Description
Amber Oud is a blend of sweet oriental ambers with the strong animal note of my wild Laos Oud, which has been featured in the “Oud Caravan” series.
This is a very middle eastern fragrance such as you could find in the perfume shops of Dubai, with the difference of being much better, being exempt from the cheap chemicals so appreciated by our Arab perfumistas brothers.
Darvant –
A magnificent take on a real agarwood resin (a la Abdul Samad Al Qurashi) with all its “aged” array of “stuffy” nuances (musky, mossy, resinous, animalic, dirty, rubbery, honeyed, leathery, woody, fur-like, mouldy, steamy, camphoraceous).
The rubbery/animalic (like castor sacs’ aroma exuding) feel conjures me more than vaguely the By Kilian Pure Oud’s boot polish-effect but while the latter creation is smokier Amber Oud is more mouldy/musky (and castoreum/truffles-like smelling). Hardly evolving juice, rising complex-multifaceted by nature di per se.
Really close to Castoreum from the same house, with its wild-leather/fur’s mossy feel (and its vague aroma of mexical Mezcal yet buck/reindeer’s fur) while I detect as well a “black musk-typical” honeyed impenetrable dirtiness.
A “veritable” raw material barely “caressed” and modulated by Dubrana in order to better “embellish” (and mitigate) its full range of “multiveined” prerogatives.
La Via del Profumo Amber Oud is profound and arcane (but never oppressive and surprisingly wearable).
I don’t know whether ambergris is included in the potion (and surely some ambery nuances are in here detectable) but the most prominent feel I pick up is probably musky, yes a black musk’s darkly honeyed presence quite oily, animalic (a sheer castoreum’s oil seems to wave under my disreputable nose) and fungous-truffly.
Moderate projection and good longevity on my skin.
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William –
The AMBER OUD has just the right combination of deep animal notes blended with the aroma of peaceeful amber that tempts one to come closer for more, like a magnet.
The IHRAM is scent that took me to another dimension, beyond my senses. Simply put, it is sublime and sacred like a sacrament. I am strangely attracted to this otherworldly, and mystical composition of the art of perfume.