Bohoboco
Bohoboco
76 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Lime and neroli snap into focus with almost astringent brightness, whilst coconut swirls beneath like cream stirred into dark coffee, creating an oddly luminous citrus top note that feels simultaneously familiar and subtly off-kilter. The composition immediately signals something unconventional—a resistance to obvious tropical prettiness.
As the citrus gradually recedes, frankincense blooms into prominence, its warm, slightly medicinal resin enveloping an understated gardenia that's surprisingly green and powdery rather than lush. The woody base begins its ascent, and cistus's labdanum sweetness adds a honeyed, slightly dusty dimension that grounds the floral rather than elevating it.
The woods assume total command, with cedarwood and sandalwood creating an almost parchment-like dryness accented by olibanum's persistent, smouldering presence—the fragrance becomes predominantly woody-resinous, intimate and contemplative, clinging close to skin with minimal projection, more incense memory than active scent.
Bohoboco's Olibanum Gardenia occupies that rare middle ground between shrine and garden—a fragrance that refuses to choose between the sacred and the sensual. The opening bristles with neroli's sharp citrus brightness and an unusual coconut note that lends tropical, almost creamy texture rather than gourmand sweetness, while lime provides necessary acidity. But this is merely the disarming prelude to what emerges beneath.
The heart reveals the true character: frankincense and cistus labdanum create a resinous, slightly dusty embrace around a gardenia that's rendered more translucent than heady. Rather than the typical creamy opulence gardenia typically demands, here it's treated with restraint, allowed to emerge as a pale green floral shadow cast by the woody-smoky foundation beneath. Frankincense doesn't read as overtly spiritual but rather as an amber-toned warmth that softens the floral's edges.
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