R'oud Elements Kerosene 2012

Bottle Design:
John Pegg

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7.2 / 10 113 Ratings

A perfume by Kerosene for men, released in 2012. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Smoky

Citrus

Fragrance Notes

Oud

Bitter orange

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Cedar

Lavender

Vanilla

Iris

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

John Pegg Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.2113 Ratings

Longevity

7.987 Ratings

Sillage

7.087 Ratings

Bottle

7.880 Ratings

Value for money

6.217 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 06/06/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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O/E

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/04/2012

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

JPhx
8 Reviews

JPhx

Helpful Review 2

A warm and golden oud

A blizzard of bitter orange is my initial stance to this stunning scent by Kerosene. It immediately brings to mind unsweetened marmalade and within moments warm woods shadowed by amber are revealed, then completely envelope the brief yet acerbic onslaught.

A beguiling fragrance of developing soft and smooth ouds with good sillage and a longevity that is excellent upon me. For those who usually do not like ouds - as mentioned by others including Kerosene - I would certainly recommend trying this striking fragrance, which is neither exceedingly sweet nor smothering and has nothing of the barnyard that can deter the tender-hearts like me.

This is a distinctive and good EdP that has remained close to the skin half way through my day - drawing me into a comforting and balmy golden haze. Put quite simply, I like it. Do give it a try.

04/25/2014

7
Scent

Mujo
54 Reviews

Mujo

2

Unisex

Just now while reading reviews I found out that it's supposed to be a men's fragrance. I really thought this is a unisex fragrance and easily can be worn by a woman. So for the sake of all women who like to wear R'Oud Elements: let's get rid of the gender label!

It's raw, it's bitter and it exactly hits the spot for me. I seem to keep craving for this perfume and I went through my sample in no time. R'oud Elements opens with the bitter oranges and then transfers into a warm and sexy sandelwood/ oud scent. Very well done Kerosene.

03/01/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

1

Metallic oud

The opening of R’oud Elements by Kerosene shows quite many features and recurring notes of America’s contemporary indie perfumery: powerful, slightly boozy-terpenic, dark and incredibly rich, halfway the dark-syrupiness à la (early) M7, mostly for the same amber-oud-booze-herbs structure, and the metallic black amber reminding me of some Slumberhouse scents. Above this, a sharp, sour, dry and aromatic greenish accord with bold metallic whiffs (which don’t sound cheap, though, as they seem “intended” to provide a sort of post-industrial feel, which I guess quite fits the brand – or at least its name) and a base woody accord in fact quite similar to oud – smoky, dry, animalic, with a compelling shady and warm richness. The sandalwood lies somewhere on the very base, just providing a subtle drop of sweetness well contrasting with the general smoky, dark and almost “rotten” vibe. Overall: not bad at all, I enjoy the contrasts between the dark notes and the hints of sweet colour, wrapped in a warm, dark amber and woody feel. After a while the bold metallic aftertaste gets kind of annoying to me, but at least it seems a creative choice with its “raison d’etre” here. The projection is quite loud and the texture in my opinion smells as much creative as quite “elementary” somehow (not minimal, rather just barely simple to the point of smelling clumsy from times to times), but as I said... not bad at all for me!

7/10

12/28/2024

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Dressed2Kilt
5 Reviews

Dressed2Kilt

2

A Cozy Cottage In a Dark Woods

The fragrance that started it all for Kerosene. While fragrances have come and gone through the house— many of which I never got a chance to smell— this freshman debut from John Pegg has stayed in production all these years, and for good reason: it's a fantastic fragrance.

It opens with a loud, sharp bitter orange note that has some green facets to it. The bitter orange note dries away relatively quick, leaving a two contrasting scent profiles. On one side, you have a damp, dark, woody oud that doesn't have that medicinal smell other oud notes sometimes have. On the other side, you have a bright, sweet, almost effervescent combination of vanilla, lavender, sandalwood, and cedar. The two scent profiles really work well to balance each other out and create a very pleasant fragrance. The scent reminds me of a cottage in a dark forest, where the smell of the damp, woody air mixes in with a garden of lavender and vanilla potpourri.

The performance is quite good. It lasts a good 6 to 8 hours on my skin, and while the bitter orange projects quite strong at the beginning, the fragrance as a whole dries down to an arms-length projection for most of the wear.

Overall, this is my personal favorite fragrance of the brand. It wears particularly well in cold weather, but it's versatile enough to be an all-year wear. Of all the fragrances that I have and wear, this is the fragrance that my friends consistently say smells like "me", and I have to agree.

06/06/2025

ClaireV
731 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Sluicing oud with light and air

R’Oud Elements is a total wow for me – just wow! Pairing a bitter orange note (itself lurching charmingly from the naturalness of a freshly-peeled orange to the artificiality of a vitamin C drink) with a savory sandalwood standing in for oud, it has much the same effect as Many Aftel’s Oud Luban, in that it throws open the windows and floods a dark material (oud) with citrusy light.

R’Oud Elements turns the traditional treatment of oud – almost reverential, lengthening the shadows of its dankness with similarly deep, brown flavors, or countering them with truffled rose notes – on its head, making it sing out in hot orange-gold tones. R’Oud Elements is so bright it’s blinding – fizzy, zesty, and slightly mineralic. It smells like someone spilled freshly-squeezed orange juice on a grungy old brown leather sofa, which is all the better for it. The scent stops just short of achieving maximum creamsicle, the bitter orange never quite bridging it all the way to the creaminess set free by the sandal in the base. But feel good? God, yes.

Many people on Fragrantica say that this smells like M7 (Yves Saint Laurent), one of the first commercial fragrances in the West to feature oud. And I suppose that’s fair, though it is the sour, nutty mealiness of cedarwood (or even vetiver), rather than amber, painting an exotic picture of oudiness here. But what this reminds of the most – in effect, if not smell – is that low-high contrast between the aromatic, fizzy ‘dustiness’ of Italian herbs and the satiny, sour-cream umami-ness of sandalwood that runs through much of Lorenzo Villoresi’s work, particularly that of Sandalo and Musk. Something about the rub of something sharp or aromatic (saffron, lavender, orange peel) against something tartly lactonic (musk, sandalwood), fleshed out by an intensely powdery cedar, creates in all three scents the impression of cream lightly curdled by a squirt of lemon juice.

If I didn’t already own Musk (Lorenzo Villoresi) and vintage Sandalo (Etro) to satisfy my aromatic tart-sour-creamy woody needs, I would be setting my cap hard at R’Oud Elements. As it is, I’m still thinking about R’Oud Elements long after my sample is gone.