Hugo Reversed

Hugo Boss · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2018

≈ $55 · 125ml · approx. retail

A bright, minimalist citrus-aromatic men's scent layering grapefruit and Calabrian bergamot over rosemary and Haitian vetiver. Released in 2018, it is classified as a woody aromatic fragrance.

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The core · the next few hours

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The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

SpringSummerDailyOffice

Perfumer

Frank Voelkl

German · 3 in collection

Frank Voelkl is a German-born, New York-based senior perfumer at Firmenich (now dsm-firmenich) who trained at ISIPCA in France. He is best known for his long collaboration with Le Labo, most famously composing the cult unisex woody musk Santal 33.

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