Boss Alive — Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss

Boss Alive

  • For women
  • Eau de Parfum
  • 2020

With Boss Alive, Hugo Boss composes a sweet without excess gourmand fragrance. It opens on apple and plum, reveals jasmine and ylang-ylang at its heart and rests on a base of cedar, vanilla and tonka bean.

Main accords

Pyramid & evolution

Unofficial sources Data drawn from unofficial sources, not from the house: this pyramid (like the year and gender shown) may contain discrepancies.

  1. Opening First minutes

    Apple · Plum

  2. Heart ~30 min to 2 h

    Jasmine · Ylang-ylang

  3. Base Several hours

    Cedar · Vanilla · Tonka bean

What its composition says

  • 2 materials on top, 2 in the heart, 3 in the base: the three stages are of comparable size.
  • Plum: its rarest material, which only 46 of the 1,980 perfumes analysed in the catalogue contain — about one in 43.
  • Vanilla: conversely, a material of the common core — 35% of the catalogue contains it.
  • Floral, fruity, gourmand and woody: 4 registers of raw materials share its palette, with floral supplying 2 of 7.

Frequencies measured on the Olfact catalogue only.

Scent profile

Estimates derived from the composition — not measured.

Wear time Good
7 to 9 h estimated on skin
Projection Generous
fills a room

Ideal seasons

  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Autumn
  • Winter

Time of day

  • Day
  • Evening

At ease in mild weather, 15 to 22 °C (59 to 72 °F).

Avoid if…

  • sweet, gourmand perfumes are not your cup of tea.

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