Alluring Boadicea the Victorious for women

More and more I seem to be pulling my first impressions and replacing them. Alluring is still a nice fragrance, but what I pick up a month later is a 'pine' note.

'Precious woods' is listed, and it must include cedar and/or eucalyptus. I would give Alluring 5 stars if it came without this, because now I find it rattles the nose.

Dry down is dusty, as advertised. I think this wears better in humid weather (my first wearing was during the bay area's wet season). This setting amplifies the fruit, which I found so lucious.

Now I'm wearing it during our dry climate, and thus, it's more reedy. I like how some reviewers have brought up a 'vintage edge'. I agree, and I'm reminded of Sonoma Scent's Vintage Rose.

Do I still like Alluring? Yes, but it has slipped off my 'consider buying' list for now.

(This review is for Eau de Perfume)

ALLURING is mostly patchouli combined with the woods and dry fruits on my skin.

The opening is strong with balmy and dry plum. It does not have a typical fruity light scent but more of a smoky and earthy feel. The heart notes are more mellowed with the rose layered on the patchouli notes with a bit of dry fruity accords lingering in the background. The base notes are dry patchouli, woods and galbanum with slightly sweet notes. The dry down has a bit of a soapy feeling.

Most Boadicea the Victorious fragrances invoke sense of peace and tranquility and associate with nature in my mind. But this one is rather dark to me. I imagine going into the deep forest with overgrown trees and stumbling on an old dusty cabin. I come inside and get rather ominous feeling of being in the place of darkness like from a dark fairy tale or a Celtic legend.

The fragrance is balanced and executed well but it just does not bloom with beauty on my skin. I love MIDNIGHT POISON, which is also a patchouli rose but MIDNIGHT POISON is vibrant and gorgeous on me. ALLURING seems to have less rose, a bit strange dry and dusty fruits, darker patchouli and wood notes. But if you love patchouli, I would definitely recommend giving this a try.

I was really curious about this one because of listed notes and I eventually could try it at Caleri in Genoa!
It's not at all what I expected to be, but it is an extremely interesting fragrance.
As for other Boadicea's perfumes the opening note is so evident that it almost smells like a single note perfume, then the fragrance starts "speaking" to my skin and pass through many stages.
In this case plum is the queen of opening! If you are used to plum-flavoured bath gels and lotions or fake plum note in many commercial scents, forget about. Here plum is a beuatiful heavy ripe fruit mixed with some other fruit and it much recall plum in Femme de Rochas.
The rest of the composition is very strong yet mellow and all together this fragrance gives me the impression that it could have been made in the '50s!
It is a complex kind of fragrance. Calling it just floral fruity is reductive.
It smells like a beautiful diva dressed in satin with a complicated hair style and red lipstick would smell! It could be Moulin Rouge Satin's perfume! I can't imagine a man wearing this, still it's up to personal tastes.
For me this is a somptuous, ripe, exuberant and not demure feminine scent with a beautiful vintage edge.
It lingers on my skin for hours giving me different stages of olfactive pleasure that thrill my mood.
Very longlasting and the typical Boadicea's bottle is very beautiful.