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Boss Nuit Pour Femme
Aldehydes are an old fashioned thing to build a modern fragrance on, and they are the first thing you meet in Hugo Boss Boss Nuit Pour Femme Eau de Parfum 75ml.
They give that fizzing, slightly soapy, almost waxy brightness that classic perfumery used to open with, a sparkle that sits above the composition rather than in it. Peach arrives alongside, soft and fuzzy, and the contrast is the clever part: the fruit warms what would otherwise be a cold, formal opening and keeps it from smelling like a vintage reproduction.
The middle is restrained. Jasmine supplies a creamy white floral body and violet adds a powdery, slightly sweet greenness, and neither is pushed hard. This is a fragrance built on blending rather than on contrast, so the materials tend to read as one smooth impression rather than as separate arrivals.
Sandalwood and oakmoss finish it. The first is creamy and soft, the second earthy and faintly damp with a bitter green edge, and together they give the drydown a dry, slightly serious quality that holds the powder in place. It is the most grown up base in the women's half of the range, and the reason this wears better after dark than most of its relatives.
Released in 2012. At eau de parfum strength expect six or seven hours with moderate projection, so it carries into an evening without dominating a table. The name points at night and the scent agrees, though it is perfectly wearable in the daytime in cold weather. The company behind the bottle has made men's clothes since 1924, from a Metzingen workshop that grew into a German group a hundred years old, and it entered the scent business only in 1984, through a licence.
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