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Aoud - An epitome of the house
Roja Dove, real and born Roger Bird, from his fake name to the artificial color in this fragrance and his non-existent career as a real perfumer, has twice as much pretentiousness about his creations as actual high quality.
The color is intended to give the impression of a dark, indie-like, deep and sensual oriental creation, but this only lasts until you test the actual fragrance. This is actually a very typical but still beautiful rose-oud combo, with the small but big problem that it feels like 90% rose and 10% oud, but the fragrance is then called "Aoud" and is darkened with artificial colorants.
This behavior is unpleasant, but unfortunately not atypical for Roja, which is why I personally am not a fan at all, despite some very beautiful creations.
Beautiful bottles but then a lot of kitsch, such as an excessive number of crystals in the lid, which contribute to the often unjustifiably poor price-performance ratio. Beautiful creations but then the overpriced prices and countless listed notes of which you can often hardly smell anything. Good vision, but then Roger Bird, who claims to be a perfumer under the name Roja Dove, although he would have what it takes to be the super creative director of his own house if he didn't work with ghost perfumers instead to sell himself as a master perfumer, because it's easy to see that he knows a thing or two about marketing. But the fact that everyone knows in the end anyway makes it all the more embarrassing.
Just a quick word about the fragrance itself: Rojas Aoud is a very nice RoseRoseRose-Oud fragrance that is sold as an Oud fragrance. The rose-oud combo is known to have a lot going for it. In this case, unfortunately, the sillage is weak anyway, but after a few hours it becomes even weaker and just too skin-deep, at least on my skin.
I expected much more and that contributed to the disappointment. Like many (NOT ALL) of his creations and also his whole image, unfortunately rather pretentious than really convincing.
Roger Bird and his House of Roja could do with a heavy dose of honesty.
The color is intended to give the impression of a dark, indie-like, deep and sensual oriental creation, but this only lasts until you test the actual fragrance. This is actually a very typical but still beautiful rose-oud combo, with the small but big problem that it feels like 90% rose and 10% oud, but the fragrance is then called "Aoud" and is darkened with artificial colorants.
This behavior is unpleasant, but unfortunately not atypical for Roja, which is why I personally am not a fan at all, despite some very beautiful creations.
Beautiful bottles but then a lot of kitsch, such as an excessive number of crystals in the lid, which contribute to the often unjustifiably poor price-performance ratio. Beautiful creations but then the overpriced prices and countless listed notes of which you can often hardly smell anything. Good vision, but then Roger Bird, who claims to be a perfumer under the name Roja Dove, although he would have what it takes to be the super creative director of his own house if he didn't work with ghost perfumers instead to sell himself as a master perfumer, because it's easy to see that he knows a thing or two about marketing. But the fact that everyone knows in the end anyway makes it all the more embarrassing.
Just a quick word about the fragrance itself: Rojas Aoud is a very nice RoseRoseRose-Oud fragrance that is sold as an Oud fragrance. The rose-oud combo is known to have a lot going for it. In this case, unfortunately, the sillage is weak anyway, but after a few hours it becomes even weaker and just too skin-deep, at least on my skin.
I expected much more and that contributed to the disappointment. Like many (NOT ALL) of his creations and also his whole image, unfortunately rather pretentious than really convincing.
Roger Bird and his House of Roja could do with a heavy dose of honesty.