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The Time The House of Oud 2018

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A popular perfume by The House of Oud for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Green

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Chamomile

Absinthe wormwood

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Blue tea

Vervain

Iris

Base Notes

Black tea

Musk

Amber

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Cristian Calabrò

Ratings

Scent

7.9246 Ratings

Longevity

6.8222 Ratings

Sillage

6.3222 Ratings

Bottle

8.8233 Ratings

Value for money

6.5111 Ratings

Submitted by Garcon, last update on 06/23/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Arts" collection.

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/19/2023

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Myrtillajus
529 Reviews

Myrtillajus

2

Time for ourselves

“The only thing that belongs to us is time” (Seneca)
The time is a fragrance that wants to catch what is one of the most underestimated aspects but to which we should give more importance: time for oneself. Sit down, relax, stop: one of the most representative moments is certainly the moment of tea (a note clearly perceptible in this creation) not totally belonging to our culture, but which makes us reflect on the sacredness of carving out personal moments, living them and enjoying them. Let's leave the rush behind for a moment (represented in my opinion by the sparkling and citrus notes at the beginning) and live slowly (even the chamomile, present at times, contributes to this vision). And who, if not Salvador Dali with his watches, could better represent everything? Time is a perception that changes, through our actions and emotions.

03/24/2025

4
Pricing 6
Sillage 3
Longevity 8
Scent

Raluko111
340 Reviews

Raluko111

1

Gorgeous, short-lived tea scent.

As a tea lover, I had high hopes for The Time. I waited impatiently for the package to arrive, because unfortunately it was not available in stores where I live, and from the first spray I was not disappointed: a cheerful aroma of chamomile tea with a slice of bergamot enveloped me, as if a gentle grandmother had placed a full cup in my hands. I was sniffing rainbows from the steam as the infusion became deeper and deeper, more oriental with notes of oolong and lemon. The black tea did not hesitate to appear either, although the drink had become cooler and more refreshing at this point, thanks to the cedar wood. I was in ninth heaven, when... Slowly, slowly it began to disappear, in 2.3 hours there was not even a shadow of my initial happiness. 50ml at 400 euros in my country.

The bottle is gorgeous: you can put it on display on the cosmetics table with great pride. It's heavy, it could even be a white weapon in case of danger. Anyway, I hoped that maybe if I let it macerate it would get more substance. I've had luck with other perfumes from Goutal doing this. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with The Time. Maybe if the price had been more reasonable, I wouldn't hesitate so much to buy it again or recommend it, but 400 euros is 400 euros. This is unrequited love, I love it, but it don't love me back.
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Ca iubitoare de ceai, am avut mari speranțe pentru The Time. Am așteptat nerăbdătoare să sosească coletul, pentru că din păcate la mine nu se găsea in magazine si de la primul spray nu am fost dezamăgita: o aroma vesela de ceai de mușețel cu o felie de bergamot m-a învăluit, ca si cum o bunica blânda îmi așezase o cană plină in mâini. Adulmecam curcubeie din aburi in timp ce infuzia devenea din ce in ce mai profundă, mai orientală cu note de oolong si lămâiță. Ceaiul negru, ambrat nu a ezitat nici el să apară, desi băutura devenise mai călăie dacă nu poate chiar răcoritoare, datorită lemnului de cedru. Eram in al nouălea cer, cănd...ușor, ușor a început să dispară, in 2,3 ore nu era nici măcar o umbra din fericirea mea inițială. 50ml la 400 de euro. Sticla e superba: o poți pune la vedere pe măsuța de cosmetice cu multă mândrie. E greoaie, ar putea fi chiar arma alba in caz de pericol. In fine, am sperat că poate dacă il las să macereze va căpăta mai multă substanță. Am avut noroc cu alte parfumuri de la Annick Goutal făcând asta. Din păcate nu funcționează cu The Time. Poate dacă prețul ar fi fost mai accesibil, nu as ezita așa de mult sa il cumpăr din nou sau să il recomand, dar 400 de euro sunt 400 de euro. Fragrantica ar trebui să pună si o iconiță cu "Unrequited Love," adică "Il iubesc, desi nu merită."

08/12/2018

3
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Augusto
164 Reviews

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Augusto

Top Review 21

Space egg with iris of a different kind

Well, now AugustA has tested him...
An extremely gentle beginning, quietly surrounded by other tones of iris mist rises from the skin. That smells good beyond recognition, unbelievably light. But before you can be disappointed and shrug your shoulders, the cool green vervain steps up and brings a freshness that almost makes you sneeze. The top note works like this: Where is it, the fragrant, unmistakably almost non-existent iris? One immediately adjusts to a transparent, perhaps grey iris scent, imagines it more than one smells it and then suddenly the scent mates with a note that is really unusual to the iris. This is a slightly different top note strategy, none of the usual buy-me-lassos.

It comes out quite well on me within a few minutes. From disbelieving looking frowning to ah-soo! facial expression everything in it.

The vervain lies around the iris. It gets citric, in any case herbaceous. Some soap's just holding back. Mildly fresh: Camomile with bergamot and wormwood I did not errochen, but read, but now I can imagine something under it. It's got something bitter, soothing, citrus-floral. The iris root penetrates the freshness again with a woody tone and it now also becomes slightly powdery or fresh creamy.

After about half an hour, the fragrance has unfolded, so that one is lulled in with a certain calm satisfaction and can smell good despite all the heat that currently prevails outside. This fragrance relaxes and remains attractive. It has more of an olfactory quality than head cinema or scent paintings. This certainly doesn't fit (to) everyone, but AugustA just for a change times well.

Blue is the planetary-intergalactic-stellar egg covered by seas, completely covered - yes, I know, the egg is actually a disc - which calls itself a bottle, at least until something completely unpredictable hatches out. I think it's so wrong, I can't leave it uncommented. These flacons of HoO are really completely cheesy, at the border to the bearable, sorry, that had to get out at this point. But a veritable eye-catcher in perfumery, hat off to the designer who dared to do so.

And blue shall also be the tea. I can guess a tannic teeny note. Strengthens somehow and reconciles loosely with the Kosmo egg. Yeah, the color's great. I almost like it already.
In any case, blue matches my perception of the fragrance, it becomes increasingly calm, airy like the wide sky. Besides, he's kind of serious, but encouraging.
After about 5 hours, the iris verbena veil turns into an increasingly woody, slightly synthetic fresh, spicy-warm ambroxan base, which - who would have thought it - reminds of Molecule 02. This base fits well here, it is a mixture of warm skin and fresh golden wood tones that gradually fade away.
At the end: An iris composition of a different kind. Actually, no iris at all.

10/27/2020

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

TruuMax
70 Reviews

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TruuMax

Top Review 16

The ticking of the clocks

Misty tea fields and a gently rippling brook run through a somewhat unreal looking scenery...

Once again my head is somewhere else. Everywhere and nowhere, as long as it is not here in the daily grind and ordinary. I want to go out into the world, jump into an airplane in an unknown country and direction of unknown adventures to feel that I am alive, to feel what I felt nochnie.

Especially during the current crisis, I had a lot of time to think... Less about life itself, but more about transience. In 20 years I will probably not remember every evening on the couch, but the days that meant something special. Does it even matter how long we live? Or is it only important how much we experience in the end?

What's certain is that everything would be boring if it was forever
And this brings me to the fragrance itself: it is a wonderfully moist smelling tea scent with fruity elements and a very light green twist in the aftertaste. Not like a CK One or similar but very unique and special. The iris is presented very differently than I would have ever smelled this note before. Not powdery and creamy, but somehow soaked and sparkling. Almost a little "chanelingy", if you know what I mean by that. Very noble and natural.

There is not much development. The fruit will eventually become the root and the tea will become warmer and less pointed over time, if that is the right word for it.
The durability and sillage are really remarkable for the type of fragrance: 3 hours with good projection and another 3 at about half an arm length to ¾. But all in all the theatre is over after 8 hours, which is a very acceptable performance for such a decent scent.
The bottles at THoOO are in a class of their own anyway... Every single egg is unique and is coated by hand with many layers of different colours. Especially in the light it looks really impressive. I would even go so far as to say that these could be the highest quality flacons in the entire industry.
Whether one finds the slightly kitschy to crisply gaudy color spectrum so great is a matter of taste that even here seems to divide minds... But they are always impressive.

07/01/2024

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Milone
1 Review

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Milone

Very helpful Review 15

Mercilessly underestimated / Sister's favorite

Of all the people I know, my sister is probably the most difficult person to get excited about perfume.
She has a very sensitive nose and reacts immediately to the slightest hint of synthetics, sweetness, fertility or similar with a headache.
I saw it as a challenge for me to find her a fragrance that she likes and that she can wear without any problems.
Now that the review is under this fragrance, you can probably guess which fragrance ended my search:

"The Time" is incredibly well made.
There is not even a hint of synthetics at any time.
The tea notes harmonize with floral components in the overall picture, so that individual notes are easily recognizable, but none of them stand out too much.
The iris blends very well into the fragrance without making it powdery or soapy. It does give it a slightly clean note, which is certainly supported by the musk in the drydown.
The H/S is not strong in this fragrance, but I think this is appropriate for its character. It is more likely to be found close to the skin right from the start, but it unfolds beautifully there.
You wear The Time for yourself.
The fragrance experience is special:

Freshly showered, you reach for this incredibly beautiful, heavy bottle, spray a splash on your wrist and neck and simply enjoy this wonderful, round and elegant touch of freshness.
A little luxury that you simply treat yourself to because you deserve it.
You don't expect compliments anyway, because after an evening's reading you go straight to your new bed.

To bring the story to a close:
My sister has found her fragrance and since her birthday (and thanks to a very patronizing, exemplary and extremely good-looking brother)
to call her own.

What wasn't planned was that my father also fell in love with this fragrance during the show. His 10ml sample is already empty, so another one will be moving in soon.

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