Gold Rose Oudh

My FIRST FULL BOTTLE of this extrait perfume arrived and I am in love! Standing out from the many other rose oudh perfumes currently on the market, Gold Rose Oudh is wearable and a beautiful entree for anyone wanting to try a floral-rose-oudh perfume. The initial notes of this perfume are intense chypre with spicy, almost harsh balsam, evergreen, moss, IMHO. I detect bergamot, fir-tree, moss, evergreen & earthy notes that eventually recede but remain throughout the entire application. Within 3-5 minutes, the opening morphs into mid-notes that land HARD. After the initial application, I definitely smell strong notes of oudh, Bulgarian rose, earth, patchouli, moss, woody resins, HONEY & AMBER & DIRT. At times, the middle practically smells fecal & cloying. At times, the mid-notes are DIFFICULT to take, smelling like a sour & moldy, messy mixture. Stay with the fragrance because the dry-down is where the true magic begins. Becoming perfectly balanced, the dry-down and base notes of this fragrance are lovely. Pulling off what (at times) seems like an impossibility, the entire fragrance DOES settle down into a perfectly balanced mixture of chypre, honey-amber, faint rose, oudh, other woods & musk. Woodsy, musk-y, earthy, creamy, resinous & rich, I also detect some powdery notes during dry-down. I must say the subtly added honey-amber notes, as well as the perfect addition of musk contribute to the balance, warmth and well-rounded, almost creamy ethereal nature of this fragrance. Leaning towards the feminine side, I cannot imagine this perfume on a guy. Initially uncertain, I am thrilled I purchased a full bottle for under $200! If you love oudh & rose fragrances, please give this fragrance time! I am so glad I did! A lighter, somewhat simpler, and more affordable alternative to Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady (which I love but $$$), as well as By Killian Rose Oud ($$$), this fragrance drew me in and I'm glad it did! Gold Rose Oudh DOES have a lot going on but the dry-down is lovely! I thought for my tastes, I preferred a rose-oud fragrance to be complex but (perhaps) a bit more straight-forward, simplistic and linear in the end than TT Gold Rose Oudh. But I am loving this fragrance a lot!

I bought this last year and wore it and never thought much about it but this autumn I have started wearing it again and I feel all these different notes and nuances. I get a good blast of lime, rose, patchouli, sandalwood, honey, pepper, fir, musk, most notes listed if not all. At first I thought it gave off a slight bleach-like effect in the background but I actually know what it is now with reading about sandalwood and people saying a pickle kind of a note. In the mid phases which is also mostly the base, I get mainly a patchy, velvety rose which is in the background with pepper and fir at the front. There is musk and lime all the way through although that slight bleachy effect I was talking about could be the lime (rind) providing some very faint bitterness. The composition may have similarities with the aforementioned fragrances but it does get one over them in the sense that the materials used hold very well from start to finish and at no point it feels like an average fragrance. I don't really judge performance on skin or clothes anymore but if I can smell it on myself when I breathe in or shuffle around then it makes more sense to me. I can smell it for roughly 5-6 hours whilst wearing it with it still being present on my clothes if I smell closer. If I pass by my hanging clothes or smell them the following day then I can still smell it and it makes me appreciate it more. It is an extrait so it would not jump out at you or anyone but can be perceived in close proximity. It's becoming an almost signature based on the times I have worn it over the last few weeks. So yeah, I think I love this one and maybe someone will fall in love with you when they smell this on you ;-)

My favorite Rose Oud fragrance - full bottle worthy for sure. The nose opens with heavy jammy rose and oud. This isn't really an animalistic or funk-forward oud but more of a musky wooy profile. This juice is intense, and projects pretty loudly for me for about a straight hour or so before it begins its very beautiful dry down. I get about 12 hours of total performance, with the last hour or so being more of a skin scent but again a beautiful one that holds body and not just a hint of what used to be. The value of this bottle even at full retail, is wild. My favorite "light" oud up until experiencing this was Roja Aoud, which I still love but this is better. As a comparison, Roja's interpretation is quite a bit more toned down and rests in a fairly powdery profile once it dries down, and never gets too loud. It also costs over $700 USD compared to Gold Rose Oudh which comes in just shy of $300. While I think this could be worn by anyone, I find it skews more masculine and definitely not a great choice for a humid balmy summer day. But really all other seasons you could pull this off, just a lighter application during the hotter parts of the year. Not blind-buy safe but a stunner none the less. Update: After wearing this for a few months, I’m enjoying it much less. It is quite a bit more powdery and dry then I first appreciated and lacks the depth of many oud-forward fragrances. Still lovely but I don’t rush to spray this so much having grown familiar to it.

I agree with another reviewer below that the rose here is similar to the rose in Portrait of a Lady and in Porpora. And what I get from Gold Rose Oudh for the majority of it's lifetime on my skin is mostly that rose with some patchouli to support it. I feel the oud mostly in the medicinal opening. You must like rose, otherwise don't bother with this. On my skin the medicinal opening lasts for about 15 minutes and then the rose starts to take over. This fragrance is loud and long lived for me. I put two sprays on the back of my hand, went to sleep, walked the dog, ate brunch, and the scent is still powering on 12 hours after spraying. The oil sheen after spraying on skin is very apparent; I usually only spray fragrances on skin, but I definitely wouldn't spray something this oily on my clothes unless it was old raggedy ones reserved only for doing yardwork or house improvement work. At the current price from discounters (100 ml for $110 to $150) if one likes the scent, this is a crazy good deal. Even at the $220 retail price, I think it's reasonable especially in comparison to some other fragrances that cost the same or more, like for example some Tom Ford 50 ml private blends.

Gold Rose Oudh shares the Rose Patchouli and Oudh DNA of Montales' Black Aoud. Where it differs and kind of goes to the next level is with the addition of the Honey, sandalwood and pepper notes. Makes it a much richer composition, more well rounded and balanced as well. Paolo Terenzi has done a fabulous job. I had Black aoud and when I sniffed this, I sold My Montale and picked up a full bottle of this little gem. Projection is good but not the nuclear fallout of Black Aoud. Longevity likewise is about 8-10 hours instead of the 24 hours of the Vintage Montale. Cost wise, atleast here in India, they are similar. Black Aoud retails for about 7000 rupees/110$ but you get testers for as low as 3000/45$. TT Gold rose oudh likewise retails about 9000/140$ but official Testers are available for about 4500/70$. So if you are going purely by most bang for your buck, take the Black Aoud but if you want the overall better frag, Gold Rose Oudh is it. Its like the difference between Coach and First Class. They both get you to your destination but the experience is very different. 9/10