Oud for Greatness

What does it smell like? Spicy/sweet/smokey/oudy. Notes are lavender, saffron, nutmeg, oud, patchouli, musk. Yeah, I know, but how does it smell? Let me put it this way: Gucci Guilty Absolute: bold, aggressive, assertive and confident in a very expressive, manly way. Woody, smokey, leathery and masculine smell. Sweat, muscles, defined body, rough, dominant sex. A CEO of a big multibillion dollar company, always well dressed, always in charge, always leaving a trail where people instantly realize that he cannot he questioned. Raw, decisive masculinity in a bottle. Oud For Greatness: you own the company, the office building and the entire block. You never mention it. When you visit the company and the CEO is approaching you to kiss your ass, you shush him without looking at him because you're listening to the janitor who's telling you how her family is doing. Performance A single spray will by many people be perceived as strong and "too much" within the 1-2 first hours. I have bottled it in smaller containers, so that I can dab very small amounts, literally half of a droplet, behind my ears and on my neck. These very small dabs will project and act as a normal strong perfume for 8-10 hours. I dabbed the back of my ears 11 hours ago together with Vaseline and it still smells when I walk around. On clothing, especially winter wool jackets, if sprayed richly, it will project strongly for over a month. The trail will be there for even longer. Price People on this website seem to call every expensive perfume "overpriced" no matter the quality or the performance. Sorry but I don't like this way of reasoning. If a perfume performs well and is well blended, it's not overpriced just because it didn't meet your expectations regarding the smell. Your personal opinion has really nothing to do with determining its value. If you don't like the smell, you shouldn't use Oud For Greatness even if you got paid for doing so, because you will not get rid of the smell for many hours. The price tag on this is high. 250+ EUR. Depending on your income and your personal taste, that may be too much. But it's technically wrong to call it overpriced since it's very well blended with real raw materials. This will perform better than the majority of your current perfumes. This smell cannot, I repeat, cannot be replicated for under 150 EUR. Anyone claiming to have a cheap copy of this with equal smell and equal performance is lying. Unless they bought it from a perfume house that plans to bankrupt themselves. Raw materials are expensive. This perfume may have a price tag that is a little bit over what they usually cost. But smell it! It's insane! If you like it and you can afford it, buy it. It's worth it. It will last for a very long time.

Oh my beloved Oud for Greatness. If I could smell like this everyday, I would do it. However this is reserved for special occasions, fancy dinners or whenever I want to smell like power. You may believe it's an everyday scent but if you do, it loses a lot of its magic. Whenever I have worn this aura, I felt the greatness inside myself. I feel successful and even more attractive. There is magic in the bottle. Price is absurd if not discounted, however let me tell you this: I started with a bottle of oud for glory and never got in love with it, the opening had an amped saffron and a medicinal oud that I never liked, it smells wonderful in the air and after 1-2 hours it wears great but. But this one, oh my god, it feels so luxurious from the moment it's sprayed on. Something ignites at first whiff. I watched some reviews of some youtubers who said that Oud for Greatness was so well blended that it had something special that no clone can replicate. I agree. A year ago I had a date with a foreigner lady and she got close to my body (I was 3-4 hours into the fragrance), inhaling deeply, taking deep mouthfuls of the scent. It has been the most visceral reactions I have seen from a woman reacting to a fragrance. Never did she do it with another one. Whenever I use this I am complimented if in a date and when not, either by placebo or what not, I feel the respect, a difference in treatment and my life just rolling better. This robe is not a safe blind buy, at all. It can be overwhelming, it has a rough edge that I like over Haltane, which is also great but... having this one, it felt redundant, I prefer Oud for Greatness, it's more masculine, more animalic, less compromising and more of a statement. My bottle is 3 years old (2022) and it lasts around 16 hours, I am not kidding, nuclear, 2 sprays is the sweet spot. With recent findings related to previous fragrances I owned (Alexandria RE got so much better in 3 years), I went to check oud for glory again (gifted to my father), it's really good, it lost much of its medicinal smell and make no mistake, it smells fantastic, but... when I wore it, couldn't avoid smelling it sweeter and... something was missing even in the dry down. If I had to buy it again because any reason, I would. Oud for Greatness has a dresscode, I have worn it with dark clothes and leather jacket as well as with a suit, dark colored of course. Works much, much better at night.

One of the nicest oud fragrances out there. Personal: 9.5/10 – I love this sweet, spicy oud blend. It's gorgeous, artistic, and one of the smoothest yet complex oud fragrances on the mass market that's still (relatively) universally appealing. Mass appeal: 8/10 – Loud oud and saffron aren’t universal crowd-pleasers, but this is very wearable compared to a lot of oud fragrances. It isn't for everyone, but it's much better than most oud frags. Performance: 9/10 – Strong projection and excellent longevity. This one fills a room and stays on skin for hours. It'll even stick on clothes for, like, days. Value: 7/10 – Expensive niche pricing, but the DNA is undeniably high quality and beautifully blended. Clones exist, but none even get close to the high quality character of OFG. Uniqueness: 7.5/10 – Distinctive compared to designer offerings, but within the niche space, it doesn’t reinvent oud, though it makes it unbelievably lovable. SCORE: 82/100 Full bottle buy? YES, if price were no object, this is THE oud I'd wear. Blind buy? NO, even though it's beautiful, oud, saffron, and spice are too polarizing. Recommend? YES, worth sampling if you’re interested in approachable oud. Date night? YES, bold, exotic, and attention-grabbing. Not quite seductive, but powerful. Office safe? NO, too loud and too commanding for professional spaces. Pros: Loud and long-lasting, striking saffron-oud combo, very popular for a reason. Cons: Overpriced, not truly unique in the oud niche, somewhat generic/too smooth for oud lovers. Oud for Greatness is often hailed as a beginner oud fragrance, and the only reason I can imagine why is because the oud is softened by saffron, spice and other pleasant notes. It's smoother, and much more pleasant than many other oud fragrances, especially in the niche landscape, and some may feel that makes the price tag harder to justify, but I think the blending, obvious quality, and iconic nature of it makes the price all the more worthwhile. Not everyone will end up loving it, but the vast majority of people will. It's dark, a bit spicy, powerful, and beautiful. You should smell it if you think you hate oud, because this is the fragrance that changed *my* mind. It’s a fragrance designed to impress in a first encounter, and it lives up to that intention. It's glorious. Review #161 in my fragrance journey – this fragrance I own as a decant

Am I the first review here? Noice! Let me just say this fragrance is pure magic. I recently smelled quite a few fragrances at Osswald in NYC, and for me, this was the star. Of course it was sold out. I managed to walk away with only a sample, but it has now become my mission to acquire a full bottle. The opening is nice, but just wait a few minutes and the real magic begins. I have never smelled a smoother oud in my life. It is no way cloying or pungent. It's relaxing and addicting. And the patchouli/musk dry down is what perfume dreams are made of. The drydown is almost similar to my fave Aventus due to the shared patchouli and musk notes. This scent somehow captures everything I love about fragrances in a single bottle. It's fresh. It's semi sweet. It's woody. It’s spicy. It's blended to perfection. The bottle is beautiful. It lasts forever. Over 24 hours for me and I also still smell it strongly on my jacket 3 days later. The projection is not beastly, but it does project arms length for a good part of the day. I can't wait to own this one... QUICK EDIT: If you’re the type who detects and detests a doctor’s office note in BR540, you may not enjoy this fragrance. It does share a similar vibe that I forgot to mention. LESS QUICK EDIT: I am appalled by so many of these negative reviews. Reading all these reminds me immediately of why Fragrantica gets a bad wrap quite often in the fragrance “community”. A lot of amateur noses on here for sure. This is a solid scent and doesn’t deserve the ignorant reviews it’s received. As always, try before you buy and do not trust what you read until you actually do try for yourself.

Oud for Greatness is not only perfumed for its intriguing mystic scent but also to bring "Greatness" to the wearer and every place its trail touches. Oud for Greatness also has a beautiful spiritual porpuse. Every note has been chosen with a meaning. Safron: Historically known as red gold, simbolizes wealth, knowledge, spiritual illumination. In antique rituals it was used to purify the aura and bring success. Nutmeg: Associated with protection, mental clarity, internal power. In antique cultures its spiciness was used to scare negativity away. Lavender: Simbol of inner peace, purification, mental calm. Used in aromatherapy to harmonize the body and mind. Oud: Indian oud that's why some of you think you don't smell any oud. Because there's different kinds of oud. In oriental cultures oud represents conection between the divine and the terrenal. A bridge between the body and the soul. Patchouli: Associated with fertility, transformation and material success. It's considered an amulet of prosperity and greatness in various cultures. The use of this fragrance is a ritual. A mini ritual. From knowledge to protection, find your center, connect the body, the mind and the soul with the divine and materialize your greatness in life.