Explorer Boadicea the Victorious 2008

Guys, I don't know where you perceive the patchouli scent. Here the cedar is so green and prickly that it hurts the nose.
But not right from the start. The fragrance begins very slowly, with a bit of peatiness (yes, Apicius, I agree with you, mossy and reminiscent of a freshly rained forest. It's so primal, one hopes that a swarm of mosquitoes doesn't come buzzing around the next treetop. Amber seems to have been used just to prevent the gracious consumer from being directly scared off by the cedar tip.
Today was test day and a comment I received quite harmlessly while sitting at my table: it smells extremely like cleaning products here. D-A-N-K-E!!! My response smile was as wrong as that of the Cheshire cat.
Anyway, the scent develops throughout the day into a veeeery sharp, green-woody direction. Freshly cut cedar hanging right around the neck.
I also have to agree with Apicius regarding the development; there is hardly any. And I can relate well to the association of cold and smooth (spear tip!!). I wouldn't say it's pale; pale is dull or boring to me. Cold wasteland, it's dripping from the walls, winter is alarmingly close, the air damp and cold. Brrrr, you freeze right away, but that's how Explorer is in the end.
However, the scent seems to project more the longer you wear it. Strange brew, but for me quite wearable because it is so completely different and peculiar. And what seems like patchouli to some is probably the galbanum combined with amber and bergamot, which really has a very heavy presence here. The initial hit is tough stuff.
Anyone who is up for experiments should definitely test Explorer.