Patchouli Oud

#1256 in my "Tour de Fragrance" This is an absolutely great Laotian oud scent. If they'd tossed in some Palo Santo they'd have me buying a lifetime supply. Acceptable performance. Very manly in a smooth, barbershop shaving cream way. It's a more masculine version of Giardino Benessere's "Titans" collection scent "Teia", though Teia is half the price of this stuff, so you may want to consider it. Teia leans more unisex with lavender and saffron, though I wouldn't call it feminine as some do. I also get the resemblance to DS Durga "Bowmakers", but to me that scent comes off like pancake syrup and shellac in the opening. This scent is not cheap, but you need very little of it. Projects arm's length at first, but is an intimate scent in an hour. Unlike a lot of the more animalic oud scents this is mild in the dry down and thus safe for any environment, including for business wear, but primarily a good scent for date night as for an oud scent it's very approachable. Primarily a cool weather scent I think. It's definitely a bottle buy for me.

For me this is a heavy-fresh fragrance, the Patchouli and Vetiver in this makes it lighter. The Oud along side with the Incense, Elemi, Oakmoss and Guaiac Wood makes it heavier. It starts out with a blast of Patchouli, Oud and Incense. After the opening it starts to become a little more heavy, (its not so heavy that you can't ware it on a cold summer day) and it really just kind of stays there for the rest of the fragrance. This fragrance is Earthy, Woody, Balsamic, Smoky and Ambery. On my skin it lasted around 7-8 Hours with mid to low silage. Really a high quality fragrance that smells natural. Overall this fragrance gets a 8.5/10 from me.

I like this fragrance alot. It smells strong at immediate spray but as stated previously by others it settles quite quickly and is seems mild to the wearer. I agree it is well blended and reminds me of the 70s and some of the more refined patchouli oil fragrances you could buy. I wish it wasnt so expensive. I would like another bottle but just cant do that price.

Love this, it's beautifully composed and the raw materials seem to be of exeptionally high quality. If I could buy it abroad in London and get my tax back maybe I could afford it but I want the Affinessence Musk Ambergis as well. 600 bucks is a lot!

Absolutely gorgeous!!! So rich and enveloping. Strong; divinely strong!!!!! It's incredibly potent and woody and smoky and powerful. I adore it!!!!