Oudh Al Misk

I bought it together with another Rasasi perfume (Khaltat Al Oudh) because they were very cheap (this cost me around 14€ for 100ml EDP). As I've told in my Khaltat Al Oudh review, I didn't know this brand until one day I decided to buy two of their fragrances and I was positively surprised by them, so this was another reason to buy this. And also, of course, the good reviews of it that can be read on this page. First, I'd like to tell you that I like Annick Goutal's "Eau d'Hadrien" a lot, specially the versions which were sold some years ago, but it's longevity on my skin has always been very short (2h on average, the curse of fresh citrus fragrances...); and I'm afraid that it has also been reformulated due to the absurd IFRA and EU regulations about the use of natural citrus compounds on perfumes, so the modern version lasts even less, which is a real pity. Thus, I was really surprised when, while researching about Rasasi's fragrances, I came upon this: a fresh citrus EDP! So I blindly bought this. "For such a cheap price, I can't go wrong", I thought. And how right I was! When I smelt it for the first time I was presented with a very fresh, very citrus opening. It was not hard not harsh. The grapefruit and bergamot were wisely toned down and balanced by some woody and resinous notes which I couldn't identify at first. "Wow, this is very pleasant!" Powerful, refreshing, and the best thing is that the citrus is not overwhelming. And it gets better over time. The citrus aroma is very persistent, which is very good, but as time passes, it turns into a darker woody and musky scent, which is a little bit more masculine than feminine (although I still think that this is perfectly unisex). I can also clearly identify patchouli, but it may be a subtle note. It lasts longer than expected, more than 8h on my skin, at least 4 to 5h with a good sillage of about 1m, and I can clearly smell it on a paper which I sprayed 2 days ago. These are surprising characteristics for a fresh citrus fragrance, don't you think? And if you let yourself go and liberally apply several more sprays, you can get a more than 2m sillage. This won't hurt your pocket (if you happen to get hold of it for such a cheap price as I got it), and neither will it hurt the noses near you (since it's a fresh citrus fragrance), supposing of course that everybody loves citrus :-) All in all, as mnementh has said before, this is *exceptional value for money*. If you like citrus perfumes, don't let this EDP go away without buying it, blindly or not. In fact, as with Khaltat Al Oudh, I have also bought a second bottle of this. I'm planning to use it next spring & summer all the time, because I think it's a perfect scent for that season of the year, but you can safely wear this whenever you want. "Oudh Al Misk" is very very good and has AMAZING QUALITY for such a cheap price. I totally, positively, recommend this. As a side note, having bought and knowing a lot of perfumes of all price ranges, I'm more and more amazed by this brand every time I test a new perfume from them (I can tell you this at least because of the 6 Rasasi fragrances that I currently own). Just wait for the reviews of both "La Yuqawam Homme" & "La Yuqawam Femme" which I will write as soon as I can, because if "Khaltat Al Oudh" and "Oudh Al Misk" are wonderful, these other two are on a completely different level (although they are also accordingly more expensive...).

Oudh Al Misk – very interesting and nice scent. Here it is put in Oriental Fougere Group, but I disagree. For me - it should be in Woody Aromatic. The opening is very uplifting and green, which can only give you nice energy. If you love geranium – that is your fragrance! :) Yes! Very nice and authentic powerful and green geranium notes are dominating through the first 3 hours. So that the aromatic part – very green, very fresh, positive and bright. The second part of the dry down is starting after the third hour – woody notes are more powerful and dominant and that’s the time where the scent becomes more masculine and changing itself significantly. So first hours are different from the last ones. Longevity and silage are both excellent. More than 10 hours with strong silage for about 5 hours. If you like geranium – you will love Oudh Al Misk. In that scent there is no oud, so if someone is worried about oud – keep it calm – woody notes in it are well blended and the fresh, green type of smell is lingering through the whole scent life... Oudh Al Misk is interesting fresh-woody perfume, which is easy to wear and I’m sure it will make you feel comfortable after first apply.

Putting my unpopular opinion out there: If I were to chose between L'Homme Ideal Cologne and this one, I would chose Oud al Misk. The smell of grapefruit (or lemon as I interpret it) peel mixed with musky florals just does it for me. I think this is great for any occasion in high-heat. Super pleasant, versatile and the quality/price ratio is insane (paid 17$ fpr it)! If you're into citrus fragrances, I see this as a must have and a blind-buy worthy. EDIT: Ok, I take that back... wearing the Guerlain and this side by side, I can't say that I love this more, but I still think this is very, very good! EDIT: Had to write this: went today to see my mother.. I had this on, sprayed 5 hours ago (a little heavy - over 10 sprays).. She said "it is nice, but quite strong".. I could still feel it, but very lightly... Make of this what you will.. Cheers!

It Starts with Nice Soft Smell of Citrus Woody Notes with Fresh Vibe and later slowly tends towards Woody Earthy Green Notes. It does not contain Oudh at all. Top notes are Bergamot, Galbanum, Grapefruit and Clary Sage, Middle Notes are Geranium and Jasmine & Base Notes are Cedar, Vetiver, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Ambergris and Musk. This Perfume can be Worn Comfortable by Both Sexes but Slightly towards Masculine Side. This is a Safe Scent and will not Offend anyone, Can use it as Office Scent. It is must scent for Beginners who want venture into Middle Eastern Perfumes. Decent Price for Perfume, Nice Bottle & Presentation & Sprayer pours out Decent Amount of juice My Rating is 3.6 out of 5

What a magnificent perfume!!! I have to admit it, I bought it because it was extremly cheap. I looked around on 'Fragrantica' first and couldn't believe it, when I read that there is a fresh citrus EDP on the market. I worried a bit about the name (Oudh), but I thought it was some arabic stuff I needn't worry about. So I bought it! It was (and still is) an amazing blind buy. It opens with a citrus explosion, but a few seconds later you'll discover why it's called Oudh... you can feel the powerful presence of galbanum. The combination of Grapefruit and Galbanum, paired with Jasmine is magnetic and hipnotising. It's unique - 10/10

Simply put: I LOVE THIS. Bought blind, and was not expecting "too much".....lol.....but I like to be surprised, and I was !! IMO.....on my skin...I get a "chypre" vibe...???....green/moss and citrus/musk....a slight "oudy" touch underneath, but the oud-ish affect is not the prominent thing here....IMO. Performance.....kinda average...but I am still pleased. Underrated gem here...IMO, and great for the low price.

I've to agree with all what has been said about this fragrance. A work horse it could be only if it had staying power. Mild citrus scent with hind of oud at the start. Very pleasant smelling. Smells like 4711 and many of the creed without projection or sillage. Works well for two-three hours on my skin. Need to carry a spritzer for refreshing. A good buy.

This fragrance was a pleasant surprise, it is a polite representation of Oudh with an Italian cologne feel in the top notes, but you get this faint Ambergris sweetness at the dry down which blends with the Patchouli divinely, making this a very worthwhile addition to any fragrance collection. Love it !!!!!

Hello! another tropic citrus gem from RASASI. Beautiful citrus unisex to feel the cedar and citrus, pushes very dearly similar to the Versace MAN Fraiche, for every season of the year for all. Very persistent. I would recommend! Thank you rasasi.

If the performance of this fragrance was better we would be talking about one of the best summer fragrances. Fresh and clean at the beginning which ends up being something woody and sweet. Its price is far below its value. 12€ is almost a steal.

Awesome scent if you love citrus, its a sour-sweet lemonade with a middle eastern magic touch on it......its a perfect scent for the heat.

Very nice and unique scent, and the price is soo cheap ! no one will regret buying it so just close your eyes and buy it !

What a gorgeous and unique scent! I love it! Very fresh, airy, but not weak! Rain in a sunny day.

Oudh Al Misk is wonderful. It's fresh, it's dense, it smells natural, it smells classy, it's super versatile, simple, safe, and just great. There's something distantly similar bits to Mancera Cedrat Boise but Oudh Al Misk is much safer, better, more natural smelling... A closer comparison would be Kiton Men or Al-Haramain Etoiles Silver Homme. It's like something that Acqua di Parma might had produced 40 years ago, and still, today, it's not a granpa smell. Zesty but sweet old school citrus with woodiness. And while it's simple and "ordinary", I can't think of any other fragrance that ticks the right boxes as good as Oudh Al Misk in its realm. This is a signature scent material right here! So... What's the problem then? The problem is longevity (I was wrong, see the edit below). I don't usually mind poor longevity at all, seriously, but even I have my limits. Knowing the quality of Rasasi's freshies (well at least one of their freshies: Rasasi Egra Men), I know they know how to make fragrance last +24 hours, even the freshies. So when they came out with Oudh Al Misk, I believe it was their purpose to actually make it poor lasting, for what ever reason. Oudh Al Misk is totally gone from my skin in about 4 hours. It's not even a skin scent after that. It's just gone. But that's just my skin. It may be whole another story on your skin. The price is extremely affordable: 10 to 15 USD / EUR for a 100 ml bottle. If you got interested, I suggest you to get it. I hope it shines loooong on your skin! Bottom line: very simple citrus, woods and spices fragrance. Easy and damn good. The longevity is weak but it's hard to complain with this price... Edit: I was sloppy when sampling this: Oudh Al Misk do last and push whiffs, when I wear it on the back of my neck. One spray there, no sprays on the front. That way the source of smell is not on front, where it would numb my sense of smell, or where I would repeatedly check if the smell is still there, consciously or unconsciously. This "checking" behavior is related when I'm sampling and... it's not too recompensing way to understand a new smell. From the back of the neck I get whiffs for much longer time. I've noticed this method works great especially with fragrances that are "gone in minutes" type of light workers. Edit2: This just keeps getting more and more interesting... It has an aquatic aspect to it and I think the watery side is the reason why I keep coming back again and again with this bottle. It's got something that smells like wet sand. Nice touch! I'm getting some light suede whiffs too. The citrus fruit has been recognized by some as pink grapefruit which I've never even seen. But it surely smells good.

Don't know why it listed as unisex, because it is undeniably masculine scent. The bad news - it smells like half of men's shower gels, especially at the opening and first hour. The good news (and there're several of them!): 1 - it is well refined version of men shower gels scent; 2 - it changes to better after first hour; 3 - it is cheap, but it doesn't smells as cheap cologne; 4 - it is rare summer scent that lasts long time, about 8-9 hours, which for summer scents should be considered enormous; 5 - it has decent projection and sillage all the way till 6th hour. I also should add, it is one of scents that smells much better from far away than up close. When I smell it up close sprayed on paper or skin, it barely reaches "like" level. But when I walk in the room where I left paper sprayed with it, first that I have on my mind "Something smells nice and fresh here!" Same when I been working sitting 4 ft away from it, when movement of air gave me whiffs of it I found it to be very pleasant. The other bad news is the bottle, the cap and the packaging looks and feels cheap. Wouldn't make good present for someone who might get offended by it. I would definitely put in bottle worthy and safe blind buy category for men. Saying that, although I'm not regretting buying it, I won't be buying 2nd bottle if this runs out. Scent 7/10 (for men, 3/10 for women) Originality 3/10 Longevity 8/10 Projection 7/10 Sillage 6/10 Presentation 4/10 Price/quality 9/10

This fragrance opens with a blasts of bright citrus and is green and slightly aromatic. With a few minutes it begins to develop woody undertones along with the grapefruit; moreover the cedar/woods are enveloped in an aromatic, slightly herbal, accord. Oudh Al Misk continues down this road in the drydown and remains largely linear, except it does become slightly more woody and perhaps even earthy. What do I think of this fragrances? It a nice, pleasant, fresh, likable aromatic-citrus-woody scent that is unlikely to offend anyone. I felt comfortable, laid-laid, yet professional while wearing it. Drawbacks: this will not garner many compliments; the wearer will simply smell good and this fragrances is does not stand-out or have that Wow! factor. Oudh Al Misk projects soft-to-moderately (personal scent bubble) and lasted 5-hours on my skin. I am likely to wear this one at work (business casual day) or while out running errands - definitely a daytime scent. OAM is something I am likely to carry in my gym bag and apply after a Noon time workout during the warm Summer months. Why wouldn't I wear this? No particular reason other than Terre d'Hermes, Montale Red Vetyver and La Martina Bayres Homme (I own all three) do this scent genre better than Oud Al Misk. Over, I do like this scent and it's bargain priced and a solid safe daytime fragrances that will be liked and won't offend anyone. But it in the end I don't wear it often for the reasons noted.

I like this stuff, call it guilty pleasure. It's harsh on some aspects BUT for the price / scent / performance it's a no brainer for me. As mentioned many times, don't get fooled by the name "Oudh" because you won't get any. This is a simple citrus-fresh-aromatic yet very good. It's not like a lemonade, nothing like the traditional cologne zesty citruses, but more like the Ambroxan and musk backbone with citruses and a bit of patchouli. There's nothing offensive, cloying, irritating to my nose, perhaps the first few seconds reveal some off notes but that's about it. It's especially shining when smelled from a distance after it sit for a few minutes. Personal surprise: This is reminding me of the long discontinued Davidoff Cool Water "Deep". A fragrance that was nondescript, simple, yet pleasant to wear. Update: Performance is not bad at all by the way. I get 5 hours easy on skin and 7 - 8 hours noticeable on clothes.

What a lovely and fresh summer scent that can be had for peanuts. Opening with a sharp citrus, transitioning to a sweeter creamy orange and landing on a great woody-musky base. No oud despite the name, also no ambergris but a dose of ambroxan to tie up the woods with the heartnotes. Leaning masculine, but could easily be used by women too. Projection is soft to moderate. Excellent gym scent or for office settings in summer time. If you like VM eau Fraiche and the likes, this is something you'd probably find enjoyable. Overall it's fresh, a little sweet and also a little spicy, probably due to ambroxan, geranium and vetiver.

First and foremost, there isn't any Oud and very very little musk here, if any :) Oudh Al Misk is a typical summer citrus fragrance, with a juicy grapefruit and sage on top. As you would expect, the middle note is floral, albeit a fleeting phase, and the usual earthy-woody base. Thus, nothing spectacular here but it smells very good with decent quality, nevertheless. OM does not take itself too seriously and you could do a lot, lot worse with £14.

I bought this for my husband because I do think this is very masculine. I love the woody muskiness of this fragrance. I use it myself sometimes and husband always smells shower fresh n lovely when he wears this. :-) very nice fragrance, blind purchase but I have other al rasasi attars so I know theirfragrances never dissapoint.