Obsessive Oudh by Al Haramain / الحرمين
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7.2 / 10 22 Ratings
A perfume by Al Haramain / الحرمين for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is animal-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Animal
Woody
Spicy
Smoky
Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
MuskMusk AmberAmber
Heart Notes Heart Notes
OudOud AmberAmber
Base Notes Base Notes
OudOud
Ratings
Scent
7.222 Ratings
Longevity
8.618 Ratings
Sillage
8.019 Ratings
Bottle
7.616 Ratings
Submitted by Tar, last update on 30.10.2022.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Pricing
6
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
6
Scent
Static

43 Reviews
Static
Static
2  
Horse stable
?!!
Never semelled an oud fragrance that’s so skanky as this one! Is it Cambodjan oud? Anyhow, oud Is the ruler here!
Initial spray is like a horse stable x 100. If you planning to wear this fragrance you must use it 1-2 hours before you leave your place. The drydown is ...oud. Very hard to love. The only thing i dislike is the quality of the bottle. My al Haramein bottles (midnight Musk & oud) have a production issue with the sprayer.
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9
Bottle
8
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
TheBark

14 Reviews
TheBark
TheBark
4  
I've had a couple of bottles of this for 6 years now...
...and, wearing it again today, I'm struck by how authentic this is.

If you're rating this upon its opening, it's going to score low. It's discordant, cheese-laden funk is not the highlight by any means. But hang in there, this puts anything with the words "Tom Ford" and "Oud" in the same sentence to shame. I have several Tom Ford Oud scents and have owned a number of the private line - and I don't mean to pick on Tom Ford as one could easily substitute Maison Francis Kukdjian or any other house charging an arm and a leg for scents that contain no real oud - but I can't understand when somebody looking for an "Oud" scent looks for these and pays the prices they do rather than something like this that is often found cheaper (though comparable to grey market pricing per ml.)

That being said, the scent itself, as noted, opens up rather animalic and funky. After a while, the amber begins to round out the edges and gives it a resinous, almost incense-like vibe. At this point, if you stick your nose where you sprayed, you're still going to get animalic-funk'n'cheese to a lesser degree because the charm in this is in its sillage. Its projection is pretty noticeable, but its sillage is deceptive. Walk out of a room you've been in, go outside and come back into the same room 20 minutes later and you will be struck by the most ethereal, incense and woody accord hovering in the air like an invisible mist.

Stellar, top shelf stuff. It's an utter shame that some people see Al Haramain as a "clone house," and forego these unique offerings, along with some of their exclusive (prestige) attars such as Sheik, which are far, far, far better than most designer stuff out there. While it's still available on their website, other offerings from the same prestige line appear to be discontinued (I have Amazing Mukhallath and Ode of Oud, both of which deserve a wider audience but may no longer be as readily available.)
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8
Sillage
9
Longevity
1
Scent
SchatzSucher

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SchatzSucher
SchatzSucher
Top Review 37  
Honestly, it pisses me off!
The description alone did not bode well. "Animalistically woody" is written there. All the alarm bells rang, sirens howled, the red warning light burned brightly, my inner little angel cried out to me: 'No, don't do it! Keep your fingers or nose off the scent! It's not for you anyway!'
The inner little devil, on the other hand: 'You got the sample. You know what that means. Go ahead and open it Taste the scent and tell about it!'
In this case, I listened to the devil, while the angel turned away in horror and left in search of a clothespin for her nose.
And even if I am not a person who stands up and says 'should have', I should have listened to the angel within me For an extremely borderline and dubious scent experience followed with Obsessive Oudh by Al Haramain.

The fragrance pyramid is kept quite minimalistic, musk, amber, oud, amber, oud, ah yes. The direction is already clear...
A small swab on my wrist and immediately I am standing in a garden. But that garden is not nice and cozy. This garden is a single misery, completely devastated by a wild and crazy herd of cattle, which has just trampled everything down like a stampede and in a wild gallop still happily let everything fall out front and back, what you can imagine in your wildest fantasies.

It mushes, it steams, it stinks, and I'm standing in the middle of it all, gasping for breath In addition, this horrible hellish brew eats deep into the skin and spreads its unpleasant breath so intensively that it really makes me sick.
I've never experienced that with any scent before. Although, can I really call this stuff a scent? Scent is actually self-explanatory and I associate it with something beautiful and pleasant But Obsessive Oudh is not beautiful for me, it does not smell, it does not smell, it just stinks.
So after a while the contaminated wrist had to be treated with water, soap and brush. 4 washes were necessary in total and don't worry, the abraded areas are no longer visible and it has healed well.
The name Obsessive Oudh is already kind of creepy. Obsessive is derived from Obsession. Was someone possessed by the diabolical idea of torturing others with such a scent? Who knows...

Only I'm seriously wondering, why would anyone want to smell like that? I can't think of a good reason why anybody would want to smell that stuff. Except maybe if you want to empty a crowded subway in seconds *devilish laugh*

No, I stick to my opinion, fragrances with such an overly obvious animalism, with such a clear tendency to animal or even human legacies (which brings us once again to possible embarrassing misunderstandings), will never be my direction.
I thank Terra very much for the fact that I have gained a new fragrance experience, even borderline ones should be done and shared with others.
I was told that it could probably be even worse with Sécretions Magnifiques, but I'm waving goodbye to that, I don't even want to know.
Of course I don't want to step on the feet of the fans of such fragrances with these sentences, I know this fragrance direction has its lovers. But I don't belong to them.
If they were to spray this scent on me under torture, I would betray all my secrets.

That's enough for me, I don't want to smell like this, I don't want to torture my fellow men like this and I will also strictly forbid my circle of friends to approach me with this hellish brew, should anyone have the idea to buy Obsessive Oudh Violators will be punished mercilessly with a massive throw of cotton balls and at least 10 Fleur du Male spray bursts :-D

And I remember this one nonsense song from my school days, which we always sang to the displeasure of our music teacher 'There were two figures sitting on the thunder beam and they were screaming for toilet paper...'
And with this cheerful little song I search for the next fragrant flowerbed in which I can roll around :-)
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Statements

2 short views on the fragrance
StaticStatic 3 years ago
6
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
6
Scent
*SKANKY* *SKANKY* *SKANKY*
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OdysseusOdysseus 7 years ago
8
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
10
Scent
If you appreciate funky, truly animalic, cheesy, authentic Middle Eastern oud, you will LOVE this feral beauty! Comparable to Zafar.
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