Al Oudh L'Artisan Parfumeur 2009

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6.9 / 10 165 Ratings

A perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for men, released in 2009. The scent is spicy-oriental. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Woody

Animal

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cumin

Cardamom

Date

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Oud

Saffron

Frankincense Iris

Iris

Leather

Neroli

Rose

Base Notes

Civet

Cedar

Patchouli

Myrrh

Sandalwood

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

6.9165 Ratings

Longevity

7.7129 Ratings

Sillage

6.8106 Ratings

Bottle

7.8114 Ratings

Value for money

7.622 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 08/11/2025.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/19/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 3

Al Yawn...

Velvety, sweet, slightly soapy woody notes (sandalwood, maybe cashmere wood), mellow aromatic herbs (sage?), a rose breeze, a whiff of incense and a subtle rubbery-medicinal whiff on the base – the agar wood – which smells really discreet, also somehow sugary, blended with a leather note which is “tiny” but rich, somehow like in Dzing! by the same house. Basically Al Oudh smells like a sort of transparent, “clean” rewriting of many Western oud scents, particularly those on the sweet-woody side, just much more tamed down and with a more discreet, posh, light appearance as per style of L’Artisan Parfumeur (for me it’s just a consistently repeated flaw more than a style mark, but to each his own). I appreciate in particular the refined complexity of the texture, which smells initially thin but solid, and the nice bright counterpart of powdery notes which perfectly balances the cozy woodiness. So what’s the issue? The evolution. Not because of its persistence, but because in a matter of minutes it all becomes in my opinion a close-to-skin, completely negligible synthetic woody incense with a vague spicy feel (tonka above all). Somehow oudish, but yawn. Something fades away, something just becomes duller, it all lands on a “woody designer from the 2000s” territory. I am even a moderate fan of the genre actually, but they cost a third of this - for a reason. The opening phase is nice, but then, meh...

5,5-6/10

10/21/2023

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Nikander
16 Reviews

Nikander

Helpful Review 3

Airy spices

Masterpiece and quintessentially L’Artisan Parfumeur. Lots of common ground with Camel and Aziyade, but those fragrances are loud and go way too heavy on the spiced fruit notes. This however is a masterclass in using ‘loud’ ingredients which then somehow take on an airy instead of an earthy quality, producing the most ethereal and uplifting silage. In that aspect this effect is very comparable with L’Artisan’s Voleur de Roses, which does the same trick to the notorious rose-patchouli combo.

07/08/2023

Kanyezzy
11 Reviews

Kanyezzy

1

L’Artisan Parfumeur Al Oudh= Arabie + Fate + Oud

This is a different take on oud than the usual stuff you see on the “oud” market. Created by Bertrand Douchafour , this was made to evoke the old caravans transporting spices, incense and myrrh in the desert heat.
Mr Douchafour chose to focus on the spices because this is a cumin dominant scent drenched in dried friuits syrup with myrrh , incense and a little bit of civet to round things up make it just a little bit dirty, in the best sense of course. To me , sometimes this smells like some ancient chest in an old monastery, but that’s just me. There are echoes of Arabie with that dried fruit accord and Fate Man by Amouage (old chest full of spices smell), nonetheless this blends them nicely with civet and incense to create something extraordinarily exotic and never out of place.
Although there are listed a lot of heavy notes , this is no beast of a perfume, but is has decent longevity with close projection.

08/11/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Cuminy doughnut musk with dried fruit undertone

For me, this is the missing link between Malle's Musc Ravageur and Amouage's Jubilation XXV. It combines the half-doughnut, half-perineum aspects that I like so much in the first with the uplifting fruit and incense/oud combo I like in the latter. It opens on a note of sugary sweet dates, cumin, and cinnamon, with a powdery musk underneath, and reminds me strongly of the gourmandish properties of both Musc Ravageur and its cheaper cousin, Meharees by L'Erbolario.

The cumin note is quite strong, recalling both the flat breadiness of doughnut dough and male armpits, a kind of spicy and stale smell that I find quite alluring. Anyone who likes the hot cumin note in Puredistance M and Bel Ami would find the treatment of the spice in Al Oudh to be along similar lines - a bit dry and brutal at first, but ending up as an attractive warm skin note.

The oud note is subtle, and reminds me a little bit of how the oud in Jubilation XXV stays in the background as one woody note among many others. Al Oudh is predominantly a spicy, woody fragrance rather than an oud-focused one. It is lightly musky and animalic, I would say, rather than heavily so. Certainly I can't detect much of the civet or castoreum that's supposed to be in this. But there is a gauzy, sweet animalic tone to this that I like very much, and the typical L'Artisan transparency makes it an attractive daytime option for when my heavier, skankier scents are just not appropriate.

11/27/2019

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Pepdal
238 Reviews

Pepdal

Al Oudh Review

This one goes a little under the radar when it comes to some of Duchaufour's creations for L'Artisan. Animalic oud and spices, paired with sweet fermented fruit, promises an interesting scent journey....