Boss Sport

How times change. This and (strange enough) the original Boss heavy, honey-sweetened concoction, competed in consuming the oxygene of our highschool changing room. And of course it wasn't the pricey edt's that were wasted like bug-spray to defeat every drop of pubertal sweat, but the deodorants. Fair enough, I preferred the Sport flanker, but couldn't afford it. So I leaned to Tabac (mentioning heavy?) or the convenience-store supply of deodorants like Old Spice or Blue Stratos. But my nostrils purred from the Freon-driven clouds of Boss Sport. It couldn't have been out of sophistication - a 13 year old boy hasn't developed that references yet. But there was something both refreshening and mood-rising, and at the same time rich and mysterious in that smell. And Hugo Boss was The Boss, at least in my far-away corner of the world. Today I do certainly not reach for Boss sport out of admiration for the brand (nazi-collaborating uniform tailor, relying on slave labour), but simply for the divine smell. The lush freshness in this green bottle is in my opinion unique. Green, leafy and flowery with a strong moss base. Even though there are some similarities to other 1980's sport fragrancies like Lacoste, this is in my opinion a unique scent. I love how lavender is used here - clean and natural. Sadly I can't detect the marigold note, but that probably tells more about my untrained nose, than about this old masterpiece. The global stock seems ro shrink fast, and i'm afraid it will soon be extincted. What a shame that today's highschool boys won't be able to smell of this sophistication!

Hugo Boss Sport... ... YES, this is definitely a sport scent. When it came out sport scents were not like nowadays....endlessly boring freshies full of ozonic and aquatic notes. They were deep green herbal concoctions....syrupy and oily but in their composition still somehow with a fresh touch. Boss Sport was my second ever fragrance after Boss No1. and i actually preferred it. Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg ran up and down tennis courts all over the world and i would say this is an 80s tennis freshie in a bottle. Pumped up woodruff syrup with herbs, greens, flowers and wood. To the headquarter of Hugo Boss in Metzingen, Germany......bring this back for smells sake.

From a vintage mini with the red cap. Green and slightly sharp. Where Polo evokes damp, dank lushness, and original Quorum a freshly extinguished forest fire, Boss Sport is an overgrown field of brush, weeds, and wildflowers being bush hogged in dry summer, with the scent of marigold (my favorite flower) jumping out of the mix. I think it's fine for any season. If you're in the mood for a bit more bass, it pairs very well with one light spritz of Polo. But head to head, I would choose Boss over RL any day. Oh...there is absolutely nothing sporty about it in modern terms.

Boss Sport opens with a refreshing burst of green and floral notes, with tarragon adding a grassy, aromatic touch. The fragrance dries down to a soft, soapy floral scent. While unique, it shares a passing similarity with Esencia Pour Homme by Loewe, though they're not identical. A reviewer describes it as "an 80s tennis freshie in a bottle," but I wouldn't categorize it as a freshie. Its depth and honeyed complexity make it more suited to transitional seasons than to a straightforward fresh scent.

The bottle above shows the Aftershave. I can provide the actual bottle (green bottle with red cap)and the box if Fragrantica wants. This is one of the most huggable and comforting scents ever. I don't think this can be worn on a warm day. More for cold nights. It was my second perfume i ever purchased. Perfumes these days can't touch this. Yes, its been sadly discontinued.

Can anyone tell HUGO BOSS Group how excellent this fragrance is? Regrettably it has been discontinued, however it still has a huge audience.

A gorgeous fresh soapy men's fragrance I used to have - discontinued now I think - ahhh pity coz it was fabulous!! 9/10

Please Procter & Gamble, bring back this masterpiece.

Mr Boss........PLEASE bring this gem back

Boss Sport is a fresh fougère that doesn't really act or feel like a "sport" fragrance, and certainly does not smell at all like toilet cleaner to me. What it does smell like, on me, is a fresh and quick burst of citrus boosted by amber and a buttery-fig accord. I'm surprised the notes pyramid does not list fig, because that's what I get the most out of Boss Sport. It's not unpleasant by any means, just peculiar. It dries down to a smooth, subtle amber and moss base. Unfortunately, Boss Sport poops out too soon on my skin - I get 5 hours at the most. Otherwise, I think it's a nice fresh fig fougère (there's a tongue twister for ya!), but I wouldn't fork over that much money to have a bottle of this, even if it is discontinued.

Overall unique - representing the Zeitgeist of the 80ies. Niche & Barbershoppy. I would NOT use it in a Fitness environment, as this is potent. A solid gentlemen fragrance. Needs character to wear it. Performance: 8-10 hours Sillage: Within 6ft noticeable For whom: Gentlemen >40 My background: I only write reviews about scents I have worn already (until the bottle is finished) or are in current use. I'm a Gentlemen - middle aged - predominantly in an executive office environment wearing suits and representing with many official gatherings.

A strange, flowery and slightly soapy fougere with tons of notes. Reviewing the EdT. It's dry and herbal and well rounded by the slight sweetness of the tonka. Blended with loads of different notes, but the marigold (or actually tagetes, the french marigold) mixed with oakmoss gives off a piney and "dirty" sensation and the juice itself has a thick, almost oily feel, that's how concentrated it is. It actually does come across as a little soapy. I'm not really sure why you would call a flower fougere "Sport", but in my memory this is kinda how "sporty" guys smelled back in the eighties, not the citrus/aquatic sweet scents of today but heavy on the oakmoss and kinda industrial cleaner-like - weird stuff really. Most prominent notes are marigold, oakmoss, tarragon, sage, lavender, patchouli, geranium, vetiver and tonka. Unfortunately it gives me a slight headache wearing this, but definitely worth a try. Projection is average on me, but longevity is great.

As a fan of the original Boss No. 1 and vintage perfumery in general, I find this absolutely disgusting—one of the most repulsive fragrances I have ever smelled.

When I first saw this appear on Fragrantica, I thought: "You show 'em Hugo!"; as this whole "sport" thing has (IMO) gotten WAY out of control. I was actually surprised to see that it was one of the very first Sport scents from the late eighties! Oh, how I wish I had known of this in the last years of High School! A superbly blended, fresh scent that would have made me forget all about Colours for Men by Benetton... When I think SPORT: I think outside activities, playing ball in the grass, summer sun, and a little horseplay (just for fun!). BS has all of these and more. The green and citric opening is sheer and lovely and the inclusion of lavender with marigolds (calendula NOT tagetes) is heavenly and brings you outside, like right now, to have a little fun. This just keeps getting better and better. An excellent refined mix of sheer airy florals surround you in the heart and bring to mind warm days and happy summer memories. The flowers are extremely natural smelling and are nowhere near "effeminate", just gorgeous! The addition of green herbs (tarragon and sage...mmmm!) and a pinch of nutmeg is sheer genius and balances them well and gives it a masculine aura; yet, is not all "macho" or saying: "Heeey, Baby!". Soapy? If I could find a soap like this, I would bathe with nothing else! Really folks...WOW!! The more scents one collects, wears and reviews; the more one sees the same combinations of notes in scents again and again. Here, though, what should be oriental and woody with musk and ambery warmth dries down pleasantly clean (NOT soapy, so much) and creamy. Each of the base notes bring out the best in those around them, like a winning team should! Vetiver, tonka and oak moss (dry and beautiful) are star members (the most detectable to me); though there is a bit musk and some very subtle golden warmth, here, as well. Good clean fun, simply beautiful without pretense, earthy without being nasty; Boss SPORT has it all and is just plain great! Sillage: very good Longevity: good Overall: 4.5/5 I used to think that the more notes there were in a fragrance meant more volume (and longevity). This is not always the case, as BS points out. It has many more notes than some other scents that project further and last longer; BUT none does what this lovely scent does: catch the Essence of "Sport" without any of the "clean" antiseptic qualitites some of today's scents do. I would rather go outside to exercise (smelling leaves and trees and flowers while feeling the sun, the earth and the wind on myself) than exercise in an air-conditioned gym or a health club. THAT is the difference between BS and all the others...it gets a little dirty and sweaty; but has much more fun, and just plain feels more natural!

Very green fougere, flowery and masculine in an 80's way. It's a deep scent for a man that wants to smell like a man of the last great decade -- when men were men. Long before the political correctness BS. In fact, if Boss Sport was introduced today it would probably be banned by Twitter and Youtube for invading the "safe space" of snowflakes. No pun intended. Some may call it "dated" because of its old school composition, It reminds me of an 80's locker room after a football game with grass stains and all while half the team applied original Speed Stick deodorant after a shower with Irish Spring soap. Boss Sport smells like Speed Stick on steroids mixed with classic Gillette shaving cream. Introduced at a time (mid 80's) during the peak of Powerhouse classics -- when male fragrances were clearly masculine, unapologetic and strong AF. And women of the era loved masculine scents on their man. That is, if not over applied. Of course most guys back then (you too ladies) sprayed way too much. Olfactory fatigue in the 80's? WTF is that lol When I smell Boss Sport (vintage) I think classic masculines such as Polo Green, Drakkar, Giorgio Beverly Hills, Azzaro PH, Kouros and Aramis. None of those smell alike, but all of which was awesome back then and still awesome today. Can you say 80's in a bottle. There yah go. Now you know the smell of Hugo Boss Sport. Nothing like it at the time or since. Memories galore for those old enough to be an 80's and early 90's dinosaur.

This perfume is the summer of 1987, Memorial Day weekend at the Oak Beach Inn. INXS “Mystify” comes on as you walk up to the bar. What’s it going to be? Schaefer in a can? Long Island Iced Tea? The blonde down at the end of the bar with the poofy bangs requests a vodka cranberry but they called that a Cape Codder back then. She’s wearing LouLou and the mother hen in her group of girlfriends begins to lay down the cockblock. She’s all Preppy Handbook with visible panty lines. This cologne is the scent for when men were still kinda scary, a throwback to the birth of the dudebro, the nascent era of the blue shirt Wall Street frat brother before he morphed into the yuppie who would later become your dad. This scent fucks, and there’s chance you didn’t fully consent.

(Year later follow up) Red cap - Made in Germany Photorealistic hit of flower pollen, and dandelion stems when you snap them in half. With a lingering mossy spice lingering in the back. That's about it - not as complex as the note listing would suggest. I get the Polo Green references but Polo is a pine forest in the late afternoon - HB Sport is a dewy sunny morning on a bed of marigolds, rindy weeds, and all the smells on the floor bed of nature. The scent is far more 'yellow' to my nose than it is green - Polo 'Yellow'. That dusty hit of flower pollen is wild - like in Honey I Shrunk the Kids when they were all covered in pollen - that's what this reminds me on. Very unique with no off-putting vintage trends - worth collecting!

I do detect a similarity to Boss No.1 in the opening and its a little rough for the first 5 minutes. It then transforms into a buttery rose that's not all that bad. It also seems it has an overpowering oak moss that's trying to cover up the rest of the notes. The drydown is much nicer with a nice Amber/citrus accord. I don't consider this in my top 30 but it's ok for certain times wen you just want something that's a bit different and not mainstream.

Yes, I do like this but, nope, not really a "Sport" scent to me, maybe I've grown accustomed to 90's and newer sport fragrances that are pretty much aldehyde/citrus/marine note bombs. This shows its age in being such a strong oakmoss/lavender smeller. I'm actually wearing this as I write and cannot help but picture a barbershop and shaving cream products. It's a classic, maybe for the over 30 crowd, nice projection and life on my epidermis.

Got the red cap vintage. The Marigold slaps in this. Reminds me of dandelions and yellow pollen with broken juicy green plant stems. Im not sure whats 'sporty' about this but its quite polarizing for the odd notes that come through. I dont smell a man or woman nor really a wearable fragrance. I smell more so nature and summer. Well see how this develops. Speaking from a experienced nose and not nostalgia.