Boss Man
Boss Orange Man
Hugo Boss 2011 Eau de Toilette

Boss Man / Boss Orange Man (Eau de Toilette) by Hugo Boss

Bottle Design Eyan Allen (2011)

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Boss Man / Boss Orange Man (Eau de Toilette) (Hugo Boss)

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Boss Man is a perfume by Hugo Boss for men and was released in 2011. The scent is fruity-woody. It was last marketed by Coty. Pronunciation

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Top Notes	Apple
Heart Notes	Spices Frankincense
Base Notes	Vanilla Bubinga wood

Perfumers

Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Givaudan

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Scent

6.8429 Ratings

Longevity

6.6332 Ratings

Sillage

6.1311 Ratings

Bottle

6.8333 Ratings

Value for money

7.888 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 31.01.2023.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is British actor Orlando Bloom. The fragrance was renamed "Boss Man" in 2021 and received a new bottle design.

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11/13/2019

7.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
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Taurus
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Taurus

Top Review 13

At least beautifully in shell thrown

The small sample of this fragrance has been bobbing around in my bottling collection for more than seven years now, which has continued to grow over the years. Somehow I lacked the motivation to comment, but now it's due, because I can definitely confirm one thing with Boss Orange Man: he's really dressed in a fancy bottle.

Whereby this is to be relativized again somewhat, because at that time it still had a continuous metal strip at the side of the flacon, which was probably sacrificed for cost reasons. But could this mean that the content has been changed or reformulated?

So just in case, I'd better run two tests. The first of the aged but proper samples showed that Boss Orange Man exhales a warm-fruity to woody-spicy depth directly during application. Because of the name, which only presents the somewhat cheaper sub-brand aimed at younger people, one could actually feel reminded of oranges, but this would then be so synthetic that it seems almost absurd. Nevertheless, the combination of indefinable fruit and warm spice with a hint of vanilla was not quite so unsympathetic to me. A little Christmas feeling is coming up. In my mind I had already toyed with the idea of giving the fragrance a generous 7.5 points.

But what seemed to have been well done at the beginning turned out to be the usual test tube brew after half an hour, which continued to flatten further and further.

The counter-test in the perfumery took place about an hour later, but made it clear that the recipe had been tinkered with over the years. Here, when spraying on, more synthetics came to light, whereby the scent takes a similar fruity-spicy path after a short time, but in comparison to my aged sample it appeared somewhat fresher-metallic.

Now I'm wondering what to make of it. My older version is a little more cuddly and especially softer in the drydown, but I have the impression that the durability is more limited than the current version. Boss Orange Man is quite wearable and really suits the younger target group, but older people will rub against the subliminal synthetics, which do not do justice to the high-quality impression of the bottle.

01/06/2021

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
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Aki09

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Aki09

Very helpful Review 15

Criminally undervalued

When I was 15 and tired of smelling like Playboy Hollywood and Axe deodorant, I asked my mom for Boss Bottled for my birthday. However, she gave me Boss Orange man instead. Luckily, because this fragrance was perfect for me at the time. It smells deliciously fresh of citrus and apple with an aromatic, woody heart note. It also perfectly suited my happy, carefree disposition and harmonized perfectly with my natural skin scent. I wore the fragrance almost every day since then, even as a freshman in college. I would therefore also call it my signature scent. It was also absolutely crazy how many compliments I got for Boss Orange man during that time. In my experience, it does better in that regard than the compliment monsters Sauvage, Eros, and ultra male.
Maybe I was just lucky that this fragrance harmonized perfectly with my skin and the external circumstances (age, occasions) fit, otherwise I can not explain the rather average rating of the community for my signature fragrance

02/02/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 7.5
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Nymbus

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Nymbus

Very helpful Review 15

Brave New World

Hello everybody! This is my first comment - on my first perfume.

Perfumes? If I had been asked 5 years ago what I associate with it, I would probably have primarily told about the funny to bizarre experiences from my childhood in provincial Austria. Of the 4 old bottles of my mother, which always stood in the bathroom cupboard, fixed components of the household goods, with which nobody knew what to do anymore, family was founded and there were hardly any occasions for which showers alone would not have been enough. So I misused the bottles for my own purposes and mixed Nina Riccis Farouche into my father's shampoo, bathed my brother's teddy bear in cologne or distributed L'Air du Temps - I still have the smell of clove in my nose on demand - on my father's steering wheel, preferably before very long car journeys. Or I would have told you about my first time Axe Africa, which a neighbor boy threw at me while plundering his parents' bathroom. Despite an hour in the bathtub, my teacher in the elementary school acknowledged this the next day with "Mei Liawa, you riachst heid owa männlich!".
For my childish nose, all this was far too much, far too alcoholic, too sharp, too penetrating, too unworldly, since I was only used to unmixed natural smells.

And then followed a long period of rest only sometimes I wondered as a teenager in the drugstore why one should spend such large sums of money on stink when any deodorant against the pubertal sweat smell is sufficient.

That day I was deeply depressed, 20 years old, had had to end my 2-year relationship the night before, wandered aimlessly through rainy Vienna after a bad sex date and ended up in an old-fashioned perfumery. The display was old-fashioned enough to appeal to me in my mood. A cup of tea with grandma on the couch would have been just the right thing at that moment, but she lived hundreds of miles away. When the polite, but somewhat age-grandiose woman in the shop asked what I was looking for, I first gaped at her and then stammered something about "warmth", "cosy" and "rainy weather". I didn't even think of perfume in those words. Yet I was handed a stripe.
I smelled wood, crackling open fire, incense, roasted and dried fruits and vanilla crescents in the oven, a fragrance like a protective layer between me and the rain, the dejection and the dreariness. Without saying goodbye, I stumbled out of the store with the strip in my hand, on which I smelled fascinated every few minutes, the strip still smelled after weeks. The very next day, however, I stood in the shop again, apologized for my unfriendliness the day before and bought a 40mL bottle of Boss Orange and the fragrance became my daily companion for some time
Even today I am still fascinated by how rich this fragrance is, one spray is almost one too many. On my skin, it lasts over 48 hours if I don't shower for that long. On clothes I can often still notice it even after weeks. And my 40mL bottle still exists, a small remainder is still there. I have used it sparingly and very rarely because of its fertility and my special relationship with it, as the season and the mood have to suit. In spring and summer it is unbearable to penetrating for me. It is probably very well suited as a beginner's fragrance, since one can still relatively well separate its different fragrance components and can build up emotions to it (similar to TomTomxGo's commentary).
It is also the fragrance for which I have received by far the most compliments and requests, especially from strangers. Yesterday Berlin was covered in deep grey and it was raining, I had to go out in the evening and after more than a year I sprayed Boss Orange again. I walked 100 meters before a young woman on the sidewalk, after she had passed me, turned around and asked me if I smelled so good here.
This moment was also the occasion for my first comment, when I subsequently thought that I should share this story. Almost every one of my perfumes has a special story, maybe I find the time to write one down here from time to time.

07/12/2020

4
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
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Blabbelnico

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Blabbelnico

From perfume hell to the scent cloud 7

My friend got that perfume from his mother for his graduation. Something very special for him. Then he wore it at home for the first time "Oh no", I thought, "gag." Much too pushy. Didn't match his body chemistry at all. It didn't match his body chemistry at all, it was like one of those room scents that just mixes oddly with the existing smell instead of refining it. "And then a 100 ml bottle..." I moaned in my mind.
Now the question arose how I should handle the situation - I can hardly tell him that the great, expensive perfume that his mother brought him as a special present makes me stagger backwards out of the room. But on the other hand I am the one who is with him every day.
So I put the perfume in the back of the closet - hoping "out of sight out of mind" would do the rest. - And it worked! He hadn't used it for almost a year
Until today.

I don't know why, but miraculously my boyfriend had rummaged the perfume to the front and hung it up (I hadn't told him until now that I couldn't stand it).
But when he entered the room unsuspectingly, I was hypnotized - what was that wonderful scent that was streaming towards me? I walked towards him. This scent was so sweet and spicy at the same time, I immediately felt warm, relaxed and excited, all at once. "What are you wearing?", I asked dreamily. "Boss Orange from my mum, you know it" he said, stunned by my reaction. "What?" I said. How could one and the same scent on the same person change SO much?! I was amazed, I had never experienced that before. "That's right, I know you," I said casually so as not to expose myself, "you can wear it more often." Inside I was glad to get a cookie - I was already floating on cloud nine.

02/20/2021

9
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
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Landariel

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Landariel

Helpful Review 2

Teens love

I got then from my parents as a gift, was my first real perfume.
Today I take the fragrance sometimes still at home, because I associate with the fragrance very much from the youth, among other things, I met my first girlfriend with the fragrance. I used to get a lot of compliments on the fragrance, more than today with Sauvage or similar compliment bulls ;)
I always like to float in old memories, you can wear Ihn to any occasion.

Very good combination of fresh citrus and a woody note. Sillage and durability are Okay. Where the sillage decreases quickly.

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