Pure Oud

So werid. I had never smelled oud until a few weeks ago. My first reaction was repulsion and that it smelled like rubbing alcohol and disease! (I worked in nursing homes for years)....then something strange happened.... I couldn't stop smelling it despite being repulsed....then I tired a few different brands of oud (Montale, By Kilian, Mona di Orio, etc.). I then went home and kept smelling the oud. I really hated it. Then a week later, I loved it. I just purchased this Pure Oud By Kilian and can't wait until it arrives because I've used up my samples. Really, this oud thing is inexplicable. The only thing I can say, which is weird and still not really explaining anything, is that it does smell like a barnyard and animals but maybe that's part of the appeal...visiting barns and pet zoos as a child and with my child was always a great experience but I don't want to smell like it but THIS JUICE smells so sexy despite a bit of a barnyard memory....like I said, it's werid! Anyway, if a man wore this I would have a very difficult time taming my libido....in the meantime, I'll wear it and think about Viggo Mortensen.

This was the one. This was the perfume that started it all for me. My love affair with oud. I don't recall where I stumbled across the need to try this particular note but I ordered a sample of this and a few others from lucky scent. The others were forgettable. I think one was Heely oud and one was mona di orio or something like that. Anyway, this was one and I put it on my wrist and I couldn't stop smelling it. I was hooked. Stark, dank, cheap band aids, somehow cold like sticking your nose into an axe wound you have just administered to a tree in the depth of winter. It just smelled like nothing I,d ever smelled before. I have smelled many ouds since. Some better, some not, but this one will always hold a place in my scentual heart. I just got a refill bottle (so much more cost effective) and an Atomizer and have added it to the collection. This one is an addiction. Scent 10/10 Projection 5/10 Fortitude 7/10

The aptly-named By Kilian Pure Oud includes a heavy dose of the eponymous note, balancing slightly medicinal and animalic nuances. It's smooth, specifically due to the animalic side being rather leathery, as opposed to castoreum- or cumin-like. It's a bold oud scent without being even borderline offensive, in my opinion, which is a difficult tightrope to walk with oud-intense fragrances, which tend to be overbearing even when pared down via a blend with rose or gourmand elements. Pure Oud performs excellently, roughly the best of house, save Pearl Oud, which is more exceptional. The retail cost of $395 for 50ml, like many of the oud-named By Kilian offerings, is absurd, but there are usually deals to be found that omit the expensive (albeit lovely) presentation of the coffin and key. This is certainly one I'd consider buying at a much lower price point. 8 out of 10

Pure Oud has to be one of my favourite fragrances from Kilian, although the name is a bit misleading. It obviously doesn’t contain real oud, but if you were expecting that from Kilian then that’s on you for the most part. If you can accept that fact, it smells brilliant. A dry, earthy oud accord is used here, furthered by the dry papery-ness of guaiac wood. To contrast, you’ve got some rugged balsams and a powerful blast of sweet saffron and cypriol which is intensely dark, rich and oily with subtle apple-y nuances. It does come off rather sharp and medicinal, but it smells absolutely fantastic. This definitely isn’t a scent which anyone could enjoy, it’s clearly made for a very specific sort of taste. That oud/cypriol combination is very polarising, but nonetheless is a combination I absolutely love. I would buy this if it wasn’t for the obscene price tag.

I must be very lucky because this lasts every bit of ten hours on me. It is also quite strong and aromatic on me in the way that Santal-33 is. I really don't understand it because according to the other comments I am apparently in the minority. pata1's and Doc Elly's comments were spot on in my opinion. I have several oud based frags and several real oud oils, and if I am in the mood for oud this one is a standard go-to for me. After a fleeting top note of saffron (thankfully), this smells just like oud and Guaiac wood to my nose, with the oud in the driver seat for a couple hours. After that, the Guaiac wood becomes more prominent. I have found that I become easily anosmic to this (like Aventus, etc.) but if I spray it low (hands) and also on the back of my neck, I definitely get wiffs of this for eight to ten hours. I quite like it!

By Kilian's Pure Oud is packaged in a gold emblazoned bottle, but its true color is black. If humans could smell in the salty depths of the ocean, Pure Oud would be the odor of the blue-black ink ejected from the central gland of a languorous giant squid. But we cannot breathe underwater, much less with our heads pressed close to the mother squid by her grasping tentacles. Pure Oud is a scent that you smell with your mouth and tongue instead of breathing it in through your nose. It tastes of skin and rubber and the proximity of hair. This is a loveless, beautiful, sexual ink for a woman to stain her body with. Trace it behind your ear and along the line of your neck. Spill it under your arms and down your legs. Then you can smother us men in your tentacles. Please.

I love this oud! It's cold leather, freshly lauqered wood. Oud can be funky and a bit too animalic for me. This one wears on the more rubbery, medicinal side which I like. That warm, earthiness isn't there for me in this one. Unfortunately, and this is a big negative for such an expensive perfume, it doesn't last long. Both silage and longevity are low. I even went to the Kilian counter and mentioned this to the sales person who responded, "I hear that a lot." He also said the Kilian ouds generally don't seem to last long. This and the fact that someone thought I was wearing Tuscan Leather (there are similarities), which I already own, make this a deal breaker when it comes to making a $395 purchase.

This is a magic little night scent. It's unique. At once woody, spicy, medicinal, leathery and warm. Off putting but also magnetic. It projects moderately. I absolutely adore when someone gets close enough and catches a whiff of Pure Oud By Kilian, they light up with a ravenous look in their eyes. I have had strangers on different occasions get right up in my neck and take a deep breath in. With four sprays it's run time is six sexy hours.

I love Oud and really enjoying Pure Oud by Kilian. Yes, the Oud here is on the synthetic side. This is a pretty linear scent, Smokey, a bit Spicy oudy woody fragrance.

like maison francis kurkdjian cashmere oud but cshmere is more soft & smoother more elegant & feminine really high class & upper scale

Add sugar to Kurkdjian Oud Cashmere Mood and you get this. I slightly prefer the mfk, but good luck finding either these days.

In 2009 By Kilian was still in its infancy. In 2009 he launched his eighth and ninth perfumes, more precisely Back to Black Aphrodisiac and Pure Oud, which generated initial brand recognition in the perfumery market. Bearing in mind that M7 had been a sales flop, By Kilians' Pure Oud was probably the second commercially successful western Oud fragrance after Oud Wood launched in 2007. Currently, I believe that hundreds of western Ouds are launched every year. But that wasn't so in 2009 and there was an early bird market heist to rush the novelty note fragrances to the market. A lot of experimentation was still going on and scents derivate from Middle East unknown fragrances seemed not to be the answer. Tom Ford's Oud Wood has been a shot in the dark (literally) and it is still a success today. Unfortunately, that's not really the case with By Kilians' Pure Oud even if the perfume can still be purchased. Killian partnered the Pure Oud creation with Givaudan, using the "nose" of Calice Becker. Both parts end up creating 41 perfumes together. The perfume stands for a linear dark scent that relies mainly on gloomy balsams and resins to achieve the somber side of agarwood and guaiac wood. It is spiced solely with saffron, it's quite dark and smoky, and the oud note has a slight medical acuity. It doesn't smell sweet or spicy which permitted Kilian to undeservedly name the scent as "pure oud". On top of it, I don't consider there's enough oud in here, or at least, quality oud. Agarwood is a strange ingredient and it works properly only when the whole of the 'alquilaria tree' wood pieces are 100% fungus infected and the distillation process is perfectly achieved. Not doing so may result in a "poor man's oud" lacking some of its features and resulting in behaviours like bad performance, medicinal scent twists, or a skanky smell. As far as Kilian Pure Oud is concerned, I noticed an unexpected only average performance and an oud note with a medicinal facet. My opinion about this fragrant dark oud shadow: It became a collector's item. It pleases the wearer that surely is a dark fragrance lover, and other night vampires (myself included). I would never recommend a blind buy even with an affordable price. I may suggest a somewhat similar scent type but for a small fraction of the price with Maahir Black Edition. People sometimes do strange things and I confess that my flask of By Kilian Pure Oud has been a blind purchase. What a waste! . The music: Simon & Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Pretty much the name gives it all away. Smells like oud and musk, full stop. Though the components of this fragrance are fairly simple, the quality of the ingredients is still noticeable. The oud here is realistic and pungent. It almost smells like a sharpened pencil...sharp, resinous, and woodsy. Some might feel it's medicinal. Later, the smokiness comes in. Mellows down the sharpy spiciness sensation and becomes darker. I wouldn't recommend buying this blind for sure. This isn't for everyday use either. If you are a collector of oud fragrances, however, this could be a relatively wearable one compared to other ones on the market. Personally, I cannot justify buying it considering the price point. It hurts to say it, but I would just buy Khalis Oudi (Pure Oudi) from Lattafa, which smells much cheaper, and add a few drops of saffron attar to it. The similarities in the woodsy oud with a hint of resinous spice could be replicated just by a simple step. Then, wear it every day without cringing at the fact that I spend $400 for 50ml.

What did I get myself into with this scent? This. Stuff. Is. Hardcore. I like challenging frags but this is almost too much. It almost smells carcinogenic and literally unhealthy to wear on skin. Opening is so strong it makes me light headed. Medicinal and acrid burning smell on the opening that instantly cleared my sinuses like a nasal spray. Smoke to the 10th Power. Tons of cypriol and a bang of castoreum and tar. I don't get any sweetness from the saffron, it actually kind of smells like medicinal gasoline. And yet somehow, after saying all that, I kind of like it due to its uniqueness. This type of Oud profile is becoming extinct (discontinued) along with Cashmere Oud, Oud Wood Intense and Tobacco Oud Intense. I'm glad I got to try this before it disappears. Challenging creosote oud. Only for the coldest of cold weather. Only for the adventurous. Scent 6/10 Projection/ Sillage 10/10 Longevity 6/10 P.S. Late dry down smells like I've been fighting a forest fire. A bath of fire and ashes. This is Satan's perfume 😈

By modern day perfume standards, Pure Oud is both incongruous and anachronistic. It's anything but loud, shirks attention and all but throws the notion of conventional fragrance classifications out the window. I doubt it's something one would ever wear for others, so what it comes down to is how you want to feel instead of how you want to smell. Or to put it another way, Pure Oud is about creating a personal aura such that you are aware of, and perhaps even welcome, its presence, but can't articulate why. The oud, saffron and other assorted woods are all very nice here, combined to give an abstractness that appeals to the contrarian in me. To that end, I wouldn't mind having a bottle of Pure Oud in my collection - not to mention an inkling of how well it would work layered with something else. Ultimately though, it's too epehemeral for the asking price and I'm happy enough to make do with the few sample vials in my possession.

Straight out of the sample vial this smells just like - drum roll - oud! It’s resinous and musty and mushroomy and woody, and it smells very much like the oud absolute that I have. At first there was also a little bit of a pine note. If this is synthetic oud it’s more realistic than the Firmenich version or the Givaudan black agar. Soon the saffron appears and the fragrance warms up to be more resinous, but the oud doesn’t disappear. The resinous phase lasts for 4-5 hours before fading away. This is a lovely version of oud, but I have to say that if I were paying the big bucks that Kilian asks for it, I would just go with a few ml of straight oud oil. However, if the magic genie popped out of my lamp and offered me a big bottle of the Kilian stuff, I’d make room for it in my collection and happily wear it often.

the guest below does not know at all what oud is lol pure oud, doesnt not evenm deserve to be called like that, it is so much an arnak, it is a very good blend but there is so little oud in it in quantity that it becomes an abuse to buy this 300 dollars, with this price i can afford very good average oil of oudh 12 ml / 1 tola from Al Qurashi ( famous house of saoudian oud and plus perfumes )that is more powerfull and true than the killian mascarade, i love killian other perfumes but they are fool to buy this this price, maybe it deserves 100/150 dollars and i am really generous with them, but never 300 !!

yes i agree with kankuro, i am moroccan and in my country we use to burn oudh and to use it to perfume bodies, i have to say im very glad not to have bought pure oud by kilian cause i tested it, and despite the good oudh they used to put in , i have to add that they did not put a lot, and it is an euphemism !! its very poor concentrated so it is not surprising at all that it hasnot sillage at all !! good oudh but not a lot, very bit used ! what glad i am not to have spent 300 euros !! ouf

Open a bottle of pure Cambodian oud and a bottle of Indian saffron oil put them next to one another on a table then hover your nose about 4 inches away and you have Pure Oud By kilian...

Bit too medicinal for me. Still glad to have it in the collection. For sale or swap. Message me.