Aoud Cuir d'Arabie

Aoud Cuir d'Arabie by Montale
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7.4 / 10 151 Ratings
Aoud Cuir d'Arabie is a perfume by Montale for men. The release year is unknown. The scent is leathery-animal. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery
Animal
Woody
Spicy
Smoky

Fragrance Notes

LeatherLeather OudOud Charred woodCharred wood TobaccoTobacco
Ratings
Scent
7.4151 Ratings
Longevity
8.6119 Ratings
Sillage
8.2105 Ratings
Bottle
7.1108 Ratings
Value for money
7.629 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 12.03.2024.

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Leimbacher

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Top Review 26  
Sexy Stinkie Winkie
"Aoud Cuir d'Arabe" is a dirty leather steam hammer that polarizes like only a few scents from Montale. Most of the time there is (more or less) agreement - either weak or really strong. It's different with this leathery globetrotter. He's the one you love or hate. Where I lie shows my score.

I adore some leather scents and count this genus meanwhile to my preferred fragrance, but such a leather pine like this Montale has seldom or never come under my nose. But I wouldn't call myself an expert on the fabric or real leather (and its smells) at all. In a leather factory, no matter if Kik or Hermes, no matter if India or Hintertupfingen, I never stood before. But some leather jackets hang in the wardrobe, from imitation leather to the Real Deal. "Aoud Cuir d'Arabie" comes close to my (manageable) experience in real leather, but that's not the point. It's just a hot perfume.

It is strong, potent, blends creamy oud with scratchy leather and something daring, something sensual emerges. Stink, sweat, attract. There's something animal about it, something original, something untamed. I like it very much. Either you reap comments like "Puma cage" or you are dragged by your colleague to the ladies' toilet - in between there is a yawning emptiness like just before a western showdown. Whether the many extremely different, almost conflicting opinions, voices and experiences may be due to different batches (or even the Montale brand chaos of a few years ago), remains to be seen. For me, this Chief Leather Neck is a strong guy. Aggressive but pleasant enough, self-confident but never boastful, powerful but never selfish. He's seen the world, but only tells about it when he's asked about it. You can tell by looking at him. Experience, mischievousness, inner peace. Despite former hunting mode. A rough leather diamond cut by the seasons, the weather and the human/male body in the dirt of Cairo. Thousand and one freight.

Flacon: so light, the Montales, but often so potent...
Sillage: a firecracker - the spray finger trembles!
Hangability: 9 hours I wear this sun-kissed leather jacket.

Conclusion: one of the mustiest, most masculine and horniest leather fragrances on the market. Stinky, rebellious, beastly. The opposite of a blind buy tip. Even among leather fans, ghosts and tastes still quarrel here... Love it!
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jtd

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jtd
jtd
Very helpful Review 6  
the mouse that didn't
The irresistible force, the immovable object. The rock and the hard place. He-man and She-ra. Leather and oud are the bad-boy/bad-girl notes of perfumery. They've both been considered vulgar, impolite and slutty. They're the enfants terribles of pretty perfumery. It makes perfect sense that they'd be taken up by niche perfumists as icons. 

So, Aoud Cuir d'Arabie should be a clash of titans in a bottle, right? After a spectacularly rocking 5-10 minute opening we have the answer.  No.
 
However it comes about ( * ) this perfume goes from waving its arms and yelling at you to quietly turning its back on you so quickly that you have try it again and again to make sure your sense of smell isn't out of whack. I suppose the leather and the oud simply cede the fight to each other and maintain a quiet detente of dry, vaguely tarry woods. It's not an unpleasant ending to a perfume, but in this case, quiet means lackluster. Also, 5 minutes of excitement followed by 8 hours of uneventful drydown isn't my idea of the top to basenotes approach of classical perfumery. 
* three points of comparison to capture the hurrah-to-hush effect:

1) The paradoxical effect, as in medicine. A medication given as stimulant causes sedation. 

2) The dosage effect, as in medicine. For instance, a medication at one dose may cause dilation of blood vessels and lead to decreased blood pressure. The same med at a higher dose causes constriction of the vessels and increases the blood pressure. 

3) The exaustion effect, as when two evenly matched television drag queens square off in a battle of wits and drama. It's all nails and spittle until they tire and their hair falls flat. 

from scent hurdle.com
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Static

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Do not mess with me!
Skanky Aoud, petrol leather , but one of my favorite Montale créations. This one is a shock, a statement for the West. I can imagine people in Saudi or Pakistan walking around smelling dark/pure Aoud’ish. This is Aoud Cuir D’arabie! Give it time on Your skin, the opening may be overwelming but after a While it becomes a Sweet dark oud with a statement ...” don’t mess with me!!”
One of the best skanky wearable oud fragrances!
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Ilyes

12 Reviews
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How to be an alpha men
A special perfum for special people very animalic , strong powerfull europeans are not used to wear this kind of perfums , i remember when i was young i hated this kind of smell but now i changed my mind , this perfum make me travel to middel east and india , i wear it during occasions it gives impressions of royal smell
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Skarholm

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Skarholm
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Le voyage d'un télémite / Orphic Black Leather
You surprised me when I met you at the corner store
Didn´t expect you tbh... this tight leather jacket, a little gold on the wrist
With such a look, an almost imperious one

If I want to take you with me... What could I've said instead?
You were direct and irrepressible, smooth black under the coat
so dominant - no hesitation, no doubts
There was only this demand - almost humiliating. And one question: What can I endure?

Paint, dirt, smell of close bodies and things beyond living. Ashamed wetness.
In your mud until it dries!
Just hard touch - A direct force on every one of my senses
Still permeated, almost secretly, by this gentle-red flower juice in which you sometimes bathe
So alone and all for you
I just endured you defenselessly
At the mercy of all the unspeakable things you acted out on me

Then you picked me up, took me with you to bathe me
In the flower juice I sensed
As if it was supposed to heal something, this orphic ritual
The hours were so long, the school was stricter than any initiation ever before
And now I am yours: fallen, broken, lifted up and marked
You fruit of sin, destruction, you...
Enlightenment and resurrection

Your leather is dirt and of a very dark kind, your soul is sun in evening gold
Is roses in the grove.
Not one of them would be so beautiful, so devoid of all its thorns.

Merci, Maîtresse Montale!
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DeadnoseDeadnose 2 months ago
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▲M8 I spray and thus become Pierre Montale; upon drydown I arrive to an epiphany that there's a little bit of Pierre Montale in all of us.
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 2 years ago
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A warm and dry, yet gently smoky, oriental leathery-woody Winter fragrance, with a rather challenging and cheesy, spicy-animalic opening.
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