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Wild Oud Béjar 2014

8.1 / 10 20 Ratings

A popular perfume by Béjar for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is woody-resinous. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Resinous

Oriental

Spicy

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Nutmeg

Heart Notes

Tonka bean absolute

Base Notes

Haitian vetiver Musk

Musk

Oud

Patchouli

Perfumer

Ramón Béjar

Ratings

Scent

8.120 Ratings

Longevity

7.918 Ratings

Sillage

6.517 Ratings

Bottle

8.329 Ratings

Submitted by Florblanca, last update on 08/19/2022.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/19/2022

9.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

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Béjar / Wild Oud

Ramon Bejar - the Spanish conquistador in the world of perfumes dominated by perfumers from France, Italy, the USA and the Far East.
Apart from the very good Sanctum Perfume - this fragrance has long attracted my attention.
Wild Oud is a fragrance with very good quality ingredients. Agar here sounds like the best agar used for expensive Arabic perfumes. It reminds me of Yas-Al Malaki, among others. Well, yes, but the perfume is not standing alone with agar. I can sense a lot of musk, nutmeg and earthy patchouli in it. In the base, these perfumes also have vetiver, which in combination with musk gives a very interesting impression - on the one hand, green, spicy and smoky, and on the other hand, a strong and sharp impact of notes, including animal ones. Due to this combination of notes in the base - the perfume, in my opinion, has a slight tilt towards the masculine. We have now come to the name of these perfumes, which reflect what they are: agar on the one hand, wood with resins, and on the other hand, the wildness enhanced by the notes of musk.
WILD OUD is worth getting to know. For me it is a beautiful and very good quality perfume. Durability and high-level projection, just like fragrance ingredients.

08/24/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sarungal
69 Reviews

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Sarungal

Top Review 13

Noblesse oblige

After being deeply impressed by "Black Cube," composed by Ramon Bejar, I was eager to explore more works by the Spanish perfumer. In "Sanctum Perfume," we encounter a minimally orchestrated yet pompously sounding symphony of incense in minor, which manages to bring to olfactory life not only the sublime, sacred, cool, and completely unsweetened aspects of the oriental resin but also its smoky-sensual elements. A grand, very purist cinema!

"Wild Oud" appears more complex, even though the name of the fragrance leads one down a completely false trail: Bejar tames the agarwood without hiding it; instead, the perfumer complements the occasionally somewhat medicinal and piercing oud note in the opening with the citrusy-bitter bergamot. The real coup, however, is the nutmeg oil. Its dominance effortlessly demotes the agarwood top note to a spice - an unexpected role reversal in that the actual spice - nutmeg - appears almost foreign-fruity, while the slowly rising oud gives the fresh opening an olfactory decorative spin into the clean-sweet-glossy (sic!) realm. Just a pinch of the agarwood dusted to flour strives to enter the bouquet as the finest scent hint, without vying for attention.

Is this too complicated to conceive - or does the reviewer perhaps overstate the artistry of what is actually the most harmless craftsmanship? Possible, but unimportant - my nose dictates this perception of the top note, in which, by the way, almost everything is already laid out that will manifest later on.

The oud magic only succeeds in conjunction with the tonka bean; however, anyone hoping for a vanilla agarwood bomb will be disappointed: it remains calm in the structure, and it won't get any sweeter. Instead, a quite powerful vetiver starts the engine, only to impress with the running calm of its surprisingly cultivated drive. Its vibes are undoubtedly present, but they content themselves with grounding the fragrance. It darkens nobly and slightly woody afterwards. Just as the nutmeg note had civilized the oud, now the vetiver takes over this task. The duet of both aromas is of perfect harmony, while the echo of the delicate nutmeg melody still resonates in the upper voice.

If we assume that Bejar tames the agarwood, then he takes a step further with patchouli: its notes are practically tamed until they function as a simple fixation - free from all raw-sensual earth-heavy sweetness and certainly devoid of any mustiness. In passing, they may darken the fragrance a bit more; aside from that, this patchouli is at least bound, gagged, and paralyzed besides.

In an interview, Bejar confessed to his musky obsession; it is hardly surprising that this aroma also plays a role in his "Wild Oud." Animalistic aspects are at best a claim; it is the white, clean variant of musk that loosens the now fully developed, gently darkened, and still only slightly sweetened bouquet in a gentle wash cycle, only to finish it off with a light powderiness during drying. "Wild Oud" then lingers on the wearer for an extended period as a barely distinguishable, very soft, and aristocratically distinguished aroma - still oddly refreshing and far from any darkness: golden glimmers on the skin, which started sunny yellow...

Bejar seems to prefer elegance and refinement; this applies so far to all the fragrances he has created that I have been able to sniff. "Black Cube" impresses with the richest scent progression, while "Sanctum Perfume" powerfully strikes its lonely but powerful theme. "5Elements" captivates with one of the most exciting green-floral notes I have encountered so far - and our "Wild Oud"? It is far too sophisticated to deserve such a name. But who knows? Perhaps irony is part of the concept. The sillage is also far from wild, but consistent - and quite fitting for a fragrance of this class: Noblesse oblige.

That Bejar appreciates the show effect is evident from a glance at his Molvizar fragrances: so much bling-bling may raise doubts about the content for some. Bejar approaches this fragrance line differently, though at least as impressively. The bottles are among the most beautiful I have ever seen: angular, diamond-cut, monumentally large in relation to the manageable filling volume, and heavy like a small dumbbell, framed in black glass that seamlessly merges with the transparent part. The writing is typically engraved in a molvizar-bejar style, making it interesting to the touch. Is it handy? Certainly not - even though I can already swing the child with my hands if I make an effort. Who cares - these things are art! That they can also serve as a murder weapon is only mentioned for the sake of completeness.

Unisex is the motto, as I can indeed imagine "Wild Oud" on both genders. Some guys may find the base a bit too feminine due to its light powderiness - but this objection pales in comparison to Prada's infusions (Homme and Vetiver).

Conclusion: Both outside and inside, it’s impressive - but (as always) certainly not to everyone's taste. Given the price tag, blind purchases are out of the question anyway - but just for the sake of the incredibly beautiful bottle, one from the line will have to find its way to me sooner or later, no matter how nicely the sample is packaged...

05/28/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Florblanca
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Florblanca

Top Review 9

The Pyramid is Upside Down?

Now that I have finished the Cuarzo the Circle fragrance line by Ramón Béjar, I know what high quality to expect from this perfumer. Of course, I was very curious about his new fragrance line, which is being launched under the simple name RB Ramón Béjar. There are a total of eight fragrances, all in a black-bordered bottle and in a black-silver packaging with motif embossing.

One should also have fun with joy, and so I started with the fragrance that scared me the most and for which I expected the absolute worst. No flowers, no amber, everything sounds very frightening for my nose. And especially when it is a fragrance that emphasizes oud and even bears the name Wild Oud.

So I first sprayed it very cautiously on the test strip - oh yes, it’s not that bad at all... so I sprayed it directly on my skin. Here, the fragrance develops completely differently due to body heat. Oud is already in the top note and quite intense. Supported by a bitter, spicy, dark background scent.
I saw my worst fears confirmed and was already about to abandon the test, but then decided to continue testing and wait to see what else would come. I started it, so I would also finish it.

Fortunately, I did. Because two hours later, I could perceive a soft, light gold-olive green fragrance, slightly sweet and almost as if some floral notes were included. The scent reminds me of MDCI's Chypre Palatin.
If I paid attention, I could also sense a very fine, woody-resinous agarwood note that accompanied this soft, light green fragrance. It is so gentle that I like this note. It would even feel incomplete without it.

The soft, creamy, delicate gold-green note then remains for several hours. In my second test, the fragrance was there when I went to bed in the evening, and the next morning I could still perceive it. There is no significant change anymore, but it doesn’t need to be, as beautiful as this fragrance is. As with all Béjar fragrances, the sillage is relatively discreet, and the scent remains close to the skin.

However, the longevity is more than satisfactory. Between 8 and 12 hours is typical for all Béjar fragrances (with one exception). Wild Oud even lasts longer; I could still smell it after 15 hours. On the test strip, it lasts for three days and still smells so beautifully light-gold-moss green. Simply wonderful!

Who would have thought that an oud fragrance would be rated 80% by me!

Statements

6 short views on the fragrance

Bellemorte

8 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

3

1

At first I thought "what a soft scent" and then the BEAST emerged, bringing earth & darkness with
and stars of bergamot and vetiver.

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M3000

4 years ago

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

2

1

Mild instead of wild, and the oud also comes off as harmless. The wood is quite wearable, sweetness and resins dance around each other, overall uninteresting.

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