Odyssey Aoud

Blind bought this some days ago, due to some positive reviews saying it was better than Lattafa's Oud for Glory and oh my God were these reviews right. Last year in early January (2025), I bought Oud for Glory, loved the opening but the drydown was meh, just a sweet non-descript sweet scent. Also it wasn't beast mode on me, it was a 2024 batch so maybe it was that idk. But I was still interested in the Initio's Oud for Greatness DNA. In late January last year, I bought a 3ml PDM Haltane decant, since it was compared to Oud for Greatness, and that provider didn't have that one so went for Haltane. It was such a perfect an beautiful fragrance I left a review in 02/08/25 on this site (you can check it out), and ever since I added it to my favorite fragrances in my profile, full wore 2 ml of the 3 ml decant on my birthday that same month on the 11th, and I have great memories from that day and associate that scent to good times with good friends. Anyways, I saved that 1 ml because I was planning on buying Detour Noir Eco whenever it was available in my country to compare it, but by the time it was available, I didn't have money or ended up spending on other fragrances, because it wasn't always available and forgot about it. So fast forward to yesterday, when I received Odyssey Aoud, immediatelty, from first spray, 10 seconds after the opening, THERE IT WAS, the good memories came back to me: HALTANE. I rushed to my decant box, took it out, sprayed it, and compared them, and they're 90% - 95% the same smell, Haltane has a tinge of a brighter note in the opening. This magical, green forest-ish oud accord, or maybe the saffron, or the nutmeg, idk what it is, but there's a very specific smell in both Haltane and Odyssey Aoud that's just sooo unique and addictive! I'm in love, I'll add it to my favourites here. I sure didn't expect such a great scent for 25 USD. Love love love this.

My son calls this one "the grenade " referring to the shape of the bottle. It smells exactly like the description, and it is Strong. A great scent, very masculine with a splish of feminine to smooth it out. It radiates! 6 feet or more, one spray will do just fine for a whole day, anything else and everyone you walk past will smell like you. It transfers and then sticks to whomever you come in contact with. (I'm serious). So it depends on how you want your perfume to behave, you may like it.This one's a traveling scent 😉.

I’m sorry I keep spamming in this fragrance’s page, but it is so underrated I have to give it some love. I bought a back up bottle, even though my first one is full. I LOVE this fragrance! Way better than Oud for Glory! Hidden gem status for me.

This is beast mode. You will smell like royalty wearing this. Very bold perfume. For me this is in between oud for glory and supremacy in oud. Can’t go wrong with the price. No need to spend the money on oud for greatness!

HEAT 🔥🔥it comes off sweet and woody with a little spice on me. Love it. Great projection too. Lasted for 2 days with good protection on clothes. Very impressed. No burnt rubber at all.