Green Sapphire
Boadicea the Victorious (2016)

Opens with a soft sweet green melange from raspberry layered over pine. This opening smells like a soft green vetiver that slowly recedes into a hard woods scent that evolves into a soft leather. The base is the pine sandalwood, cedar and Oud with remnants of the soft green opening. A very fresh take on a green outdoors natural scents built around a soft aged oud centered leathery suede. A sophisticated but country green soft leather base that becomes soft and supple over time. This is a well made fragrance with natural smelling ingredients and retains a difficult to achieve balance of green woodland aromas coupled with soft leather. A distant reminder of Memo Irish Leather here but with a cleaner, simpler result.

Green Sapphire opens with a potent saffron note along with raspberry. I love a good raspberry note. I'm not as fond of saffron however and it is pretty all encompassing to my senses in most fragrances it's used in it seems. My wife absolutely hates saffron so this fragrance brought on a big no way from her. I always want to be able to smell the pine note in any fragrance it's used in. I couldn't smell it here, but I definitely get a clean, less dirty Oud in the dry down with some Cedar. A no go for me, especially at the astronomical price as well.