Explorer Boadicea the Victorious 2008

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6.6 / 10 66 Ratings

Explorer is a perfume by Boadicea the Victorious for women and men and was released in 2008. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still available to purchase.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Earthy

Green

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes	Bergamot Orange
Heart Notes	Orris butter Amber Rock rose
Base Notes	Cedarwood Labdanum

Ratings

Scent

6.666 Ratings

Longevity

8.655 Ratings

Sillage

7.846 Ratings

Bottle

8.860 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 19.09.2022.

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08/13/2022

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

BobbyGee
204 Reviews

BobbyGee

2

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

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Dustymusky

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Boa-De-Controversy - an explorative 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 had plenty of controversy here on the forum, which from my current perspective went from parfumo antiquity to high middle age. The average score is just 6.5, and the whole rating spectrum has been assigned, from disastrous to phenomenal. So at least half of the stock should have been used up in sanitation long ago. As a 3-year perfume veteran - that is, someone from the middle ParfumoNew era - I am now more re-analyzing this fragrance work. In doing so, I am trying for once to transfer the old texts, which by now seem somewhat archaic, 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, so is plagiarism! 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-denominated" 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 cultural-historical impressions, however, a picture emerges with today's perspective that - quite in keeping with the times - turns out to be somewhat more headnote-heavy. Why? Because of the almost-mega-fruit in it, of course. Just as naturally, one can assume that the work has been reformulated. But I was able to reconstruct experimentally how the reformulation was done in all likelihood . Frosch Wood Cleaner (with natural active ingredients from 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 is, in my opinion, an over-motivated mistranslation for a few floral sprinkles. Once absorbed, you extract an "absolute" from it. This then smells like a cedar log rubbed with orange peel butter.

The verdict: The fragrance is now clearly in the "phenomenal" category. No twin is known, not even in the beginning. The wearability minimum age 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

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