Oud Luwak

In the opening, you get full-on burning agarwood. It's like a fresh piece of resin-heavy wood had been thrown on a white coal vs. the subtlety of an electric burner. When I initially wore this fragrance, the agarwood smoke was shocking; I was not expecting that experience in a perfume. My nose quickly acclimated to it and now the opening is quite intriguing...very few fragrances in the world offer the unique experience of burning agarwood, especially in western-style perfumes. Here, the smoke accord comes from real sinking grade Sumatran agarwood...something special that even few perfume and Oud nerds get to experience. This incensiness hovers beautifully over and perfectly compliments the other notes throughout the wear, as I will explain more in-depth. For me the Sumatran agarwood smoke is the olfactory equivalent of Rob Halford decked out in spiked leathers, riding through the southeast asian jungle, full-throttle on a Harley. This is bad boy juice lol. In addition to the smoke, I get a smooth, black coffee note emerging from underneath. When the coffee and smoke notes combine note they create a "fragrant steam hovering above a hot cup of coffee" accord. Soon after, The Maroke Oud oil appears independently from the smoke. To me, this is the most powerful representation of Oud Adam has offered in one of his compositions. Specifically, I can perceive the individual notes of the Maroke Noir oil independently from the other components of the fragrance. This initially presents a dark, jungly-spicy resinousness, which turns into a very dry, oudy-spiciness. After a while, the Oud Picante DNA comes out with the sweet spiciness of the nard, nutmeg, (and the most satisfying) carrot seed. The benzoin begins to creep in creating a sugared black coffee grounds and spice accord. Then, the benzoin kicked it into high gear, turning this fragrance into a decadent cafe au lait. The cafe au lait accord was short lived and the composition stayed fairly dry. Towards the end of the wear, all of the components sweeten and a beautiful earthy vetiver emerges and almost dominates with a barely noticeable touch of cedar and Indian oud. Finally, the agarwood smoke changed as well, giving off the familiar tones of an almost exhausted piece of agarwood on a dying coal...sweet berried nuances with touches of ashy carbon from the once bubbling resins. What a treat for the perfume fan that has yet to experience artisan oud, or has never burned agarwood...this will open minds. For the oud nerd this would be a great departure from your daily swipe or the need for fumigating your clothes. This fragrance smells natural, has modest projection, and 14+ longevity. Excellent!

Everyone has weaknesses; mine - dark eyes and dark coffee..... and if you add a hint of oud to either, well you got a near damn perfection!..... OUD LUWAK opens with deep, rich, dark, roasted coffee note; accompanied by layers of spices and almost chocolatey sweetness. Probably my favourite part about the opening is that intoxicating smoky vibe, given the composition by sinking grade Sumatra agarwood chips infusion. The smokiness and the bitter facets of coffee create heady and unapologetically sexy aroma! OUD LUWAK doesn't change the whole lot on my skin throughout the life of fragrance. The initial heady blast of smoke and coffee become quieter and take a backseat in the later stages; giving lead to earthy vetiver, spices and heapings of oud - dry, incense laden Maroke; with cedar and boozy, sweet benzoin trailing closely behind. It is balsamic, smokey and resinous melange of deepest black shot through with tones of chocolatey brown, dark green and bronze; richly spiced and unmistakably masculine! I have never gotten the chance to smell Oud Zen and Oud Picante; but OUD LUWAK truly lives up to its legendary predecessor Russian Oud!

Wow! Boom. It's an amazing oud and coffee extravaganza. The oud bowls you over and then settles down. The coffee now comes into it's own. It's lovely dark coffee but I don't think espresso. There is a teeny touch of the animal about it but it's back behind the footlights and might just be a phantom. I'm not sure if it's the benzoin that brings this lovely creamy and soft quality. I have smelt jatamansi once before and I can just about detect it here. I do pick out the carrot seed note. The overall impression is of a rich, creamy, intense oud/coffee bomb. I'd guess the carrot seed stops the oud and coffee becoming too strong or harsh. A sort of calming influence. Further down the timeline and the coffee is indeed king of this scent. The oud sits behind. Good longevity and reasonable sillage in a cool temperature room.

My favourite from the new range. It has undertones of Oud Zen and Russian Oud except that it has a strong note of coffee and nutmeg which gives it an added darkness and mysteriousness that keeps you intrigued on every application. Russian Adam has shown again that his forté is oud and has used some natural ingredients that have rarely been used in fragrances before such as the luwak/civet coffee bean from the civet cat and the sinking Sumatra oud smoke infusion. My wife really enjoys the smell of this on me and surprisingly, my two daughters aged 3 and 7 really love it. If you like coffee and you like oud, then this one is a must-have. If you don't like dark fragrances, then avoid.

This right here is most likely my current favorite. Leads with a heavy and sharp, almost burnt, coffee aroma. It then opens up into an amazing symphony of warm oud, sweet benzoin that almost has a caramel or cola-like character to it, and rich, dark coffee. This is accompanied by a lovely smokiness, like you've thrown a log of agarwood on an open flame, crackling away deep into the night. It lasts a long time, inviting anyone within arm's reach to your luxurious, comforting and warm aura of fragrance. This is, in my opinion, one of the golden standards for perfumes. Especially oud-based ones.

This fragrance dances around the pure oud oil, with its dark, earthy, medicinal, smoky, masculine, balsamic and boozy overtones. The base is chocolaty and sweet on my skin probably from the benzoin and the vetiver. I do not get any dirty, animalic, funky barnyard nuance on my skin. I am sure that this fragrance will mature beautifully over time, which can be expected, because so many great natural materials have been used here. The fragrance has moderate longevity, sillage and projection on my skin.

I love this fragrance. This is just the most divine coffee and dark wood liquor. The Nutmeg provides the perfect little kick and the Vetiver adds a nutty bite. The whole thing is so unbelievably decadent that you would be excused for thinking it was an actual liquor for sipping rather than a perfume. So rich and dark like a bitter chocolate, yet sweet enough to make you salivate. The ultimate Oud and coffee gourmand experience.

بخات من الجميل و الغني عن التعريف لواك، يجمع بين ثلاثة أصناف من العود و القهوة "Kopi Luwak" وتكاد تكون افضل عطر بنكهة القهوة مر على انفي Sprays of beautiful and well-known luwak, combining three varieties of ouds and “Kopi Luwak” coffee, and it is almost the best coffee scented fragrance over my nose.

I never really get coffee from this, but I don't even care because it smells so natural, so intense, and so delightful. It smells very smoky-woods on my skin, with some definite projection in the beginning. It doesn't really evolve or change, but for some reason I cannot keep away from it.

Strong coffee opening - very photorealistic coffee top note. It then dries down into something with a good mix of oud and coffee. Slightly animalic. Having drank coffee luwak and rearing a luwak, I love the name of the perfume and its combination of the 2 notes. 10/10 for its creation!

I like this one better than Russian Oud. It's like Ambre Loup on steroids. Sharper, darker, more animalic, and longer lasting. I don't like a coffee note but this one works really well here. The note is so sharp, animalic, and acidic as to become something else.

Everybody knows the smoke & coffee steals the show, but the dry-down is another story worth mentioning! In that stage the oud shines almost on its own free of distractions, surprisingly green and smells just like a pure oud incense :o

Excellent, another outstanding creation from Adam. The oud and coffe combo is perfect, unique, and I love it. My first wear but I'm so glad I blind bought it, as I have his other offerings. I totally trust him as a master Perfumer.

Excellent, another outstanding creation from Adam. The oud and coffe combo is perfect, unique, and I love it. My first wear but I'm so glad I blind bought it, as I have his other offerings. I totally trust him as a master Perfumer.

Even as a coffee fragrance, it's definitely world-class—dark, smoky, and slightly musky, far more intoxicating than Intoxicated by Kilian!

حين تستنشق عبق حروف تقرأها، وتأخذ نزهة في عالم الروائح، وتشعر بأن العطّار نصف كيميائي🧪 يجترح المعجزات فعلاً، تأكد حينها أنك أمام الكبير @russianadam الذي أبان على موهبة فذة تعود بك لعصر ما قبل العصور. فليست كل مكونات العطور نباتات 🌱 وأعشاباً 🍃 وزهوراً 💐، بل من بعض الحيوانات 🦌 يصاغ أجود أنواع العبق، وتُصنع منه أجود أنواع العطور الشرقية. من بين اللحم والفرث تخرج أغلى المكونات العطرية لأغلى العطور العربية مثل المسك والعنبر. إن ولع آدم الروسي بهذه النوعية، جعل منه سيد 🧔🏻 هذا الصنف من العطور، بحيث فتحت له أبواب أسواق السند والهند، بعدما جلب من الصين والهند ما صنع منه عطوره بخاصية عربية بامتياز. فعطرنا اليوم هو #oudluwak أحد الإبداعات التي داع صيتها و كانت سببا في شهرة دار @areejledoreperfume، لغرابة العطر و تفرده، مقدمة العطر جميلة، وفي خواتيمه أجمل. تخيل نفسك مدعو لفنجان قهوة ☕ عند قبيلة 👨🏾🎤 تقطن الغابات الأسيوية🏞️، فكان ما يميز قهوتهم أنها من بين الأغلى في العالم، يأكلها حيوانهم الأليف🐈 (قط الزباد)، فينتظرون تبرزه (أكرمكم الكريم)، لتحتسيها بمعيتهم، بعد أن أوقضوا عليها نارا و طبخت في إناء فخاري، فأعطت مذاقا مذخنا إن لم نقل محروقا للمشروب المميز_هذه أجواء العطر التي خيلت لي. افتتاحية العطر، كأنها أهازيج القبيلة، فوضاوية الإيقاع 💥 ... يمكنك أن تشعر بأصوات طبولهم 🥁 التي صنعت بجلود الحيوانات (أستعمل عبارات مجازية، تحملوني قليلا) فالمواد المستعملة طبيعية، تلك القهوة المحمصة و المحمصة.. تعطي طابعا مرا. لكن سرعان ما تتلاشى. يستقر بعدها العطر على طبقة راتنجية عودية بسبب العود الموروكي الداكن ذو الطابع الذخاني، العطر ليس أنيماليك لأن نوعية العود السائدة في العطر هي المروكي رغم أن آدم استخذام عودا هنديا، و الذي يتسم بالشراسة. أرى أن العطر يناسب المراسيم الدينية، لروحانيته.. أتمنى أن أكون قد نثرت أريجا هنا. — دمت قارئا، و دام العطر رفيقك 🌹. _____________________________________________ للمزيد من التقارير المرجو زيارة صفحتي عبر الأنستغرام Luxe_cologne_reviews مودتي ❤️ _____________________________________________

Tarzan invites you for a coffee. Dress-code: Formal... The opening here is laud, quite pungent and a little bit chaotic... you can feel the natural materials used but at the beginning is not really pleasant. It is bitter coffee with some medicinal earthly nuances. Thanks god this mellows down pretty quickly. In the dry down the bitterness of the coffee is turned down, but still not a hint of sweetness, and the earthiness is mixed with some resinous feeling. Here it comes the Oud, in this case, Maroke, dark, earthy, a little bit medicinal and smoky. Not Indian oud to my nose, no animanlic, no barnyard nuances at all. What I can get also is a very nice rooty vetiver, compensated somehow with some spices, that could be the nutmeg. This starts like a bomb, but turn very fast in my case into a great, special, unique, dark and earthy skin scent. But sadly I am not very much into skin scents. I see this more for formal occasions, I do not think this will be well understood or perceived in a casual outfit for day to day situations... it does not smell like a perfume, so people could get confused by this aroma, that in the other hand, and talking just about my experience, will be kind of hard to be noticed by others... In this case, I am quite sure that this perfume will mature beautifully with time. Just let some air into the bottle and wait for the best. This will become more sweet and mellow, rounding this composition and softening some edges. You can expect this with such a great natural materials being used here. Uniqueness: high Scent: 8/10 Performance: average Would I buy it: No (I would like it to be laud for longer. I have it due to a blind buy, many times the only option you have with Areej creations...)

The most popular of the fourth batch of Areej Le Dore offerings is a pretty straightforward Oriental gourmand with high quality natural ingredients. The perfume opens with notes of Oud and coffee that stay throughout its length of the stay. As it begins to settle down, one can detect slight spice gourmand notes such as nutmeg, jatamansi and carrot seeds. Finally upon complete settling, the coffee Oud remains with hints of cedar, vetiver and benzoin. The end product is a scent that is evocative of many of the slightly darker gourmand offerings of the past, most notably those of the Slumberhouse line. Unisex (masculine leaning) with moderate to strong longevity, sillage and projection with a linear development on skin. Nice but unexceptional. Enjoy!

If you enjoy astringent and confronting perfumes, then this is definitely for you! Test before you buy. I really tried to bear it but had to scrub it off after 20 minutes - it was a little petrol-like. Maybe I am not used to this style of oud, but I'm planning to try it out again in the future, as I would like to understand the natural ingredients a bit better. I don't think I could wear this, but I enjoy reading everyone else's experiences. Update: May 2019 - my sample has been sitting in a draw for about 5 months now and I decided to give it another go. I think it's macerated nicely. Although still strong, it's much more pleasant and a bit smoother - much easier to wear now with a lovely rounded dry drown. Nice!

This one, along with Oud Picante, have AMAZING backgrounds, though are unfortunately 'ruined' by the up front note, Oud Luwak being tarnished by the coffee. Not usually a fan of coffee, the smell or the drink, and so for me it doesn't work... Wonderful resiney-basey background, it's just that coffee. If you are a fan of coffee and natural oud scents, this might be for you... ***EDIT*** A few hours in, the coffee note burns off, and a smoke-resin takes the stage. Probs liking this more after a few hours in. Nice.