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Desert Oud + 30 companions
One reads a commentary about a fragrance where one assumes that I will certainly never acquire it but one is curious. You read the commentary, a kind of Leipziger Allerlei was used for the scent, which normally discourages you, but here it makes you curious. That then with a mark, which one had already dismissed, because both the oils for five euro and the smells for a middle three-figure amount could not convince one but culminated in lack of ideas and expression. Nevertheless, one dares to buy blindly and this with a pyramid of scents consisting of approximately 500 characters.
If you know this, you're obviously as much off the mark as I am ;) but there's one thing you don't have to reproach yourself for, at least in Desert Oud, and that is that you made a bad buy. Desert Oud is changeable, but more balanced than other scents from Nabeel where everything that was available was used.
First the fruity notes come through, what exactly is hidden behind them I can't say, but there will be red fruits, that much can be perceived. Strawberry, melon, raspberry etc, I don't know if it's all there and even more I don't smell it explicitly. Now there could be baby food or chicken foot, I would nod off and leave it there. If it has been fertilized, because it smells like fruit after all. The fact is, however, that this fruit basket is not sweet but synthetic-fruity and that in a healthy extent.
Successively pepper sets in, the carefree fruitiness disappears bit by bit. The pepper right after it. The maritime notes then set in relatively quickly. Whatever it is, I can draw two parallels in olfactory terms: the scent of juniper with leather, which we know from Memo Irish Leather and Rasasi LY Ambergris Showers. Desert Oud is in the middle of the two at this point in time; it is not too pungent like LY Ambergris Showers but also doesn't have the multi-faceted depth of Irish Leather.
It's nice that you recognize something, but these are both fragrances that I can't win because of their mixture. So it comes in handy that this reminiscence is of short duration and soon a kind of sweet-spicy curtain is drawn in front of it, with some smears of flowery curtain. These sweet notes smell like full-bodied chocolate with a higher cocoa content but still under 70%, because the scent is not bitter enough for that. At first I thought I had a certain AS of Axe under my nose but fortunately this wasn't the case as Desert Oud has depth. Now I also ponder about the leather in the green dress I experienced before. When I think about it, it was not too much but well dosed and therefore wearable for those who like Irish Leather for example but like it short lived and softened.
A phenomenon, if you want to perceive the smell on yourself, is that the nose becomes "blind" relatively quickly. If you test the scent on another person with a few sprays, I can empirically prove that you can smell the scent very intensely. Furthermore, with the mass of ingredients, it is not the case that cascade after cascade is fired and you are constantly being sprinkled with completely new scent impressions, quasi mirages around mirages while lying in the desert sand and being intoxicated by them. The scent is multi-layered, but does not change its direction permanently.
It gets sweeter, sometimes spicier, but basically the same. This kernel is gently peeled out and smells the same as you know it from Arabic ouds in the lower price segment, at least from those that are polished smooth to form a bond with other ingredients. Here this is quite successful, because we have now a mixture of musk and moss with the moss enveloping the musk just right, really nothing to complain about. Many other impressions waft around this heart for me now.
Whatever is really included here at this price, the fragrance is finely tuned. For me Desert Oud is carefree and will be put on when I can't decide on anything. This one has everything included somehow. My thanks go to Darkbeat for his comment, which made me sit up and take notice.