Boss Bottled Parfum Hugo Boss 2022

This is a difficult perfume to review.... It's like the roads of my native Galicia, where you can take two completely opposite directions and arrive at the same place (...).

First of all, I like it although It isn’t a particularly captivating or revolutionary scent, really. Or wait... maybe it's the opposite?

Boss Bottled Parfum is fresh but dark, unique but generic, daring but safe… So what’s this? Well, that's its charm: A controlled divergence as a hallmark.

To find a point of reference in the brand, I would say that it comes to stay in the olfactory profile of Boss Bottled Night. Again, it doesn't smell like it, but it’s in a similar spectrum. Is this one better? Well… It's newer and well-executed, so draw your own conclusions. I really like both.

In the utilitarian context, this one has excellent versatility, moderate projection and good duration (8h). It smells like quality, so everything is fine here.

In the sensory and suggestive, this perfume doesn’t aim for the “Pied Piper” effect:

It starts with a moderate citrus, airy and light, nothing sharp. Immediately the freshness of the orris and the fig root take the direction of the scent, supported by a very soft and subtle incense, along with a balanced cedar wood. Gradually, a vegetable leather accord takes shape and completes an elegant and - just apparently - discreet fragrance, which in reality turns out to be secretly daring at short distances, with a seductive mix of kindness and impudence.

It’s a very distinctive scent in the olfactory memory, so its imprint remains perfectly differentiated and ready to be reactivated with the proximity of new close encounters. That's a secret winning hand.

So to recap, what do we have here? Well… A man with an angel face and a mischievous smile, surely.

Who can, save themselves! After receiving a sample as a gift, I tried it and my arms dropped (I almost made the sample fly away).The opening is characterized by frankincense which does not mix with mandarin, simply because there is nothing that can recall (even from afar) the mandarin. There is more of a smell similar to sugar dissolved in water. This phase lasts less than 2 minutes (thank goodness), after which the fig announces its presence, quite sweet with a light powdery smell in the background given by the iris. This other phase lasts no longer than the first. The note that remains perceptible as it dries down is cedar wood (leather is an imaginary note in this perfume) wrapped in a sugary aura that characterizes the perfume from start to finish.

As far as amberwoods go, it's alright. Smells pretty much like any other frag you pick up at the men's fragrance department at Macy's, so that already means my maximum rating's gonna be 7.0 just for very low originality, but there are some high points. The citrus opening, albeit short-lived, is nice and unexpected for this kind of smooth woody slightly sweetened ambery scent. The drydown I actually perceive as sandalwood rather than cedar; it might just be the combination of milky fig, powdery iris, and cedarwood that are mixing together to give that effect, but it is quite nice. For the rest of the scent, expect high doses of the usual suspects of ambroxan, ISO-E, amber xtreme, cashmeran, and the like. No incense or leather anywhere to be found.

At $65/100ml at discounters I think you can still do better, might be a good cheapie option if it hits $35-40

With Boss Absolu and the elixir getting all the recent smoke I believe this beauty has hidden in plain sight.

Boss Bottled Parfum (BBP) is a quality flanker that doesn’t follow the latest trend of super sweet or citrusy men’s fragrances. BBP opens with a subtle mandarin orange rind note that is flanked by incense. After about 30 minutes to an hour it smooths out with a light touch of floral before settling into a more green leather base. The incense note lingers in the background throughout the life of this fragrance.

This gem would certainly do well in the fall or winter months. It can also handle the spring and cooler summer days as long as you are mindful of the trigger.

Overall, BBP lasts about 6-8 hours with an arm’s length of projection. This scent can be dressed upped or slightly down. This is definitely a man’s fragrance. Boys need not apply.

Why waste your money on this? Just go by some axe body spray. Seriously a terrible smell if you want to offend people where this. It's super strong and not even in a good way. This is the second worst cologne I have ever smelled only one to beat this is grand master by mind games. This cologne I wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy is smells cheap and generic