Crime & Punishment Ensar Oud / Oriscent 2020 Pure Parfum

Crime & Punishment (Pure Parfum) by Ensar Oud / Oriscent

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8.6 / 10 78 Ratings

A popular perfume by Ensar Oud / Oriscent for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is woody-floral. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Woody

Floral

Animal

Oriental

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Blue cypress

Coriander

Ginger

Peach

Pepper

Templin

Heart Notes

Blue lotus

Bourbon rose Coffee

Coffee

Jasmine

Mimosa

Orange blossom

Petitgrain

Raspberry

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Cambodian oud

Frankincense

Indian oud

Mysore sandalwood

Sri Lankan oud

Sumatran oud

Ratings

Scent

8.678 Ratings

Longevity

8.566 Ratings

Sillage

7.966 Ratings

Bottle

8.356 Ratings

Value for money

5.935 Ratings

Submitted by PanAroma0815, last update on 06/22/2025.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Crime & Punishment (Eau de Parfum) by Ensar Oud / Oriscent, which differs in concentration.

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Crime & Punishment Eau de Parfum

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/06/2025

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Christscents
36 Reviews

Christscents

3

Dostoevsky would be proud!

С чего мне начать? Is the exact line I hear the famous Russian author would say if he smelled this work made in honor of one of his best works. Crime and Punishment is not a perfume, its a lifestyle, it's a work of art. The nose behind Ensar Oud has been in this game for a while, and he knows what he is doing, and from the names of his scents he is a fan of classic literature. And as a fellow fan of classic literature, I have to say I understand where he comes from, this scent captures the essence of the book perfectly, dark and mysterious while having a lighter tone and an almost sparkling feeling, but how is the scent?

The scent opens up very rich, i heard someone call this poorly blended, but im saying the opposite. It opens up with a blast of pepper and green spices, i think it's coriander and ginger coming together to make this blend. But this isnt a normal pepper, its musky, its a deer musk type of pepper, i dont see deer musk as a note but i can say it's definitely something musky in there! It shows some cypress maybe, maybe some other things, but its beautiful.

At its heart, this is a sandalwood scent, and I love sandalwood. Its a spicy musky sandalwood that shows its creamy face all throughout the scent, its not all over the place, its not too much, its just a perfect amount of that sweet creamy sandalwood we all know and love. Now is when the darker themes come out. As I said before, it has two sides, the light side is the brightness at the start from the spice and ginger. This scent now starts to deep into a dark oudy place, not a funky or barny oud, just a smooth oud lifted by the sandalwood

Now the dry down still has a lot of sandalwood but now you can feel the oud. The floral aspect to all of this has been slowly creeping on you, but now you can feel the beautiful floral blend drying down into this masterpiece I cant even call a perfume; this is art in its purest form

All and all, this is creamy sandalwood with florals, ouds and spices, i cant even put a rating on this

10/13/2024

6
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Sirbennyone
295 Reviews

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Sirbennyone

Helpful Review 5

EO's finger pointing in the direction of perfection...!

Hello everyone,

i am relaaaively NEW to the EO world and don't have the experience that many of you do. I already know about 40 of them, but there are xxx... and the ones I've had so far are of course ALL of absurd quality and I'm almost certain that no brand of their xxx products maintains this noticeable/smellable quality in the range like EO... - respect for that.

I've already had 1.2 bottlings of Crime & Punishment Pure Parfum and yes, they were good, no question! A few days ago I bought an old one (OG) in a leather case for a friend and just the smell on the sprayer showed me one thing again "certain things are not that hard" ...

What do I mean by that:

The company EO likes to work with (a lot of) oud + musk, sometimes very very animalic and yes you have to want + LOVE this, sometimes this is definitely too strong and too strict for me, unfortunately. Some "evil° accords are sometimes too long and/or too dominant...

With the Crime & Punishment Pure Parfum it is something else.

Yes, it also has OUD and not too little, BUT I always take it only "supportive" it never pushes itself into the front row and screams "EY HERE I AM HERE!" but rather, as I said, it has a supportive effect = for example like this

- the fragrance begins WONDERfully beautiful with the cypress and a green pine, both have a green - woody touch and through the quite prominent cypress it becomes slightly balsamic and the oud gives the power (like quasi steroids or a turbocharger)

In my opinion, the heart and base notes also fit very well together in the overall construct!
H/S very good

How is it received:

EOs are not usually well received by the masses = this is because they are not made for "everyone", they are works of art that want to be seen as such. That's why there is no EO that always goes down well, BUT the Crime & Punishment Pure Parfum is one of the better and lighter ones (and not an animalic club like others).

When and where:

October - March/ April.
Indoors please dose sparingly (in the sense of max. 3).
And outside "just do it" ;)

In general...

It is and remains special and should be used as such, because otherwise its MAGIC may evaporate very quickly and using such an expensive fragrance almost every day = you can do it, but I advise against it, also financially...

Even my wife, a real HATER of "real" musk and real oud, thinks it's really great on the skin (and not on the sprayer)! That's why I recommend testing it on the skin and not just on the sprayer and/or on paper, because that way it might be 2 different fragrances = familiar Benny!
The dear money / the purchase price:

I am PITY to talk about whether a purchase makes sense or not, in this respect it is very relative and my views may not be like yours and vice versa... . From a purely commercial point of view (which I am, among other things) I can say = test it, then we'll see!
And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
_______

04/02/2024

8.5
Scent

Maahagoni
8 Reviews

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Maahagoni

4

Picasso of discreet animalism

Welcome to the temple of elite fragrance connoisseurs, where you'll feel the banknotes flying off your skin after spraying it on. Is it worth it? Yes and no. It depends on what you expect from a fragrance:

At the beginning, blue lotus and a subtle coffee greet you, the oud is still hidden (is this the punishment?). However, there is not too much punishment in this fragrance, the oud is very well balanced, never becomes too acidic, acts as a contrast to the florality, animalic subtly contained, reminds me of a lion's skin (or my fantasy of the same).
This fragrance is criminally expensive, but it combines florality with animalism/spice with such artistic skill that the sin of acquisition comes to mind.

Conclusion:
Absolutely extraordinary fragrance painting, a Picasso of discreet animalism.

08/06/2021

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Chizza
298 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 29

Pleasing, high quality oud melange

My interest in Ensar or Agar Aura and consorts was awakened relatively late if you take my discovery of other fragrances. Basically, I like wood and resins but oud was with me for a long time for two reasons rather negative connotations. First, because I knew many creations with oud, the majority as not beautiful felt and that was retrospectively simply because of the quality. Probably often synthetic oud, little oud respectively somehow distorted. On the other hand, it was also due to cheap oud scents from the Orient. Of course I don't want to disparage any perfume because of its price, but it's true, qualitatively there are quite other ouds. At some point I became interested in Agar Aura, read a lot of their information texts and started to read up on where oud can come from, what is characteristic, which jungles exist and which are known for their quality. Then the way to Ensar was not far.

Crime & Punishment starts for me with creamy, somewhat leathery oud, though a floral veil is undeniable. For me, Cambodian oud is quite noticeable because this is characterized by tart-mossy, slightly loamy notes; it smells heavy and moist. With imagination I perceive hints of peach, other ingredients I can not make out in my head except of course the cypress, because a certain limey note can not be denied. This harmonizes well with the Oud.
Likewise, I perceive coffee notes, which are named here. These are probably to underline the oud from Sri Lanka, which tends in this olfactory direction.

Anyway, the impact of intense floral components is not to be over-scented because these take over the lead immediately. This does not correspond to my personal gusto, but was well solved here and works like sweetly dripping, viscous oil. These floral ingredients are enhanced by the Indian oud, which can smell like it. I suspect, however, that little Indian oud has been used here because it doesn't stand out and it does otherwise.
For this reason, Crime & Punishment is a pleasing oud fragrance for me because the individual ouds are rather mild and often have a supporting effect so that there are admittedly more intense eaglewood variants. Nevertheless: the quality is clearly perceivable as you can deduce from the perception of individual facets.

For me it is only logical that we distinguish Ouds because the smells are very various. In addition, we also diverge incense or other ingredients by origin. Ensar's creations show not only marginally why we do. Overall, the brand has succeeded here a good fragrance, although there are still much better, more intense and, in my version, more beautiful creations. That is for me here also on the Mysore sandalwood which I do not always like. Here it would have been allowed to be a little less.

(With thanks to DeVulgares)