# Maai

**Brand:** Bogue · **Perfumer:** Antonio Gardoni · **Year:** 2014
**Rating:** 4.3 / 5 (3 ratings) · **Popularity:** #147

## Notes
**Top:** Aldehyde, Tuberose
**Heart:** Jasmin, Rose
**Base:** Zibet, Moschus, Harze

## About Bogue
Bogue ist eine Nischenparfümmarke, die handwerkliches Können mit einer kühnen, kreativen Vision verbindet. Bogue ist bekannt für seine raffinierten Mischungen und einzigartigen Dufterlebnisse. In jedem sorgfältig hergestellten Flakon stecken zeitlose Eleganz und moderne Kunstfertigkeit, die Emotionen und Raffinesse hervorrufen.

## Top reviews
- ★5/5 — Fall, Winter — "MAAI is the scent of a bygone moment in time, from the golden era of classical French perfumery with its powerful vintage charm. It takes the idea of a traditional Chypre composition, but far dirtier, erotic and outrageously animal. I love it. An intensely sharp and bitter opening of bergamot, with zest and rind at the forefront, paired with a bright aldehydic medley of white florals greet you ini…"
- ★4/5 — "À disgraceful hot mess of a perfume, glorious and wrong in equal measures. Very much in the spirit of any Frankie Bianchis, Sadonaso, Salome, etc. Not the most wearable perfume, and pretty pungent, i.e. one spray too many and you'll induce a headache, but I'm glad to have a few mls Update: I like it less every time I wear it. It's too much and doesn't have the balance and warmth provided by natura…"
- ★4/5 — "Maai is perhaps the best modern take on a classic floral chypre. This thing is an absolute bomb! It explodes out of the bottle with tonnes of aldehydes and a sucker punch of musk...the two complementing but also kind of fighting each other...wow! I'm finding it hard to believe this wasn't created before the restrictions on raw materials, which will be welcomed with open arms by lovers of classical…"

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