Explorer Boadicea the Victorious 2008

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 here in the forum a richly controversial discussion behind it, which went from my current view of the Parfumo antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The average score is just 6.5, and the entire rating spectrum has been assigned, from catastrophic to phenomenal. So at least half of the stock should have long since been used up in the sanitary area. As a 3-year perfume veteran - so someone from the middle ParfumoNew era - I now analyze more again this fragrance work. In doing so, I try once to transfer the now somewhat archaic old texts 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, plagiarism as well! 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-gendered" 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 culture-historical impressions with the today's perspective however a picture results that - completely up-to-date - somewhat head note-heavier turns out. Why? Of course, because of the almost-mega-fruit in it. Just as naturally, one can assume that the work was reformulated. However, I was able to reconstruct experimentally how the reformulation was done in all likelihood. Frosch wood cleaner (with natural active ingredients of 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, in my opinion, is an over-motivated mistranslation for a few floral sprinkles. Once absorbed, you extract an "absolute" from it. That smells then, like a cedar log rubbed with orange peel butter.

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