Seductive Boadicea the Victorious for women and men

(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.

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.

I think Seductive will remain for a long time in the *closet* of my favourite fragrances.

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 of my favourite fragrances.

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.

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.