2. Nawab of Oudh Parfum Ormonde Jayne 2012

For days I've been checking if this wonderful fragrance finally has a comment...no. So I’ll get to it....

When the sample (thanks, toiletry bag) arrived and I unscrewed the cap and cautiously smelled it, it was already over for me. As soon as I dabbed it on, a paradisiacal scent spread, I could bathe in it.

I am confused. I expected an Oud blockbuster. Wrong. This is something entirely different.

The top note is enchantingly beautiful, you can smell floral aldehydes paired with spicy freshness. It feels like a silky transparent, floating light.
As it develops, the softness remains, the transparency, the scent becomes a bit spicier, more floral, briefly the Oud appears, but is already integrated again. After many hours, you smell a balsamic, delicious base.

This is a composition full of grace and sweetness, ethereally beautiful, soft and flowing. Before me, the image of a clear body of water emerges, above me arches an endless, golden sky.

In my opinion, this scent has nothing to do with the adjacent: "often also liked." However, I do recognize a similarity to Oud for Love by TDC.
In both, the Oud is unusual, soft, balsamic.
It is almost impossible for me to pick out individual components.
Longevity and sillage are very good.

For everyone who likes Oud for Love or Night Oud or who may not necessarily befriend Oud, this is a clear test recommendation; or maybe not, because the price is not....uhm...lovely.