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poincopay – :
Oh my what a gorgeous composition this is! BTV never fails to disappoint and the note breakdowns are basically useless in my experience owning many of them. This is beautiful but for $800 I can’t justify it. Stylistically it shares a lot in common with Ursa and Ecstasy from Tiziana Terenzi (I own both so that isn’t a guess). If someone gave me a bottle I’d be ecstatic and humbled but for $200 or so…for my money I’ll take the Tiziana’s that are similar and project a little more.
Scent: 8/10 definitely high quality and very well composed.
Projection: 5/10 for the first couple hours.
Longevity: 7/10 it sticks around but gets very soft after a few hours.
Sillage: 4/10 it does leave a train behind you but only for the first hour or so.
Would I buy a full bottle? No.
ko-tamara – :
Dangerously attractive and addicting, Green Sapphire features an agarwood meets cedar-wood duality that formulates an oily woody accord of biblical proportions, unlike anything I’ve ever smelled before, and frankly, quite difficult to put into words.
In the heart, an infusion of raspberry, sharp as a knife raises, showcasing a sour quality and cutting through the somewhat abstract green woody sweetness.
The contrasting elements in this formula are what makes the overall experience so special.
As the scent develops, pine adds a tremendously green depth to the blend, while sandalwood ties everything together in the base injecting creaminess to the blend, preventing the olfactory experience to be overly dry.
Boadicea’s Green Sapphire is a gigantic scent, the duration on the skin is never less than 10 hours and the projection and sillage pack a big punch, but most importantly, the scent experience delivered here is pure bliss.
Olfactory woody paradise.
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Denhard – :
@YYY_Delilah to answer your question “Dehn Al Oud” literally translates to “Oil of the Oud”
Dupvjk – :
There’s some confusion arisen … does Green Sapphire have oud in it? I was in the Manchester branch of Selfridges in the boutique in the basement, which any Manchester perfumista MUST know as ultimate perfume shop within probably a hundred mile radius, telling them about my urges to put my scorn of oud aside, and they said to me “this has only recently come in”, and led me to the BtV counter, and passed me this on a card. The bottle itself had the notes hand-written on a sticker on the bottom, and one of the listed notes was oud. On the BtV website, on the page to this, it says there is ‘Dehnal oud’ in it, whatever ‘Dehnal’ means. Is someone about to tell me “oh, that means an accord that mimics oud”? Because oud is not listed in the notes here.
But I can tell you what I thought of it. I was simply blown away! I have always kept away from perfumes at this sort of pricepoint, but this one overturned my ideas! An image that kept coming to mind as I held the card to my nose was of a pool of crystal-clear water in a cave complex in Ingleborough Yorkshire I remember being shown through one time I went there as a child on a family outing. The water was so clear it made the pool seem about 6″ deep when in fact it was 5′, according to the guides. This may seem a strange image for a perfume to bring to mind, but I think it’s the way it seems to sparkle and tinkle through your nasal passages, like you imagine the water in that pool had sparkled and tinkled through its subterranean passages on its way to that pool. I’ve never known a perfume smell anything quite like this before. And I could smell the oud in there, as before I saw the notes list on this page I had no reason to doubt it. But this time it was a totally different experience to any of my previous samplings of it, either deliberate or accidental. It’s not that it smelt like a different smell, but imagine there’s some piece of music with a loud congested passage in it that you’ve only ever heard before over tinny little loudspeakers … and then one day you hear it over Quad electrostatics, or whatever it is that sound-istas use, and all the instruments become distinguishable, and it now makes sense instead of a cacophony. The transformation was like that! I can’t think of a better way of putting it, but then I don’t think I need to – it will do fine!
The absence of oud in the notes list here has rattled me a bit, as I thought I had gotten a nice bit of coaching in good quality oud, trying this stuff. Maybe I still have, though. I know of one big error in the notes lists on this site if one of the contributors (a certain Mr. Grenouille) and the information supplied by the staff in Selfridges boutique are correct: and that is, the SoOud Jamil notes list.
But I love this fragrance anyway, whether it is guilty or not-guilty. And it’s a dangerous love, I think, with perfumes at this pricepoint!
And can someone tell me what ‘Dehnal Oud’ is?