Urban Oud

Great fragrance, at the beginning I smell resemblance of initios oud for greatness but then I began to take a sweet turn and smells more like thameen carved oud. The smell is on par to the quality with Initio and Thameen. I am most likely going to buy this and wear it along with desert oud. Great fragrance there is nothing off putting about this whatsoever. This is classy perfect for warmer weather in my opinion as it's not cloying in any way. To me it smells fresh and it smells wonderful. Get yourself a sample they're pretty cheap and you won't regret it. Perfect for men. Projection however is very disappointing. It's less than 6 inches of projection and I need something over 100 dollars to project better. Edit: This is the third best in the oud line for me. The first two winners for me is Desert Oud (by far the best), then Royal Saffron, and then this. This is good. I'm trying to work on some skin lotion that can cause this to project more because I think my skin drinks it up a little bit.

Urban Oud connects two perceptions: that of smell and that of memory. The idea behind this fragrance is that of a walking in a big city, with the urban, smoky, irony smells enveloping us , but with the melancholic memory of the aromas of a journey to the East in the mind, with the spices, the sueded, enveloping and warm scents. It turns out dark, enveloping and with pungent touches at the same time, wonderfully structured, so much so that I rate it as one of the most pleasant oriental fragrances I have ever smelled. Wear it on summer evenings, with the warmth of the skin it will be at its best. Excellent sillage and lasting. The wonderful statue of the traveler in Oviedo, Spain.

Warm spicy cardamom with soft woodiness. It's lightly sweet, ever so lightly just to balance the cardamom's woody spiciness. Smells like cardamom-flavored kulfi. Spicy, warm, cardamom-heavy, lightly woody, & slightly sweet. The cardamom is intensive but gorgeous here. It's masculine & intimate. Cuddly & cozy fragrance. This would smell gorgeous on a cold, rainy day. As for the oud, it's not there. I bought the Oud Sample Set form Habibi NY, & none of them as properly oudy. None. By memory, it reminds me of Tom Ford's Noir collection. Nonetheless, I want Urban Oud over those. Shame they only ship to US/CAD. Masculine, cold weather wear. "Love"

Interesting fragrance, got a sample in a trade recently. It has beautiful aromatic top notes, smells very fresh with a strong cardamom opening. the scent is very similar to Lalique White in Black which is kind of like Layton but with cardamom instead of Apple in the opening. I like it, but I, already have WiB. I'm surprised no one else has made that comparison. Smells nothing like Carved Oud to me, it's definitely closer to African Leather, but much more tame and a lot less spicy in the opening, also no leather note detected in this. Really pleasant, but I feel like it may be redundant with many other frags of similar style in my collection.

This honestly smells really nice, but reminds me of frags like Bvlgari Man in Black, stuff like that, a woody, powdery spicy kind of vibe, also a bit like Spicebomb, but if you did it up really pretty and nice. Definitely getting the suede, tiny bit of what I think is oud, saffron, patchouli, and something there that just makes it spicy. Longevity is moderate, not really long enough lasting for my liking, with a nice sillage bubble. Nothing too crazy, I feel like in a lot of ways, I've smelled stuff like this many, many times. I do really like it though.