Description
The fragrance was renamed and repackaged in 2016. Previously known as 1805.
“England’s evening spark and citrus kisses—thunder on your lips. In Victory drink long, drink deep as glory fades to night.”—Beaufort London
1805 was the year in which Lord Nelson both won the Battle of Trafalgar and lost his life, as well as the year in which naval officer Sir Francis Beaufort introduced his “wind force scale.” 1805 imagines moments within the battle itself.
1805 by Beaufort London is a Woody fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. 1805 was launched in 2015. Top notes are lime, smoke and gunpowder; middle notes are blood, brandy and sea water; base notes are amber, balsam fir and cedar.
bleverletbatt – :
Sometimes, while we are walking, there is smoke straight in the eye:
It disorients us, it stuns us, it takes us far from reality even for a moment. Even here I let myself be taken by the enthusiasm and I became disoriented when I sprayed liquid smoke on me or 1805 Tonnerre.
NEVER AGAIN’!
FANCLER – :
My partner : it’s smell like an ember
My friend (she is 17yr old girl) : it’s nice, dark and good for autumn ( btw she hates oud )
Well… I agree with both of them. Very nice smoky, deep, dark, perfect for autumn / winter. I also get something sour, must be Lime and sharp probably gunpowder. Performence is ok, nothing groundbreaking but still good. Need to wear Tonnerre few more times but so far very happy.
Scent : 8/10
Longevity : 8/10
Sillage : 7/10
Цыпа – :
It seems like I would wear this camping or shooting.
buchelnikov – :
Smoke, brine, and gasoline giving way to burned meat and leather. Not super. It smells like the aftermath of a very unfortunate incident–the Battle of Trafalgar, perhaps.
sergei050967 – :
This fragrance is incredible. This is drinking booze around a campfire in the woods. I would love to be able to pull this off as a femme scent, but only in a black leather jacket, combat boots and dark lipstick. When I initially smelled this I pictured an older, sexy gentleman in a suit coat with a pipe in his pocket. But underneath the expense of his wardrobe was a hide of scars and incredible delinquent, adventurous stories. Mmm.
aset1993 – :
absolutely love this, let me know if anyone wants to sell their unloved bottles , smoky ashes from a wood burner, thumbs up from me.
foz500 – :
This is nice work. Does exactly what it says it does.
I tried this very gingerly, with the smallest spray I could eke out of my sample, mostly because I love Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series set on British naval vessels during the Napoleonic wars (The movie “Master and Commander” is based on these books.) and I thought it would be fun to smell the accompanying olfactory portrait at least once.
The opening, especially, was quite evocative of the sea and that musty, bilge note of marine living. The limes were a nice touch as well and the thick sulphorous smell of the gunpowder.
I expected it to smell interesting but not appealing and actually it was less off putting than I expected and might actually smell good on a guy. I will never find out though because I had to scrub, not from the unpleasantness of the scent but from the sickening overwhelm of the aromachemicals the scent is made of. One tiny spray on my forearm and my eyes were watering and I was getting a weird taste in my mouth. I can see the comparisons to Imaginary Authors because their fragrances have a similar impact on me.
Even after scrubbing it was tenacious as hell.
A-c-T-i-v – :
اگه خواستید این عطر رو بزنید بگید پلیس تا شعاع یک کیلومتری رو خالی از سکنه کنه ههههه از بس که وحشتناکه
فرض کنید که کنار دریا آتش روشن کردید که یبارکی بارون میگیره و آتش خاموش میشه و دود میکنه با بوی نم و رطوبت دریا که بوی دود در واقع تداعی بوی باروت و جنگ رو می کنه که البته هدف هم از طراحی این عطر همین یادآوری خاطره جنگ سال 1805 هستش که توی توضیحات اینجا گفته شده
طراح این عطر توی طراحیش خیلی موفق عمل کرده ولی خب عطری نیست که بشه ازش توی مناسبت ها استفاده کرد چه برسه به استفاده روزانه مگه برای کسی که بخواد پوست بقیه رو بکنه
alles – :
Clearly the best piece from Beaufort! Get out of the sea coming out of the bottle right into reality. This is a magnificent work of art. Thank you Leo 🙂
petro73 – :
Definitely a favorite of mine among the Beaufort London line of perfumes. Not easy to wear perhaps, but not unwearable. I get a strong kick of lime at first and it’s too much, but when it settles down it’s more ambery, smoky metallic (gunpowder) and the sea note is apparent too, making it a very interesting concoction indeed.
Doesn’t smell like sweat to me, but I can understand how certain deodorants combined with human sweat can smell this way. I still feel it would be unfair to draw a parallel here.
Thumbs up, definitely worth a try.
Yura1757 – :
Well, hello there, sailor. Sorry, Admiral.
Astonishingly impressive and strange, but perhaps a bit hostile for actual use. I have the same reaction to this as you would to the real 18th-century British Navy turning up in your town: don’t know whether to salute it or run away in panic. This is a striking, masterfully original thing, but may not be all that practical. It’s sort of repellent yet absolutely compelling. It plays seriously rough.
Even my ravenous appetite for smoke is sated here; and I don’t smell burning wood, either, but rather the very sharp, chemical, metallic, aromatic whiff of real gunpowder. This does not do the usual chem trick of mimicking smoke with cade; there’s nothing *at all* incense-ish or even timber-y about it. This is not a “spicy oriental” or a “natural woods” type of scent in any way – it’s industrial smoke and soot, not campfire and charcoal. The ‘scent story’ here is not just pretentious b*lls – this is all too clearly a good part of what a real, bloody sea battle might smell like. But kind of perfumed at the same time. And that is honestly rather exciting.
It’s intensely macho yet I (female user) didn’t feel it would be unwearable for that reason; it’s certainly spiky and difficult, but so are lots of other things I love. It’s also bizarrely aquatic/mariney – a family of ‘fumes I don’t normally like – but that aspect works really well here (at least at first) with the lime somehow bringing the real scent of sea water to the mix and letting a bit of air in between the screens of smoke.
So for a couple of hours I vacillated between sniffing my wrist incessantly, then deciding I hated it, then sniffing again and reconsidering and thinking I could ride it out, then being repelled, then having to sniff again and again. Think I could have warmed to it in the end, except for the final kick in the tail … far from mellowing out as it dried down, this got darker and funkier and sharper and sweaty as a bosun’s manly armpit (dirty patchouli maybe?), so I could not imagine sharing berth space with it any longer without being driven to mutiny.
It’s insane, in other words. But very definitely worth a try if you want something wildly original and maybe a bit intimidating, whatever your gender (though I think, like many a ship, this is more for the chaps than the chap-esses in the end.)
Grisha-5 – :
Another interesting fragrance from BeauFort! Closing my eyes, this is the image I get from this scent.
A burned out warehouse along the coast, charred to the bones of the wooden structure and metal pipes. The charred floor is covered with fresh limes. Over the fist 20 minutes, the limes release their juice all over the charred wooden floor. The lime juice coats and starts to soak into the charred wood. A very strange combination to my nose. Looking through the burned out framing of the warehouse I can see the ocean’s tide slowly approaching the structure, minute by minute the water grows closer bringing the unmistakable scent of salty air towards me. Soon the water breaks the structure apart and pulls the lime soaked floor out to sea. As the floor becomes a makeshift boat, we travel deeper and deeper into open water. Along the way we bump into barrels of brandy that a passing ship has dropped on their voyage.
1805 Tonnerre is NOT for the fain of heart! Charred wood / smoke is the most overpowering scent in this fragrance. Too much so IMO. I do see the similarities to Imaginary Authors A City On Fire.
I get good projection and longevity on my skin. This one is very much a casual only scent, unless you are a fire fighter… or a pirate.
Bottom line: If you like charred wood and want to try something different, try a sample of this.
Elinka – :
the opening might scare you at first, as it hits you harshly on paper. try it on the skin and after 10 minutes it should lighten and you’ll start smelling the lime. the smoke is a beautiful cold metallic smoke, not a heavy warm incense smoke. I do really enjoy wearing this, and if it weren’t for the lime note, it would be unwearable honestly.
yuramer – :
What a horror show.
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to smell like this.
Possibly the worst fragrance I’ve ever smelled.
My review is summarized below:
A truly disgusting and vile concoction that smells of infection and bandaids. So strong it won’t scrub off. ….I considered a belt sander
slayt – :
I’m getting slightly irritated with the amount of smoky fragrances out there, whether it’s intentional or not especially the ones that smell of food or BBQ sauce. Tonnerre however is pretty stunning to my nose and despite the huge amount of thick birch tar and realistic smoke in here I actually get a overriding freshness and metallic citrus too. What a fascinating combination of notes, the smoke is very very apparent in the opening and I actually thought would be the only thing left even after a very short period but that’s not the case at all. It’s actually the smoke that dies back on my skin. It’s still there but giving way to more of a prickly gunpowder smell and slightly boozy woods and even a marine/aquatic suggestion. It really does have a brandy or whisky note in there, I often smell my whisky before drinking and it’s reminscent of inhaling the warming vapours. It reminds me a little bit of MiN Moon dust and equally divisive scent but this is nicer in many ways.
I like this a great deal, it’s kooky in a good way I smell like I’m wearing some fresh citrus/aquatic and I’ve been sitting by a campfire for 2 hours.
Oh the smoke does remain and looms large again as the rest of the notes die back in the deep drydown.
Update: This stuff lasted very well on my skin and kinda smelled like aqua de Loewe EL a bit of bonfire and that flint like, wet stone, gunpowder note which is an acquired taste but to me totally captivating.
noustytug – :
I bought the 10 pack of samplers for $36 from Twisted lily and received 2 freebies. This was one. This smells like smoke,sweat and the sea. A very odd combination of notes that does not do it for me. The sea note is very apparent but it does not make it a Summer scent as the smoke and gunpowder is extreme.
blackn – :
The most realistic burned wood smell in a fragrance, I mean, this smells exactly like my fireplace when the wind is in the wrong direction and fills the house with smoke, after I put down the fire because the smoke is getting inside, instead of outside, the linger smell in the house, this is it! Amazing in an artistic way.
kirill2000 – :
Another stunning fragrance from BeauFort. At the beginning it had assaulted my nose with gunpowder, which then transformed into a smoke, and then… just salty air with some dry whisky and woody notes… So masculine, so swashbuckling… Like a sailor arriving the long-lost home port on the deck of Nelson’s flagship. No room for sweetness there.
It remains so long on the skin and at the same time is not aggressive – destined just for this very special woman who pillows her head on your arm.
EDIT: After several hours the scent changes into something like clothing exposed to the bonfire plus some bacon notes. Still intriguing.
sasha555 – :
This is a little bit insane, because of all the notes I am getting just smoke – no blood, no booze and no amber – with a tiny tiny whiff of lime, mostly up top but really staying throughout. So this should be a no-brainer: although the smoke is a complex and attractive smoke, it’s not particularly fragrant or incensey and doesn’t need to be paid for at this rate.
And yet. And yet. I keep smelling it. I keep picking up the strip (which I sprayed last night and it’s still there late morning) and sniffing my wrists (where I reapplied this morning). So, it’s just smoke but it’s somehow compelling smoke. There is something really sexy about it. Like a dark, sullen boy who leaves your bed in the middle of the night to walk the abandoned ruins, and you follow him because he’s as much about adventure as about sex. something redolent of wood but also metal, something that rasps in your throat but you grow to like it.
This could be absolutely magnificent if the smoke was toned down and the rest of the notes turned up a bit, but it’s still strangely, strangely compelling.
walerzik – :
Woah! Now this is what I call uncompromising fragrance art. This scent is sharp, evocative and so unique!
It’s inspired by events that took place in the year 1805, for instance Lord Nelsons victory at the battle of Trafalgar, and his death later the same year. Tonnerre is supposed to be the scent of old time shipping, battles at sea and death at sea – and I can definitely smell that. But still, Tonnerre evokes other pictures in my mind as well, and not very pleasant ones. To my nose this is the scent of funeral pyres, Hannibal Lecters garden grill and the slogan of House Targaryen (GoT): Fire and blood!
Tonnerre is an intensely smoky and fiery scent, with sharp blasts of tar and sea salt, and a rather unpleasant blood note that smells like hot iron. Smelling this actually makes me quite unwell. During some phases it almost hits my gag reflex, that’s how unpleasant that smoky blood note is to my nose.
Towards the drydown, about 2-3 hours after I’ve applied it to my skin, the scent calms down and becomes rather cozy. It still smells warm and smoky, but more in a fireplace kind of way. I actually really enjoy the drydown of this fragrance.
Tonnerre is a fascinating creation, I would go so far as to call it a masterpiece, even though I don’t really like it. It is brilliantly made and of high quality, and one of the most original and strong scents I’ve ever smelled. Objectivly I’m a fan, subjectivly I can’t stand it. 😉
Sillage is super strong when you first spray it, but dries down to a medium/strong. Longevity is very nice, I get 8-10 hours out of it.
Definitely a must try if you love truly innovative and unique creations.
dominiuk – :
Just decided to go for a full bottle of this one.
I get sea spray, tar, gun smoke and vivid images of tallships back in the days of pirates and discovery heroes. But most of all it´s a very “outdoorsy” scent, very masculine and navally inspired. The fresh air that bursts upon you on the northern seafront on a stormy day, brisk and invigorating. At the same time it quite sexy; like sniffing the neckline of a bearded, strong helmsman coming in from the stormy seas.
I´m actually very impressed by Beaufort and their unusual approach to perfumery. These scents are not “for the feminine budoir” or just the conventional “nice”, they are somewhat brutal and represent a different set of values. The fragrances appear to be created by men who seem not to have found an appealing philosophy in the already existing perfume market. Beaufort is the answer to this, a different way of thinking of fragrance. I find it very attractive, well done and full of integrity.
This review is written after coming back to the brand one year after I first tried their first three scents. At the time I was intrigued, but not fully convinced. Now however, after learning so much about fragrance over the last year and really finding my way and becoming A LOT more picky, I truly appreciate the high level of perfumery in this brand.
Gentlemen; it´s time to try a different approach to smelling good. This may very well suit you more than you think!
Плойка – :
Eau de pepperoni.
vovochcho – :
Wear this if you want to be a force of nature.
It’s really not that bad. I happened to be testing this during dinner time and it conjures up a homey hearth where food is cooking over charcoal fires.
I can see this on an extremely confident male, a James Bond type. If you’re an Alpha male who is a field agent in a tailored suit, this is perfect for you. You’ll get the girls too.
Glifiassy – :
Extremely strong and smokey. Not wearable in my opinion but it clearly generates an image in your head: a battling ship trapped in a storm with large quantities of (almost) rotten goods obtained from trading and a hint of blood. Gunpowder and barrels of rotten smoked fish, this is how it smells and what I’ve been explained in the store.
cereban – :
Not very wearable but, it definitely paints a picture of a seaside battle scene – perfume art.. I get it.
Maksim – :
Cigarette smoke, hard core camp fire smoke, bunch of highly concentrated cigarette butt water poured over the black burnt logs, a bunch of guns going off and the gun smoke is also mixing in with all this smell, all captured in a bottle with some blood dripped in it, shake it all up…let it sit in the hot sun for a long time…..amplify that by 10 and bam! You got this composition 🙂 enjoy, but please…don’t wear it and expect to get complements!!!! Nostalgic reasons only.
Hedgehog_ – :
I had high hopes for this one. But I make it short. Reviews do not have to be long, always and anytime.
I wouldn’t mind the smoke (that most likely comes solely from birch tar), but paired with an old-school window cleaner note that causes a dissonance that could hardly be any bigger, this is just unbearable. Like cleaning a window with a toxic windowcleaner from the 80’s while a forest burns down in your back.
If you are still asking for pros as the cons don’t put you of:
Lasts long and projects well. Even the window cleaner note (I guess the lime + sea water are responsible) lasts and lasts, though you might think it’s a top note.
What a big pass for me!
Tunar2009 – :
Tried it, had to have it, this is period war with boats and tassles and ridiculous proclamations.
As mentioned, this has been updated, it is now called Tonnerre (Both a commune in France, and a line of French Naval vessels), and comes in a more fitting dark bottle, much like the one seen for the new Lignum Vitae release from the BeauFort house.
The packaging and presentation is very nice, though the sprayer just looks/feels a little cheaper than everything else, albeit it works fine.
The thing that made me love this immediately was the opening, the lime really shoots the sea, and the gunpowder, and the smoke up your nozzer with a flash.
The rest of the drydown, etc, I need to explore at my leisure, but overall, the aftermath smoke lingers, something woody, dark, rounded, and strangely comforting(to me) persists.
I think it’s a bit of a new fave for me.
dimson_001 – :
This is now called Tonnerre.
I recently discovered the Beaufort line and I’m obsessed. British, made by the drummer from Prodigy with evocative stories. And the frags – bold, stark and uncompromising.
Tonnerre is BRASH. Really, kick in the face, brash. It’s an acrid, sharp smoke with an acidic cutting lime. Both corruscating and fresh. Aggresively masculine. It dries down to something more disturbing with its copper (blood) note – think Caron L’Anarchiste without any of it’s dandy sensibilities.
It’s not subtle. It’s not mainstream. It’s not for everyone. But it is for me. I second another reviewer by saying, if you’ve bought it and you hate it, feel free to send me your bottle.
It’s polarizing and dangerous. Don’t blind buy it unless you live life on the edge (and have a bigger ‘fume budget that I do).
But if you want something challenging that makes you want to dress up in quasi regency garb and swan around like Nelson – this is what you’ve been looking for.
Projection is as good as you’d want. Go easy on the trigger, it’s easily one of the strongest I’ve tried. Longevity is fair on me. Again as much as you’d want from something that feels like a donkey’s hind legs in your face.
A word on the rest of the range. Coeur de Noir is actually my least favourite – a persistent Turmeric note which I don’t enjoy. East India (now Vi et Armis) is probably my favourite – boozy, dark, rich, smokey, luxurious.
If you wonder why people think Yatagan is extreme, dip your toe into this range and be transported. If Yatagan is too stark for you, stick to Aqua Di Gio and move on – there’s nothing to see here.
kiska1314 – :
The new name of the fragrance is actually “Tonnerre”.
xenomania – :
W T actual F? Come on, who honestly wears this stuff in public? I’ve just tried this alongside Coeur de Noir, and they are both unwearable. 1805 smells like the burning wreckage of a light aircraft that’s just crashed into a volcano. The only sign of life is the smell of a hip flask leaking brandy before the whole plane goes up in smoke.
SyrfRider – :
Easily the best of the bunch. It opens out to a smokey inky rubber with a bilgey vibe and an assertive citrus core (think the lime in Christopher St). The heart gets the tang of suckled copper penny, (the promised blood?) adding another layer of intrigue. The drydown softens things out and there’s a bit of vanillin smokey sweetness, but it still retains enough weirdness to keep it fun. It feels almost like a tamed HdP Petroleum at times, weird, wearable and ultimately pretty good and engaging.
annicpav – :
Lots of smoke, BBQ-style scorched woods, and something that dithers between molten plastic and soap. As much as I would love to say it’s an adventurous, daring composition (to match the pantomime ad-copy), 1805 is just poorly done. The smoke’s too high (cade and choyas), and the plastic/soapy note is an outright clash. It’s hard to identify much else going on as it’s just a cloud of dry, ashy smoke. My guess is there’s cedar and guaiacol somewhere in there, but for the first 30-minutes or so, good luck spotting anything that resembles an accord. After a while, it mellows into a dusty ash scent, but even then, there are so many better smoky scents out there than this. I could see 1805 potentially working as an environmental effect, but it’s not a wearable perfume.
pirat k s – :
when i first smell it, i tell myself this is a unique smell. i have never smell perfume made in such manner. i was advised by the sales representative to spray lightly, it is powerful. To me it is just amazing concept of fragrance journey. The website try to imagine the smell of water warfare in such a way that it is made elegantly. The first spritz reminds me of dusty old book that is kept in a damp wood place. Then smell of acrid metallic fresh blood like smell is injected in the composition not domineering but rather inside the cocoon of the notes. then comes the smell of ozonic brandy like smell with the amber in full blast, the smell is really sublime in gentleman manner of a typical smell of a drydown of a cologne barbershop based that is sold widely and liked by the reviewers, the difference that i noticed on the dry down is the ambery sweetness is really sublime, composed in manner that is not heady rather wafting along beside comforting you, it is just amazing.
i read the review of complaint in the thread, to me i would gladly accept it free if anyone doesnt like it. i would wear it without hesitation and feel proud wearing it.
the longevity is awesome after 12 hours i can still smell the luxurious ambery sweetness in the room that i sprayed it on me ..on my skin it is still going strong like a drydown of barbershop cologne…so if one doesnt like it, you can always give it to me free….:-)
de_gizard – :
This one smells like ashes of a newly volcano eruption with a a very orange color single mango melted within that harden lava!
after a little while the whole essence turns into a manufacturing vacuumed bag then a bit more time and it will turn again to barbecuing essence as his other fragrance “east india”
unfortunately the calm down turns into something rancid maybe! something fishy on woods! & honestly it is quite disgusting as i can sniff the same smell that i used to smell when my dad takes us me and my sis to that specific corner that held down that tiny fishes that he catches and use them as a decoy, so that corner held fishes, seaweed, and sea water with some cooper because of minerals on rocks! so imagine the smell. im sorry but this is disgusting!
I really wonder! are they trying to make unique fragrances as the word “unique” or trying to make it unique according to a certain liking and path that they believe in? cause honestly i can’t sense anything that is really captivating when it comes to my liking and so can’t sense anything specific from their vision! it’s just chaos in bottles!
JvvC – :
This smells like igniting a permanent marker, throwing it in a ziplock bag and then huffing the fumes as it all melts into a chemical blob of noxious stinking headache. If you want smoke, there are so many better options that are more wearable and just as conceptually interesting. While I absolutely appreciate the spirit of the brand, it feels like they were trying so hard to make something different with 1805 that they didnt factor in wearability or enjoyment. I’ve worn this (conservatively, with a slight dab from my sample to my arm) and every single time I caught a whiff I was repulsed and couldn’t wait to go home and put on literally any other fragrance… Theres an inexplicable, strange, dry quality to this that just sucks the air out of my lungs. Its just a suffocating overpowered nightmare mess of asthma/migraine inducing toxic waste hell.
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there are “challenging” fragrances, and then there are just bad fragrances and I think this is a bad fragrance. 1/10
s_sergo – :
This perfume gets top score for uniqueness and creativity but that does not mean it is a good scent. it is far from this. Horrible smell as a fragrance, smells like some machine oil which my mother used as lubrication for sewing machines. I would never dare to wear it. you can keep the sample in your collection just to say it is very rare kind of fragrance and that is it.
iksodys – :
Intensely smokey and dark! My wife knew immediately when I opened the sample, saying she smelled a bonfire! This is unique stuff, and I’d wear it…never. I can’t think of a single occasion!? Thumb neutral on this one. Worth a look, if not just for educational purposes? Very interesting.
Alex_killer – :
I have to applaud the perfumer for the concept, but unfortunately that’s where it ends. This perfume is unwearable due to a suffocating overdose of smoke. Any wood in here is scorched beyond recognition. Ditto the lime – it’s not recognizable as edible fruit. All I get is burning and booze.
Perhaps the perfumer is cleverly alluding to how, in 1805, life on a ship would have been nasty, brutish, and short. That would certainly be clever. But above all, somebody has to be able to wear perfume, and this is unwearable. Of course, it lasts for ages.