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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Warrioress? Well, at least there’s a name they know won’t be duplicated by anyone else.
Quite a tongue twister too
I should think.
I had the same thought…there must be a better word!!!
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.
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.
I suppose Warrior Princess is better, but still, it makes me laugh.
Warrior sounds more interesting to me. Anything with leather sounds interesting to me these days, though. : )
*not a pugilist.
LOL…I don’t think it’s a requirement.
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…
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.
There are entirely too many fragrances, but I understand they’re selling like hot cakes so I’m sure they don’t care.
Really wouldn’t mind trying it…..
The women’s sounds rather nice.
I’m not sure about the fragrances, but I really want the bottles!
They’re pretty but happily for me I don’t adore them.
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.
LOL!
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.
Nor I…
So much for the advancement of nonsexist language…
Are feminine suffixes still actually considered “sexist”? Oh, the poor Romance (and other) languages.
If you’re looking for nonsexist language, best not to read about perfume in general.
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!
So true.
If Patty Smythe can be The Warrior, why not Boadicea?
Or anyone, I suppose…
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.
These may have been out for awhile, actually…I just read about them on Selfridges site this week.
They have been out for a while, Harrods carries the full line, but now some of these are available at Luckyscent.
These put me in a medieval sort of mood. LOL
As I presume they’re meant to
I’m curious about this line ever since I read Mrs. Obama bought a bottle..
I admire Michelle Obama, but have no evidence that she has good taste in perfume
http://luckyscent.com/boadicea/
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Hope it was ok to post this. That line is expensive and he keeps kicking the perfumes out..WOW
Thanks!