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Boucheron
Boucheron Eau de Parfum 50ml is the fragrance that took a Place Vendome jeweller into perfumery in 1988, and it was built on the scale that decade expected.
The opening is enormous. Bergamot, lemon, orange, tangerine and bitter orange pile up together, apricot adds a soft fruit roundness, marigold brings a bitter green pungency, basil cuts across with herbal sharpness, cassia gives a dry spiced warmth, and asafoetida, which almost nobody uses, adds a savoury, sulphurous resin note that keeps the whole top from smelling like a fruit stall. It is a lot, and it is meant to be.
The heart is a full white and yellow bouquet of the sort that is no longer made. Tuberose and ylang ylang supply the creamy weight, orange blossom and jasmine the sweetness, daffodil a green bitterness, geranium a crushed leaf sharpness, lydia broom a honeyed hay like softness, lily of the valley a cool dewiness, and orris a dry grey powder over the top of all of it, with cedarwood running underneath to keep it standing up.
Then it ends rich and animal. Amber, benzoin and vanilla give a deep balsamic sweetness, sandalwood and oakmoss add creamy wood and bitter damp, tonka bean lays down a soft almost bitter sweetness, musk smooths everything, and civet brings the faintly feral warmth that period perfumery used to make a scent smell like skin rather than like a bottle. This is a powerhouse and should be worn as one. A single spray lasts all day and will mark a coat. It is a cold weather, evening, dressed up fragrance and it reads clearly feminine. Francis Deleamont and Jean-Pierre Bethouart composed it.
This house was founded in 1858 by Frederic Boucheron and has traded from 26 Place Vendome since 1893. Its 1988 debut, this one, arrived in a ring shaped bottle set with a sapphire blue cabochon, which is how the perfume side of the business began.
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