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The History of Oud Collection

Yela Evora 2017

8.0 / 10 99 Ratings

A popular perfume by Evora for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-earthy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Woody

Earthy

Spicy

Smoky

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Indonesian oud

Sumatran oud

Zorplamquix

Ratings

Scent

8.099 Ratings

Longevity

7.189 Ratings

Sillage

6.189 Ratings

Bottle

8.796 Ratings

Value for money

7.673 Ratings

Submitted by Jakobkn · last update on 01/01/2026.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection The History of Oud Collection.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/29/2023

7Scent 10Longevity 2Sillage

Styler
20 Reviews

Styler

2

Blast from the past

First thing that popped in to my head was "Metaxa". Alcoholic beverage I used to drink in my teenage years. Not too pleasant memory actually because I hate that stuff now :D So first thing I felt - this is boozy. Old world woody. Like old wooden chest from the basement. So maybe old barrel of booze. Definitely smokey. I feel like this is not a "fragrance" per se but a very familiar smell from my childhood/teenage years. I live in Eastern Europe, and this is not a first Areej fragrance that gives me this feeling that Adam is just selling "The scent of Soviet Russia", to the world :D This juice is mostly about the base. Stains the skin ALOT. Lasts a long time. But projection is close to zero for me. Like even 15mins after applying I need to bury my nose in to it to smell it. Bottle is very beautiful and quality.

03/03/2025

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Omarareej
29 Reviews

Omarareej

2

Oud for beginners

If you want to try oud that doesn’t offend anyone and you don’t want to lose a huge amount of money just to smell it. This is the perfect perfume for you. It’s almost unbelievable that a single note perfume can smell this good. It’s smooth, it’s not loud and it’s a complete oud perfume. I would really recommend this on especially when looking at the price. I’m afraid it’s harder to get now it’s sold out but if you can try it!

05/22/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Incensey, vetiver-like woodsmoke - almost CdG-esque

Now this is very interesting. Immediately there is a whiff of old church pews, full of decaying wood spores and creeping mold, like inside the ruins of a gothic cathedral. Then there is a wash of soot or smoke - not live smoke, but more the remnants of an extinguished campfire, soot up the walls, etc. The smoke is not ashy at all, though, just clean and woody, with a deep-toned whiskey dimension that reminds me a lot of the original Vetiver by Annick Goutal. This is rinsed through with a strong, hot clove note, a hint of camphor, cinnamon bark, and birch wood, kind of like if Eau Lente and Patchouli 24 got together and had a baby. It wears down into a thin glaze of sweet incensey woodsmoke. Reminds me of Ambra Aurea’s balance of frankincense, church pew, amber and wood, but about 60% more transparent and not nearly as sugary.

Two things to note. First, this does not smell like oud oil to me at all, which was puzzling until I read the description that says it is supposed to capture the clean, resinous smell of oud chips being smoked. And indeed, it does smell of resins and woodsmoke. As long as you don’t go into this expecting this to exude that familiar sour, fermented, barnyardy vibe you get with oud oil, you will enjoy this. But if you're a committed oud oil fan and don’t particularly like the incensey scent of smoking oud wood chips, then this may not be the one for you.

Second, this is light and airy to the point of being ephemeral – the juice stains the skin yellow, which leads you to expect great richness or depth, but no. It is almost as if you have sprayed a hydrosol onto your skin, or a ruh. It has all the heft of one of those CB I Hate Perfume water perfumes. Of course, that means it smells gorgeously – if fleetingly – natural. This must be connected to the way the perfume was made, i.e., an oud ‘essence’ obtained via a hybrid CO2 and ethanol extraction process, which certainly sounds like it might produce something much flightier than your typical oil.

01/06/2025

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Onewontdo
7 Reviews

Onewontdo

1

Sprayable oud oil

I like this. I heat oud chips regularly on a gentle burner and whenever I purchase an oud oil, that gentle, sweet, resinous allure is what I look for, which is hard to replicate in oil or sprayable formats. But this bottle does that quite well. There is absolutely zero barn or challenging notes here, just a simple, clean smell of agarwood with bit of wet soil notes surrounding it. There is also a bit of Chinese medicine/herbal notes that comes through which provides a calming sensation.

06/23/2023

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Floyd
590 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 54

The Medicine Man of Indonesia

Ethereal eyes. The Medicine Man. A brew of cinnamon leaf and spicy cloves. He gently applies it with soft, mulchy barks over all your wounds, sealing them with harsh pine resins. Darkly glimmers the viscous balm, a percolate of bitter herbs. You strike a few bright roots in it. You dissolve in them like ancient pines. You pulse in slow motion into moist forest floors. You breathe them in. In contemplation.
**
Amazing what facets the two Indonesian oud varieties reveal here. There are ethereal, spicy-sharp aromas of clove and cinnamon leaf, bitter-green herbal tinctures on harsh needle resins, I think of Swiss stone pines, galbanum, soft, bright, mulchy barks, increasingly dry roots on summer forest floors, but I would never have thought of eagle woods here. This medicinally bitter-green-spicy herbal resin somehow feels purifying, calming to me, as if one were slowly spreading it over a wound, observing its dark shimmering color, feeling its viscous consistency between the fingers, inhaling its clarifying aromas. The restrained projection also fits well.

(With thanks to Sea Mermaid)

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