Explorer Boadicea the Victorious 2008

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6.6 / 10 69 Ratings

A perfume by Boadicea the Victorious for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Earthy

Green

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Orange

Heart Notes

Orris butter

Amber

Helianthemum

Base Notes

Cedarwood

Labdanum

Ratings

Scent

6.669 Ratings

Longevity

8.558 Ratings

Sillage

7.649 Ratings

Bottle

8.563 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 29.07.2023.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/13/2022

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

BobbyGee
220 Reviews

BobbyGee

Helpful Review 3

Boadicea / Explorer

For me it is the smell of no.2 after my favorite Elaborate (Elaborate, which is much better than Complex). Unfortunately, my opinion is subjective because until today I got to know about 9 of their fragrances, guided by the notes and possibilities. I didn't touch the sweet ones at all.
In my opinion, this fragrance has a large 'male' component. The main opening is tons of galbanum with a citrus spin. It all goes on to the next more masculine notes - the dusty and smoky roots of the iris, to finally sit on the woody notes. This is the main trio of notes for me: galbanum / iris roots / tree.
Somewhere there we can actually find a citrus scent or a delicate rose, but these are not mainly sounding notes. However, we will not experience sweetness. Personally, I think that the fragrance is made for a suit, and the owner does not necessarily look like a boring gamony, but more like an overgrown, experienced and curious world and passionate experience. The smell definitely draws attention.
That's it.
Projection and durability at a very good level

10/11/2021

9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Dustymusky
14 Reviews

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Dustymusky

Helpful Review 6

Boadi Controversy - An Exploratory Reanalysis

An explorer goes out to discover something new - or to rediscover something forgotten. The perfumer, who calls his creative work "Explorer", perhaps just wanted to try something fun.

The Boadicea Explorer has here in the forum a richly controversial discussion behind it, which went from my current view of the Parfumo antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The average score is just 6.5, and the entire rating spectrum has been assigned, from catastrophic to phenomenal. So at least half of the stock should have long since been used up in the sanitary area. As a 3-year perfume veteran - so someone from the middle ParfumoNew era - I now analyze more again this fragrance work. In doing so, I try once to transfer the now somewhat archaic old texts from the context of the time into modern perfume German, and to include the assessments of the ancestors in my analysis. References to living persons are intentional, plagiarism as well! DonTheBoss was reminded of "waxing" while exploring (note to modern perfumos: rubbing a floor with a protective layer of wax - grandma used to do it). Patchouli or not, DeGirlof53 found it cedary, but was put in the cleaning corner by all others (note: at that time emancipation still had to be fought for, so I suspect that the mentioned prejudice(s) came from male "others"). In the early modern era, someone again associated with this fragrance a tractor (transmission) differential oil, and stated perfect wearability for gold chain signores (note: correctly "counter-gendered" so gold chain signores/*inas) from 85. It remains unclear at this point, whether the enthusiastic author himself is to be classified in this cateory.
From all these culture-historical impressions with the today's perspective however a picture results that - completely up-to-date - somewhat head note-heavier turns out. Why? Of course, because of the almost-mega-fruit in it. Just as naturally, one can assume that the work was reformulated. However, I was able to reconstruct experimentally how the reformulation was done in all likelihood. Frosch wood cleaner (with natural active ingredients of pine) provides the green-tart undertone (note: from today's perspective, rather mild than bitter). A portion of SOFIX Parquet adds the somewhat soapy wax note. Plenty of grated orange peel added, and applied to an oak plank floor. Sunflower, in my opinion, is an over-motivated mistranslation for a few floral sprinkles. Once absorbed, you extract an "absolute" from it. That smells then, like a cedar log rubbed with orange peel butter.

The verdict: The fragrance today clearly belongs in the "phenomenal" category. No twin is known, not even in the beginning. The minimum age of wearability starts because of the fruit note in the modern era again significantly lower, but because of the light soapiness and low pronounced sweetness then perhaps at 45 ± 16.3.

{preprint from Parf. Phil. Trans. vol 733, 34pp, 2021}

03/03/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

1

Austere darkness

Explorer by Boadicea is probably the nicest scent by this brand I’ve tested so far. It opens with a rubbery, dry, spicy and dark blend centered on sour woods (cedar, but really dry and gloomy), herbs, galbanum, austere resins and initially just a hint of labdanum. The texture is thin, leathery (no leather, though), somehow quiet but bold and threatening. The mood is refined and mysterious, fairly synthetic too but not (that) unpleasant, as it nicely recreates a sort of fascinating, nocturnal, silent and obscure “natural mood”, with nuances of aged wood, something salty-camphoraceous that reminds me of ambergris, dusty resins. In the middle stages it “warms up” a bit, and the orris root note emerges – fairly restrained and tamed down, well concealed behind the general austere darkness, but it’s there; almost not powdery at all (as you would expect instead), rather rooty-earthy and dusty, with a hint of amber too. Finally, a smoky, earthy, shy rose note emerges, quite a “masculine” rose despite being much subtle. Overall Explorer remains sour and dry in a way that becomes a bit boring after a while, but with a fascinating, sophisticated feel of austere darkness. Not saying it’s particularly good, but say: “not unpleasant”.

6,5/10