Aoud Purple Rose

Gorgeous rose, leather, oud and saffron fragrance! It's strong, intensive, but not vulgar at all. It's even strict a little bit. Just an elegant night fragrance. The taif rose note is simply great! Its lasting power and sillage are great. I guess that it's Montale's sign of quality. I really love it! It's the best by Montale, imho.

This is Black Aoud with a “purple” tint from a very pleasant, plummy blackberry note and a beautiful pulpy sandalwood emphasised in the mid before trailing off in the base. Excellent variation. As usual with Montale, don’t judge too quickly, don’t smell too closely and stay away if big, bold fragrances are not your thing.

Fantastic. Opening strong with great presence of leather and oud, and quickly leaves the leather all their grace with saffron and large rose taif. The smell of abrupt changes completely to its pure and steady state opening. Great fragrance, Great Montale. I rank it like this: Smell: 9/10 Projection: 9/10 Longevity: 10/10

Montale perfumes create so much of a joy element in my life. Aoud Purple Rose is beautiful. These rose petals are the best, most zingy, honey spitfires out there while the saffron is relaxing. A classic scent gifting lively harmony to many people in different parts of the World.

Beautiful elegant ladylike rose. Strong. I love it! Leather and really nice oud: gorgeous. Purple rose - yes - wonderful!!

A bit strange at first scent, but the drydown is amazing, lasts for hours on my skin, winter fragrance for sure.

very close to Bond No. 9 New York Oud...love both.

Slightly more aromatic medicinal rose. Multiple layers of leather, strong oud. Timber-y musky saffron. Not that much of a fruit note—almost none. Just the usual good quality leathery oudy rose.

It smells nice. Does smell similar to Bond No. 9 New York Oud, which is one of my favorites. New York Oud is better and lasts a lot longer though on my skin so I would pick that over this.

I love all these notes in my other fragrances, but something in this mixture hurts my nose on first spray. It's lovely when it settles bit I never reach for it over my other rose, oud combos. I have a bottle up for swap ( 80% full).

Another scent "a la Montale" with the synthetic rose. I do get the blackberries at the start, as it feels sweet, sour and fruity. Not sure with what the rose is paired, as from close it smells like a floor cleaner. Into the dry down is when finally the rose distances to the cleaning product and it starts to fell like a "normal" rose and it's paired to a creamy sandalwood, which is nice, but is not enough for me to forget the cheap mess from the first part. 4.5/10

I have a strong affinity for all things rose, but this is a hard pass unfortunately due to the pulpy, wet sandalwood and agarwood that dominates to the point where the rose is suffocated. To my nose, this has a musty, enveloping and powdery (as in dry, milled texture) musk that I cannot overlook and spoils the profile for me. Performance is massive, with tenacity that requires an intentional commitment for the wearer.

Something straaange going on here. The sample from the sample kit smelled fantsastic. I smell the bag and it smells divine I am really excited! I spray it and the opening is a bit off and now it smells like bug spray! What!? took ages to get off. I am going to put it on a shelf and let it settle for a week and hope it recovers. I don't think I got a fake =(

I think a lot of the Montale fragrances are being reformulated. This one was horrible, it smelt like Raid bug spray. I have 5 Montales, but this one was godawful. This dry down to a very harsh synthetic musk.

completely agree with my friend colin maillard. smells like glass cleaner. oud synthetic and pink pleasant. 1/10 re edit:orrible i have headache!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A very dull rosy white musk fragrance. I was not impressed.

Luxury mall's bathroom. Tepid masculine woodsy thing that stays and be somewhat irritable the whole time. Edit: Some people voted Yves Rocher's Rose Oud as a similar. To me RO is much more rosy compared to the non-existent rose in this, and while I found its performance lacking it's still much better than Montale's offering with just 1/4 the price.

"Un Oud très ancien associé au magnifique Ambre d’Orient pour un duo rendu pétillant grâce au Ciste des Indes et à 50 autres composants. Le Aoud féminin par excellence, raffiné et sensuel." (review 2017) this description as within the site of 'Montale" of another perfume as "Aoud Purple Rose" and the dozen I've read just now may serve as a reminder that Montale never was fake, and I've seen him use the terms also of "a note of" meaning that this then, wasn't the ingredient in full force, volume, thickness yet as contribution indispensable. I've never had 'a Montale' dissatisfying. in a Facebook page of Roja Dove fans I saw what is happening. they claim with these ultrahigh prized 'parfum extraits' to be able to have comparative fragrance competitions and enjoy a little 'Montale-bashing'. I posted a contrary comment saying Montale wasn't AT ALL 'trash', on the contrary. a lady said the 'synthetic notes' gave her headache and if I remember correctly sinoidal problems. with me it is the other way round. having REAL chronic sinoidal problems from off 1984 the highly concentrated Montale perfumes blast open my sinuses with full force. and I made a fine collection because if you can still smell the perfume 12, 24++ hours post quem, then there's really good ingredients in it. and as Pierre Montale states, in the flacon (and particularly in the aluminium, an idea copied by the hautain Roja Dove for samples and whatever the fuck he calls these billionaire prized creations), the maceration goes on. as I have and return to Attar, Intense Tiaré, Intense Café, Aoud Purple Rose, Louban, Nepalese Oudh, I can say the Montales always deliver and what I so particularly like about APR was the 'love at first smell' I had and had almost with every Montale to my liking. Octave Coiffan, parfumista who went narcistically too far and became increasingly such amnostic sour criticaster of perfume [cf. Luca Turin, Roja Dove, Serge Lutens], famously stated "I am looking at you Montale" claiming he wasn't always honest in mentioning oud in a perfume where it was just (in his crooked opinion, accumulative delusional opinion) "synthetic". I could have sworn there was oud in Attar one of my absolute favorites. but no it isn't mentioned and there is just this incredible strong rose and double distilled mysore sandalwood. here, with APR it is the chic sillage and neverending waft of oud-rose perfume that haunts us. taifi it smells but none is mentioned. yet I suspect with Pierre Montale [his deliciously over-the-top appearance] it is precisely the opposite. sometimes, within such huge perfumial collection [along with 'Mancera'], notes are omitted rather than exaggerated. I love the hyperexpensive "Oudh Infini" of Dusita so do not veer back from ultra. but Montale, well that is ultra all along the way.

"Un Oud très ancien associé au magnifique Ambre d’Orient pour un duo rendu pétillant grâce au Ciste des Indes et à 50 autres composants. Le Aoud féminin par excellence, raffiné et sensuel." this description as within the site of 'Montale" of another perfume as "Aoud Purple Rose" and the dozen I've read just now may serve as a reminder that Montale never was fake, and I've seen him use the terms also of "a note of" meaning that this then, wasn't the ingredient in full force, volume, thickness yet as contribution indispensable. I've never had 'a Montale' dissatisfying. in a Facebook page of Roja Dove fans I saw what is happening. they claim with these ultrahigh prized 'parfum extraits' to be able to have comparative fragrance competitions and enjoy a little 'Montale-bashing'. I posted a contrary comment saying Montale wasn't AT ALL 'trash', on the contrary. a lady said the 'synthetic notes' gave her headache and if I remember correctly sinoidal problems. with me it is the other way round. having REAL chronic sinoidal problems from off 1984 the highly concentrated Montale perfumes blast open my sinuses with full force. and I made a fine collection because if you can still smell the perfume 12, 24++ hours post quem, then there's really good ingredients in it. and as Pierre Montale states, in the flacon (and particularly in the aluminium, an idea copied by the hautain Roja Dove for samples and whatever the fuck he calls these billionaire prized creations), the maceration goes on. as I have and return to Attar, Intense Tiaré, Intense Café, Aoud Purple Rose, Louban, Nepalese Oudh, I can say the Montales always deliver and what I so particularly like about APR was the 'love at first smell' I had and had almost with every Montale to my liking. Octave Coiffan, parfumista who went narcistically too far and became increasingly such amnostic sour criticaster of perfume [cf. Luca Turin, Roja Dove, Serge Lutens], famously stated "I am looking at you Montale" claiming he wasn't always honest in mentioning oud in a perfume where it was just (in his crooked opinion, accumulative delusional opinion) "synthetic". I could have sworn there was oud in Attar one of my absolute favorites. but no it isn't mentioned and there is just this incredible strong rose and double distilled mysore sandalwood. here, with APR it is the chic sillage and neverending waft of oud-rose perfume that haunts us. taifi it smells but none is mentioned. yet I suspect with Pierre Montale [his deliciously over-the-top appearance] it is precisely the opposite. sometimes, within such huge perfumial collection [along with 'Mancera'], notes are omitted rather than exaggerated. I love the hyperexpensive "Oudh Infini" of Dusita so do not veer back from ultra. but Montale, well that is ultra all along the way.

MONTALE Paris is a niche perfume brand that will never disappoint its customer! A wide variety of scents interpreting in a modern way the alluring atmosphere of the Orient... As a great fan of such scents myself I can only appreciate Pierre Montale’s creations to the fullest. Aoud Purple Rose is intoxicating as it balances a fresh opening with a warm heart and base... The combination of saffron and rose petals make an elegant introduction before sandalwood and agar wood boldly state their sensual intentions. Notes of leather, amber and musk intensify the oriental character of the fragrance. It is a unisex scent but I must say it suits men better as it differs from typical masculine fragrances. With MONTALE Paris projection is loud and longevity extraordinary! There is no chance you will get unnoticed and you won’t have to worry about reapplying anytime soon... This goes for Aoud Purple Rose as well which has given me numerous compliments. I also appreciate the great value for money since you get 100ml of Eau de Parfum in a super reasonable price, significantly cheaper than even most commercial fragrances! The bottle is the brand’s characteristic “oxygen tank”, (this time in dark purple), dressed with a leather pouch. Finally... Yes, Aoud Purple Rose is exactly identical to New York Oud by BOND No9 but at one fourth of the asking retail price I find it’s a bargain...