Description
“An intoxicating scent inspired by the tempestuous affair between the actress Ava Gardner and the famed bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominiguin once said of his lover, “She was the prettiest and the most fierce. I had a fierce wolf in a cage.” The Oud Affair encompasses the push and pull of this passionate love affair, simmering with both tender sweetness and intense mystery. Featuring top notes of Wild Honey and Ginger Butter, a middle note of Tobacco Leaves and base notes of Agar Wood and Black Vanilla Bean.” – a note from the brand.
The Oud Affair by Vilhelm Parfumerie is a Oriental Woody fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. The Oud Affair was launched in 2015. Top notes are honey and ginger; middle note is tobacco leaf; base notes are agarwood (oud) and vanilla. The nose behind this fragrance is Jerome Epinette.
lexuss46 – :
There is something captivating in the opening that I can’t quite place. It’s at once nutty and earthy, it smells a bit like animal fur and a bit metalic. Some of it can be explained as a bit of ginger or honey or vanilla bean, but its so much more than that. Reading about the bullfighter inspiration I’d say it comes through.
Mostly this is a solid tobacco scent, at times powdery and at times sweet, managing to be both dry and wet As it settles I get more honey. I don’t actually get much agarwood (oud).
When it dries down the vanilla and honey act like a warm blanket over the sometimes harsh tobacco. I may be detecting something like amber or sandalwood too.
awax0009 – :
What a smoking, sultry affair. This is a tobacco scent with gravitas. Yes, more tobacco than oud. Tobacco is dark, smoldering and rich, and the honey is dry and dirty.
I find that the tobacco is blended well with the subtle oud which doesn’t present many of its animalic qualities. There is indeed a warm woody depth and a meditative darkness about The Oud Affair — musky, moist pulp, slightly mealy.
The honey is integrated well with vanilla, no syrup, no toothache sweetness, warmed with some ginger-spiced earthiness. I don’t find any sharpness here.
Indeed with similar notes there are commonalities with Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille and Phaedon Tabac Rouge. I find The Oud Affair my favorite blend of the three being a little more straight forward and bearing the same smoldering dark vapor I find in Vilhelm’s Dear Polly.
Two for two. I’m looking forward to experiencing more from this impressive house. Vilhelm is going to make me go broke.
djf159Unlogrere – :
Can’t wait to smell this one! I’ve really enjoyed all of the Vilhelm fragrances so far, and this one shouldn’t be any different.