Graphite Oud Edition

Owning and loving the original Montana Graphite, I needed to try this Oud version. This is nit,IMO, your "typical rose-oud" scent. This adds a woody and fuity vibe....not quite tropical..IMO. It seems to have a "mix" of other familiar fragrances...put together. This scent needs to develop on skin and evolve... to really appreciate the final result. The original Graphite is my favorite, but this flanker is still a great scent. Very decent sillage/longevity so far. A love.

Fantastic!!!!!Not very similar to the originator but surely woody like it,in some part of its lifespan.Fruity sweet,than wonderful edible roses delights,until a more serious wood base became clear......Powerful and honest perfume!

This is pretty much identical to Mancera Aoud Line which is labeled unisex. This should be also. The Mancera is about 3x the price. Montana has truly hurt their sales by labeling this a male frag.

Unisex wearable oriental oud/rose perfume with a tropical fruity hint! Recomended!

At first I didn’t like this because I detected thick soapy smell. I suspected that this was sitting on the shelf in the store, so I shake the bottle so hard for several times. This fragrance showed its true color after that. Rose is little more prominent than the oud, and fresh dewy fruits add slight fizziness to it. Even though the oud smells definitely synthetic, it still feels like soft and smooth. The top to middle notes are like sparking dry rosé with fruits in it, and you’re drinking the sparkling wine in the room while the oud incense is used. Might sound a bit gross but it’s actually cozy. It gets dryer and cooler towards the end, but the sweetness is still there. Longevity and sillage are also decent. I sprayed it on the abdomen and could smell when I stand up or sit down on the chair. It lasts nearly eight hours on my skin. I agree with other reviewers saying this lean towards more feminine side. 100% suitable for formal meetings and nights out for women. However, I still think this also works for men. I would get the impression that the men is comfortable with coming out of his comfort zone and know what exactly he likes if a men wears it. Calm and relaxed men with strong confidence and playfulness would totally own this scent.

This fragrance leans feminine. I can smell some kind of fruity "juiciness" to it, but the overall impression is more juicy/wet than candy sweet. The original Graphite wasnt anything impressive to me, an oddly stale, dry-woody scent in the vein of Mauboussin's M Generation, but this oud edition features a prominent, smooth, synthetic oud note, similar to the one found in Floris' Leather Oud and Versace Oud Noir. Its not as creamy as Versace Oud Noir or some others, but it is pretty smooth, and totally devoid of the traditional harsh notes that can come with oud. There are prominent florals being carried by the silky oud. The overall impression is very classy and it would make a fantastic scent for a night out, especially on a woman. Great performance for an EDT, I get 8 hours easily. Unfortunately, it was ultimately too feminine for me so I passed it on.

Very similar to Bond No. 9's New York Oud. Jammy, sweet rose with barely-there, not good oud. Cloying and claustrophobic.

This offering had all the potential to be a rose "H" bomb, but settles for an "A" bomb instead, that is as far as projection and sillage are concerned, as It feels more moderate than heavy. That said, I'm not going to budge the slider, you guys can decide for yourselves. I'm also not getting a whole lot of oud here despite the fragrance name, so keep that in mind before making a blind buy. Guys, this one's got our name on the box, but be forewarned...if you don't feel comfortable with extreme floral notes, you're gonna be miserable with this Montana offering. If you're still curious about rose, but are yet to own a rose based scent, I'd suggest trying Ungaro III, or maybe Azzaro Acteur as a trial run before shelling out the cash for Graphite Oud's more feminine nature. As far as quality is concerned, I'm fairly impressed. No niche quality here, but for the price point you get a pretty fresh, candied female rose up front. As the scent wears on, it gets more powdery and a slightly more masculine, but it's not enough for me, even though the rose note does stick around for the entire ride. The stock photos of Montanna Graphite Oud Edition are misleading. The cap and leather band are brown; not black. UPDATE: Ultimately, I sent it back. It was just too feminine for my taste. I don't mind unisex scents, but the marketing gurus dropped the ball on this one. Graphite Oud is a woman's scent. I can wear CK One all day, but not this.

COMPLETELY REVISED - I have done a 180 *****LADIES YOU SHOULD TRY THIS FRAGRANCE****** Several months ago I left a scathing review of this. Now I have grown to adore this fragrance. Maybe the bottle needed to open up, or perhaps I was being a complete ass basing my opinion with a tired nose. Whatever the issue was then, it is not now. This is an excellent slightly dirty rose fragrance with fruity nuances creeping in. Ultimately a rooty vetiver joins the party and the fragrance starts to develop a wonderful powdery quality. It lasts for many hours and always smells divine. The icing on the cake was when my lovely wife wore the fragrance. It worked with her chemistry so well that neither of us could believe it. From more than 100 designer and niche fragrances, this is now in her top 5, it is that good. A STEAL on Ebay. 7.5/10 on me 9.5/10 on wife

Montanas' Graphite Oud is everything one would and should expect from Parfums Montana. Quality with a twist - especially considering the regular version of Graphite. Not to demean the regular version, which is, easily as enjoyable. The Oud version gives off a spark and does a great job at it. The longevity is what someone should expect from a Fragrance evoking "OUD." It is long-lasting and linear (in a very good way). To follow, this was something I found delightful - the linear aspect. Although not complex in the sense the Fragrance will not have ups and downs or drastically change on you. The first spray, is and will be what the scent truly is, for many hours. Oud and Rose done well.

Ok I finally found what this scent is if they'd made the Rose fresh instead of dry and that's S.T. DuPonts Oud & Rose. This is what I wanted in Oud & Rose, don't get me wrong I love the dry Rose in S.T. DuPont its very different but the freshness in Montana Oud is even better. This is two fragrance's in one! The second being Dior's Ispahan, yep i said Dior's Ispahan....the fresh Rose in Ispahan dry down is the same as Montana Oud and it's at a lesser price point. This is by no chance a cheap fragrance that Montana has released, it is very high quality being that it has the DNA of two of the most known fragrances in perfume community. Blind buy worthy!!!

This has elements of two fragrances I own; Byredo's Pulp and Dupont Rose et Oud. It has a slight overripe fruit note on the initial spray that reminds me of the former, and a lingering dry woody synthetic oud from the latter. Overall it maintains its own character and the similarities to Pulp vanish quickly, while the lingering woody oud sustains itself with decent longevity and projection. It is not as dry as Dupont's Rose et Oud, favoring a more fresh cut roses accord, and seems slightly more powdery on the drydown. Great stuff overall.

I really like the original Graphite. I thought this one would be in the same vibe, but it doesn't agree with me. It's rather feminine due to the roses. I wear some feminine labeled perfumes, but I really dislike roses in fragrances. Projection (over 4 feet)and longevity are 10+ hours on clothes. The cap was leaking a bit and I used a towel to clean it up, and the bathroom smelled roses and oud the next day still. I guess I found a use for it now.

A bit synthetic but really a nice juice. Oud here is not that oriental, it is rosy slight powdery, not offensive one. Reminds me Etienne Aigner Oud 1 some how, but this one is more sweet Could be easily a unisex fragrance. Moderate longivity (4-5 hours on my skin) A full bottle of 100 ml for 25 euros including shipping costs: Deserves a try.

Identical to Rose Noire Giorgio Valenti except a tiny bit less of freshness in the opening (or more floral), sweeter in the base note and more expensive. I like it but already owing two bottles of Rose Noire

Finish a bottle today... good smell, but it lacks something like strengh and projection. Not for me.