Oud
Patchouli
Cypriol
Pink pepper
Red peony
Saffron
Cardamom
Geranium absolute
Vetiver
Citrus notes
Musk08/31/2025
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Who can make people cry...
Oh no, it's not that bad, don't worry. Not even a little bad, on the contrary. Nevertheless - what a strange fragrance Oud Voyager is - and what a strange time it comes at. I must (and will) explain straight away why I find it so strange, so peculiar - and why it has something dramatic and driving - 'haunting' I suppose you would say in English - which I somewhat theatrically claim in the title may move you to tears.
Rose and oud - hasn't that been over for a good decade? And now here comes Tom Ford (who launched something very similar a good ten years ago with Oud Fleur) and lets the great Dominique Ropion create a fragrance in the mid-2020s that seems to have fallen out of time. Was he simply forgotten back then with Oud Fleur, Oud Minérale and Tobacco Oud and all the others that were supposed to make the cash registers ring in Oud Wood's slipstream?
I could now fabulate that Oud Voyager is contemporary after all. But it's not, it could just as well be from 2010 or even earlier. And it doesn't matter here, because it shows the worn-out fashion chord of rose and oud so delicately and delicately, so approachable and so vulnerable - perhaps the timeless hand of the timeless Monsieur Ropion? - that it works just as well as a reminiscence of past private blends as it does as a creature of the present.
Oud Voyager, whose name speaks of longing and distance, has that rhythm in a minor key - like a beautiful script on parchment or a sad waltz danced in the half-shadow - driving and urgent, yet precisely executed. Rose with a hint of regret like a bouquet never given away and dry, almost papery wood like letters full of devotion and love that no one read. A fragrance full of vulnerability and hurt - and yet complete and yet intact.
Conclusion: a strange wanderer between the olfactory past and present. Very Tom Ford in its own way and yet also très Ropion. And - who would have thought it? - it works.
Rose and oud - hasn't that been over for a good decade? And now here comes Tom Ford (who launched something very similar a good ten years ago with Oud Fleur) and lets the great Dominique Ropion create a fragrance in the mid-2020s that seems to have fallen out of time. Was he simply forgotten back then with Oud Fleur, Oud Minérale and Tobacco Oud and all the others that were supposed to make the cash registers ring in Oud Wood's slipstream?
I could now fabulate that Oud Voyager is contemporary after all. But it's not, it could just as well be from 2010 or even earlier. And it doesn't matter here, because it shows the worn-out fashion chord of rose and oud so delicately and delicately, so approachable and so vulnerable - perhaps the timeless hand of the timeless Monsieur Ropion? - that it works just as well as a reminiscence of past private blends as it does as a creature of the present.
Oud Voyager, whose name speaks of longing and distance, has that rhythm in a minor key - like a beautiful script on parchment or a sad waltz danced in the half-shadow - driving and urgent, yet precisely executed. Rose with a hint of regret like a bouquet never given away and dry, almost papery wood like letters full of devotion and love that no one read. A fragrance full of vulnerability and hurt - and yet complete and yet intact.
Conclusion: a strange wanderer between the olfactory past and present. Very Tom Ford in its own way and yet also très Ropion. And - who would have thought it? - it works.
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