Description
Montale is launching a new fragrance based on oud, named Montale Nepal Aoud which continues a series of new fragrances presented this year, also oud-inspired (Aoud Melody, Aoud Orange). It was announced as an extremely spicy fragrance combined with precious woody notes and warm amber. It will thrill all those who like exchange in ingredients in a composition—from spices, over woody notes and opulent flowers, to sensual musk and soft leather.
The splendor of the composition originates from a mixture of oud from Nepal and a transparent spicy cloud could of saffron and nutmeg from Sumatra. The heart reveals beautiful notes of Bulgarian rose warmed with amber, while the base is creamy, composed of Madagascar vanilla and white musk. Leather nuances provide character to the notes.
Fragrance Montale Nepal Aoud is available as 100ml Eau de Parfum. Its price will be $170, and it can be expected on the market mid-June 2014.
The nose behind this fragrance is Pierre Montale.
Mr.Hant – :
So….. difficult one this…. nice enough scent but certainly no master piece, to my surprise I already had a scent in my collection that smells very similar at least to my nose and that is Al Haramains Excellent.
Never learn my lesson not to blind buy do I???
Not a beast of a performer by any stretch of imagination and not that all Montales are ment to be but yeah a pass for me.
Longevity isnt anything to shout about either.
Very unisex if not female leaning.
Viktorlaiv – :
The annoying man’s fragrance award goes to:
Nepal oud from montale
kirikman – :
“A Majestic Nepalese Aoud in a radiant spicy cloud of Nutmeg and Saffron from Kashmir, laid on a beautiful heart of Bulgarian Rose and intense Amber Notes, leaves a very seductive sillage of precious Leather, sensual White Musk and subtle Vanilla.” says the Montale website. I truly feel Pierre Montale uses real ouds. around oudh a whole microcosmos of dis/information has been established and often the ironic thing is if people say there is synthetic oudh used they forget these synthetic olphactory sensations often are the very characteristics of this chameleontic perfumial note OUDH with its thousand faces. I have now tried several oudh-perfumes of various gradations, nichiste, ‘corporative’, hyperexpensive (Dusitas Oudh Infini, ExIdolos Thirty Three, Histoires des Parfums Pétroleam), trashy cheap and many Montales because I love his renditions with REAL CHOSEN AND VARIOUS OUDS and various ultradeep intrusionist roses and I must say: Montale never disappoints. the predicament oudh often gets is that ‘it is synthetic’ and the rose falls to the verdict of “this is the typical old ladies’ scent” and what bullshit. in my opinion the rose is the flower of flowers and possesses a regality which heaves up all other ingredients intricately used in some particular parfum. it is the same here. “Nepal Aoudh” at first and with its last hushes of nirvana gives off a typical softness maintained throughout the whole duration what with nutmeg, saffron and leather must have been no easy nor cheap feature. yet it is the characteristic which defines for me this beautiful perfume. the rose has a deep quality with majestic longitude lifting all the other notes in its alchymic evolvement. as does this particularistic smelling oudh, strong woody, interestingly synthetic a note in its busy locker of intense smelling aspects defining oudh as a veritable interesting and yes, domineering tone in perfumes. the parfum lifts the spirit, I love the sharp yet ’embedded’ presentation of the spices and I guess it is the amber which lends (alongside with this side of the rose pungency: its winelike roundness plus the vanilla) Nepal Aoud this very soft yet also autocratic presence fitting for the truly rose-oudh afficionado. concerning the used term (everywhere) “old ladies scent”: not is it only pejorative towards sexe, also towards age. it is that simple. implicitly assessing a ‘young studs scent’ would be heaven. for such oldfashioned (truly !) “insights” the time is over for good. and what blessing. modernity has gotten a whole new face. get used to it.
mov76 – :
There’s that intense rose and sharp synthetic Montale Aoud again!!! Jesus!!!
To sum this fragrance up, this is Black Aoud top notes and mid and then a subtle Dark Aoud dry down. It’s as if they combined the two fragrances and made this.
These Montale’s are beasts too and take eons to dry down…..suffering through the synthetic tarry smelling oud and old lady rose is torture for me.
The full dry down is nice and calmer than Black Aoud, and also not as piercing as Dark Aoud, so in that sense it’s better than the two, but it’s still not a fragrance for me.
romPhonnaSymn – :
Here comes the hidden treasure.
It gets straight to the point of being a signature fragrance.
A soft but neverending agarwood and a bit of leather combined with the sweetness of white musk.
I have tried dark aoud but it seemed too dry and uncompromising.
I have tried honey aoud but I’m not into candy stuff.
I have tried aoud musk but, even though appreciating the nice job, found it a bit too much on the musk side.
This is perfectly well balanced.
A compliment getter. Never too much but always there. Not old school as some other oud based scents are (oud palao), while not boringly mainstream (oud wood).
This is what I mean when I say I need a scent which makes me feel fine. Anywhere and anytime.
helgania – :
Got this with a sample of Honey Aoud to compare. They’re both linear and have the same strong oud note, but Nepal Aoud is cleaner and lighter, with the smallest hint of the leather. It’s just as powerful, but not as interesting.
Rossi – :
My first thought was ” all the Montale Ouds are starting to smell alike”. It would make me happy if they called one of their Ouds “Redundant Oud”, kind of like Juliet has a Gun did with Another Oud. Someone once asked me if I smelled paint thinner coming from somewhere and I realized it was a Montale Oud that I was testing. I find them too harsh and caustic to my sinuses(and apparently others sinuses) to be able to like them. I’m kind of thinking they’re sort of the Axe body spray of the Middle Eastern genre.
sergik000 – :
Very strong & sharp smell of saffron & oud. I like it but it’s quite too powerful to be comfortable to wear for me.
This is for the people who are looking for a loud oud fragrance. Well, that applies for most of Montale’s really.
alex092006 – :
This is about my 5th Montale and again i am more than impressed. This when first sprayed and all throughout the day is very very soft but do not be fooled in to thinking that Sillage or Longevity will be effected by that as after all this is a Montale. You might not notice it at first but you will be projecting like crazy.
The amber note gives it a little bit of a rich sweetness, but not too much, this coupled with its oud give it a very masculine feel which is perfectly counterbalanced by its rose note to give it a very feminine feel, all of which combined give leaves this fragrance sitting very much on the middle of the road for gender.
I have noticed this smells almost identical to Scentstory’s 24 Platinum, but 24 platinum has a very noticeable sugar note that you just don’t get from the amber in this scent alone.
irina86 – :
It’s a bomb that just went off, and not one of those little puffs, it’s a nuclear detonation. The shockwave ravishing through the room, overpowers everything in it’s wake, sweeps across the street, the echo bouncing off the walls of surrounding buildings and settles in a fine mist engulfing everything that’s within 30 feet. I may have gone to far, but yeah it really is this good.
kirill1906 – :
Ok so this is my first from this house and of all of the new perfumes I have I like this one the best. The real issue is longevity. I have to really search for it on my skin and it’s only been an hour. Sillage, if there is any, is very small. The scent is so lovely though. Not overly sweet, not totally southwest Asia market, complex without being snooty. The oud is subtle to me but not chemical. It leans toward cedar.
I would only give it a 6/10 despite smelling so good because it just doesn’t project or last.
Jager – :
This is a lovely though somewhat predictable fragrance. I find myself surrounded by a rather soapy amber scent-very pleasing! I adore most Montales and I think this one will be right on up there in my current rotation. I know that Montale gets criticized for putting out so many fragrances that are similar, but I find each one different enough to warrant owning a full bottle. I was concerned that Nepal would smell way too much like White but they really are quite different in that I get a lot more rose in the White and almost none in the Nepal.
I am very happy to have a fb of Nepal. It is definitely a thumbs up for me!
Bastard – :
I like this house a lot and they definitely have their hits, but I have to agree with the whole quantity over quality critic. When I got my sample I instantly imagined the Lucky Scent guys snickering and saying something like “let’s just use Dark Aoud because nobody can tell the difference”. You REALLY have to hunt for subtle differences with this thing and I’m being generous by saying that the dust in Dark Aoud is perhaps replaced here by a slightly vanilla tinged rose, which may be why others are comparing this to White Aoud. By no means is this a bad fragrance (actually quite lovely I must admit), it’s just predictable and redundant. Though by now one really shouldn’t expect more from Montale other than variations on a theme.
Мультик29 – :
I know Montale gets a great deal of criticism for producing a lot of frangrances that have similar scents. I can understand that to some extent. But on the other hand, no one is saying you have to buy them all. Sample and buy the ones that truly reach out and grab you.
I own Nepal Aoud and White Aoud, and while they both have a note or two in common they are also fundamentally different enough that it wasn’t hard for me to justify buying them both.
With Nepal Aoud I get lots of Amber and Oud, and the saffron helps take some of the rough edges off and to smooth it out very nicely. A bit further back is leather, which becomes more prominent during the dry down.
One of the many things I really love about Montale fragrances is for the most part they have beastly longevity and projection. Nothing annoys me more than trying out an expensive fragrance with a mesmerizing scent only to find it is completely gone in three or four hours. I own five Montale fragrances and all of them are two or three sprays and I am good to go until I wash it off.
nepereplati.ru – :
Fresh off the Montale conveyer belt comes Nepal Oud — a scent that smells like at least 15 of Montale’s other “ouds,” only with more cedar. The usual black agar / rose / saffron are present, but it feels more boxed-in than some of the others. Like, literally—a stock Montale in a cedar chest. Perfectly pleasant, a bit cheap-smelling, but nothing frightening. An Orientalist’s dream, but like most of the scents from this line, once you’ve smelled one, you’ve smelled them all. Standard-fare Montale oud-pie but with a bit more wood.
vlasikdj – :
For the headstart Nepal Aoud is great for what I get out of a sample. I’ll definitely get a bottle of this juice. Someone wondered if it was similar to the other Montale fragrances. Well to my nose they are all different, I also have a bottle of Red Aoud and Black Aoud. They are all similar with an oud base but very distinctive in their composition and aromas. Great masterpieces
GerSeiple – :
I have a sample and I like it but it smells similar to Montale’s White Aoud. I’m new to Montale’s fragrances and I really love White Aoud. Its the only bottle I have right now but I’m considering buying other Aoud fragrances from this house but before I do so I wonder if someone experienced with this line can tell me if all of his Aoud fragrances smell similar? I’d just as soon stick with the lone bottle of White Aoud rather than buying the same scent with a different color bottle and different name.
max2581 – :
Like any other Montale perfume .Please don’t get me wrong ,It’s not bad .
But they all smells the same after an hour .
leshy – :
This is a louder, less sophisticated copy of MFK’s Oud Silk Mood. What’s different is that this one has somewhat of a musky, soapy dry-down instead of OSM’s grassy, herbal chamomile and papyrus. Nice, but I prefer the MFK.
MORE – :
Harsh burning opening of strong ambery powder. Nepal Aoud is quite something, the combination of saffron then a delicate but steadily developing rose is classic and gets nicer throughout….I don’t know what they do with the roses in bulgaria but it smells good. I can detect a creamy base but it’s not typical vanilla and the oud is present with an ambery nature but not by any means strong especially for Montale.
Don’t be fooled by that description though it has the legendary Montale projection and longevity.
As with many Montale’s it gets better and better as it dries down.
Not a fragrance for me then, I don’t know what I expected by the name ‘Nepal’ but it had me quite excited, I have to say I’m not that impressed.
Nepal Aoud is a bit uninspiring but undeniably high quality.