Launched in 1996, Booster is signed by Jean Kerléo, Patou’s perfumer, who was then composing the Lacoste fragrances. The house now presents it as a lively, dynamic aromatic fougère: mint and orange up top, lavender and basil, and a base of cedar and vetiver. Its streamlined bottle bears the crocodile engraved in the glass, under a Lacoste-green cap.
Varanis Ridari, of The Scented Devil, hails a fragrance both typical of Jean Kerléo and surprisingly modern, fresh but strong, woody and dry to a fault, and gives it a thumbs up.
Olfastory’s review
Varanis Ridari, The Scented Devil
In February 2022, Varanis Ridari sees in Booster everything one expects from Jean Kerléo and nothing one knows of him: an old-school sporty freshness, which Lacoste alone was still cultivating in 1996, heightened with menthol and eucalyptus.
He judges it fresh but strong, woody, resolute and dry to a fault, and finds in it an unexpected modernity, due to hedione and white musks, in the wake of CK One and Cerruti’s 1881. He gives it a thumbs up.
He describes it as a cross between Dunhill Edition, CK One and Bowling Green, loaded with menthol and eucalyptus like an after-sun spray, and is surprised that such a singular fragrance still sells.