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tural_005 – :
Initial I got a dirty oud likes a oud forest after heavy raining. Dirt, Raw and Animalic. then the dry-down turn into greenish oud (Oud+Animalic+Galbanum) very strong and outstanding but it’s just not my cup of tea. Try first before get it !
valiev9933 – :
Second review : I have been using this more and more. Very good incense scent. It reminded me of Roja Amber aoud without the rose and sweetness for a minute. Long lasting. Oud is very well blended with incense.
diamlee – :
9:00 – Opens with incense and herbs. Very fresh fields. A peppery woods smell comes in quickly with a deftly done floral that doesn’t jump out separately.
There’s an impression of honey-water in this, for me. I wish I had a better way to describe it. Botrytis by Ginestet has the same quality in its opening and they both literally make my mouth water. For Incense Oud, it doesn’t actually smell like honey, though. I really, really love this effect.
9:40 – The patchouli has started to assert itself more, but there’s a smell, kinda like unburned lavender incense, that is balancing out the earthiness and keeping things from getting too hippie. Very unisex.
My coworker could smell this from across the room, and approved.
3:20 – Drydown is cypriol oil I’m guessing (smells like a tree, not oud) with random whiffs of incense. Good but I can see it being headache inducing for some if they aren’t cautious with the number of sprays. Actually, this might be the artemisia. I need to get nose training.
Will probably end up with a full bottle of this.
durmanchik – :
همچنان در نام گذاری همخوانی نمیبینم
میتواند طرفداران عود و اینسنس را نا امید کند
اماامضای بیس نوت نیکلای را دارد و تا اندازه زیادی شبیه پچولی اینسنس است
با کیفیت خاص نیکلایی و دوام بسیار بالا
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Scent & Qualiy: 9/10
Longevity:10/10
Sillage: 9/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 8/10
Affordability: 4/10
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Overall: 8/10
Friertbix – :
Nicolai’s Incense Oud is probably the freshest take on Incense or Oud notes I have sniffed in ages. I was expecting the usual bog standard cliched smoky incense and oud like all the others and right from the first sniff, this was a beast of a different genus.
Top notes are a really clear, fresh blend of artemisia and ambrette. Right off the bat you know you are smelling the work of a Master Perfumer. The heart is a blend of Oud, Cambodian as per the notes on the sample card, sharp spicy notes of nagarmotha and coriander and some woody cedar. This is joined by the incense in the base. There is an underlying bitter, slightly animalic muskiness that is probably the castoreum and musk but you would not find it unless you went looking for it. It does give the composition the required depth that you would expect in an Oud Fragrance. In the end, all the notes just fit perfectly together in complete harmony.
Projection is really good, easily 6 feet in the first hour before settling to arms length, People are going to smell you, no mistake. Longevity likewise is excellent, regularly in the 12-15 hours plus range. So performance wise fantastic.
In conclusion I would say if you are a fan of Incense or Oud notes, do yourself a favor and check it out. I am a huge fan of incense frags in general and have stuff like Timbuktu, Sahara Noir, Cardinal, Avignon, Interlude, et al and this has pretty much vaulted itself into my top 3 atleast. That should be enough said. 9/10
arlekinderik – :
SOTD : Nicolai Incense Oud.!!
The most potent incense fragrance I have ever come across..
Worn it in the morning around 11:30am and its still projecting like a beast… Must have for winters
Longevity : 10/10
Projection: : 10/10
Smell : : 7/10 ( May not appeal to people who dont like Incense)
Doznanie – :
This is excellent. Incense remains in the forefront and other ingredients support the incense. The aroma of a heated Agarwood chip with other delicate fragrance
(bakhoor as they say in the Gulf) is captured beautifully. It’s neither overly sweet nor oudy. But I don’t get Castoreum. And better so. Probably Castoreum is so well blended. Patricia My hat off to you for this fragrance.
zaharsiti – :
Structure of this has a Nicolai Signature common to all that I have nosed. A centre of gravity low within the Heart Notes. Light touch of Oud is surrounded by a thin blanket of Patch and Cedary woodiness.
With this scent Ambrette is used similar to Chanel’s No. 18. It draws my mind to the distance with a whisper of Rose vague.
The Base feels light. The weight of Amber and Styrax is like one stroke of a Watercolour. The Omani is a sliver of light singular. I fail to identify the Castoreum.
All in all a very pleasant scent fitting for the time.
Hope to nose Oud Sublime Extrait sometime in the future.
exovagala – :
Incense on a balsamic side with something oily note! and i think it’s “Cypriol Oil” although i don’t know how does Cypriol Oil smell but i believe this is the thing that gives it the oily texture.
It does smell like “Oud Sublime”.
Edit (22nd May 2017) what makes this fragrance awkward is the type of incense they are using in here! they’re not using the church incense, they are using the grilling note that supposed to be incense! Quite similar to “Interlude Man” by Amouage. it’s kind of disturbing.
virusss – :
Thank you both very much for posting this information.
I own the less affordable version and nearly bought the “cheap” one.
Maybe one day I’ll buy a sample of Incense Oud and try if my untrained nose will detect a difference. My purse certainly has done so already.
osmanov – :
They didn’t, and it does smell very similar because even the “PR specialist…explained that the new product was conceived as a more affordable version of Oud Sublime.”
*Quote from a Fragrantica article / Juliett Ptoyan’s review (even though she disagrees with such view)
ReinisOzols – :
Unless luckyscent sent the wrong sample, this smells identical to Oud Sublime.