This review is for Eau de Perfume) SEDUCTIVE is listed as unisex but I think it suits more for the male audience. With this thought in mind I convinced my dear husband who usually stays miles away from my perfume testing to actually try this one on. The opening blast is aromatic with balsam-like resins, fir tree needles and rosemary. We liked the opening. It reminded us of a pine forest on the crisp winter day. The heart notes on me turned out to be nice leather with a hint of musk. On my husband, the heart notes turned like stale pine needles. The fragrance went downhill for both of us after that. The dry down turned a bit sour on my skin. On my husband’s skin the scent stayed rather boring like a pile of decaying fir or pine needles. Perhaps this fragrance requires the right skin chemistry, which neither one of us have for this scent. I thought that the concept of this fragrance was nice but it did not live up to our expectations.

My quest to find the quintessential fir/pine lead me to this. Very hard to find but I managed to get a sample from scentdash.com. With most fragrances I get an immediate visual reaction to the scent. With this one, it evokes snow-tipped fir trees - it's minty, 'silvery' and resinous. There is this damp woody feel to the fragrance. Don't understand the connotations with the name 'seductive' as this is a woody powerhouse but alas - definitely one of my favourites from Boadicea.

To all the people who like seductive, go and try “il mercante di sogni” i have put it up as similar fragrance to seductive. I have both, and i Got the “il mercante di sogni” first, i never in my dreams thought that seductive would smell like that, But they are identical. Where seductive is different, is at the opening, and then it goes into smelling just exactly like the il mercante, il mercante is very linear from start to finish. Great alpha fragrances both of Them. .

This is one mysterious understated fragrance. The quiet soothing dry down is the complete antithesis of the eucalyptus clinical blast opening of which I totally love! I must say the initial aromatherapy-like top notes dissipate rapidly....in a matter of seconds hence I am left with a soft refined albeit masculine scent - Intimately lingering on my clothes! Overall it's way too masculine for my taste.

Cedar, pine,fir lovers come one, come all!!! Just popped the sample on my arm earlier today and this evening, I bought a FB...... I love EL Sensuous Noir due to its woody, cedar notes and this beauty certainly lives up to its name!! I don't often verbally ooze over a fragrance but considering I have been on the hunt for a delicious pine, cedar, woody scent like this for years... Oh happy day!!