Top Notes 
Oud
Heart Notes 
Gaiac wood
Base Notes 
Musk
08/05/2025
Newtype777
12 Reviews
Newtype777
1
The Best Oud Wood Alternative
If you love the scent of OW and Carved Oud, but not their price and longevity, look no further! I absolutely adore the DNA of the aforementioned fragrances, but their price, availability, and longevity leave much to be desired. I have owned no less than 5 OW dupes, and this one is the best! I had heard of this fragrance a few years ago but did not actually get my hands on it until recently.
It smells a bit closer to Carved Oud than Oud Wood, it packs the sweetness found in the bae notes of those two frags, the rosewood and vanilla of OW and the cardamom of CO, but the core elements are all their!
The ingredients are very high quality and it uses an Extrait de Parfum concentration. Longevity is much better than OW and CO, I usually get around 4 hours of strong projection, another 2 or so of decent little scent bubble and another 2-4 hours of a skin scent.
I find this fragrance to be more versatile than the two of heavily takes inspiration from. I wear this in all 4 seasons, but I would definitely limit it's use to much cooler (~82° or less) days in the Summer and Spring and go lighter on the application.
I like to layer this with Bleu de Chanel EDP to freshen it up in the warmer months, it also layers beautifully with the BDC Parfum and seems to share some notes with it in the deep drydown (those woody notes found in BDC Parfum but not the EDP). This also layers nicely with TF Ombre Leather, just like the original OW.
The price is great, I got both of my bottles for $45-55 shipped. I know there are other OW alternatives that are cheaper, but none come even close to the performance and quality.
This is a 9/10 fragrance in my opinion, I just wish they had chosen a lane and either added more elements of OW or CO to really put it at that 10/10 rating.
It smells a bit closer to Carved Oud than Oud Wood, it packs the sweetness found in the bae notes of those two frags, the rosewood and vanilla of OW and the cardamom of CO, but the core elements are all their!
The ingredients are very high quality and it uses an Extrait de Parfum concentration. Longevity is much better than OW and CO, I usually get around 4 hours of strong projection, another 2 or so of decent little scent bubble and another 2-4 hours of a skin scent.
I find this fragrance to be more versatile than the two of heavily takes inspiration from. I wear this in all 4 seasons, but I would definitely limit it's use to much cooler (~82° or less) days in the Summer and Spring and go lighter on the application.
I like to layer this with Bleu de Chanel EDP to freshen it up in the warmer months, it also layers beautifully with the BDC Parfum and seems to share some notes with it in the deep drydown (those woody notes found in BDC Parfum but not the EDP). This also layers nicely with TF Ombre Leather, just like the original OW.
The price is great, I got both of my bottles for $45-55 shipped. I know there are other OW alternatives that are cheaper, but none come even close to the performance and quality.
This is a 9/10 fragrance in my opinion, I just wish they had chosen a lane and either added more elements of OW or CO to really put it at that 10/10 rating.
