Royal Platinum

Platinum Oud by Charriol - Astonishing! If you are a oud perfume lover I suggest you try this marvelous fragrance. I consider it to be my top oud wearable fragrance. By wearable I mean that you don't need to let it grow on you. Both myself, and all the people that tried it, loved it on the spot. I will explain you why: - Oud is the main note, but it's a fully appeased oud. I do believe it to be made with very high quality ingredients. That's also true for the the other notes ingredients. The oud in this fragrance is warm , woody, balsamic and a bit sweet. - The oud is combined with saffron, incense, rose (taif damascen rose?), leather and amber/benzoin. I listed the notes by my judgement of decreasing strenght. The saffon is bitter sweet, intimate and soft, with an earthy leathery nuance. The incense adds a balsamic, spicy, slightly lemonish note. Both the rose and the leather help the fragrance to build a magnific frame for the enjoyable notes development and by not being overly stong. The rose does not lead you into a "Montale" type of scent; it's soft, sweet and powdery. The leather is a "chamois" (suede) soft leather with sweet hints. Amber and benzoin do add a resinous, cozy and warm vanilla like sweetness that is also promoted by the leather. - The final result is neither an arabic oud nor a western designer oud fragrance. It lies somewhere in the middle but using the best parts of both. It's long lasting, smooth, a bit sweet, and most of all, it's non offensive and tottaly wearable. What a fantastic blending. The performance is very good with 8+ hours longevity, 5+ feet sillage and an above average projection that lasts more than 2,5 hours. Let us see what the math tells us about this intense EDT: Scent opening: 9.5 (my judgement) Scent dry down: 9.5 (my judgement) Longevity: 8.5 (above average for a smoth fragrance) Sillage: 8.0 (same as longevity) Uniqueness: 9.5 (very well designed and blended, a real masterpiece and somewhat different from all other wood scents) Wearability: 8.5 (Winter, Autumn, early Spring - Night and Day) Versatility: 8.0 (a moderated "yes" to socializing, events, restaurants, and office type of situations due to the existing oud scent haters; it's a champion fragrance in what regards clubbing, night out, bar with friends, dates and "close encounters") Quality: 10.0 (my judgement) Presentation: 10.0 (outstanding bottle look, construction and card box protection; very good sprayer; very handy metal and plastic cap ans locking mechanism) Price: 10.0 (100 ml for €26.00 + taxes; impossible to get this type of quality in an oud fragrance for a lesser price) Overall rating for this fragrance: 9.15/10.00 (I really had to resist my will of rating a "10" in more features) I really do recommend it. This is my second Charriol EDT. This fragrance leaped imediatly to my top 20. All the stages are very pleasant. The opening is strong but smooth, with a bitter sweet scent amplified by chili pepper and a nuance of sharp spiciness typical of ginger. The saffron endures to the 2nd phase opening a door to a magnific sweet powdery taif rose (and I am not a fan of the rose note), the strong leather note - but smoth as suede - and the intensively aromatic olibanum incense. The oud note is now present and growing to impose itself as the major player in the up coming bottom notes phase. The heart notes do fade a bit but without never going away, particulary in the case of the franckincense. The powerfull sweet smoth elegant oud dances with the emerging warm, cosy, powdery amber. This stage let«s you perceive a different sweetness (vanilla scented) most certainly due to the use of benzoin together with the amber note. The long dry down does have some hints of rose and leather but the ruler oud combines itself with the frankinsense and vanilla scented amber to please you for more than a couple of hours more. You end up with a pleasant sweet oud skin scent. Again I advise you to try this fragrance ASAP. If you are an oud lover you may as well blind buy it while it's relatively inexpensive. The gorgeous bottle looks will make you happy even before you smell the heavenly fragrance.

This is a copy&paste of my review for Royal Leather because they do smell very similar. The main difference is the rose and insence notes that are not present in Leather ( the rose is a dry and masculine one ) and the oud note which I beleive gives it the feeling of wet and soaked wood in a sort of alchoolic/medicine substance just like the one in Juicy Couture Dirty English, the boozy smell, but in RP it is much stronger. Nevertheless, Royal Platinum does remind Dirty English but here it is fullbody. I find a little dificult trying to explain what I think about Charriol Royal Leather, and Charriol Royal Platinum, for that matter. But one thing I am sure of it is not the Chanel/Hermes/Dior/Yves Saint Laurent/etc... we all are acostumed to. No, there is something that says very clearly that this is something completely different. And I don't mean that it doesn't smell good, but the whole composition is of anther kind, the approach is not the same, and most of us are not prepared for it, perhaps? Is it nich it leans to? The scent itself is quite inspiring and reminds me of strange foreing places when you first arrive and it smells different from where you come from. It does smell exotic and the saffron note is almost food-like as in a Paella,there is some sweetness from fruit notes, iris and sandalwood/amber,and, of course, the Leather: it is like a piece of leather forniture that has been kept well treated for ages and you feel like loose yourself on it, on its softnes, on its luxurious feel. And when you do that you feel good, you feel richness around you, you feel comfortable. If it smells like TF TL... I cannot tell for I don't know the TF scent, but although it strangeness at first it does smell good, and yes, the bottle is like a $$$ goods. But, for an EDP, it seems to be very weak, is that a trait of nich fragrances, as my Musc Nomade by AG? Although I can smell it hours later it nedds more than few sprays to take off so close to the skin it stays. I paid about US$ 70 for it, and in Brazil, where a bottle of Bleu de Chanel costs US$ 210, it was a good buy. I hope more people take the leap and share their thoughts with us.

I'm so happy that Fragrantica finally added this gem to Charriol's database.. I wrote to Fragrantica about 3 months ago to add this and had been waiting since. When I first received a bottle of this, I was surprised how great it actually is, esp coming from the jewelry house of Charriol. Compared to Boucheron, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bvlgari; people would normally overlook this easily. But having smelt a bunch of designer frags in the market, I would say that Royal Platinum is actually on par with some of the niche frags out there. Now, let's get down to the juice... This is very well blended, using very high quality ingredients. The saffron is just crazy. The incense is one of the strongest incences I have ever smelt, and it's not cloying/suffocating even if you oversprayed it. It only gets richer as you do, gets deeper and more intense; in contrast to some frags which become suffocating/cloying as you overspray it. The oud is very rich, smoky; perfectly intertwined with the rest. And the best part of it is, it exudes that peaceful, calming effect that you get from incenses; and at the same time, glamorous. Yes, glamorous, thanks to the saffron. Last but not least, it stays like forever on my skin and clothes. I usually wear this before going to bed, after taking a clean shower. Whether just to watch DVDs or read books, it is always very comforting. It's also suitable for evening events, or just a nice romantic dinner. The record for this? ... 24 sprays at a time. No kidding. Love it! -Mr. Almond-

I receive today my blind bought Royal Platinum Charriol for men. 1st impression - Remarkable fragrance. Probably one of the best wearable oud fragrances I have ever tried. I have more than 20 oud fragrances and probably already tried more than 50. I am going to try to make a full review. In the meantime I can assure you that this is a top designer perfume deserving to outshine many "niche" fragrances in terms of composition, quality, behaviour and presentation. In terms of scent... well it's heavenly.

An excellent fragance to wear on summer or winter time, I just love it, they say it smells a little like Fakhama the spirit oF Dubai, thing is a decent strong fragance, very long lasting, with a great projection, in the opening you get really fasy the saffron and Benzion, that gives you a middle east air, it has a great presentation too, thereñs a lot to say about it, is pure and you should have it in your collection.