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The somewhat different Oud Wood
My fragrance journey has only just begun and I am testing my way through many different fragrances and fragrance houses. As my interest in perfume grows, you can't avoid the designer Tom Ford. So I also heard about Oud Wood. By chance, however, I had the opportunity to "sniff" the Tobacco Oud first. The tobacco was too much for me, but I now associated the cozy warmth in the dry-down with the name "Oud" at TF. With Oud Wood, I now expected it to give me that feeling again, without the tobacco note.
As luck would have it, a friend asked me if I liked oud fragrances and handed me the bottle of the Oud Noir Intense reviewed here. I sprayed it on, smelled it on my wrist and the association with the dry-down of Tobacco Oud was there. As the fragrance progressed, that cozy warmth came through again and I was blown away. So I asked what the fragrance was called and was initially shocked by the price.
So the journey continued. Oud Wood by TF, Carved Oud by Thameen and Royal Oud by Creed are always mentioned as similar fragrances. I picked up a bottle of all of them and was disappointed. Instead of a woody, warm scent, I was greeted by a purely spicy cloud of cardamom, which didn't change throughout the fragrance.
The fragrance pyramid suggested that Oud Noir Intense would offer me the same (bad) experience and I strongly doubted that I had actually been given the right Fragrance Du Bois at the time. After much deliberation, I picked up a bottle anyway. As always, I sprayed the fragrance onto a fragrance strip first. And there it was again: that damn cardamom cloud. I was already regretting the purchase of the bottling. But I didn't give up. I sprayed it on my wrist and finally had the same experience as before! A woody-spicy, yet thoroughly gentle fragrance that radiates a lovely warmth on dry-down.
For me, this fragrance is the best of the four mentioned above. Sprayed onto the skin, it radiates the most elegance and skillfully balances the cardamom cloud with a floral component. Unlike the others, Oud Noir Intense manages to transform the spicy start into a vanilla-resinous and comfortingly warm dry-down.
Is it worth the money? Anyone who visits Parfumo can answer that for themselves. For me, at least, it does what it and its companions want to radiate in the best possible way. That makes it worth the money for me.
As luck would have it, a friend asked me if I liked oud fragrances and handed me the bottle of the Oud Noir Intense reviewed here. I sprayed it on, smelled it on my wrist and the association with the dry-down of Tobacco Oud was there. As the fragrance progressed, that cozy warmth came through again and I was blown away. So I asked what the fragrance was called and was initially shocked by the price.
So the journey continued. Oud Wood by TF, Carved Oud by Thameen and Royal Oud by Creed are always mentioned as similar fragrances. I picked up a bottle of all of them and was disappointed. Instead of a woody, warm scent, I was greeted by a purely spicy cloud of cardamom, which didn't change throughout the fragrance.
The fragrance pyramid suggested that Oud Noir Intense would offer me the same (bad) experience and I strongly doubted that I had actually been given the right Fragrance Du Bois at the time. After much deliberation, I picked up a bottle anyway. As always, I sprayed the fragrance onto a fragrance strip first. And there it was again: that damn cardamom cloud. I was already regretting the purchase of the bottling. But I didn't give up. I sprayed it on my wrist and finally had the same experience as before! A woody-spicy, yet thoroughly gentle fragrance that radiates a lovely warmth on dry-down.
For me, this fragrance is the best of the four mentioned above. Sprayed onto the skin, it radiates the most elegance and skillfully balances the cardamom cloud with a floral component. Unlike the others, Oud Noir Intense manages to transform the spicy start into a vanilla-resinous and comfortingly warm dry-down.
Is it worth the money? Anyone who visits Parfumo can answer that for themselves. For me, at least, it does what it and its companions want to radiate in the best possible way. That makes it worth the money for me.