Viktor & Rolf will launch Spicebomb, a new spicy woody oriental fragrance for men, in early 2012. Spicebomb is styled as the 'new explosive fragrance', and will be fronted by model Sean O'Pry.
The notes include bergamot, pink pepper, cinnamon, vetiver, red pepper and tobacco accord.
Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb will be available in 50 and 90 ml Eau de Toilette and in matching grooming products.
(via press materials, hat tip to Mathieu)
Update: Spicebomb was developed by perfumer Olivier Polge, and additional notes include chili, saffron, leather, grapefruit and elemi. It will launch in the US in March 2012.
(via wwd)
Another update: see a review of Spicebomb.
That’s a gorgeous bottle… tobacco… no, thanks.
Ha! And I’m thinking the opposite: spicy woody oriental with tobacco, YES, stupid hand grenade bottle NO.
HA..two views! I do think this bottle is going to get way more attention than they got for Antidote, which I think sort of fizzled out.
I loved Antidote (including the bottle)… This bottle looks very lame in my opinion though, but I’m almost certain the scent will make up for that.
As I said above, not sure Antidote did well — and certainly nothing on the order of Flowerbomb. This bottle is pretty much guaranteed to get more attention, negative AND positive.
I’m sure it will get more attention and I guess that’s why they made the bottle so ‘loud’…
I hope it’s success will be more like Flowerbomb than Antidote, but I sure hope the quality of the scent will be more like Antidote. But I guess that’s just a personal opinion, since I know a few people who enjoyed and still enjoy Flowerbomb.
Hi Timothy,
I am from South Africa. My favourite perfume is Antidote, but since last year I cannot get hold of it. Can you still find it?
I think the bottle’s great, but I’m skeptical of the scent until I smell it (as good as the notes sound). I found Antidote almost unwearable…
I’m with mals86. Great notes, hideous bottle.
Second that. To the second power. That bottle makes me shudder.
Spicebomb? I wonder what it will actually smell like since Flowerbomb smells like vanillabomb. I do want to sniff this though!
Ha! Flowerbomb smells like peachpiebomb to me.
I’m on the pro-bottle side here: yay, an aromatic hand grenade! And, its got cinnamon…
That bottle is soooo nice! Hope it looks just as good in person! Can’t wait to smell it
Hideous bottle.
Don”t ever put it in your luggage when you fly.
My thoughts precisely. “I know it _looks_ like a grenade, but it just contains…um…alcohol.”
*snort!*
Ha ha!
Just wait till someone tries to get the bottle through customs!
Good lord I’m PSYCHED! Thanks for the info! I dig the bottle! Spicebomb! I can’t wait! : )
There’s a site for it already. It isn’t up yet. “A burst of masculinity”. Now to play the waiting game. Dang it! Ha! : ) http://www.spicebomb.com/
Thanks for the link. I visited the website. My inner adolescent is giggling at “A burst of masculinity”.
You and Me 3, My Friend! The Name makes me all Gooey! LOVING IT! Can Just hear Oprah Saying it in her loud Bellow…. “SPICEBOOOOOMMBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” YEEHAW!
The notes sound like I would like it. But then again, you never know. Don’t love or hate the bottle. It just depends on how well it sits in the hand.
I love spice, would be interested in giving this one a try. I’m just starting to appreciate tobacco in fragrances, I’ll be looking forward to seeing how this develops on skin. And I love the bottle too! Very. Cute.
Yay tobacco!!!! Flowerbomb is gorgeous,can’t wait for this since I am drawn all the more to masculine scents.
This sounds so much more interesting than Flower Bomb. Perhaps it will be feminine-friendly.
Yikes! – on the bottle design….
I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS SHEER BOTTLE-GASM!!!!!!!!! and the name… Pure Love… Since i already Adore Flowerbomb X Pi! Not only Must own… MUST STEAL IF NECESSARY!!!!! Love anything Spicy and Warm and EXPLOSIVE! and just so you know… Antidote still sells at my Local Saks as well as Eau Mega… So… I am not sure if it was a Raging success but to not be discontinued after all this time… kinda sounds like it’s not doing too badly…. My First Buy of 2012 I can be sure will be this Audacious Masterwork! WHOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!
Never liked the bomb idea. I guess they deserve some credit for not doing Oud Bomb next, though.
The cynical side of me predicts this won’t live up to its name – I adore a good spice bomb of scent – but I’m definitely intrigued. Red pepper, cinnamon and tobacco are good signs. Pink pepper is not. (Shouldn’t it be black pepper, given that this is a masculine? Also, is pink pepper some kind of IFRA-instituted requirement for all fragrances since 2010?) The bottle’s a bit Diesel-ish, trying too hard to look “macho”, but I like that they continued the grenade aesthetic from Flowerbomb. I predict this will be a huge hit.
The bottle looks like it tries too hard.
I don’t know anything about the juice but Spicebomb has to be bottle design of the year!
Just don’t carry one around with you during a demonstration or protest march…
looking at the notes, it looks like Spicebomb will be a mixture of D&G the one men and Marc Jacobs Bang. I’d rather have D&G
I’ll stick to Flowerbomb
Cannot understand why the bottle controversy. It’s just a bottle! And at least it matches the name and it’s linked with the feminine flowerbomb. Same thing for the notes, they don’t seem nothing really different from what is being launched. So i guess that it’ll be another case of much ado about nothing, and just because of the bottle. Anyway, it seems good, i hope that the scent use wisely the notes listed and that it really is the spice bomb that the name implies.
I was really lucky to get a sample smell of this tonight at work and can not wait till it comes out. I thought is was very smooth and if I could have gotten a small bottle tonight. This is for sure the men’s Flowerbomb.
I CAN’T WAIT! : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J1VjyRRVWk
Thanks for the link!
Of course! : )
This is out on shelves in David Jones in Australia now. Bottle doesn’t look too bad in real life. I don’t detect any tobacco at all, and it is not as spicy – and certainly not as “explosive” – as the copy might suggest. In fact I found it to be quite sweet, almost gourmand, and to my nose it smells very similar to Gucci’s Pour Homme II, only “sweatier”.
It’s available for pre-order on Nordstrom.com. Why can’t it just be here already?! Ha! And “almost gourmand” is fine with me! : )
I got to try the tester at Nordstrom 2day! SO bummed I couldn’t get me a bottle and they only had the small lab tester so I couldn’t even get a sample. BUMMER! So totally disregard the name because it definitely isn’t the SPICE bomb that the name implies. Which is fine w/ me because I was so scared that it was going to smell like TM A*MEN Taste of Fragrance. THANK goodness it doesn’t because that is some pretty SCARY chili to me. Haha! It reminded me of something and all I could think of was Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille. But it’s 100x lighter, which is a good thing because TV became too sickly strong and syrupy sweet to me. I’m having a terrible time describing it but I could not have enjoyed it more. The smell is long gone from my wrist sadly. The dry down reminded me of something SO much but I couldn’t, and still can’t, put my finger on it. Hopefully it will come to me when I test it again. Robin I SO hope you test it and LOVE it! Haha! : )
Thanks! Will check my Nordstrom to see if it’s there — if I can manage to get to the mall this week.
Good luck! Do let me know what you think! Thanks! : D
It is being frequently compared to Hermes Ambre Narguile’ which is not bad for a mainstream scent…
YES! It totally reminds me of Hermes Ambre Narguile too! Great call! : )
I love this fragrance however i feel weird wearing it because i am a woman. Does anyone know if they have anything similar to spicebomb for women? I love fragrances that have bergamot, Vetiver and are sweet. Any suggestions?
See above…it has been compared to Hermes Ambre Narguile, but that’s a much more expensive scent. And nobody is going to know you’re wearing a men’s scent anyway…I wear quite a few men’s scents myself.