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Force Majeure

The Grudge Beaufort 2024

7.3 / 10 38 Ratings

A new perfume by Beaufort for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is aquatic-green. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Aquatic

Green

Animal

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Copal resin

Vermouth

Frankincense

Heart Notes

Calamus

Seagrass

Tea

Base Notes

Ambergris

Musk

Oakmoss

Labdanum absolute Oud

Oud

Tobacco

Perfumer

Euan McCall

Ratings

Scent

7.338 Ratings

Longevity

7.426 Ratings

Sillage

6.826 Ratings

Bottle

7.531 Ratings

Value for money

6.614 Ratings

Submitted by Splitter, last update on 07/23/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Force Majeure collection.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/16/2025

Chiyogami
11 Reviews

Chiyogami

1

A genuine work of art

Never in my years-long career of sniffing things that are supposed to smell like nature and loving the sea have I run across such a genuine ocean scent. There are plenty of contenders that smell very nice, but rarely do they really do what's on the label. You get bits and pieces of it in Acqua di Salé, Sel Marin, Megamare, et al., and some great blends in indies (Pineward's Acadian and Coastal Veil hit), but this is almost gruesome in its realism.

That smell you get when the tide is out and the beach is covered in rotting vegetation is on full display here-it's almost gag-inducing. The waves do come in to cover it back up, fresh and freezing, but the tide isn't quite in yet. I think a lot with this scent will come down to chemistry and what your skin plays up. The sharp rotting seaweed note is probably going to be horrendous if that's what your skin latches onto, but if you really want to smell like the actual sea? I can't think of anywhere else to go that would do a better job. Dark, dirty, beautiful and gross. An oceanic triumph!

03/22/2025

Lioncourt
119 Reviews

Lioncourt

1

Marine cave?

This interesting scent is surprising for this house, which usually creates such dark and powerful works.
It's one of the house's most daytime and luminous scents, of course, but it still has that interesting quality.
For me, it would be a powdery marine fragrance, very much in the style of Mariners Rhyme by Francesca Bianchi, but with an added, gloomy, damp cave aroma like Zoologist's The Bat, or rather, the authentic and true Nightflyer by Ellen Covey in Olympic Orchids, but in this case without the banana note.
Unfortunately, its performance isn't like the aforementioned scents. Its silage and projection are weak, and its longevity on skin is moderate. In a niche context, it's also true that its price isn't excessive for that context, so it can always be reapplied and overapplied.

12/11/2024

9
Scent

Hawthornhaze
1 Review

Hawthornhaze

6

Best of the new Force Majeure edition

Beautifully done work. I will review all three of these new Force Majeure scents from Beaufort, which are in my book all solid successes. This is the best one and the most challenging one.

The Grudge might be the most oceanic fragrance I've ever smelled. Call me Ahab, but I've been searching for this. This is a viciously blunt scent which in no way whatsoever resembles a "perfume" or a "cologne". What we get here is a massive crashing wall of bitingly frigid ocean air, in all of its naturalistic, salty, funky splendor. There are no apologies and no concessions being made to "freshness" or "aquatic" vibes; this is just straight cold ocean. No one will ever compliment you on this. This is a single monolithic accord, brilliant in its non-perfumery. I can see why people would make a comparison to Megamare here: philosophically and conceptually, these scents are aligned, but where Megamare smells like an aggressive blast of blue-themed port-a-potty cleaner, The Grudge smells like the literal jaws of a sperm whale; a leviathanic exhalation.

So, how is The Grudge constructed?

- Ambergris
Primarily, ambergris. Ambergris dominates this scent from the gate to the drydown. It's a dirty, stinky, animalic ambergris which reminds me of Ramon Monegal's Ocean Oud (but less challenging) and Zoologist's Squid (but darker) – however it's not so dirty that it's unwearable. It has a bit of effervescence to it, but it's not as sparkly as Squid. It is legitimately salty. I love the ocean (grew up next to it; live by it now) and I've found very, very few fragrances which successfully replicate its cold, bitter, mineral scent. Oftentimes they try to use piquant and bitter herbs to approximate saltiness (a la Acqua di Sale and a slew of imitators) which to my nose has very little to do with the ocean at all. While this type of animalic ambergris doesn't smell precisely like ocean water, it comes closer than many other fragrance notes do. It has a strong mineral, metallic facet to it, which evokes the scent of water vapor. Like cold ocean spray on a beach of cobble stones.

- Seaweed, resins, oud
The ambergris note is enhanced by some supporting actors. They are in the background, blending into the accord. There's a bit of vegetal seaweed wafting in and out like a ghost. The sour tang of oud lurks like a distant foghorn. And the colder smelling resins – frankincense for sure, and apparently copal, and maybe some labdanum – form a supporting structure.

Amazingly, I don't think there's any calone (or like molecules) here at all. So, no fear of a shower gel scent with The Grudge. This is raw nature. It's like the skeleton of so many other "marine" perfumes I've smelled. Strip away all the pleasant florals, woods, and whatever floofy accords they've added to make them palatable for the masses. The Grudge is the raw, haggard, and bleached bones of a marine fragrance, and just what I was looking for. Total aggression; but an elegantly silent, deep, and watery aggression of cold indifference.

Smells like a ghost ship disappearing into a thick fog. Incredible art, somewhat challenging to wear. Easily one of the best Beauforts.

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