Polish Potatoes

Polish Potatoes smells exactly as it's name suggests. It is very rare I find, to have a perfume that actually delivers on it's promises. Perfumes are often like politicians; a load of hot air with little to no actual substance. But not here. Polish Potatoes opens with dirt. Pure, earthy, mineral rich dirt. Wow. Perfume anarchy. Polish Potatoes does whatever it wants, without anyone's permission. It will present a version of perfume that will openly challenge your nose to a fight to the death. It makes the smell of damp soil theatrical, wholesome, classy and fantastic. Earthy vegetables also play a role in this beautifully bizarre scent profile, the ensemble of them gives an essence of cold Polish vegetable soup. There are some elegant florals interlaced in the middle, and the base contains even more soil tones, along with some resinous aspects. I fucking love it. It is overpriced however. The bottle contains such a miniscule amount, but you don't need a lot of sprays for this perfume to become your skin's best buddy. Over the £100 mark for such a small bottle takes the piss a bit. But, look at the company this scent belongs to; high-end, up it's own arse "fashion". Yuk. Edit: Bohoboco have to be the most unprofessional perfume seller that I've ever dealt with, in my long time on this earth. I purchased a sample first, which arrived easily. However, if you live in England and want to buy a full size, be prepared to pay an extortionate import fee. I mentioned this to Bohoboco, stating that they should warn their overseas customers about the fee that is added on, as you are not made aware of it at any point, until DHL calls you up and demands it to be paid. Their answer took a long time to come back to me, and it was basically "this isn't our problem" in a more palatable collection of words. Fuck them, fuck their perfumes and fuck them again. I will NEVER buy anything else from them ever again. I should have known how cunty they would be, by their over-inflated "high fashion" ego. The perfume: 9/10. It loses a point for being a very small volume. The company who make the perfume: -1000/10. CUNTS.

Polish Potatoes is such a powerfully evocative fragrance! While also performing very well and being quite wearable. Why, you might just have a masterpiece on your hands, Mr. Lach. To me, this scent perfectly encapsulates autumn with its fresher, cooler air, just-planted winter wheat sprouting its first leaves, evergreen pine trees and the return of leather boots to daily rotation. The atmospheric messiness of yard work in the rain rewarded with the occasional rose, heliotrope or carnation still in bloom as well as root vegetables aplenty. The satisfying heaps of beetroots and potatoes filling the cool, humid air of your root cellar with their slightly metallic, a little mossy, sweet-ish, grounding promise. Autumn with its cold, fragrant wind, carrying news of moist, fallen leaves slowly becoming fresh earth in the forest, of fields cooling deep beneath their golden stubble, ploughed muck or young seedlings. News of stacked firewood, distant chimney smoke and coming winter. It turns out the Czech countryside childhood experience doesn't differ much from the Polish one - as far as its olfactive perception goes, that is - because I was stunned by the photorealism of this fluid, ever-changing creation. A beautiful, effortlessly wearable work of art and a new favourite. It lasts well into the eighth hour until becoming a skin scent and then lasting some more. Perfectly unisex. Bravo! I cannot wait for September to wear Polish Potatoes in their natural habitat!

On first spray there is virtually no hint of potato. The scent is sweeter than expected - opening to a deep patchouli and vanilla. It is also much more floral than I expected, the heliotrope following behind and creating a powdery trail. After a few minutes on the skin, the underlying earthiness of the fragrance develops, with a "wet" soil note combining with the heliotrope, I start to think of a sweet garden. A few hours later the scent now smells like "expensive earth." If someone were to build a Macys fragrance counter in the middle of a farm - the salespeople going back and forth between spraying floral testers and harvesting vegetables - this would be the result. (A more appealing smell than it sounds!) Almost 6 hours later and the scent still was going strong. twojtrener was not lying when saying this perfume is incredibly strong. If you want a scent that lingers, this is one. The pine and leather notes rise to the top after some time. Its strangely cooling and crisp, feels like breathing in a flower field in a damp forest. The oud is also much more prominent, after some time. This frangrance is gearing up to be a personal favorite of mine, but does come across quite strong. I'd probably spray it on a few hours before going out.

Please don't be too off put by the name. I loved this immediately. My theory is that Bohoboco scents are intentionally titled to throw you off your game a little bit. An expectation is created, only to leave you surprised when another entirely different experience happens. The potato aspect is there, don't get me wrong, it's just not the whole story. More like a single snapshot inside of a larger picture. I like to think of this more as : "Night Market 4am". Lots going on here. The idea of getting back to the roots of a dirty patchouli by actually marrying a thoughtfully complex soil accord to it is genius. So many patchouli's come off as chocolatey when trying to go down the dark path. Or high-zing hippie madness when floralized. This goes a different route, literally grounding it, bringing it down to earth, real earth, where you realized it always belonged. The Benz-amber-heliotrope trio make the whole thing more approachable and rounded, while the oud butches it up a notch in the drydown. Somehow I missed the pine moment entirely. The sillage will not disappoint those intrepid souls among you. Skin scent wearers be warned, this is a bonafide powerhouse.

A sharp, dark and dry leather/oud/amber scent, triangulating somewhere between LADDM, Puredistance M and Laudano Nero (with all the strength and persistence of the latter). The marketing is fun on this one, but also distracting. If I cross my eyes just right I can imagine I’m getting beetroots from the earthy interplay of labdanum, oud and patchouli, but there aren’t any elements here we haven’t smelled before and in similar combinations - we just have to remember that fragrance notes are pure marketing, sometimes emphatically unrelated to the actual ingredients. In terms of quality though, this is way up there. There’s a killer deal to be had if you find it on discount. Amouage could release this with some New Age-y, random Magnetic Poetry tile for a name – let’s say, Awakening – and charge a multiple of the price to great acclaim. At least then it would be better targeted to Saudi princes and American nepo hippy girls rather than your babcia.

This is simply a divinely realising scent that casts a spell on me, I disliked it at first and now I adore it for winter. It's a powerful blast, two sprays will linger to my clothes all day, and will echo on my skin even the following day after I showered. I can smell it from my jumpers days after I wore them, it leaves this gentle memory of itself in my wardrobe, this perfume truly permeates my late autumn and winter days. I love its quirkiness and thanks to its surprise element, it became my signature scent for the season. Truly most magical earthy aroma, it feels like I am myself earthed in my grandma's cellar, transported to another, magical wonderland. The profile is stunning: cold, damp potatoes, covered in soil, dancing with notes of patchouli, vanilla and cloves. There's a dazzling sweetness in there, but nothing like you've smelled before.

The fact that a plurality has reviewed Polish Potatoes as having moderate sillage tends to make me fully believe the oft-repeated assertion that many Fragrantica reviewers are larping and haven’t actually tried scents they enthusiastically rate and review. Polish Potatoes has superlative longevity, and it imposes itself in any space. It is one of the best-performing niches I have ever encountered. Otherwise, if you appreciate earthiness and patchouli, it’s a stunning scent that works particularly well as a signature for folks working in creative professions, where artful personal quirks are appreciated. This would be hard to pull off at a corporate job, I suspect. Finally, imo, the other major banger from Bohoboco is Dark Vinyl Musk.

I am truly impressed and surprised by this perfume. It was the last one I tried from the discovery set (thank you for including the 2 new scents, BOHOBOCO ☺️). I expected more earthiness and less wearability. Is much sweeter than one would think, and slowly turns into a warm ambery, pleasant fragrance, after an earthy opening which to my nose mostly comes from the beetroot note. Other notes I can definitely identify are clove, leather, benzoin and vanilla. Oh, and pine, thanks to which this kind of reminds me of Fahrenheit for a split second. I do love this 🥰

I smelled this at Chopin airport yesterday, I didnt have any expectations and it was more for the fun of it. I was literally MINDBLOWN .... Its difficult to describe it, its very earthy mossy patchouli. Imagine a plate with sweet baby beetroot that was just removed from damp soil and freshly washed, u add some moss to it, roses, patchouli, vanilla, amber. It has amazing sillage and projection, and it is so original in the best way possible. Ill be returning back from travels in a couple of days and ill be damned if I dont get a bottle. wow just wow

For a few future reviewers, Polish like the country not polish like nail polish 😂 this fragrance reminds me of the garden but in a very nice wearable way. Beautiful dry down of amber and soft soil. Leans more masculine and the potato is subtle but present. Gorgeous scent. Excited to see what they do next after the amazing mango yuzu gasoline and plum spraypaint. I like this house.

I gatekeep the hell out of this house from my friends. My favorite house and my favorite fragrance from said house. 9.7/10

So so cozy, an earthy and chocolatey patchouli scent. Supported by warm balsamic elements. For some reason looking at the name and the liquid color, I felt like I was about to experience that moment when you hold earth covered potatoes under running water to clean them, but it's absolutely not that. First of all, this is a very warm earthy scent and like I said, patchouli is the star player. Alongside that I'm getting strong labdanum/leather, resins, incense and sweet warm spices. There's also a powdery accord that gives a soft and cuddly feel. This is my favorite kind of patchouli scent: bold, rich, smoky, earthy, cozy and leather-backed. As for the potato, there's not even raw potato in the composition for me. To reassess, I focused especially on the first 10 seconds. Sometimes in those first seconds certain notes can transition super fast, but even there my pick went towards sweet patchouli. I got a bit of a rooty feel but it ended quickly. In short; too sweet and powdery for a potato scent. Still nice though. Tag(s): chocolatey patchouli, earthy, sweet, balsamic, cozy, leathery

Since nobody in the comments is actually sharing their experience with the fragrance I'll chime in. It does smell like potatoes. More precisely - my grandma's underground cellar where she and a couple of other wonderful elderly ladies kept their veggies. Indeed there seems to be a very prominent damp soil note. It's fleeting, but it's there. And at some point you come to terms with the fact that the potatoes in question are actually on the verge of rotting because of disctinctive amber base and patchouli. It's a wonderful nostalgic scent for me. Not sure if it's wearable due to to the almost nauseating sweetness of decay or rather decomposition. But it paints quite a picture.

Akin to the journey of Byredo 1996 Inez & Vinoodh- down to the circular “dusty” aspects of Amber and benzoin. Only this is much more wearable as an earthier more grounded scent- maybe thanks to the beetroot and patchouli. It’s more welcoming than Byredo’s brutalist take. The dry dust aspect of actual potatoes when they’ve been in your hands is SO photorealistic- you almost laugh. It’s such a familiar scent to so many people who grew up (or continue) to cook with potatoes. I wouldn’t classify this as a vegetal or gourmand scent by any means- it’s a hardcore Amber/resin in their best ways without being incense or ‘chouli-bombs.

I gave the tester to my husband, as this perfume is just too masculine for me. But I do appreciate the fragrance for it's incredible journey. I definitely get that earthy beetroot, potato smell...so photorealistic. I close my eyes and I imagine I'm in somebody's garden picking beets and potatoes in the rain. No seriously that's exactly what it smells like. I'm going to have to try something different from this fragrance house that's more towards the notes I like. I was thinking about coffee, white flowers.

it really does smell like potatoes, its extremely realistic to the point where each time you smell it you can really picture a wet soil vegetable patch. not so sure what the reaction of others would be when smelling this on a person, but its a very artistic beautiful scent experience, not really a "daily wear" scent, more like an art piece you take the time to enjoy and immerse yourself in the intended scenario of the fragrance.

expected this to be a meme-y potato scent but was met with something actually quite complex and extremely wearable. it's too masculine for my personal taste, but still a very well made scent! really does smell like a bustling night market at 4am. would be a great gift for a bf or if you just like masculine scents in general! amazinggggggg longevity and projection too!! overall rating: 🩷🩷🩷💔🖤 3.5/5

so weird so complex ,for me i liked it so much

I really was shocked. My reaction to this and what people are saying is totally different. The middle note is earthy, dry grass. Floral throughout. Hard to smell potatoes until it dies down. Last is skin scent. The initial scent is surprising like a sporty youthful clean blast almost like 1990s CK, guess, or adidas. Every note is subtle to me. No beetroot at all. No warm vanilla scent at all. I disagree with the notes list. Four hour longevity because the final is skin note. A better name would be “frozen yam harvest.” Did I get a fake from the salesperson?

This should never be a blind buy. I love bohoboco, I typically enjoy their perfumes, but Polish Potatoes is not a perfume I could ever wear. On me it gives a damp, moldy cellar. I appreciate the creativity, but I’m gonna admire from a distance with my Magic Mushrooms and Wet Cherry Liquor.

Just so much wrong here. Weirdly very sweet, heavily floral, and virtually no potato goodness. There isn’t even much vegetal things going on here either which was a major disappointment. It sums up to a dusty, vintage, and heavily sweet floral fragrance with honeyed soil notes and some dry grasses, but no vegetables. And certainly no potato. Bummer

Ohhh my... it stinks so bad! I really wanted to like this but it's just horrible and extremelly strong. Gave me headache for 2 days straight. Couldn't wash it off even after shower i could still smell it.

Not for me, and that's okay—the execution is great artistically, but it seems like the intent was to recreate the perfume from Friends that made Phoebe smell like beets.

It's nothing in common with potatoes or with the agriculture. It's rather a sweet creamy dessert with the really bold clove and vanilla dose.

I get zero potato, one hundred percent sweet, purple beetroot.

Not a scent I would have sought out on its own, but I got a sample of this in a recent order so decided to give it a whirl. Unfortunately the overall impression is of a strong medicinal ointment, in the same vein as Santa Maria Novella Potpourri, which is a VERY old-fashioned herbal medicinal smell. As I sniff Polish Potatoes more, I can distinguish individual notes such as some woodiness, some earthiness, and some beets. The name is definitely accurate and this scent is very evocative of potatoes growing from the earth. I respect it for its uniqueness and I can see this working on someone, unfortunately it is just not my personal taste.

This is the strongest perfume I have ever tested, one spray on a blotter filled my entire bathroom with this scent for hours. It smells much different than I imagined it would. It's an extremely sweet patchouli with oud and something mossy underneath. I expected something "dirty" but much drier, maybe a bit cooler and juicier given the vegatable notes. To me it does not smell anything like raw vegetables or a vegetable market. The earthiness in this is very perfumy, almost medicinal in the opening. I hoped for something more raw, natural-smelling. I was also surprised by how familiar the scent seems to me. To my nose it smells a bit like Reminiscence Patchouli mixed with Chopard Oud Malaki + a mossy men's colone that I cannot put my finger on. It will get you scratching your head and thinking "what does it remind me of?", and I can bet you'll land on a fragrance rather than a real scent memory. I find it very on trend with the oriental oudy releases of late. Kudos to the marketing department - I would not want to sample this fragrance if it it was marketed for what it is: yet another sweet oud perfume. For me it's not very wearable. Patchouli lovers might be put off by the mossy aspect, oakmoss lovers by the extreme sweetness. A confident guy who really loves weird oudy scents and doesn't care about giving others around him a headache could maybe pull this off. Leans masculine. Your friends and family will not hug you if you wear this.

Sometimes, to launch a line, you need more imagination than a name: writing the fragrance on the label risks stripping away that halo of evocation that truly conceptual perfumes require. In this creation, an impeccable vanilla and a playful patchouli intertwine with a deeply brown-earthy base that unsettles them and brings them to life. I’ve smelled the entire Bohoboco line, and this is the only one that, to my nose, truly opens its own space: a personal, recognizable trajectory that doesn’t overlap with any already-coded trail. On top of that, the longevity is simply colossal — the kind that doesn’t stop at skin but infiltrates fabrics. I opened my wardrobe and, on a garment stored almost a month ago, there was still the vivid, ringing vibration of the substance, as if the fragrance had found its own way to remain. It’s a pity that lines with this kind of potential don’t adopt a more accessible launch price. In trying to position themselves immediately within the niche market, too many brands give up a certain strategic modesty — the ability to aim lower at first and build a real audience — and end up looking presumptuous, if not commercially fragile. Here, though, it would take very little to turn an excellent perfume into a lasting promise.

I bought *Polish Potatoes* early-on after its release; a case of scentsory curiosity. When I got it...I was happy I owned it... but I wasn't sure what I'd do with it. It's not "perfume" per se....nothing I'd reach for with the impulse that I wanted to smell like POTATOES on any given day...for any given occasion. Time is a good thing. During the past (long grueling) winter it came to me: Polish Potatoes could be a valuable tool....a spice in a complete perfume spice rack. It's become my un-oud. Example: I LOVE (!!!) Rose perfumes; I have lots of them. At home...I'm happy to spray myself with rose after rose after rose. However...I've never (not one time) worn rose perfume solo....out the door. (Same with Tuberose.) However....layered with Polish Potatoes....that rose perfume becomes something different....it warms-it-up....adds dirt.... grit... earthiness.... manliness. Ouds (there's about a million of those)....do a similar thing. Layer an oud to a rose (any flower or fruit perfume) and it becomes something else. Polish Potatoes doesn't have Middle Eastern colour; it's non-ethnic, non-geographic. I can't imagine anyone rushing to own Polish Potatoes but...if you have it....it has scentsory value; it does to me.

🥔Polish Autumn in the Countryside 🌱 It’s a late afternoon after a rainy morning. We started the day digging up potatoes in the fields – the soil was heavy and wet, clinging to our boots and pressing under our fingernails. Now I’m back in the garden, bent over a basket of fresh beets. They’re plump, warm from the sun, and smell sweet and earthy. Nearby lie the potatoes we pulled earlier – cool-skinned, starchy, still dusted with clumps of dirt. The air is full of damp leaves, old wood, and the crisp breath of the approaching evening. I’m tired, but it’s the good kind of tired – the kind that settles in your back but lingers in your heart. At home, there’s honey tea waiting, and from the kitchen comes the familiar scent of simmering beets – my mother has always preserved them in the same big pot my grandmother once used. This scent is a memory of every 90s child raised in the Polish countryside – captured in perfume @the.scent.files

I didnt really know what to expect from Polish Potatoes, and tbh the opening really surprised me. Its a very leguminous green note, that quickly evolve to a beetroot illusion. Its fresh, juicy, spicy and sharp ... very original ! But within 10 mins it fades away to let space to a honeyed and leathery amber. There is a lot of amberwood that doesnt hide itself and can become repulsive for some people. I guess that it play a role on the projection (very strong/room filler perfume) but I wont mind a bit less ... For me Polish Potatoes is way more an ambery perfume than an earthy one. That's OK, but with all the marketing (notes included) I was expecting something more organic and "petrichorish". The opening is one of a kind (in a very good way) if you are looking for a true garden experience and the dry down gives a witch workshop vibe that can please some resinous lovers.

I do get a Polish quality in the opening, but its nail polish! I get the same synthetic, glue-like scent when u open a nail polish remover bottle. It's pungent and goes directly to your brain. And underneath it, I get a fried onion note, something fried and culinary. It's so bizarre. Thankfully the super glue note dies down after about 10 mins, and I start to get a mix of dark notes like labdanum, incense, oud(?) with earthy notes like patchouli, damp earth and damp wood. I think that fried onion note I picked up earlier could be the beetroot. This scent reminds me of the herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. Its earthy, slightly sweet and menthol-y. If you like medicinal, herbal scents like Oriza Legrand's Horizon or Chypre Mousse then this is right up your alley. 10 points for originality!

Though I am a fan of earthy fragrances I am not exactly in love with this one but I definitely appreciate It's honesty in it's interpretation of a raw potato freshly pulled from the soil. To my nose it's like smelling the uncooked potato skin that is about to be boiled for dinner in my Polish Grandma's (babçia's) kitchen. You can even catch a wisp of her rosy perfume. I doubt I'd ever dish out 200 bucks for such a scent yet thank Bohoboco for the effort and sentimental nature of this perfume.

Saw it in a meme that was like “Polish presidential candidates as perfume” and I just came here to say I did not, in fact, believe that this is real, but I’m so happy to learn that it is. I must get my hands on this asap. Bonus points for birch being featured in the base notes, if you’re Polish and born before 2010 you know.

mmmmmm. grimy basement. loveee it. it's damp but in a way that is strangely sweet, likely the beetroot seeping through. this layered with Underground Vibes by Laboratorio Olfattivo makes the basement feel extra ancient. it reminds me of my grandfather's old barn.

As someone who grew up in the post-Soviet bloc, I can assure you this perfume smells exactly like the communal building basement (where people store potatoes and whatnot) that has not been renovated since the USSR. Damp, earthy, mouldy. Proletariat.

I love it ! Whole mosque in Warsaw in OKM smells like this in Ramadan :)))) For me amazing memories of ramadan I spend in Poland:) ,,scent of polish Ramadan" to me :) scen of Polish Ummah I am in love 😘 adore it

Tried it with an official sample, unfortunately is not my cup of tea... well crafted but there is a note that makes it too weird for me, similar to nail polish (not a joke on the name :) )

It smells like the name suggests. Photorealistic, freshly cut potatoes with some mud on it. Very creative, but I can't think of a time I would want to smell like this.

After one spritz of this my girlfriend and all the airways from Cracow to Zurich smelled like potatoes. In Zurich I bought Swiss potatoes and it smelled the same.

I’ll never forget when I first tried this and the saleswoman immediately gagged when she sprayed on the blotter. 😂

An earthy scent enveloped in patchouli, vanilla and cloves. A fragrance for lovers of the damp and muddy earth.

What an addictive, earthy and complex smell. It is my next top of mind candidate for a full bottle. Amazing.

I'm Polish and naturally love me some potatoes, so I'm trying to keep an open mind.... lol

I would definitely try it put- if it did not have pines as one of its main accords.

اشوف العطر ممتاز اللي يحبوا يعيشوا تجربة عطرية شبيهة من فيغمنت أمواج

Poles have made up how to sell the potatoes at the highest price :D

I usually cannot do earthy notes but this one i really loved!

Sounds like one of a kind! Got to try it!

Those Poles are crazy for this one fr fr