HUGO BOSS
THE SCENT FOR HIM PRIVATE ACCORD

2018

PERFUMER
Bruno Jovanovic

Ginger
Bergamot

Maninka fruit
MOCHA Coffee
Pepper
Pineapple

COCOA ABSOLUTE
Woody Notes
Vanilla
Patchouli
Amberwood
Benzoin

Private Accord is a 2018 flanker for Hugo Boss’ The Scent fragrance. I don’t think I’ve ever smelled the original properly, so I can’t compare the two. Supposedly Private Accord adds gourmand touches to the original DNA.

I definitely get the gourmand direction this scent goes into and I really enjoyed it. Actually, The Scent Private Accord is my favorite Boss that I’ve smelled.

The opening is fresh and invigorating. There’s a contrasting chocolate and coffee accord, which I assume is what makes this flanker unique. The opening is pretty strong, spicy and very powdery. After a while I get mainly a mix of ginger and coffee and it leaves me wishing the chocolate was more prominent in the drydown. There’s some sweetness throughout, which I believe stems from the maninka fruit.

Overall, this is much nicer than I expected. My experiences with Hugo Boss fragrances are few and far in between, but this is the first one that I would consider adding to my collection so far. What I like most is that The Scent Private Accord never gets too sweet and surprisingly, it’s not immature or even youthful, but rather classy. I believe this is targeted as a nighttime, casual to semi-formal occasion fragrance, but this wouldn’t be hard to pull off as a daytime or work fragrance either. I haven’t really been able to test performance properly, since the sample came without an atomizer and I feel that the dab took away some of its efficiency.