Launched in the summer of 2009, Boss Orange is the first women’s fragrance from Boss Orange, Hugo Boss’s relaxed, bohemian line. Annick Ménardo composed it as an amber woody scent: crisp apple, bergamot, and white peach in the top; orange blossom, plum, and cinnamon in the heart; creamy vanilla, sandalwood, and olive tree wood in the base. Sienna Miller is its face.
Divina, of the blog Fragrance Bouquet, admitted in 2009 that she had been wary of Boss Orange. She faults the opening for a harsh, synthetic green apple, but is won over by a milky base of light vanilla, cinnamon, and buttery sandalwood, somewhere between Burberry and Burberry Brit: a pretty everyday oriental.
Olfastory’s review
A surprise
On September 30, 2009, Divina, of the blog Fragrance Bouquet, noted that Boss fragrances usually go unnoticed among bloggers and that she herself had ignored Boss Orange. A sample that came with a Douglas magazine changed her mind: she really likes it.
An apple too sharp
She first picks up a soft peach and a hint of juicy pear, quickly covered by a dry, tart green apple. This apple strikes her as synthetic and intrusive, to the point of masking everything else; it softens only after about fifteen minutes.
Between two Burberrys
A woody oriental base then brings an easy, comfortable warmth. Divina thinks of Burberry: the dry apple of the original Burberry, the woody, vanilla base of Burberry Brit, only less sweet. Of the announced white flowers, she smells only a vague halo of jasmine.
A milky base
What wins her over is a milky accord that leads to the base: a light vanilla cream, a touch of cinnamon, a soft, buttery sandalwood. Past the harsh start, she finds a pretty everyday oriental, “like a favorite sweater.”