Mysterious Oud

Opening is quite spicy, I believe this is the elemi resin - but you can also smell the oud, right from the start. When the spiciness settles it becomes creamy, woody and lovely, like a walk in the woods on a sunny day. Sandalwood comes in but it's not overpowering, oud is still the main player. I didn't detect jasmine at all, which to me is great. Keeping close to the skin, good staying power.

The opening almost comes off as a smooth leather with some gentle spice, something almost akin to cinnamon. The dry down is a very soft, woody scent with whispers of lighter notes encircling it. Sadly, this is weak. It does not last long and is completely gone within a couple hours. It's a good fragrance that I'd like to explore in more depth, but it's just gone so quickly.

I've smelled a lot of ouds lately. This one is interesting as it's simultaneously both deeply woody, balsamic and resinous (not sweet and with only a touch of white floral) -- and also surprisingly light and sparkling. Dark, resinous oud scents are often heavy but this one borders on sheer. There are no aldehydes listed, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few in there. This is oud in an upper register - a clean, fresh oud. Marvellous! Mysterious Oud fairly linear, although the opening is spicier (elemi!) and this quietens down after the first five minutes to make way for the resins, wood, and musk. I like this as an office scent. It's sophisticated but also understated, professional. It's also light on projection and intensity. Great for a work environment, but I do prefer a bit more "pow" in my EDPs. Still, I like it.

A very balsamic oud. It's allmost like collecting resins straight from the bark of trees. It's nostalgic to me, as I grew up in a town surrounded by resin-covered pine trees (rest assured, Mysterious Oud smells like resin and bark in general, not pines/christmas tree). It's woody and I'm getting some oud but mostly it's amber and resin. Smells clean, sophisticated and could be worn as a perfectly unisex fragrance. I would prefer this on a man though. Only minus is (since I really like the scent) that it's not a projecting beast and it only lasts a few hours. It has an intimate projection, and since it smells so good, I wouldn't mind this projecting and filling up a room. If my boyfriend wears this, I want to feel as if I'm in a forest being close to him :D

A discreet amber-oud-sandalwood combination. It’s made very smooth and doesn’t change over time. With moderate longevity it stays close to your skin. You can wear it every day for different occasions (work, leisure activities), but it’s probably too weak for special eveng occasions.