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Boadicea the Victorious Warrior & Warrioress ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 23 June 2009 37 Comments

Boadicea the Victorious Warrior & Warriorress

UK niche line Boadicea the Victorious has launched Warrior and Warrioress, two new fragrances exclusive to Selfridges:

Warrior (shown above left) ~ "Transmits the rough-hewn masculinity of the professional pugilist with notes of leather, cedarwood and opoponax". Additional notes include bergamot and spice.

Warrioress (above right) ~ "Boadicea's emboldened identity bottled: a sumptuous and imperious conflation of rose and coriander that is by turns provocative and full-bodied". Additional notes include lemon, patchouli and tonka bean.

(via selfridges, boadiceathevictorious)

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  1. miss kitty v. says:
    23 June 2009 at 11:54 am

    Warrioress? Well, at least there’s a name they know won’t be duplicated by anyone else.

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    • smartylicious says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:21 pm

      Quite a tongue twister too :)

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:26 pm

      I should think.

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    • Karin says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:30 pm

      I had the same thought…there must be a better word!!!

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        23 June 2009 at 12:52 pm

        Before I read what people posted below, I was going to say “Because Xena Warrior Princess was taken.” But it looks like that wasn’t an entirely original thought. :)

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  2. bergere says:
    23 June 2009 at 12:00 pm

    I thought the correct term was “warrior princess” or maybe “amazon”. So much easier in French, “guerrier” for males and “guerriere” (can’t get my keyboard to do the accent grave) for females.
    Leather’s a good note for pugilists, you’d think. Actually sounds intriguing. The Warrioress doesn’t interest me as much with the patchouli.

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:26 pm

      I suppose Warrior Princess is better, but still, it makes me laugh.

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  3. Sunnyfunny says:
    23 June 2009 at 12:05 pm

    Warrior sounds more interesting to me. Anything with leather sounds interesting to me these days, though. : )

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    • Sunnyfunny says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:06 pm

      *not a pugilist.

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      • Robin says:
        23 June 2009 at 12:26 pm

        LOL…I don’t think it’s a requirement.

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  4. london says:
    23 June 2009 at 12:07 pm

    Having spoken to the lovely SA in Selfridges at the weekend, he said that the fragrances were actually the other way around. Warrior is the rose one and Warrioress the leather one because they wanted to make Warrioress the butch one in honour of Boadicea. Whichever the rose one was, it was lovely and I intend to go back and try it again. I wasn’t so keen on the leather one which was a fairly plain leather. Anyway, I will double check the names and confirm. It would be helpful if the names were on the bottles…

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    • london says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:19 pm

      Of course it’s also entirely possible that I just misunderstood…. Anyway, the line in general was far better than I expected and very much worth trying. Some of them were really lovely and unusual, particularly Divine and Intriguing for my taste. But I do find them all very confusing as the names are very hard to remember and the bottles all look the same. To make things even more confusing, they had an oud range with names that are different from the oud ones in Harrods (which I haven’t smelled). I don’t know if they are the same ones with different names or entirely different ones (my email to the website hasn’t been answered). According to my notes they were called Elegant, Emprise, Inquisitive, Intricate, Intriguing, Passionate and Provocative.

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      • Robin says:
        23 June 2009 at 12:27 pm

        There are entirely too many fragrances, but I understand they’re selling like hot cakes so I’m sure they don’t care.

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  5. Tracey Santiago says:
    23 June 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Really wouldn’t mind trying it…..

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 12:28 pm

      The women’s sounds rather nice.

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  6. polly says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:01 pm

    I’m not sure about the fragrances, but I really want the bottles!

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

      They’re pretty but happily for me I don’t adore them.

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  7. Valentine says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:35 pm

    The rose does sound nice (and this not coming from a big rose fan), but I feel bad for the poor overused thesaurus that went into the making of those descriptions. Obviously this is the “imperious conflation” I have been waiting for.

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

      LOL!

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  8. Joe says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:36 pm

    They don’t sound bad. especially the “conflation” of rose & coriander, and the bottles actually look fairly nice, though I’m not into Celt-iana. I don’t plan to be near Selfridges anytime soon though.

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

      Nor I…

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  9. ppr says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:36 pm

    So much for the advancement of nonsexist language…

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    • Joe says:
      23 June 2009 at 1:57 pm

      Are feminine suffixes still actually considered “sexist”? Oh, the poor Romance (and other) languages.

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

      If you’re looking for nonsexist language, best not to read about perfume in general.

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  10. Jill says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I really like the bottles. I can only imagine the problems I’d have spitting out “Warrioress” when someone asks what I’m wearing, though!

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

      So true.

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  11. monkeytoe says:
    23 June 2009 at 1:48 pm

    If Patty Smythe can be The Warrior, why not Boadicea?

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 2:38 pm

      Or anyone, I suppose…

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  12. krokodilgena says:
    23 June 2009 at 4:34 pm

    Are they going to come out with new releases like every week or something?

    I guess they don’t read this blog so they don’t have we feel about Parfumerie Generale.

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 4:52 pm

      These may have been out for awhile, actually…I just read about them on Selfridges site this week.

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      • parfumnut says:
        22 July 2009 at 8:52 am

        They have been out for a while, Harrods carries the full line, but now some of these are available at Luckyscent. :)

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  13. RusticDove says:
    23 June 2009 at 5:36 pm

    These put me in a medieval sort of mood. LOL

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    • Robin says:
      23 June 2009 at 6:32 pm

      As I presume they’re meant to ;-)

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  14. tosaralevy says:
    23 June 2009 at 7:53 pm

    I’m curious about this line ever since I read Mrs. Obama bought a bottle..

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    • Robin says:
      24 June 2009 at 10:26 am

      I admire Michelle Obama, but have no evidence that she has good taste in perfume ;-)

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  15. parfumnut says:
    21 July 2009 at 11:20 pm

    http://luckyscent.com/boadicea/
    copy and paste this link and thanks to sniffapalooza friends you can get a sampler 16 piece set for $40 instead of $60 if you enter the code SNIFFA
    Hope it was ok to post this. That line is expensive and he keeps kicking the perfumes out..WOW

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    • Robin says:
      22 July 2009 at 10:21 am

      Thanks!

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