Boss Bottled Parfum

Cool and dark, mysterious but not in a menacing way, it exudes an "ominous positivity" vibe, if you know the meme. Olibanum, cool like a marble slab, announces itself from the beginning. In no stage it's overpowering, it's lightly smoky and ties the rest of the notes together. The opening thanks to this incense and a hint of citrus is almost fresh. This note doesn't necessarily remind me of mandarin, anyway there's more peel than pulp and it immediately shies away from the skin, but the note will linger on clothes in the background for a while. Then it's FIG.The full tree. My grandparents had a fig tree in the garden and this scent is a perfect rendition of a cool mid season evening breeze caressing the plant and shaking its branches. For a brief moment, besides the leaves and the bark, you also get the white milky liquid of the fruit. As if swept by the wind, it quickly disappears carried away in the evening breeze. The orris/iris note is not the main character of the Parfum, but it's there and acts as a shadow, adding depth and powderiness making this a creamy dark green scent. As it dries down the smoothest, non animalic leather takes the main stage along with a lot of Cedar. 7 hours in, in the late drydown, the fragrance becomes quieter as a pleasant, almost sweet-leaning note of cedar remains the last man standing on stage while the ghosts of all the previous note keep on hanging around in the background, haunting your nostrils if you smell your skin or clothes. On my skin longevity pretty good, 8 to 12 hours with pretty decent projection for the first 2.5 hours. If I sniff my wrist I can still detect it 18h later, as the faintest skin scent of course. It doesn't have the loudest projection but I wouldn't overspray this one. Dark green scent, calm and cool, perfect for winter and autumn, also for spring nights. Work, date nights and formal occasion appropriate. It brings to my mind reveries of a chill early spring night in the old town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. I see it as the perfect masculine partner in crime of Versace Crystal Noir (EDT, not EDP). TL,DR Cool dark green mysterious fragrance for cold weather, discreet to good projection with good 8h minimum longevity. Scent: 8.7 but you have to like fig. Performance: 7.6 (8.5 longevity 6.7 projection). Price/Value: 6.8 can be found at a decent price, but the atomizer and the plastic cap are a bit of a letdown. Overrall 7.7

Después de oler esto no comprendo porque entretenerse con las notas olfativas. Que si huele a mandarina, que si huele a manzana, o cuero o ámbar (las dos últimas son sintéticas). A mi este aroma me encanta por sus notas sucias y sexuales. Para mi que va cargado de castoreo y almizcles y concretos superconcentrados. Se detectan a diez metros....Hasta mejoran el aroma que lleves puesto si entra alguien al lugar donde estés. Estos aromas de fondo que duran días y que en seco parecen eternos gracias a la química. Estas notas son las más buscadas porque evocan sensaciones primarias a quien los percibe. Aquí en Boss Bottled hay de eso en cantidad.... Es ácido y agrio además de cítrico y punzante. Es algo sucio 😝 (tipo heces de vaca o cuadra) pero filtrado y más potente y afinado. Un recurso de perfumería de mis preferidos, junto con notas de cuero y concreto de orris. En la salida pueden parecerse a la mandarina y a los higos en cuanto a su dulzura. Cada olfato lo siente de esa manera. He estado buscando estas calidades desde los años 90 que se usó en CAROLINA HERRERA for men. Normalmente está materia es incluida en los primeros lotes para crear adicción y en reformulaciones se van reajustando según las ventas. Creo que he dicho suficiente como para hacerse una idea a qué huele. Sólo recomiendo que quien quiera probarlo tenga paciencia y espere al secado del día siguiente para apreciar todas las notas porque es un aroma que se va descubriendo poco a poco pasando de afrutado a sensual, después a higos, después a cuero, después a cedro, y por fin a ácidos y almizcles sucios de animal. Toda una belleza de la perfumería química de hoy. En cuanto al precio... Depende de lo que se esté dispuesto a pagar según lo que sienta el usuario. Para mi no tiene precio. A sido una jexperiencia increible descubrir lo que puede hacer BOSS BOTTLED. Una lástima que mucha gente la use sin saber lo que lleva. Porque está es caliente y sexual como pocas. Perfecta para hacer layering y usarla para hacer que tus aromas preferidos sean más sensuales y atrayentes. Sinceramente vale su peso en oro, igual que la primera edición de DIOR HOMME PARFUM apreciada por su iris-orris, pero esta BOSS BOTTLED es otro tipo de fragancia.

This is a difficult perfume to review.... It's like the roads of my native Galicia, where you can take two completely opposite directions and arrive at the same place (...). First of all, I like it although It isn’t a particularly captivating or revolutionary scent, really. Or wait... maybe it's the opposite? Boss Bottled Parfum is fresh but dark, unique but generic, daring but safe... So what’s this? Well, that's its charm: A controlled divergence as a hallmark. To find a point of reference in the brand, I would say that it comes to stay in the olfactory profile of Boss Bottled Night. Again, it doesn't smell like it, but it’s in a similar spectrum. Is this one better? Well... It's newer and well-executed, so draw your own conclusions. I really like both. In the utilitarian context, this one has excellent versatility, moderate projection and good duration (8h). It smells like quality, so everything is fine here. In the sensory and suggestive, this perfume doesn’t aim for the “Pied Piper” effect: It starts with a moderate citrus, airy and light, nothing sharp. Immediately the freshness of the orris and the fig root take the direction of the scent, supported by a very soft and subtle incense, along with a balanced cedar wood. Gradually, a vegetable leather accord takes shape and completes an elegant and - just apparently - discreet fragrance, which in reality turns out to be secretly daring at short distances, with a seductive mix of kindness and impudence. It’s a very distinctive scent in the olfactory memory, so its imprint remains perfectly differentiated and ready to be reactivated with the proximity of new close encounters. That's a secret winning hand. So to recap, what do we have here? Well... A man with an angel face and a mischievous smile, surely.

This scent is a textbook example of a great idea getting ruined by marketing. You can practically hear the arguments in the boardroom: "It has nothing to do with our flagship scent!" "Doesn't matter—greenish winter scents are what's selling right now!" If they had been brave enough to package this in a green bottle and called it something like "Green Leather," it would have been a cult classic. The opening is sharp, fresh, and slightly bitter...a green note that moves into a rather large dose of earthy patchouli, (it’s not listed but it definitely there,) that eventually melts into a warm, sweet, and leathery/woody base—the kind of scent you'd wear in the heart of winter. Personally I dig the strange contrast between the two. It’s a bizarre choice for your flagship fragrance, but one that completely works for me. The only weakness? After several hours, (6 hrs on) all of that complexion fades away and you are stuck with a very generic sweet leather scent. It’s a nice smell, but it’s just a standard designer leather scent at that point. Edit..this one has really grown on me. The fresh aromatic opening is not my favorite, but about twenty minutes in and its fantastic...the opening fades and you get this very creamy- slightly sweet fig/orris smell wrapped in a very nice leather and cedar combo. Very addictive. That combination lasts a couple of hours. I wear this a lot. Side note: I have read some reviews that suggest this is a weak performer. Get your nose checked, my wife knows from the other room when I spray this on. Two sprays is more than enough.

I find the dislike towards this fragrance pretty remarkable. Perhaps its because the exclusivity and the hype eclipsed what this fragrance was actually meant to be. To me, this is a near perfect revival of Tom Ford for Men Extreme. TFME is one of the few fragrances that I truly savour and avoid wearing too frequently, because unlike other discontinued gems in my collection, it’s almost impossible to come by, regardless of where you look. I have about 25ml of my 50ml bottle left, and once it’s gone it’s gone. So when I was finally able to get my nose on Boss Bottled Parfum, I nearly laughed at the similarity. If you gave me both of them on a test strip, could I tell the difference? Yes, absolutely. Tom Ford fragrances can be recognised nigh on immediately. But if I were to smell this on someone, there’s a decent chance I’d assume it was the Tom Ford. It’s very, very close. Leather in the mid and the base, with a lovely fig on top of everything. Compared to TFME, the fig is a little lighter and fruitier, but the leather is remarkably similar. Of course, the leather that Tom Ford uses is very distinct and can be fairly hard to replicate, but this is an admirable effort. For those of you out there who love TFME and are looking for a revival, this is it. It’s better made and better blended than Dua’s clone. I don’t know if I’d pay the full retail price for this one, but for ~$50 from discounters, it’s an absolute steal. I’ll be adding a bottle to my collection very, very soon.