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X Oudh Clive Christian 2017

7.9 / 10 12 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by Clive Christian for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is oriental-spicy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Oriental

Spicy

Smoky

Animal

Sweet

Ratings

Scent

7.912 Ratings

Longevity

7.910 Ratings

Sillage

7.810 Ratings

Bottle

8.727 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 07/21/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

M7 (2002) Eau de Toilette

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/11/2023

10Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

SeoulBrough
39 Reviews

SeoulBrough

4

Gorgeous and Complex!

This is extremely well blended with top notch notes. The DNA of the original X for men is present but distant. X Oudh opens with pimento, baie rose and cardamom. The opening is a combo of fresh, slightly spicy and smoky. I’m assuming the smoky accord is coming from the labdanum or castoreum. I’m not sure but it adds a sophistication to X Oudh. As it dries down, the sandalwood and benzoin provides a creamy ever so slightly sweet aroma that is gorgeous.

With all of this sexiness going on, one thing I failed to mention….there is no oud in X Oudh, or it’s the least used material and buried underneath all the other notes within the fragrance. Maybe my nose is broken…who knows.

No matter, I cannot stop smelling my hand and love it.

This reminds me a little bit of a niche quality version of YSL’s M7, the OG red bottle. X Oudh is dense and richer while providing better performance.

My favorite Clive Christian offerings are X Oudh, Cypress and Hedonistic. Absolutely love them all.

If you can find a sample of this rare fragrance, do not hesitate to try it.

06/19/2025

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

V37
11 Reviews

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V37

3

Rococo Oudh

2017 was a wild year for Clive Christian. Two years after a group of investors led by Ann Golag and Brian Souter secured a majority stake in the English bespoke kitchen maker's company, a total of 32 new fragrances were launched at once.

In addition to lines that still exist today, such as the Noble Collection (best known for the incredibly popular XXI: Art Deco - Blonde Amber) and the now unfortunately significantly reduced Addictive Arts series (known for the 2020 reformulated Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic), the house primarily released a whole series of flankers to its original line of "No. 1 for Men | Clive Christian," "1872 for Men | Clive Christian," and X for Men (*and women).

Many of these flankers are very close to the original versions of the line, merely complementing them with a few (mostly titular) accords and, if at all, settling for fine-tuning the base DNA.

With X Oudh, this is not the case; here we have an independent fragrance that has very little in common with the original, but does borrow from another scent of the house.

But let's start from the beginning: The opening immediately presents the titular Oudh accord in the air.

Slightly sweet, creamy, and far from any serious animalic notes, it reminds me stylistically of the Oudh accord in Roja's "H - The Exclusive Black Tier | Roja Parfums."

However, as the fragrance develops, this accord is significantly less dominant, even though it remains present and quite perceptible for a long time.

Instead, a dry-sweet immortelle underpinned incense defines the scent character for my nose in the first third.

The slightly warm, entirely unsacred incense almost directly frames the Oudh accord and is accompanied at the top by a yellow citrus note and pleasant spiciness. Somewhere in the background, I perceive an indistinct, barely sweet fruitiness that gains prominence over time and perhaps belongs to the immortelle, which also becomes increasingly defining and slowly pushes the incense back in the heart.

And here I also find the connection to another release from the house in 2017: X Oudh increasingly resembles "VIII: Rococo - Immortelle | Clive Christian." A bit less woody and harsh, the immortelle is less strong, but the parallels are clearly present.

The X Oudh is somewhat more conciliatory due to the Oudh accord than the heavily woody-strawy Rococo Immortelle, but remains, because the sweetness seems to come from the dry immortelle rather than red berries as in "H - The Exclusive Black Tier | Roja Parfums," distinctly marked and rather masculine for my nose.

The longevity and sillage are in the typical range for Clive Christian fragrances of this time; in the first two hours, one is still perceived at arm's length before the scent increasingly develops into a skin scent and ends after about 8 hours in a reconciliatory sweet creamy base that lingers for a while before it too disappears.