The Aoud Collection

Amber Aoud Roja Parfums 2012 Parfum

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Ranked 75 in Unisex Perfume

8.5 / 10 1308 Ratings

A popular perfume by Roja Parfums for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is oriental-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Oriental

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Bergamot

Lime

Heart Notes

May rose

Fig

Grasse jasmine

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Ambergris

Oud

Saffron

Benzoin

Birch

Cinnamon

Musk

Sandalwood Iris

Iris

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Roja Dove

Ratings

Scent

8.51308 Ratings

Longevity

8.51200 Ratings

Sillage

8.11199 Ratings

Bottle

9.21145 Ratings

Value for money

5.8809 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 07/24/2025.

Interesting Facts

The scent is also available as Absolue Précieux and Crystal Parfum. The Crystal Parfum is supposed be the result of a special distillation technique to create colorless oils.

The fragrance is part of the "The Aoud Collection" collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Amber Aoud Absolue Précieux

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Reviews

38 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/28/2025

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Moshikoko
84 Reviews

Moshikoko

Top Review 7

This is my signature perfume

This is the perfume that made me fall in love with the world of perfumery.
This is the second niche perfume I bought at the beginning of my journey and it was after I was in the store and the price deterred me so I put a few squeezes of this magical perfume on a scent paper and for a whole week, from Saturday to the Saturday that followed, I smelled this scent and I simply fell in love with the perfume and went to buy it, despite the price tag.

If there's a reason I'm waiting for winter, it's this perfume.
It is so elegant, sexy, attractive and high quality that I long to wear it.

I wore it on one date I had and the woman the next morning told me that all my scent was on her hair and she just fell in love with this scent.

For me, 10/10 without question.

12/22/2014

7
Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Helpful Review

More Rose than Amber

I'd say that this to me is much more a Rose Aoud than a properly Amber Aoud. It doesn't have the thick, vanillic and incense aura that you would expect from a classic Amber approach, and it also doesn't have the woody, light, sometimes plastic modern aura that you get from woody ambery bases. Leaving this aside, this is a good, silky and rich aoud and rose orchestration, surrounded by a velvet suedish touch which lingers discretly on skin. Altough the fragrance seems to be more complex, it relies basically around these three facets, creating an harmony which is very pleasant to be noticed all day. It has a great longevity, a small sample lasted all day on me, and while i see a lot of quality on here, it seems to me very safe, something made for the one which is willing to pay for quality and wants and oud rose orchestration which softens the rough aspects of this noble wood. It's at least worth a sample.

09/29/2016

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Jarrock32
10 Reviews

Jarrock32

Helpful Review 5

Unique start, common and well mixed base.

Delightful and unique way in perfumery to start a dificult and astringent chord of oud, ambergris and rose. Like no perfume that I could test. Then begin to shine the saffron and soft ambered texture. Starts very promising, but then the initial strenght goes down and ruins, in my opinion, a perfect smell; an "unstable-stabilized" perfection of oud. Perfume turns into an ambered soft common base mixed with saffron that we all have seen before, and we can get of many other perfumes in a cheaper range of prices. I can see clear references to Red Aoud of montale. Worth the price? Sample yes. Full Bottle.. I don´t think so..

05/21/2023

1
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Patj1994
29 Reviews

Patj1994

Very helpful Review 3

Am i missing something?

A kind gentleman at bergdorff in nyc was kind enough to make me a 2ml sample of amber aoud to take home with me. I was beyond excited to try it out and see what all the fuss was about and what an $800 bottle of fragrance smells like

Powdery rose bomb with some ambergris and benzoins, thats all i get. No oud, no woodiness, no animalic notes….just rose, rose and more rose.

Don’t get me wrong, it smells nice, but having “oud” in the name is so misleading, if there is any in here, it’s at such low trace amounts it’s undetectable to my nose. Also, very feminine leaning in my opinion.

If you want a REAL rose oud fragrance for men, just get ombre nomade, its half the price and double fragrance this could ever hope to be.

06/28/2024

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Ninamariah
249 Reviews

Ninamariah

6

Comparing Amber Aoud and Aoud

I haven't written a separate in-depth review of Amber Aoud yet but here are a comparison of differences with Aoud. You find my in-depth review of Aoud.

The rating is same for both.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AOUD AND AMBER AOUD
Both unisex with eternal longevity, huge sillage and projection.

I wanted to write about these Roja Dove’s two perfumes since there seems to be people who would like to know the difference of these two and if another one is redundant if you already have the other. You can check the differences from the notes of course but that doesn’t tell always how those similarities or/and differences appears. So here is my opinion.

As I love Roja so much I have both: Aoud in 30ml and 100ml and Amber Aoud Crystal in 100ml. I like to have both and for me I feel that I need to have both. The difference is not so big for most of the people but it’s very noticeable for trained nose, rosewood lovers and Roja fans.

Differences are:
- Amber Aoud is slightly more sweet because of Fig in the opening and Benzoin in the base.
- In the same time it’s warmer because of Ambergris and Benzoin in the base. (Ambergris is as well in Aoud but it’s not the main note.)
- Aoud is more fresh and rosy. It’s more traditional Rose Oud scent.
- Even if there is Saffron in both, Aoud is more earthy since there is less the main notes in overall so Saffron is easier to detect.
- I would say that Aoud is not so complex than Amber Aoud. In Aoud it’s really easy to smell Rose, Saffron and Oud separately while in Amber Aoud its 5 different main base notes are really well blended.
- Aoud is the first one of those three (Aoud, Musk Aoud, Amber Aoud) which Roja launched so it is like the most simple one.
- Amber oud has a smoky feeling in it, it varies a lot between different batches though.

If you want a real Rose Oud scent go for Aoud, if you are not a huge fan of traditional Rose Ouds, you can love Amber Aoud.

MY OPINION: If you like AOUD, you will like Amber Aoud as well but not automatically in the other way.

I hope this will help some people to choose between these two chic, captivating and mesmerizing perfumes. Musk Aoud is by the way totally different and unfortunately it’s discontinued due to the regulations of certain natural ingredients. I’m happy to own it as 30ml og and 100ml crystal.

These both perfumes are suitable in the same kind of occasions, they share the same kind of feeling and character despite of the differences. They are attractive, seductice, rich, complex, mesmerising, utterly luxurious and absolutely in among of the best scents ever. The juice of the original perfumes is very dark and it stains clothes permanently so Crystal versions of those scents are very practical. I love to wear these scents during a summertime and with white clothes so clear juice is great with them. The scent itself is identical with the dark, original juice, only the colour has been removed.Both perfumes are unisex.

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