Oudh Al Boruzz Rooh Al Assam

If there is one thing i read/heard about Rooh al Assam by Rasasi, almost everywhere, is that it is JUST a high quality version of Dior's Oud Ispahan. This is actually true and my review can be ended here because who hasn't sniffed/tried/owned Oud Ispahan or any of its clone (apart from few who are still in stone age era of Fragrance World). But i don't want to deprive my lovely community members from my over-long, stretched review. Let me begin with a statement which might bring me lot of hate, but fact is fact. Compared to Rasasi's magnificence , Dior's offering is synthetic mess. Sad but true. When you spray Rooh al Assam you get a beautiful, slightly fecal tone of Hindi Oud which in combination with saffron creates a strong but well rounded experience. Oud Ispahan on the other hand feels like "Japanese Censor" on above detailed experience. As fragrance reaches in to its mid, assam keeps its woody profile in combination of dark rose having some hints of patchouli and frankincense in the background while Ispahan has more of a talcum powder rose nuance going for it. While ispahan continues to disappoint by being linear in the dry down, it is the assam which looses all its oomph and ends up with characterless rose. Understand that performance of a fragrance just like a fragrance itself is very subjective. In my one week testing of Rooh al Assam, i found it to be a very adequate performer. On skin, it lasts for about 6-8 hours easily while it can be detected on clothes even after a full day. Projection in first 2 hours is strong but as time passes it looses its strength and forms a close to skin bubble in which you or people very close to you may get whiffs of it. Rooh al Assam hits almost all the right accords but ended up being something that has been done multiple times. In the air, you might not even tell it apart from Oud Ispahan but as they say, devil is in the details. So do i recommend it? Yes, if you are fan of Oud Ispahan or Rose/Oud combo in general and likes high quality fragrances with above average performance. No, if you are looking for something unique and a fragrance to fill up your entire room.

A nostalgic balancing of oud and rose by the House of Rasasi. Very wonderful and truly unexpectedly high quality composition that conjures the old fashioned heritage of deep rich leathery Hindi oud of the most carefully selected strains and thick oily rose turning smokey, woody, bitter and slightly bright in character. @Rick Tha Rula, respectfully while a decent option, Dusita Oudh Infini is not best comparable with Rooh Al Assam. Somehow it uses an inferior strain of oud from the generally very decent Loatian ouds from Laos that is milder and less rich with French rose de mai that only contributes partially to the fragrance. In Infini the oud profile is weaker and as a result is bolstered primarily by indolic and animalic ingredients like civet, sandalwood and orange blossom to make the oud behave as it should but ends up less natural and a tad plain. It is mostly an approachable if not slightly fecal rose and civet chypre. Oudh Infini is a very westernized and metropolitan rose oud in comparison somewhat lacking in the rich aspects of the traditional Middle Eastern oud and rose ingredients themselves by substituting the smell with safe and western animalic ingredients like civet, vanilla, and orange blossom which remains of the smell in the dry off. Rooh al Assam uses a rich, cleanly distilled Hindi oud, sandalwood and Indian rose with very minimal other ingredients to distract from the combination but the result properly displays the oud’s very intimate and uniquely pure leathery and smokey woody facets more naturally. There is no doubt this profile and quality like the other Boruzz offerings will be severely challenging to westerners and not an easy wear. It is smokier, and overall smoother. Infini accentuates the banyard, slightly cheesy aspects of oud that are not the mark of true quality distilled ouds. So far Frederic Malle's The Night is as close as anything western gets but still cheesy. Oudh Infini is I guess an okay referential fragrance from a western approach nonetheless but very overpriced for what it is.

This is true Hyperrealistic Assamese oud. Yes! Naked Hindi oud in all its funk and glory. It is so pungent and coniferous (piney) with a hint of sweetness from rose oil (Ruh Al Ward) that it almost smells like paint thinner. In Rooh al Assam the oud is rubbery, tarry, leathery and industrial but beautifully smooth maintaining a sweet oily freshness like sugared gasoline if you can imagine this. This is so sexual and arousing and in the air it transforms into the freshest most unique balsamic heart I have ever smelled. So high quality, rich, and strong you must not spray more than once - half a spray if you can help it. My good lord. Though I can see the comparison, comparing this to Dior Ispahan is true but underestimating lol (Sorry François Demachy). I am testing them side by side and the "oud" in Dior Ispahan is gone within minutes. Only in the beginning are they twins then they develop on different paths where this one is complex and much darker, mature and sexier maintaining the bold oud forever and Dior Ispahan is more playful, floral and lighthearted becoming a rose and resin dominant scent. Dior Ispahan is much safer, reserved wanting to impress while Rooh Al Assam is domineering, unapologetic, wanting to mate. This is an incomprehensibly beautiful scent. The most quintessential oud-rose fragrance I've smelled so far. I absolutely adore this darling! My first... 🪵👜🌲 10/10 Edit: This will not be for general western tastes and will be incredibly daring and off-putting for people who are used to the synthetic oud accords used in the niche house of Mancera or designers like Tom Ford and other western designers. I believe people who are comfortable with wearing Amouage Interlude Man or Epic Man will have developed their palette to appreciate this and even those seem mass-appealing in light of this. Not even Boadicea could touch the quality of these. This oud is not for the beginner nose you are getting genuine oud!

When I was a kid I used to spend my summer vacations in the norwegian mountains, where my grandmother had a cabin. Every summer the farmers of the area would let their sheep and goats loose on the mountain, and the animals would roam around in herds eating herbs, moss and leaves from the dwarf birch trees. Quite often the animals would come to our cabin, where I would feed them little snacks and play with them. This perfume takes me back to those moments when I cuddled and played with the goats. Because the type of indian oud used in Rooh al Assam smells very close to warm goat fur. And it also has a strong distinct smell of the inside of a barn. This is definitely barnyard, but in a really nice way. I'm so fascinated by this fragrance. After the initial animalic and dirty barn smell fades away, the scent blooms into a lovely rose and leather fragrance with softer nuances of saffron and labdanum. There is a kind of sweetness in here as well, it reminds me of honey, and it makes the leather stand out as quite sensual and a tad more dirty than it would have been without the sweetness. It's simply gorgeous. In the last few hours on the skin, you're left with a much softer honeyed leather note paired with a slighty sour oud and something that feels a bit bitter and dry, I think it might be nagarmotha. I really love this scent! The scent lasts very long on the skin, I get over 10 hours out of this. Sillage is quite massive right away, and it is pretty strong for several hours, but eventually dries down to a soft medium.

This one is animalic but drydown again smell like a combination of refined rose and oud but straight up parfum extract. And it smells natural but super duper stronggg. Dammmmn but it smell good to me from the opening to drydown. This again is for Highly responsible people. People who own companies and stuff.the boruzz line couldve cost more than what its worth in my humble opinion. Longevity sillage ENORMOUS stay on clothes for weeks lol. For the price its justified. This ttpe of parfum can be sold easily around $300. If you are going to get compliments it will be in the drydown mostly it smells very good but manly Winter Time Only... however you can wear it anytime like most parfum but go 1 spray for spring and summer please