Red Aoud

This may be the first time I wouldn't concur with Shera Pop, not about her description of course but of my love for this scent. This is the first time I have ever worn a scent for 5 consective days. I wore it to bed 4 times and finally wore it out today (once I got an atomizer to drop it in). It is such a unique fragrance. Sweet but in a glazed way, spicy but in a refined pepper way, like a spicy you encounter in an Amouage. The florals are curbed by the spicy sweetness and the sweetness curbed by the florals and woody components. To top this off the oud note in here is a smooth as I have encountered in a Montale fragrance. The unique thing about this fragrance is the combination of notes make it almost a subtle gourmand like fragrance but for the life of me these notes are not describing what I am smelling. Usually what happens for me is whever rose+oud+saffron come together I always get this uniqe sweetness on my sking. Rose Oud, NY Oud, Fearri Oud and even Cruel Intentions all do this to my nose. Maybe it is the caraway pepper and those notes doing it to me. It smells like it could have some tonka or amber in there somewhere. This thing is just gorgeous to my nose. This sillage, projection and longevity is Montale Aoud like but not as intense as Black Aoud or even Lime Aoud for that matter. I would probably put it on a Blue Amber level. Overall this is a great fragrance. If you like the descriptions then I promise you won't be disappointed if you find these notes challenging avoid it.

I am sorry, but Red Aoud is not a gourmand. A gourmand perfume is one that somehow activates your taste buds and makes your mouth water. Red Aoud is definitely a floral-woody scent, a bottled wonder! Once applied on the skin, it scares a little, because the aoud note is on the output, along with the red pepper. You don't know if you're going to choke and you wonder if that accord is going to stay strong, like that, until the end. But in about ten minutes this sensation is over, the potent and medicinal smell starts to subside and the magic happens. From then on, I had one of the biggest surprises related to perfumes to date: simply, the fragrance changes and evolves from time to time. In about an hour, it evolved differently at least three times. It is as if I am experiencing three distinct scents on my skin. Right off the bat, as I said, it comes the strong and medicinal smell of aoud + pepper; then, a vetiver that “screams” next to saffron and, finally, an elegant rose that remains there, beautiful, together with vetiver and sandalwood. Red Aoud remained like this, like a slightly powdery floral, with imposing vetiver and something soft and cozy, which I believe is the result of notes like caraway and sandalwood. It is shamelessly unisex and has a beautiful rose to be worn by men! The projection and longevity are superb. A masterpiece, no doubt! Magnificent Out of this world No boundaries Terrific quality Amazingly powerful Love at first sight Endlessly well done.

Red aoud one of my recent purchase what can I say I find this scent very intriguing the notes are pretty much accurate and well balanced none of the notes are dominating each other I can feel the iris but not lipsticky you find like in dior homme. At first spray it opens up very rich a powdery type of aoud scent with the rose then the scent settles down I feel the pepper more in the middle rather than at the top. Buttom its sweet the vetyver sandalwood combo I dont know the smell of orris root in particular I guess its blended in with the buttom notes the aoud has completely diminished at this stage of the scent to my nose. All in all very good and natural smelling gourmand scent. I describe Red aoud as cotton candyish rosey powdery aoudy scent. Definitely unisex on this one and as many reviewers had said a masterpiece and I totally agree. longevity 10 plus hours on my skin very potent 10 out 10 sillage this projects 2 spray 3 max this works for me not a monster but you will get noticed 9 out 10. uniqueness very unique smelling for sure definitely a stand out. 10 out 10 overall smell 10 out 10 for love it no complaints from top to buttom. price vs quality a no brainer here 10 out 10 totally moneys worth. versatility cold weather day or night

First, I'd like to make clear that each nose senses each fragrance in a different way. We all have different levels of sensitivity on top of different taste towards each bottle of perfume. In order to rate a fragrance I always get a sample of the same and wear it at least twice so i can see consistency. I've seen some reviews based on paper sprayed with the perfume or simply based on a sniff in a perfume store but that's nothing to do with my personal point of view. To summarize all up, I find Red Aoud a wo derful masterpiece, a 10/10 bases on my taste. At first sniff I sense a floral scent mixed with some spices. It might be this mixture plus the oud that gives this juice a woody type of sense. Saffron comes in giving the impression of vanilla and hints of caramelized nuts. Wow, I find myself jaw dropping when I smell this beauty. To me this is a gourmand on the dry side (on the wonderful dry side) not the earthy and dry tea type. Believe me, this review comes from someone who did not have any love and interest for oud fragrances. I recently found myself buying oud based perfumes and Red Aoud is a gem

What a fantastic perfume this is, it surprised me greatly and I am in love. It opened with oud as it is it's most noticeable ingredient. I do love oud, but here I was more in love with the stuff going on in background, at the opening the scent is very gourmand, almost smells edible, I do not get cookies like someone mentioned, I get a very dominant note of praline. It is soon followed by a lovely sandalwood and vetiver combo, I love how vetiver plays it's role here making this dry and very sensual. At the heart most noticeable on me is saffron, but of course the rose is there as well, here the rose is cold and very elegant. Overall I can say this is a masterpiece and fully worth a bottle. Suitable for both sexes as oud and vetiver works perfectly as "unisex notes". If you haven't tried this yet - do try. On my wishlist for full bottle this goes with no doubt. One of the best Montale's I've tried so far and I've tried enough and loved enough from his line of perfumes to say that this is very special.