EO Green Ensar Oud / Oriscent

Is it necessary to bother with such expensive fragrances? When is the limit reached?

We're talking 30ml / $485 here. Why is this stuff so expensive?

Ensar, the man who made real oud presentable. Kudos from my side. He has always believed in his oud and has continued to crawl for months through every jungle in Asia, in search of THE special eagle wood.

By now, he's grown so big that I don't think he can manage it all on his own anymore. So many diverse oud releases, so many new perfumes. I think he has a sound team together building fragrances for the label. Ensar's knowledge of oud and his collection of oud distillates is obviously a huge advantage in the oud niche.

But now, on to the fragrance!

EO Green starts with a remarkably bitter yuzu accord, fleshy, strong and shrill. A kind of water mist accompanies the whole thing, like a subtle aqua note. This could be the lotus. The oakmoss blows in more green moisture, I also smell herbs, mosses, green tea. Very subtle and somewhat hidden, jasmine looks around in the damp green.

Over all this hovers a fresh, ethereal note, like mint or camphor with some citrus. This smells like a bright, citrusy incense to me. Something earthy and pungent resonates now, somewhat reminiscent of fresh ginger. This is where the ouds kick in and steer the scent into darker greener levels. Dark woods, wet woods, old woods. Roots are there, trampled earth, clay. Acetone sandalwood.

A scent experience beyond compare. Here is nothing fecal or animalic, there are beautiful oud distillates in it. The other very high quality substances (I swear almost there are other things in it than specified) support the different Oud characters perfectly and get the maximum out. With so many different ouds, it's difficult for the fragrance not to collapse in on itself and for the ingredients not to blow each other's lights out.

Now the question, is it worth the money? That's for everyone to decide for themselves. Everything here is Natural (at least that's what it smells like) and the components are all First Class. From the Oud we do not need to speak, at Ensar the best Oud in the world is used. All of this is extremely expensive, and the concentration of oil here is considerably high. But as always, the price is generated by the market price and the customer's willingness to pay. So I don't think Ensar is starving.

Certainly, even for old perfume buffs, it casts a new perspective on perfume. Especially on natural perfume. Stamped as esoteric and health food fragrances years ago, natural perfumes are experiencing a heyday right now. And Ensar was one of the pioneers. He had the balls to launch a natural perfume that costs 500 quid. To put alcohol under the classic attars and fill the whole thing into spray bottles. And it goes on and on for Ensar. He has now reached the clientele that will soon snatch the bottles out of his hand for 1500$. Hats off!