Oud Luban Aftelier

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Oud Luban Aftelier

Oud Luban Aftelier

Rated 4.00 out of 5 based on 4 customer ratings
(4 customer reviews)

Oud Luban Aftelier for women and men of Aftelier

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Oud Luban takes its inspiration from Theophile Gautier’s Clarimonde, a story of extremes: austerity and opulence; sin and holiness; carnality and abstinence. Luban, the Urdu word for frankincense, means “the milk” which refers to the color of the finest quality frankincense – the milky tree sap that exudes from the cut bark. Oud, the dark, resinous and infected Aquilaria heartwood, is the most expensive essence in the world. To create the desired oud notes, eight different varieties are blended. Oud Luban was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Mandy Aftel.

4 reviews for Oud Luban Aftelier

  1. :

    3 out of 5

    A beautiful round, dry, smoky, leathery wood. Other (synthetic?) oud is unpleasantly fuzzy and sweet on me (one squirt of Demeter oud and I ran for the soap and water) but the Aftelier version is big and soft and dry and – obvs – expensive.
    To be fair the drydown is a hair’s breadth from smelling like bandaids and bubblegum (the new frag from ELdO, thanks folks I’m here all week) and eventually there is a very slight head shop vibe, but somehow it misses all these marks and/or becomes the ideal version of them.
    The only possible way for me to actually use this would be to rub all of it into my hair and on my clothes. I have teflon skin so natural perfumes are more or less useless for me. 🙁

  2. :

    5 out of 5

    I love oud louban. On me it is the citrus, incense, smoke a bit of leatherand oud. I adore it. I don’t get the scents others mentioned at all.
    All about the personal chemistry I guess.

  3. :

    5 out of 5

    The top notes in Oud Luban are: elemi, orange terpenes, blood orange, and frankincense CO2. The base notes are oud, opopanax, choya ral (a smoky resin extracted from the Himalayan Sal tree), benzoin, and aged patchouli.
    Right off the top of Oud Luban, I get the most unusual combination of sharp orange zest mixed with the inside of a car mechanic shop, i.e. a heavy diesel note. Perhaps this is the result of the choya ral, the note in the breakdown with which I’m least familiar. “Diesel” sounds off-putting, but it has the odd effect of pulling my nose in for more. This could be a result of any several of the notes, including one of the eight (yes, eight) ouds that are included in the blend.
    Since there are so many different kinds of oud here, the scent may have gone off in a myriad number of directions. If I had to guess my untrained nose would guess that a good portion of those eight ouds came from Laos, known for being … especially trying to the olfactory sense, to put it kindly. You may be able to accuse Oud Luban of being a lot of things, but you can’t say that it’s synthetic, and you can’t say it’s not redolent of the best oud – that skanky, animal, leathery, civet-laden oud that sends shivers of admiration down the spines of true perfumistas.
    I’m personally think myself too inexperienced to layer much of anything, but Mandy smartly suggests layering this with an assertive floral to brighten it. That sounds like a fabulous idea, and I know one it would layer with perfectly: Dirty Sinner, No. 07 from Greg Wharton’s Body Conjure collection, a heady jasmine that can stand up to an assertive oud note – or eight of them.
    I’ve spent the last year screaming up and down that I wanted a “real oud,” not this commercialized, watered-down stuff that’s really just sandalwood or cedar anyway. Well, I finally met my match. Mandy Aftel, you have bested me. I found someone to give me a taste of my own medicine, and I can’t handle it. Unfortunately, Oud Luban never quite lets up the petrochemical-like top that it does on my skin. Someone interested in the most unusual, liminal qualities of oud is going to love this. I wanted to say something about how it layered with something else (see above), but I wanted to leave this review to be on Oud Luban in its integrity alone, unmixed with anything else. Let me be said, though, that it does happen to mix very nicely with scents that are markedly more feminine. Now if I only knew more about layering!

  4. :

    3 out of 5

    Smells like nasty sharp birch tar plastic in a lard base. Really horrid on me. Some of her other scents are fabulous, though, so this might be a chemistry issue. Worth a try for those who can wear bitter, dark woody scents.

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