Oud Intense

I don’t know why this is called Oud Intense because it’s not really oud and it it’s not particularly intense. It doesn't even have oud listed in the notes. It’s just plain woody with cedar, pine, and some teak-like aroma chemicals that give it a strange, almost motor oil-like note at first. As it dries down it actually becomes stronger for a while, adding aromatic herbal notes, possibly lavender, to the wood. The fairly unremarkable woody-amber drydown lasts for about 5-6 hours. This is a nice enough fragrance, but it’s my least favorite of the CSP Oud series.

"Intense oudh" makes you think of a very heady oud, so this is a quite misleading name description. This scent is actually the opposite, It's light and airy and I do think that it could be used all of the seasons. A very nice and inoffencive oud blend as it is a good "beginners oud". Classy and elegant:)

Very dry, only note I get is cedar. Masculine for day or night, any season. Not my taste, but it's simple and would be good for layering. On me, the dry down reminds of that feeling I used to get in my nose after swimming for hours in a chlorinated pool when I was a kid.

This is my second from CSP Oud series and I must say I'm not impressed. Ok, I'm not saying that this is not good, but as Doc Elly already said - there is no oud, so what's the point of calling it "oud intense"? About the smell itself - on my skin it appears very masculine, the first and dominant note definitely is pine tree which is not my favorite note, but I like to smell it on other people, after the first intense burst of pine tree lemon appears and mingles for a moment to fade away and leave me with shy, woody/aromatic scent, which for me is rather disappointing.

Got this at a Sephora in the Middle East a few years ago and I'm so sad it's almost gone! It's an intoxicating spicy/woodsy scent that I ALWAYS get complemented on when I wear it.