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.

Value for money,lasts 7 hours + on your clothes and 5houra on skin,projects heavy for 2 hours then ontimate there on,for 30 bucks grab this banger,better than badee al oud,trust me

Woody and oudy (I guess it doesn't match European taste) Good longevity and sillage Great value for money 9/10 Underrated for sure. My favorite of odyssey line.

sweet spot between oud for glory and supremacy in oud. its really really good. Supremacy slightly louder andd also awesome....lol...theyre all awesome.

Received 3 compliments with this one yesterday. A guy at a bar followed me into the bathroom to ask what fragrance I was wearing lol.

This is a clone of Oud for Greatness :)

First time trying an Arabian oud perfume and it doesn't compare to anything I've ever worn before. It's all about the sweetness and depth of such a distinctive type of wood! It smells NUCLEAR, a spray or two will suffice for an entire day. Go easy on this. Some people might find Armaf's Odyssey Oud overwhelming and not exactly pleasing. It ain't versatile either: just for Fall and Winter, I guess. And very formal occasions like a wedding/funeral, a special ceremony or an important social event. It reminds me of a church/mosque, something religious where there's heavy incense in the air... Absolutely masculine and mature. Need the right personality and attitude to pull this off.

He sits beneath the metallic moonlight, cigarette lit, the smoke curling around his sinewy neck. He's thinking of that rubenesque girl with the crimson dress and breasts that whispered through the mist, wearing with it a blanket of ambroxan. The odor, a symphony of warmth and patchouli and amber oud. Etched in his memory, the musky, powdery, saffron sweat emanating from her cupid's bow. Not by magic, but deliberately he smears the woody nutmeg flame of her scent onto his skin again with another spritz of Odyssey Aoud.

Second review: I suppose I should stop wearing this perfume to family gatherings. I'm on my fourth bottle because whenever my close relatives catch a whiff, they immediately compliment me. The closer ones even ask me to give them my bottle, which I do Lol. This fragrance is a hit, especially with Arabs and Middle Eastern people who love Oud-based scents. My latest bottle lasts longer and has better projection now than when I first bought it a few months ago, so I believe its performance improves with aging.

This one is better than Oud for Glory, hands down. For Greatness still takes the cake when it comes to longevity and silage (400 vs 30 bucks, duh!) If you're looking for a masculine, woody, spicy, oud-y fragrance with a middle eastern twist, this one can be blind bought with ease. Damn I still remember the time when I used to collect expensive designers thinking they emanate luxury and big-dickery. But along came the mid-eastern dupes, turning the fragrance world upside down.

I just got a 04/2023 batch and it definitely needs to macerate because performance wise its a close skin scent after an hour. i think at least 3 months. will update this in august and let you know if it changed because right now for an ambroxan fragrance it does not feel like an ambroxan fragrance... the scent itself is amazing. its oud but not the type that would destroy your nose and be super heavy. its well balanced and on the drydown it becomes a bit sweet.

Blind buy because I like the packaging, turns out it got me stunned. Beautiful blended of Woody notes with saffron and enhance with musk. The oud come out very smooth, not dominant but consistent. Longevity is not really great with sillage dropping around 3-4 hours on my skin. But for this kind of scent, its worth every penny.

This is a clone of Oud for Greatness no doubt. However it's done to the perfection and I own both plus Lataffa Bade'e Oud for Glory as well. And I'd rank them as follows : 1- Oud for Greatness = 100% 2- Odyssey Aoud = 95% 3- Bade'e Oud for Glory = 65% (synthetic mess). Compare to 1 and 2.

i had this in my collection for a year now. it does not perform as well on me like other people say. if it would last longer than 4 hours it would be great.

EXTREMELY spicy. If you don't enjoy spice stay away. My Turkish roommate said it reminds him of home and smells super nostalgic. I give it 7.5/10

I hadn't smelled any oud for greatness clones before I got this, and I like it. It's just a great woody spicy scent. For people who have smelled OfG or it's many clones, is this different? I noticed that the main accords breakdown is significantly different than the other clones i've seen as this has musk at the top rather than warm spice or oud. I assumed it was because of the ambroxan, which is not present in the others.