Boss Spirit (1989)
by Hugo Boss

I used this first back in 1994 when i purchased both 100ML EDT and aftershave for a bargain price. I liked this fragrance a lot but later around a couple of years later moved on to use more sweet (gourmand) fragrances, and was so stupid that threw these 2 half-used bottles of Boss Spirit away! Sometimes around 1995 this was discontinued.

I just re-discovered this sleeping jewel and managed to purchase an EDT bottle on eBay. I feel like heaven and use this nearly daily! It gets me back to the 1994 that was a great and very special year for me as i met my spouse back then.

The smell is dry, crisp, quite linear, dark, heavy and masculine. If i were blond, i wouldn't use this. Somehow i just can't picture this on a blond haired person, this is a dark man's scent. Is easily overdozed, for me 3 sprays are enough: 1 spray to the chest, one to neck, one to the wrist. This is the only BOSS scent i like (unless Baldessarinis are counted). This is quite potent and because of the better-than-average sillage you'l definately be noticed when wearing this one. You surely will get compliments as well.

31st May, 2011.

I obtained a sample tube of this with about one-half of the juice remaining, so I’m not sure that the power I discovered in Boss Spirit is normal or if it came from concentration through evaporation. It’s an interesting fragrance because it is heavy and strong but also displays more than a normal amount of sweetness for fragrances of the eighties. It does remind me of a sweeter, leathery Gucci Nobile, and even the bottle seems to be very much like the Gucci Nobile bottle, although since both fragrances were introduced in 1988, I don’t know if either can claim being first.

My sample is quite linear: It is heavy with wood, green, and leather. As others have said, it’s ridiculously masculine, and it does seem to be in the same ballpark as Macassar. Boss Spirit is more chypre than (Gucci Nobile) green, which means that, as much as I like Gucci Nobile, I like this one better because of its chypre nature, but that is beside the point because it is almost impossible to find.

9th January, 2011. (Last Edited: 24th January, 2011.)

My friend has a little tester. It seemed great and promising when I was smelling it out of the tester, but when I put it on my skin it turned into something very heavy Fahrenheit like (I hate Fahrenheit), but tad sweeter. Although I have to admit that the scent is very unique, it doesn't appeal to me the least bit.

3rd December, 2010.

Simply the BEST! Also it doesn't only appeal to the older generations, I am 16 and I adore this cologne, the smell is so manly and really turns people's heads, the smell is almoast addictive, but it is the King of all the colognes with its supreme class and smell, its my father's yet both of us adore its smell i would love to find another bottle somewhere!

26th January, 2010.

Jon Remy states: The BEST Hugo Boss fragrance to ever come out. Let me assure you that this is in fact the BEST fragrance Hugo Boss has ever put his name on. I mean HOLY SMOKES!!! This ROCKS!!!

Normally, an old, discontinued fragrance is raved about on BN and it cost an arm and a leg. You finally decide to spend the money only to find out it smells like Drakkar Noir. This is NOT the case with Boss Spirit. This stuff is AMAZING!!!

Imagine a sweetened MACASSAR and you get a pretty good idea about this fragrance. I would pick this over Gucci Nobile any day. If you find it, do buy, you will not regret it. Ridiculously masculine as MonkeyManMatt mentioned is right on too.

Enthusiastic thumbs up and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, high prices and all.

26th January, 2010.

Spicy green leather chypre. Shameful this was discontinued. Not at all like the recent Boss offerings because if doesn't smell like a chemical treatment plant.

3rd August, 2008.