Top Notes 
Tuberose
Banana leaf
Ivory Coast ginger
Pink pepper
Heart Notes 
Madagascan ylang-ylang
Jasmine
Orange blossom
Italian iris pallida
Base Notes 
Castoreum
Birch
Costus
Leather
Oud
Civet
Kashmiri sandalwood
Oakmoss
Tonkin musk
Ambrette seed
09/30/2024
MiniGBIC
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MiniGBIC
10
This snake rises into the air before coiling around you and taking your breath away
I'm always delighted when someone takes the trouble to lovingly package an order, perhaps adds a few selected samples and then perfumes the package with a beautiful fragrance.
Perhaps I should write 'I was always happy' at this point...
A few days ago, I received a parcel from Italy. And I was very pleased because it arrived so quickly and I was very excited about the fragrance.
When I opened it, my joy was immediately and drastically dampened by the martial stench that emanated from the parcel, which could perhaps be described as a leathery chemical cloud that hit me right in the olfactory center.
Phew, you immediately wonder whether some of the fragrance you ordered for the blindshare has leaked and now smells so awful and whether you should feel sorry for yourself and the sharing participants.
I dug the fragrance out of layers of bubble wrap, tissue paper, sample sachets and fragrance cards relatively quickly, it was intact, the paper packaging also smelled horrible, but the fragrance didn't. Phew, lucky me. Phew, lucky for me.
So keep looking, it can't be, something must have leaked and turned the whole package into a zone of presumably toxic vapors (do I still have a breathing mask somewhere?).
I sniffed every piece of bubble wrap, every shred of tissue paper, every sachet, every fragrance card individually (probably looked pretty funny) and first took a large batch of packaging material including cardboard (which smelled the worst) out to the garbage can; I didn't want / couldn't have it in the apartment.
On the way back from the garbage can, I trudged back through the cloud of fragrance that I had created during my disposal action - I can only say that the sillage was impressive.
As I had disposed of the box, I packed the leftovers that I found to be uninfected (bottle, sample, fragrance cards, a piece of very pretty tissue paper) in a shoe box and put them in the bedroom.
2 hours later (I had run some errands):
After opening the lid of the shoe box, I immediately removed it from the bedroom, as another cloud was preparing to spread.
In the living room, I then inspected the contents of the shoe box with the window open and found that the entire contents smelled of this beast (I don't think there's any other way to describe it), probably the parts I had already disposed of had been directly sprayed with the fragrance and smelled stronger, the remaining remnants had probably only taken on this smell due to their proximity to the scented parts. Even the shoe box, in which the less intensely smelling individual parts had only spent 2 hours, now smelled of it!
After I couldn't find a source for the - really breathtaking, but not in a positive sense - smell, I inspected the fragrance cards again.
And then saw that there was a lovingly hand-written card with a few very nice words on it and then 'By the way, the fragrance with which the package is scented is Boa Madre'.
Anyone who has made it this far:
Sorry for the long story, but I think it describes very vividly how I perceive Boa Madre and how intense this fragrance is.
For those who really like this fragrance - I see it has gotten some very good reviews:
Don't be angry. I don't smell any of the things you describe. It's probably there, but in my case it's drowned out by a leathery chemical accident that butchers away everything else, it was not a pleasant experience for me.
Perhaps I should write 'I was always happy' at this point...
A few days ago, I received a parcel from Italy. And I was very pleased because it arrived so quickly and I was very excited about the fragrance.
When I opened it, my joy was immediately and drastically dampened by the martial stench that emanated from the parcel, which could perhaps be described as a leathery chemical cloud that hit me right in the olfactory center.
Phew, you immediately wonder whether some of the fragrance you ordered for the blindshare has leaked and now smells so awful and whether you should feel sorry for yourself and the sharing participants.
I dug the fragrance out of layers of bubble wrap, tissue paper, sample sachets and fragrance cards relatively quickly, it was intact, the paper packaging also smelled horrible, but the fragrance didn't. Phew, lucky me. Phew, lucky for me.
So keep looking, it can't be, something must have leaked and turned the whole package into a zone of presumably toxic vapors (do I still have a breathing mask somewhere?).
I sniffed every piece of bubble wrap, every shred of tissue paper, every sachet, every fragrance card individually (probably looked pretty funny) and first took a large batch of packaging material including cardboard (which smelled the worst) out to the garbage can; I didn't want / couldn't have it in the apartment.
On the way back from the garbage can, I trudged back through the cloud of fragrance that I had created during my disposal action - I can only say that the sillage was impressive.
As I had disposed of the box, I packed the leftovers that I found to be uninfected (bottle, sample, fragrance cards, a piece of very pretty tissue paper) in a shoe box and put them in the bedroom.
2 hours later (I had run some errands):
After opening the lid of the shoe box, I immediately removed it from the bedroom, as another cloud was preparing to spread.
In the living room, I then inspected the contents of the shoe box with the window open and found that the entire contents smelled of this beast (I don't think there's any other way to describe it), probably the parts I had already disposed of had been directly sprayed with the fragrance and smelled stronger, the remaining remnants had probably only taken on this smell due to their proximity to the scented parts. Even the shoe box, in which the less intensely smelling individual parts had only spent 2 hours, now smelled of it!
After I couldn't find a source for the - really breathtaking, but not in a positive sense - smell, I inspected the fragrance cards again.
And then saw that there was a lovingly hand-written card with a few very nice words on it and then 'By the way, the fragrance with which the package is scented is Boa Madre'.
Anyone who has made it this far:
Sorry for the long story, but I think it describes very vividly how I perceive Boa Madre and how intense this fragrance is.
For those who really like this fragrance - I see it has gotten some very good reviews:
Don't be angry. I don't smell any of the things you describe. It's probably there, but in my case it's drowned out by a leathery chemical accident that butchers away everything else, it was not a pleasant experience for me.
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