Top Notes 
Assam oud
Heart Notes 
Bangladeshian oud
Base Notes 
Laotian oud
06/26/2024
Ninamariah
253 Reviews
Ninamariah
1
Barnyard Oud but I love it
KEMI BLENDING MAGIC
Owner Sergio Momo
Nose: Chris Maurice
Discontinued
Relaunched under Xerjoff’s K Collection, they (at least these ones) differ from the original ones. There seems to be even less real Oud if any and for example one of the main notes - Caramel - is not even mentioned in the notes of Kemi in K collection.
Some perfumes which I love in summertime. I know, the most of the people don’t wear these kind of heavy ones in hot but on my skin these are best on warm weather.
KEMI (released originally 2014)
Top: Cedar, Laotian agarwood (Oud)
Middle: Gurjum Balsam, Caramel, Castoreum, Civet
Base: Sandalwood, Vanilla, wood notes
I have some obsession with caramel notes in summertime and in this concoction, I just can’t resist it. It’s so amazing now when it melts on my skin. This smells exactly how you can imagine because of the notes: woody, oudy, sensual, animalic, soft, sweet and addictive. It’s well blended and enjoyable.
‘ilm (2014)
Arabic word for “knowledge”
Very challenging and barnyardy
Indian Assam oud
Oud from Bangladesh
Oud from Laos
“It is an unfathomable combination of different types of oud wood with their heavy, brown, earthy, and slumbering smell, evoking a sense of age and wisdom. ‘ilm opens with the fruity dimension imparted by the loudness of oud wood. The fruity dimension also imparts tobacco-like features to the solid and mystical oud and makes it enchantingly mysterious. Dark, yet bright and promising, heavy, yet full of passion, like knowledge that is unattainable, which once possessed bestows to its bearer all the secrets of the universe.“
️And no, I don’t believe or think that this is real Oud. There is a little hint of those and the rest is something else but I enjoy it regardless. Real Ouds and synthetic blends are totally different categories for sure. My thoughts on “Ouds” is well said in Ensar Oud website:
“The perfume industry has flooded the market with synthetic oud aroma chemicals, watering down and convoluting the legacy of oud with their shallow and linear plantation ouds.
To be blunt, most brands starting to use the term are just milking the cash cow that is the growing trend and vast market of wealthy Arab and Middle-eastern nations given their affinity towards everything oud, and nothing to do with appreciation of the fine aromatic.
The use of oud as a term has never been more widespread, nor has the quality ever been so low. For commercial purposes, oud is any ratio of the lowest grade ‘agarwood oil’ in combination with any other oil, be it of natural or synthetic origin.”
Owner Sergio Momo
Nose: Chris Maurice
Discontinued
Relaunched under Xerjoff’s K Collection, they (at least these ones) differ from the original ones. There seems to be even less real Oud if any and for example one of the main notes - Caramel - is not even mentioned in the notes of Kemi in K collection.
Some perfumes which I love in summertime. I know, the most of the people don’t wear these kind of heavy ones in hot but on my skin these are best on warm weather.
KEMI (released originally 2014)
Top: Cedar, Laotian agarwood (Oud)
Middle: Gurjum Balsam, Caramel, Castoreum, Civet
Base: Sandalwood, Vanilla, wood notes
I have some obsession with caramel notes in summertime and in this concoction, I just can’t resist it. It’s so amazing now when it melts on my skin. This smells exactly how you can imagine because of the notes: woody, oudy, sensual, animalic, soft, sweet and addictive. It’s well blended and enjoyable.
‘ilm (2014)
Arabic word for “knowledge”
Very challenging and barnyardy
Indian Assam oud
Oud from Bangladesh
Oud from Laos
“It is an unfathomable combination of different types of oud wood with their heavy, brown, earthy, and slumbering smell, evoking a sense of age and wisdom. ‘ilm opens with the fruity dimension imparted by the loudness of oud wood. The fruity dimension also imparts tobacco-like features to the solid and mystical oud and makes it enchantingly mysterious. Dark, yet bright and promising, heavy, yet full of passion, like knowledge that is unattainable, which once possessed bestows to its bearer all the secrets of the universe.“
️And no, I don’t believe or think that this is real Oud. There is a little hint of those and the rest is something else but I enjoy it regardless. Real Ouds and synthetic blends are totally different categories for sure. My thoughts on “Ouds” is well said in Ensar Oud website:
“The perfume industry has flooded the market with synthetic oud aroma chemicals, watering down and convoluting the legacy of oud with their shallow and linear plantation ouds.
To be blunt, most brands starting to use the term are just milking the cash cow that is the growing trend and vast market of wealthy Arab and Middle-eastern nations given their affinity towards everything oud, and nothing to do with appreciation of the fine aromatic.
The use of oud as a term has never been more widespread, nor has the quality ever been so low. For commercial purposes, oud is any ratio of the lowest grade ‘agarwood oil’ in combination with any other oil, be it of natural or synthetic origin.”
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