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wu-boy – :
A slightly interesting but completely redundant Floriental Oud creation, this perfume did not impress me as much as the hype surrounding it did. The perfume shares many similarities with Gao in the Xerjoff Oud Stars line but is a softer version of it. The perfume opens with notes of saffron, rose, geranium and cypress resin. It moves to a heart of orris, gurjun balsam, guaiac, vanilla, and cedar. It settles on a dense powdery base of Laotian Oud, amber, sandalwood, patchouli and musk. The perfume is well blended and unisex, with moderate projection and sillage and very good longevity. Overall, it is not very different from several offerings in the market to warrant this steep price, the most expensive in the Tiziana Terenzi line. However, it does have its certain wow factor because of high quality of ingredients used. Enjoy!
LuciferAbai – :
An absolute stunner. Having grown up in Doha, smelling this instantly took me back to the fragrant clouds of stunning fragrance emanating from Arab men in air conditioned malls! This truly captures the essence of the opulent Middle East, at once being slightly animalic, gorgeously rosy, and with a certain something that I can’t quite comprehend, a magical x ingredient that distinguishes this from any other oud rose combo I’ve tried.
It starts of with a slightly medicinal, animalic blast of Oud and saffron. Soon a dark, potent, almost slushy rose envelopes everything. It then settles down into a smoky, ambery, incense rose oud, but, the quality of the oud here is outstanding.
Mind you, this does change its character quite a bit with the weather. I would wear this on cold dry days.
Unlike many others here who have speculated the quality and the source of oud notes here, I can tell you that this is absolutely top notch oud. To my horror I tried on a couple of sprays of montales black aoud on one of the days during the week when I was testing this one, and I almost gagged.
This stuff throws most ouds to shame. Honestly, I would pick this over Roja’s Aoud any day!
Hats off Paolo and Tiziana!
ildar10 – :
@YYY Delilah: “white” is often perfumer’s shorthand for “synthetic”. Many, but not all, synthetics are indeed at least colorless. I would anticipate “white oud” refers simply to one of the oud synthetics in wide use, Givaudan’s or Firmenich’s.
denkmar – :
I realise this is not really a review, but there doesn’t seem to be a big space issue with this one. But I’m wondering now what this white oud is. Not many perfumes contain it, according to the lists here. Is it something significantly different?
And as to thd price – I also would have baulked at one time, but now I do consider it to be possible for some of these real oud perfumes to be worth it, at least in the sense that you will not get a true substitute for less. But I do feel that this attraction is an extremely dangerous one!
. . But Kemi is a new one in my book: I’ll certainly check them out if I get the chance.
@drouhin
Thank you for your answer. But I am appalled at the idea!! Would a manufacturer really do that, considering everything you hear about the increasing rarity of oud and how gorgeous and nuanced a smell the good stuff has: put out a £600 bottle of perfume with real oud in … and then put synthetic on top!!?
The thumbnail image for white oud on this page does seem to suggest though that it might be some natural variant: a picture of a cross-section of an infected trunk or branch, but looking kind of … pale.
DieprireTam – :
Dubhe, on the paper the usual Oud-Saffron-Rose combo and this might lead to ” OMG another one, we are bombarded with these Oud-Floriental stuff”…
I know little of TT line and fragrances, I have met Paolo and Tiziana at Esxence, exchanged a brief conversation with Tiziana who introduced me on their Harrod’s Oud exclusive which I highly appreciated.
Beefore leaving the stand she just suggested i’d try Dubhe as well (as if she understood I was prepared to taste it, maybe because she did notice I am keen on Oud in general)….
Well: NOT the usual combo around. Oud in here comes from the family private collection, belonged to their Grandfather. No synth here, no screamy skanky stuff (even if just sprayed you do smell a bit of barn environment)…but after that, a perfect balance of main ingredients, one not overruling the Others and this brings you to the conclusion that, in spite of its expensive price, Dubhe is not only Worth a try, but a purchase, because this is art, this is passion, true passion
AlexRaven – :
This is their most oudy fragrance, but whom are they trying to compete with this price? (Go check out Kemi)