Dark Aoud

I picked up a Grey market Oud Wood last summer and really loved it. My only gripe was that it disappeared quite quickly and was a skin scent in a few hours. Granted this could be a counterfeit product with batch codes and all but it seems unlikely ...who knows. The point is that it's very convincing as are all the other TF I picked up. ...but I digress. I got this clone because I liked my weak Tom Ford so much. This being said I can say that although this gets similar in the dry down there's a distinct note missing that I get in TF. It's a patchouli like note? A different wood possibly? I'm not sure but they are different and I miss that important note in this clone. This has a bleachy note and a soapy note. TF has that bleachy note but not the soapy. On the drydown it smells similar to Oud Wood. I may mix them together and get best of both worlds . This smells clean, a little plasticy. woody ...it's ok. It does a good job. It's similar but far from a clone. I can live with that. I will mix my crappy TF and this soso clone and hope for glory....Not disappointed for 22$ CAD

So far it is not what I expected I get this smell similar to smelling a spa or a diffuser I will keep in mind I paid 20 dollars for this and I have not let it macerate properly I’ll come back in the middle of fall to review when I decide to wear again but so far it’s not what it says to be I would say 40% like our wood however I will not give up I love MA and all the middles eastern clone houses because they have come through and delivered perfectly many time so I pray that the solution will be macerating specially since I got Toscano Leather and that is almost identical to TF I love it more because of how cheap and amazing it is.

I shot this on this morning about 6 months after wearing and reviewing it. It has matured into something that shoots on similar to TF I have. It's still not the same but I like it a whole lot more now. It's warmer than my TF. Still has the bleachy note I like but has a slight creaminess to it. Anyway it smells clean and positive to wear this morning. It's Monday after all. It smells well dressed and proper like TF and that's the trick for me. Changed this to a Love vote.

Dark Aoud rename for Woody Oud, change of bottle too. But this 30ml I have is old bottle design and travel size. Already have Woody Oud and a 100ml og and Versace noir. Still a very good Alternative to use with more sprays since it's very inexpensive. You'll like it as long as you like this dna.

This is a great dupe of TFOW. When I first sprayed it I was a little disappointed. But after macerating for a couple months it now smells much closer to TFOW and I really enjoy it. Dark Oud is definitely darker and more leathery than TFOW so the name fits well.

very close to Oud Wood. OW is a kind of chocolady and DA is fresher. olso Tom Ford has a bit more quality but Lataffa stays and project better. side by side you can tell difrence but in the air....same..

Was a blind buy. Initially, I was trying it in summers and couldn’t stand the smell. You have to wait for 4-6 months. The smell changed after six months as someone already pointed it.

Brought this over a month ago and it has been macerating ever since. Smell had greatly inproved and is so close to TF oud wood. will leave it to maceratte for 4 more months.

It's good. Smells like oud wood.

Blind bought this randomly. I've smelled the original numerous times in stores, at the duty free, and in person on other people. Here's what I can tell: - The smell has the Oud Wood vibe after 15 minutes - Dark Aoud / Woody Oud is FAR less pronounced/detailed than Oud Wood. More cloudy, grayish, blurred. 75% accurate. - It is not that intense, quite weak. Personally I find it weaker than Oud Wood. I find it wearable casually, but in my social circles people have smelled 100% the original multiple times, so I would not wear it in any formal event that I care about. Overall for 20$ it's a good vibe frag, can't go wrong with it. But it is just not serious, so I will buy TF as well Upd: TF is soooo weak. And the clone is quite accurate. The Og for me is not worth it 100%

Six months into this bottle and the scent has really matured. One way I determine if I really like a scent is to spray it on a kleenex. I always keep a kleenex in my pocket for blowing time. If I love the smell on a kleenex then I'll most likely love it on my body. This is one scent that makes me want to blow my nose more often! It definitely is a scent that stands out from others. The wood in question is sandalwood, and it is perfectly balanced with a creaminess that lasts for the whole note cycle. Sprayed on skin, it comes off as a little more sweeter than on fabric. Earthy oud, deep, and a bit spicy. It's a wonderful masculine scent that is perfect for autumn and winter. I'll be buying another bottle.

If you've tried Oud Wood before, then the imperfections in the fragrance are completely acceptable, considering this is 10x cheaper. For the price, this fragrance dupes the Oud Wood DNA extremely well. This scent opens up with the same Western non-animalic oud but is more peppery. In the dry down, they both transition into a creamy blend of sandalwood, vetiver, and vanilla with a hint of oud. Dark Aoud just has a more synthetic vanilla note, and the pepper lasts just a tad too long from the opening. The performance is marginally better than Oud Wood, which is a low bar. Overall, this is a very gentlemanly scent if you like the Oud Wood DNA and is a very easy oud.

Amazingly close to Tom Ford's Oud Wood. I have had this scent when it was called Woody Oud and I just bought this new named version called Dark Auod. The old one and new one smell exactly the same. It's an amazing woody scent it almost reminds me of a sweet version of fresh cedar wood at a lumber store or whenever you open a drawer of a pine/cedar desk with a strong wood scent. I'm testing the performance today at work on an 8 hour indoor shift. Update at a later time. Update: So I work indoors in a fairly cold office and this dupe/clone went 5-6hrs for sure. It became a nice soft smooth woody sweet skin scent after those 6hrs. It's a win.

My bottle is maturing rather quickly. I didnt love it at first spray, but it is now improving. I find the vanilla becoming stronger and I'm appreciating the cardemom forward top note. I can definitely smell the oud. The entire scent reminds me of the charcoal bits from a large log that got soaked in a heavy rain after a bonfire in a pit, hense the dark in its name. It has a rich smoothness that now my nose is picking up. I hope others appreciate it.

This is a tough one to wrap my brain around. I want to love it (like I do Oud Wood), but I'm not sure if I do? Doesn't smell like the original (smells similar, though... sweeter, perhaps?), but it costs much less. Doesn't last long on my skin, 2-3 hours tops. Not a strong projector. Decent enough, though. It's a nice bang for the buck. I don't think I'd buy this again? I love Oud Wood, so I would probably splurge for the real thing.

Like creamy blended wood. I really like this but I don't wear it out tbh. I just like spraying it in my room and letting it surround me. I think it smells good the way a clean log cabin would, however, i don't think people around me would want to smell that. If this were a candle I would buy it. In terms of uniqueness and complexity I appreciate it and will keep my bottle as something to smell for myself.

It’s about 80 percent Tom Ford Oud Wood. It’s not any stronger in projection on length of time. It’s not drastically different on the opening but on the drydown this feels a bit more sweet while the original is more woody. For the price it’s totally worth having if you don’t want to pay full price for the original but want something very similar.

This smell reminds me of my well-macerated grandmas house I used to visit as a kid in the 70s. It's got that dark, damp, musky, wet basement, moth-bally, solid-(Brazilian)wood furniture smell to it it with a bit of sweetness in the mix. It's a brand new bottle but it smells aged. It will be interesting to see what it smells like in a few months.

Interesting. I liked TF Oud Wood when I first sniffed it, and this is very close. It smells very cold but nice. It will probably dry down super well on skin. If you want to smell like a presidential suite, or someone walking out of the safe of a bank in a James Bond movie, wear this.

The opening has a cola kind of scent then gets very close to OW for the next 2-3 hours. Hours 4-6 it changes again to a slightly “sour” woods note which isn’t bad but not as good as the opening.