D.Oud Al Mutamid

If you are serious about oud and know how real Oud smells this is it ... Opening is very skanky (typical Oud) but after 5 mins turns into masterpiece . Smells similar to Ajmal 1001 oil but this lasts much more than it inspite being a perfume . 9/10 for me . Ordered a bottle should be here anytime soon .

Opening isn't very nice, but then it turns into something hard to describe.. friendly, non-sexy, cosy and intimate... like curling up on the bed with your best friend, wearing grey sweat pants, having a chat whiling away an afternoon whilst its rainy out and there's nothing much to do. Braiding hair and sharing gossip and secrets. You trust the person wearing this, you feel at ease to tell them your thoughts. By itself it isn't really a fragrance, it isn't designed to be worn alone, rather, it adds an interesting swampy, frumpy leathery aspect to other things to make them more interesting. Which it does. Its quite remarkable how it transforms something a bit more full-bodied into a thing of dimension and character. There is no western frame of reference I can share with you - this is from another world. Shame it doesn't seem to last long though.