Vibrant by Boadicea the Victorious
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8.3 / 10 13 Ratings
A popular perfume by Boadicea the Victorious for women, released in 2008. The scent is smoky-woody. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Smoky
Woody
Spicy
Resinous
Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Citrus notesCitrus notes
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Smoky notesSmoky notes Woody notesWoody notes RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk LeatherLeather ResinsResins
Ratings
Scent
8.313 Ratings
Longevity
8.611 Ratings
Sillage
7.212 Ratings
Bottle
8.925 Ratings
Submitted by Lila, last update on 06.12.2020.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
6.5
Scent
Chizza

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Chizza
Chizza
Top Review 17  
Very quickly forgotten
Vibrant, i.e. dynamic, pulsating, a fragrance full of life and esprit. One might think so. Before I get to the fragrance, I share FvSpee's values opinion about the Boadicea the Victorious brand and its release policy. Unfortunately for me, Vibrant is more like his own antagonist, his own antagonist.

The incipient citrus note is not fresh, but immediately blends with the woody and smoky notes. However, these are weakly pronounced, just as the lemon quickly disappears. As if she had made a mistake in the door. Now that this smoke and wood are very lax, we have an overall scent reminiscent of spiced tea.

Now the other evaluations at this point surprise me very much because the fragrance stays with me for a long time, but not very intense. The wood aroma is rather sublimely perceptible, it actually seems to be a nice and rather deep brown wood, which is hidden by the musk veil. The smoke does not come from a fire but rather from resins, myrrh, but it is only gently burned a little bit, single fine lines of smoke float through the air similar to the smoke of a cigarette.
The rose I actually notice is very well staged, as it is robbed of its opulence so that a green severity resonates in the subtext of the fragrance.

By the way, the leather is still missing and only becomes noticeable later on as it develops out of the wood. It is more a soft leather, reminiscent of Bianchi leather. This may not sound very nice, but it is in its entirety. The leather is rather introverted and thus corresponds to the rest of the fragrance, which is rather quiet.

All in all, Vibrant is a good start, unfortunately half-baked and thus useless or disappointing when combined. Unfortunately, I cannot understand the good evaluations, because there are numerous fragrances here that not only have a better H/S, but also use the individual ingredients much better. This leaves me bored, at least Vibrant is much more harmless than I thought. Whether I would spray this on myself as a woman - the fragrance is declared as feminine - rather no
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
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Vibrant nostalgia
The opening of Vibrant is indeed quite vibrant, and quite peculiar too. At first, it strongly reminded me of some vintage fragrances by Etro; not a specific one, just rather that same sort of exotic and mysterious allure many of them had, centered on musky spices and dusty resins. There’s patchouli (quite à la vintage Etro Patchouli), some odd animalic amber, musk, a – for me – nondescript moldy and camphorous note with a subtle floral shade (rose?), some tingling spices, earthy woods, and also a subtle layer of quite well-crafted and tobacco-infused leather. All feels “antique”, nostalgic, dusty, quite gloomy – I see other online reviewers mention Mona di Orio, and in fact I agree with some similarity to her world (well, the world she was able to express in the 2-3 scents which aren’t parodies of a scent). No fresh citrus and no whatever “bright” side for me, although I do get a slight and completely non-fresh citrus note – rather musky and pungent, more a “cedrat” note than an ordinary citrus.

The blend smells simple and complex at once; there’s not many notes involved here, but each of them seems presented under a creative and unusual light. And also their, say, imaginary displacement in the overall design is creative and evocative, in a way that for some inexplicable reasons, makes Vibrant strongly remind me of a closet which once contained scented clothes, their sillage still exuding from the wood walls. A sort of dusty, melancholic, smooth yet pungent stale aroma which contains a sort of distant “echo” of the composition you read – say, it feels like a sort of “desatured”, washed-out version of the fragrance you would imagine by reading the notes. And by this I don’t mean it feels light or dull, on the contrary it’s quite bold and clear, but all feels imprisoned within a decadent cloud of camphorous and musky nuances, and an interesting, realistic frame of dusty, and again moldy hard woods. I don’t know how they did that, but the final result is quite intriguing. It’s classy, dark and seducing. Sadly though, the scent is quite linear, quickly reaching a way less interesting drydown smelling mostly of musky woods, and both persistence and projection aren’t top notch. Still surely one of the nicest Boadicea out there.

7-7,5/10
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