Amber Oudh

I never into arabic perfume before. One day, owner of arabic perfume shop nearest give me 3ml of Susan Al-Rehab as a gift. God, its heavy! I look inside his shop, there are many big shiny gold bottle. I thought, maybe there something I like but sure expensive, maybe thousand. I never enter his shop. Never made same mistake, now I know, gold bottle does means expensive. Do not just smelling arabic perfume through bottle, put on your skin first to experience true beauty. Base on review here, I go searching at perfume shop. When I smell at first time I thought, "What is this?" I purchase because one reason,wanna know why it get huge positif review by fragrantica. I fully agree with JudyK review... It smelled very strange and synthetic at first. I dislike strong amber smelled but not give up easily. I wear before bed and going to work that morning. I ask my friend.'Its smell like incense?' she said 'no, its smell so good...' I'm surprised! my friend has picky nose. She doesn't like strong arabic perfume, not even sweet and gourmand. She picky, only liked white floral and white musk. After half day working I back home. Evening time I want going out, I take my jacket and... Wow! what its beautiful smell?That my Amber Oud I put on that morning! it went on smooth, sweet and quite pleasant, settled down to an all right. Only one word to describe... BEAUTIFUL. I have no idea how its change, It seems to get better with each wearing. I don't care about scary caterpillar looks at all (strong amber.) I rather will wait until butterfly out from the shelter, because its true beauty. YES, I also recommend you giving it a couple of tries before you discount it.

I first smelled this, years ago, during the warm spring in Texas. Indoors I smelled it again, the scent was gorgeous enough for me to notice. I smelled it again days later outside in the open air. I asked again, what was that smell? It was stunning to me. A man said it was him that I was smelling. I was stunned and yes, this is unisex. A soft gorgeous oud, surrounded with breathtaking florals. At the end of trip, upon leaving, that kind man gave me the small bottle of perfume oil oud, and I was surprised when I saw how small it was. I kept it and wore it maybe once or twice, but for the most part, for years, it's remained in the back of my closet - until now. It's gorgeous and classy and sophisticated and I thank that man so much for giving me his perfume oil. It means a lot. Background: (I pulled it out again, now open to oud once more, for forty years I've had one decade of love and respect for oud and then the next ten want trendy more fun scents. I'm back to the classics now, and that means oud. It's trending so it's 'acceptable' but I hope that for now, until forever, I never forget how gorgeous scents like this are.)

Warm amber with a delicate brushing of non-medicinal or animalic oud, and a touch of what is listed as "resin", which I suspect is a mixture of olibanum (frankincense) and myrrh. Although this is sold and listed here on Fragrantica as a unisex fragrance, I think its really more of a woman's perfume, albeit a rather exotic one. Amber Oudh is definitely not a Western scent, yet its well enough made so it isn't in any way redolent of head shop hippie juice but exudes the pleasant aura of far away lands. As is the case with many middle eastern fragrance containers, the little bottle with the glass applicator may be a little over the top in western eyes. Its actually very nicely made out of frosted glass, metal and glass rhinestones (at the tip of the top), with nary a piece of nasty western perfume bottle plastic in sight. Extremely well-priced for the quality received, Amber Ooodh is a lovely exotic amber for everyday winter wear. It easily lasts 12 hours or more with nice sillage, and as a lover of orientals, I would give it an 8 out of 10 for being a well-composed, exotic amber in the classic style.

What can I say more than WOW !!! I never thought that this little bottle hid a Arabic magic elixir. The best with this fragrance is, that's right, the Amber, which softly caressing rounds off the oud. If Montale would come across the recipe for this, they would be very happy! Fortunately, I can get it for the perfect price from "Rasasi". I agree with Moyra 100% (Thanks for the review, it made me buy it. And what a GOOD blind-purchase this is) !!! "olibanum (frankincense) and myrrh" indeed, but also real saffron (the expencive stuff, not the "made-to-smell-like" saffron stuff). And, saffron is one of my no.1 fave-notes. And this IS saffron to my nose. This pure perfume oil melts into oud-heaven. And as a heavy-Montale-oud fan, I know my ouds. And goodness WOW - this is AMAZING stuff. A pure oriental arabic dessert-dream, and I never wanna leave! And to top this all of, the bottle is so beautiful. This is "1000 and 1 nights" in a bottle!

The price is SO reasonable. I bought the 14 ml perfume concentrate oil based on the recommendations I read on Fragrantica. I am very happy with my purchase. Many thanks to the contributors for their informative reviews. I am not an expert on oud fragrances but I love Amber Oudh. It doesn't matter to me that the agarwood element used in this perfume is probably synthetic. The price is just too low for it to be the natural ingredient. But no matter. The fragrance is round, creamy and sensuous. A real exotic amber. I even love the charming little bottle. I could wear this scent any time of year, but I have to remember to use it very sparingly. One tiny drop from the glass dabber will last me all day and into the night.