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Noble Wooden Box for Spices and Medicine
I have had a special love for wood since my childhood. Both of my grandfathers were carpenters. As a child, I was allowed to help in the workshop, sweeping it out, painting the toys, and playing in the piled shavings. I also got to help my grandmothers regularly clean and maintain the handmade furniture.
In this regard, I find Oud Wood fascinating, but even more irritating and, despite its apparent potential, unfortunately not particularly pleasant. I absolutely cannot perceive the scent as a perfume. It reminds me more of those smells from the workshop or even from the kitchen. Overwhelmingly cardamom-spicy and musty-woody right after spraying. As it develops, there comes the wooden drawer, in which some spice has already leaked out and can no longer be removed, the moment when you playfully scratch at a small lacquer nose and are startled when it flakes off or dents unsightly, and the smell of that woody-spicy medicinal cream that the little brother got for his eczema. Additionally, there's a bit of old leather, of course well cared for, but already noticeably worn, and later maybe a hint of burnt rubber and of sweaty support stockings forgotten in the sun, which had once been pulled over legs rubbed with pine resin. The next morning, there's still a bit left, and if it weren't the arm but a wooden surface, I might even quite like the scent then.
My very first impression of Oud Wood was, by the way, a surprised "Ah, there it is!" I had finally discovered that stable smell that Oud is often attributed to. After trying the scent several times, at different outside temperatures and on various body parts, I no longer find the stable here, but still, the scent could not win me over.
Sorry to all the fans, but I just don't understand this perfume. I even asked the friend sharing the scent in disbelief if she was sure it was an original. She is sure. It doesn't seem to be off either. She even found it delicious on me. My partner finds it very intense when smelling it directly, but otherwise, it's at least quite okay. However, the scent definitely couldn't elicit a "You smell very good again" from him…
Projection and sillage don't seem particularly pronounced, which I actually welcome in other scents. The longevity was above average for me.
In any case, the perfume doesn't work on me, and I'm not sure how it would affect me on another person. Maybe it would come across well if applied very sparingly, so that only a hint of it is perceptible now and then, but I can't really imagine that either. Today, it finally went back.
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Addition, as I believe it could otherwise be misunderstood: I actually mostly like Oud. I just have never smelled a cow stable in Oud scents before, and precisely with Oud Wood, I had that in my nose, even though I simultaneously find it difficult to recognize Oud in that perfume. That's why I thought it was worth mentioning. It's paradoxical.
In this regard, I find Oud Wood fascinating, but even more irritating and, despite its apparent potential, unfortunately not particularly pleasant. I absolutely cannot perceive the scent as a perfume. It reminds me more of those smells from the workshop or even from the kitchen. Overwhelmingly cardamom-spicy and musty-woody right after spraying. As it develops, there comes the wooden drawer, in which some spice has already leaked out and can no longer be removed, the moment when you playfully scratch at a small lacquer nose and are startled when it flakes off or dents unsightly, and the smell of that woody-spicy medicinal cream that the little brother got for his eczema. Additionally, there's a bit of old leather, of course well cared for, but already noticeably worn, and later maybe a hint of burnt rubber and of sweaty support stockings forgotten in the sun, which had once been pulled over legs rubbed with pine resin. The next morning, there's still a bit left, and if it weren't the arm but a wooden surface, I might even quite like the scent then.
My very first impression of Oud Wood was, by the way, a surprised "Ah, there it is!" I had finally discovered that stable smell that Oud is often attributed to. After trying the scent several times, at different outside temperatures and on various body parts, I no longer find the stable here, but still, the scent could not win me over.
Sorry to all the fans, but I just don't understand this perfume. I even asked the friend sharing the scent in disbelief if she was sure it was an original. She is sure. It doesn't seem to be off either. She even found it delicious on me. My partner finds it very intense when smelling it directly, but otherwise, it's at least quite okay. However, the scent definitely couldn't elicit a "You smell very good again" from him…
Projection and sillage don't seem particularly pronounced, which I actually welcome in other scents. The longevity was above average for me.
In any case, the perfume doesn't work on me, and I'm not sure how it would affect me on another person. Maybe it would come across well if applied very sparingly, so that only a hint of it is perceptible now and then, but I can't really imagine that either. Today, it finally went back.
...
Addition, as I believe it could otherwise be misunderstood: I actually mostly like Oud. I just have never smelled a cow stable in Oud scents before, and precisely with Oud Wood, I had that in my nose, even though I simultaneously find it difficult to recognize Oud in that perfume. That's why I thought it was worth mentioning. It's paradoxical.
