Benzoin
Blood orange
Choya Ral
Elemi resin
Frankincense CO2
Opoponax
Oud
Patchouli
Resins
Terpenes07/01/2025
ClaireV
958 Reviews
ClaireV
2
The crack the light gets through
Oud Luban is an oud fragrance that takes what Luca Turin mentioned as an 'inherent brown study grimness' characteristic of the material and shoots it through with a light-strobing blood orange note that makes it feel like liquid late-afternoon sunshine.
Superior, Hojari-grade frankincense from the Dhofar desert in Oman adds a bright, terpenic freshness that sidles up to the citrus and supports it - think crushed pine needles, with their juicy, lemony, green scent on your fingers after you touch them. And all this against a very smoky, leathery oud oil that is darkness personified. A superb, natural-smelling, joyful balancing of dark and light, Oud Luban displays a sort of switching-on-of-the-Christmas-lights effect.
I don't think I have ever smelled a perfume that works oud quite like this. The smoky, growly undertones of real oud are there alright - no mistaking this for a synthetic variant - but its usual tendency to spread its gravel-voiced gloominess over everything has been reined in by the bright, citrusy resin elements. I think of it as humorous and hopeful.
Superior, Hojari-grade frankincense from the Dhofar desert in Oman adds a bright, terpenic freshness that sidles up to the citrus and supports it - think crushed pine needles, with their juicy, lemony, green scent on your fingers after you touch them. And all this against a very smoky, leathery oud oil that is darkness personified. A superb, natural-smelling, joyful balancing of dark and light, Oud Luban displays a sort of switching-on-of-the-Christmas-lights effect.
I don't think I have ever smelled a perfume that works oud quite like this. The smoky, growly undertones of real oud are there alright - no mistaking this for a synthetic variant - but its usual tendency to spread its gravel-voiced gloominess over everything has been reined in by the bright, citrusy resin elements. I think of it as humorous and hopeful.
