Boss Bottled Oud Hugo Boss Eau de Parfum

The Boss Bottled Oud flanker starts off on two tracks.
On one hand, it begins with an almost overwhelming Oud. The packaging tells us that it is supposed to be 100% natural Oud. Given the price for a 100 ml bottle, one can hardly believe it, but it seems to be achievable after all. Alongside the Oud, green apple with slight citrus hints forms the second part of the opening.

As it develops, both directions balance out and increasingly merge with and into each other. However, the Oud remains the dominant note. It is blended with clove and cinnamon, where the clove never exceeds the level of being overly spiced, and the cinnamon is used more like salt in a soup: it never comes across as festive. The saffron also does not stand out and integrates nicely into the Oud blend, which overall indeed gives a very rounded impression. The typical Boss Bottled apple-wood-spice DNA serves as a sort of foundation and occasionally makes itself known with a synthetic peak, but not loudly.

This fragrance can particularly be recommended in light of the fact that the combination of Oud with the Boss Bottled DNA comes across as pleasantly different from the often seen classic Oud-Rose combination. And it can certainly be described as very successful, provided that one also enjoys the regular Boss Bottled.