Boucheron

I have BIG HAIR, BIG 80's memories of this Bad Girl, which I wore when I wanted to scream to the world that I AM FANCY. Boucheron opens with a hard core perfume-y slap in the face, then settles down to a rich stank that makes an announcement that I call the shots in every room I walk into. It's organized chaos of a whole lotta notes. I don't enjoy wearing this alone because it is not at all a comforting scent.

I'm sure I have reviewed this before. I love this one. If you know what ET White Diamonds smells like, this is the closest perfume I have ever smelled to it, just to give you an idea. I can tell them apart, it's just that there's not many out there that smell like these 2. Both are loves.

I can't name one particular note that whacks me over the head. This is distinctly a 1980s perfume, but that doesn't demote it. It's a simple fact. The marigold is a proud note in the opening, and what makes it 80s is absolutely the tuberose, oakmoss, civet, and amber. It's nice to see a perfume still using asafoetida. It's this subtle background player that added something to Tendre Poison and it adds something here, too. This feels strongly springtime but also autumn. This is walking around a festival, walking around a bookshop, or a picnic, or mindful sprays (stronnnng) before going to Thanksgiving with the family. For those who appreciate florals, or animalic, or amber, this is worth trying, but not blind buying - nothing is worth blind buying.

Too weak, not working on me. Tried many times to like it,but still not working.

Oh my days! I dithered about buying this for so long. I adore Boucheron Quatre Iconic and wondered if this might be too floral. It IS floral but it also is warm, creamy and has that dry down Boucheron DNA . Yes it has ALL the notes but its so well crafted it isn't haphazard or a mess - its pure quality. It smell ritzy, expensive, golden and lush.

This was a blind buy as I'm reaching back to add more classic Floral fragrances to my collection and steer away from the gourmand trend predominating the current market. I've only had it for a week now and it is already developing more depth. I haven't worn it out yet but I have a feeling I am going to be getting compliments from those who know a good perfume. It's the kind of fragrance that will always elevate your presence even when you're wearing just jeans and a t-shirt.

My bottle is from 1990 - she has aged gracefully and is as beautiful today as it was then. My version opens big, with citrus and florals. A light hand is definitely necessary!! The mid notes are present in the beginning, but not overtly. After some time (an hour or more), the citrus softens and continues to round out with creamy florals. Boucheron is so expertly blended making it difficult to discern individual notes - it’s just a rich, rounded creamy floral that is just delicious. The mid eventually gives way to the sensuous base (apparent throughout but but takes center stage later). The oakmoss is so classical while provides a sensuous, animalic depth that lasts forever. Boucheron is just a classically gorgeous scent and wearing it is more of an experience rather than an addition. Today, it’s fresh and even modern with a nod to the big 80’s. It does not smell dated in the least. I love it and will treasure the rest of my bottle for as long as I have it!!

Boucheron always had an immediate association with Poison for me. it is not logical. of course there are reminscences to each other. but only a few of the 1980s perfumes were so vile as to name them in one sentence. and then still they were different. Giorgio, Poison, Coco, Obsession. yet somehow there was something (probably several factors interchangeably) that reminded me of Poison. but it was more on an instinctual level. when I look at the (plethora of) Notes I see likewise Fruits, Flowers, Wood & Resins which could very well give off a comparable imprint. I had an Edp in a Luxurious Vaporisateur, I even had the perfume in the 'Haute Joaillerie Baguette' flacon (which was quite expensive). I would say that the next ingredients could be considered as 'in the same League'. in Poison Plum, Wild Berries, African Orange Flower, Jasmine, Tuberose, Indian Vanilla, Sandelwood, Amber, Virginia Cedar, Musk and that is all Folks ! where I also have the Notes slightly 'adapted', for instance in Poison Plum while here in Boucheron Apricot. because these are two fruits I can actually smell. two 'stonefruits'. the Poison Wild Berries I compared with the Boucheron Cassia. there are spectacularly No Citruses in Poison where there are tons in Boucheron. (which I only solely pick up on as a 'Fresh, perhaps Acidulous Swish'.) Opoponax in Poison is maybe compatible with Boucheron's Benzoin. I guess I can not come up with a logical explanation but here we have two very present, Flowery, Resinous, Opulent, Ambery and Woody typical '1980s perfumes' that may not share that much notes but in my feeling give a same Aplombness while at the same time being supersophisticated. of course Poison is the more notorious under them, and rightfully so. Boucheron is a real 'Jewelers Perfume' which I always found as Cinematic as Radiant as Brilliant in one take. what would we want more ....

This is a scent I bought for my wife at her request and she never wears it. I asked her why and she said she was saving it for special occasions. For her this scent harkens back to the days where she worked at the huge mall pharmacy at Galleries D'Anjou. Boucheron was a luxury staple to her. When I got back into buying scents I urged her to pick stuff to round out orders and this was one of those buys and relatively inexpensive. Shamelfully AI suggested I wear this because I've been runnung my reviews and wardrobe through it for info...but that's another thread. I shot this on this morning and immediately understood where my wife's obsession with clean scents comes from. This is a classic scent and could very easily be unisex today. It is anchored in classic Women's scents (Burberry being one of my guilty pleasures) A clean Soapy Bounce Drier sheet. As predicted by AI the drydown is veering toward civet vanila oakmoss that I would apparently love.... From the gaggle of topnotes you would believe it to be very fruity and floral but it never goes there. It gets nicely spicy on the dry down . A pleasant old school cosmetic soft classic. This will not change your life or drive most people crazy but I did encourage my wife to wear it and enjoy it. For one thing she was in love with me all the way to work. I hope she wears it more in her daily cycle. Pink Shimmer secret and Givenchy Insense Ultramarine are the daily drivers right now.

Even the reformulation is killer. I know better than to declutter this because I need it at least once a year for a full week or two. The dry down is a powder-incense paradise. I cannot stand marigold and somehow this 90’s, smoking mom, beast makes me oh so happy. Will never be without. 3 sprays tops.

This was used to mask odors in my room/as room spray. Very very strong diffuser. Just blasts the heck out of you. But Selena beautiful charming Selena went around smelling like this? It’s rancid.

Generational Trauma Eau De Parfum. Smells like the meanest rich relatives at your family function... like being admonished by your elders and/or betters for some perceived social faux pas fuckup or whatever. Maybe it's the combination of opulent notes with a bitter opening. That being said, it does its job very well, and smells pretty great in its mean and dated glory. I mostly get vanilla and white flowers with an intense bitter twist..

This somehow smells like Ruta Graveolens. A herb that grows in my garden with a particular scent i happen to love very much. It must be the basil and daffodil combined which would make sense actually! Very intresting!! Not a bad fragrance at all. I believe my paternal grandmother, may she rest in peace🙏❤️ wore this also. I'm on a vintage and retro perfume journey and have been so pleasantly surprised already. My first vintage fragrance i fell in love with was the fruity chypre Mitsouko. Now i'm looking into the Oriental floral fragrances What beauty there exists!!! Edit: In early but even more so in deep drydown this has an incense quality not unlike Nag Champa. I really love to wear this when i want to tap into my warmest, womanly qualities. Very kind and mature but one that doesn't conform to belong. She is true to herself without being harmful in any way. Golden and timeless. That's the archetypal force i'm sensing.

I know it might be suffocating by today's standards but this perfume is gorgeous... Everyone below me is chatting about the EDT and EDP (both great) but I've got two vintage bottles left of the PARFUM.. if you thought the EDP could clear a room, wait until you spritz the Parfum on your clavicle and wrist... Wow... "They just don't make 'em like this anymore" is cliché but so appropriate here... The civet is slightly more pronounced in the Parfum than in the EDP but in a beautiful way... I wouldn't advise wearing this anywhere indoors unless it's in a very large venue with a lot of space and air... It's EXTREMELY potent and just as diffusive... But I do think it's honestly a masterpiece even though it might have even seemed slightly dated in 1988...! Love it.

My all-time favorite. I actually created an account here just to express how much I love it. My mom used to wear it when I was little, and now it’s my turn. I even bought two bottles—and I still can’t get enough of it.

Anything for Selenas ❤️🔥

Oh-ho-ho! This is one of those veeeery old-fashioned fragrances. The opening is a very sharp, stinky citrus! Reminds me a lot of bug repellant. If you like the opening of Shalimar EDT and EDP, this is the same. I think a lot of older people were still wearing this in the 90's, and it's a really heavy fragrance. It smells like a soap bar. A dusty, heavy white floral soap bar. Like a dusty theatre, with heavy dark blue velvet curtains, and golden baroque-style chairs with red fabric on the seats. I much rather prefer Amarige to this one, as that settes down to pleasant white florals much faster, while Boucheron has a very strong smell until it gets there. It's pleasant after 24 hours or so, but it takes too long. Alternatively: spray this on clothes way in advance of wearing them, as this is old-school strong.

(Vintage EdP, bottle c. 1992) My how times have changed. This EdP was Boucheron’s debut in 1988, and two notable things happened: firstly, they released an EdT and EdP. Boucheron was all-in on the EdP concentration from the get-go, and even released Pour Homme as an EdT and an EdP, the latter of which was unheard of for a men’s fragrance. They were ahead of the concentration trend it took the majority of brands to get to by more than a decade. Secondly while on the topic of Pour Homme, they didn’t release the men’s version of Boucheron for another three years after this debut. Today, a brand would release everything in two formats, an EdP and a parfum concentration, and there would be at least five perfumes in the debut in the first year - not two in a span of three years. This modus operandi of taking your time and doing something different shows in the quality of the perfumes the brand released. Some of it is predictable though. A tuberose forward amber was hardly anything new for 1988, but the opening was certainly attention grabbing. Orange blossom, basil, blackcurrant and hesperidics create a very energetic yet quite odd melange of soft orange fruit, white florals, anisic/licoricey earthiness, green notes, a stiff animalic musk type facet, and plenty of citrus. It makes your brow furrow and your brain kick into overdrive, that is until the heart begins rushing up at you and connecting to this opening very well. Tuberose, jasmine, muguet, orris, and tonka all find partners to hold hands with. Tuberose takes over the white florals from the orange blossom and amps it up to pleasantly powdery rose territories, while also providing a bit of a green edge as the basil and blackcurrant did. Jasmine and muguet come in for the assist with citrusy white floral links and sweet animalic muskiness. Orris keeps the heart stately by not letting it fall over the line of too sweet or too floral with its powdery dry starchiness, and the vanillic tonka shifts the character of the earthy anisic note of the basil. The final dry down and skin scent has enough oakmoss in it to make you say chypre for a little while, but then you correct yourself as time goes a bit further on and the tonka, balsams, benzoin, a bit of incense, and animalics present a very convincing amber union. It is on the pleasant side of sweet, and has more than enough richness but with plenty of air and space to be compelling without being thick or crowding. Boucheron has absolutely beautiful dry downs, and the brand mandated that their perfumes did so, as evidenced here and later on in the arguably more masterful Pour Homme. At one point I said, “some of it is predictable though.” A floral amber in 1988 was hardly anything new; despite Boucheron’s forward thinking in some areas for the time, and their meticulous attention to details and composition, they gave us what was arguably an outdated and commonplace perfume even for that period. I’ve said it once and I’ll say until my dying breath: it’s the details that make all the difference. Rarely does anything truly new come along in perfumery, it’s the details that set perfumes apart from each other. For example, Boucheron love powdery aldehydes but despite their volume at no point are they ever allowed to hide anything from the nose as so frequently happens with other brands’ compositions. Every note has a partner note in the same layer or one below that they are completely inseparable from, even though they maintain their distinction. It’s beautiful work that is far too underrated.

Loved this for many years in the late 80s and early 90s. It was a special occasion or evening wear kind of fragrance. I always got a spicy scent on my skin while wearing in the Caribbean. The heat of the tropics would turn Boucheron EDP into a very spicy, kind of heady almost boozy sort of scent. Not for the office. People liked it on me so many compliments. Unfortunately, that intoxicating kind of scent was adored by the mosquitos as well. I have a recent bottle which I have not opened so I can't compare if the lack of Indian Sandalwood, as one reviewers mentioned, truly impacts the scent from vintage to current release. I do plan to macerate as several reviewer suggested. I think it is a classic. Yes, it can be called dated. But so are Chanel No. 5, Shalimar and some other classics. Just because its from the 80s doesn't mean it still can't be a beautiful fragrance. I would rather wear a voluptuous fragrance like Boucheron over some of the trendy gourmand fragrances. Who truly wants to smell like a cupcake? What are we 5 years old?

It’s so very 80s which I love about it. It’s something you’d wear to the theater in a tight black dress, a blazer, stiletto heels, and chunky jewelry. Very nostalgic and sophisticated. Not something I would wear often. But it’s both sexy and bold.

A somewhat typical white-mixed floral, with noticeable orange fruit notes and sharp greenness in the background. The base is a standard blend of the usual suspects,the amber leans toward labdanum, and the civet remains moderate. What they are calling 'marigold' smells much more like mimosa, to me. Its dusty, musty sweetness is quite pronounced. It certainly is not Tagetes lemmonii as Fragrantica suggests. That beautiful shrubby herb grows in my garden and has a pungent slightly minty scent that is not evident here. Boucheron is decent, but mediocre. I suggest layering it with something else. The model, Claudia Schiffer was reported to layer Boucheron with Cinnabar. Give that a try.

I received my bottle of Boucheron Eau de Parfum a few days ago, and since then, I’ve been deeply moved. It’s hard to put the beauty of this fragrance into words... I can only say one thing: it brings me immense pleasure. It’s the pinnacle of elegance, comfortable, refined, and assured. This fragrance is far from linear; it unfolds like an olfactory journey that goes on and on for hours. One never grows bored with Boucheron - it’s a voyage. Simply magnificent. (Luca Turin praised Boucheron by Boucheron with a full 5-star rating in his Perfumes: The A-Z Guide). I’ve been wearing it every day, and it’s absolutely addictive. It’s the first perfume in my entire life that I wear to bed. Boucheron has entered my life, and it’s here to stay. Be aware, though, it has a very vintage character - and I adore vintage perfumes. But if you’re not used to that kind of olfactory family, it might feel overwhelming. For the curious ones, I say go for it - this fragrance is a masterpiece.

This is one of my all time favorite 80s powerhouse perfumes. On my skin its opening is musty-sweet with tagete and orange vying for the spotlight. You need to be an appreciator of an old school slightly dusty musty vibe to love this phase, but I definitely fall into that camp. The slight sharpness of the opening fades into heady white/yellow floral heart dominated by tuberose and ylang ylang, but the supporting players each lend their signature to this complex bouquet. Already the vibe is slightly sleepy, wrapped in velvety amber that seems to drip from the petals. Ultimately, the flowers melt into sleepy benzoin-civet-sandalwood base that manages to feel gooey but not overly sweet. Along the way I get flashes of cassis, asafoetida, apricot, geranium, narcissus, oakmoss, tonka, and musk, roughly in that order. This parade of notes almost feels like counting sheep before bed, and indeed part of the charm of this perfume is riding it from its opulent, extroverted opening to private comfort.

Agreed macareted for 3 years and the l9ngevity silage more boom and umph.. at first bought lasting power so weak. Give a try last week for 3 days the smell still on the cloth till now..

Been wanting to try this fragrance ever since learning Selena Quintanilla wore the EDT version as displayed in her museum in Corpus Christi, TX. Previous reviews stated they just don't make them like this anymore and that is the truth! This smells nothing short of sophistication and elegance. An orchestra of florals and citrus, my nose settles deliciously on what smells like cognac and agarwood incense. It's gorgeous.

When opulence meets magnificence—a fragrance that, even today, retains all its elegant and wonderfully old-fashioned charm. A true floral tangle like they just don’t make anymore. Stunning!

Almost frighteningly classy... I don't think it smells like an old lady, I think it smells like a wealthy, intimidating 50-year-old businesswoman at a gala. Powder-y and floral like many classic perfumes but offset by a cold, dry, bitter note.

This is one my mom's favs, so I bought a little mini of the EDP to remind me of her. Tbh, I hate it. It smells nice in the air when I smell it on her, but when I smell it on myself, it reminds me of an older woman in church dressed in her 70s Sunday best. I appreciate it for what it is, but I cannot with this one. It's very loud, very 70s night out classic DNA. I definitely smell the white florals, but I smell so many other things that I can't make out what I'm smelling, and it's a bit overwhelming. Mind you, I only used four tiny dots from the cap of my little mini bottle. This will stay on my shelf with my perfume rack so I can look at it and remember how it smells on my mommy, but I wouldn't wear this.

I have the EDT and the EDP. One great thing is that they’re even better after macerating for a couple of years. I went through several bottles (of other perfumes) during that time and then came back to Boucheron. I initially liked the EDT better, but now I like the EDP better. However gorgeous, neither was quite clean enough for everyday daytime use upon first unboxing. Now it doesn’t matter. The narcissus sings on my skin after an hour or so. The animalic snarl of the EDP has calmed down to a sexy poof, and it’s just right. It’s almost a clean sexy and almost a dirty sexy. The animalic notes fall in just the right place after a long period of maceration, whereas two years ago it was just filthy gorgeous. And asafoetida is always a force to be reckoned with, but here it’s very well-balanced. The EDT has remained about the same. It has a wider appeal with a cleaner musk that reminds me of Le Troisième Homme by Caron, but cleaner. It also brings to mind Lalique. One or two sprays is plenty with either, and these days nobody will know what I’m wearing. I would rather wear a tickle sweet chic musk like these than a sweet sugar confection. The citruses are beautiful. It’s very high quality. At this rate, these two bottles will last me ten years. Many have likened it to 24 Faubourg, and I find similarities between the two, but Boucheron never veers into dirty laundry territory like 24 Faubourg. I still hold the opinion that this EDP is the original from which Bond No. 9 Manhattan was derived, and I still think that Boucheron EDP is better.

This scent is classic and modern in the past and present eras. It was wow with the open scent, sweet and spicy, the clean powder scent, and the white floral scent. After ten minutes, everything fell into place flawlessly. At first, I was very scared, afraid the smell like oldies age. Thank you for all the reviews that gave me the courage to buy because I love this scent so much 10/10.