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AmberScent
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AmberScent
The all inclusive Oud
Oud it's not just a fashion any longer. The western market looks at oud scents as a different type of perfume. We now talk about oud perfumes as a group of fragrances and no longer just a type of olfactory note. The same phenomena happened in different occasions with lavender, florals, musk, patchouli and lemon. There is a market pressure, for every designer or niche wizard, to have at least one oud fragrance with their brand name. Some perfume houses, like Montale and Mancera, specialized in producing almost every scent with oud.
What all that has in common with Ferrari (the perfumes, not the cars) ? - Ferrari sells fragrances as fashion acessories, all of them displaying the "cavalino rampante", and , as a business - not so different from polos, T-shirts and watches merchandising.
After some mainstream and vulgar colognes, unexpectedly Ferrari started launching "varietal" fragrances, with a very good quality standard. It's the case of Amber, Cedar, Musk, Vetiver, Bergamot, Leather, Neroli, Fig, Lavender... and "Essence Oud". The differentiated sports car company decided to differentiate their own fragrance business, getting a position half way between being one designer more or an innovative niche player. So, in the Ferrari range, this oud fragrance pop up naturally and not only to follow the steps of company X or Y that desperately needed to add an oud scent to their portfolio.All of the above mentioned "varietal" Ferrari fragrances have a surprising very pleasant scent, and essence oud has a shiny place in that elite range.
Another fragrance market dogma it's the generelized idea that a good differentiated perfume is necessarely expensive. Well, Ferrari broke that unveiled code and offers all of their "semi-niche" offer under 30 Euros per 100 ml flask.
The juice...
A strong untamed oud note is simply to pungent for the Western nose. In order not to intoxicate their customers, the oud perfumists do blend the different types of oud oils with either florals for smoothness, or leather for eartiness, or Rose for elegance, or saffron for earthiness, or Labdanun for added amber, or frankincense for woodiness and smokiness. Nathalie Feisthauer just added all of them and the final result is great.
Before buying my first bottle of Ferrari Oud Essence, I was a bit suspicious about its list of notes. I feared a blind buy to avoid the disapointement of smelling an oud cacophonie due to all those strong matching notes. I could not be more wrong. I overcome that fear with a couple of arguments:
- The bottle is gorgeous;
- It's inexpensive;
- Nathalie Feisthauer made perfumes for Clarins, Amouage, Comme de Garçons, Versace, Etat Libre d'Orange and so on.
Instead of the notes cacophonie, I got was a fine tunned symphony. The resinous floral opening gives way to smoky oud that is later on amplified with leather and animalic tones before the long and pleasant drydown. No hiding defects sweetness is present here, making it a more masculine scent than feminine. It's one of the best Western ouds I have tried.
Longevity is great with more than 9 hours after two good sprays. Sillage is less impressive with a top of six feet and 2.5 hours projection.
I truly recommend it. I already ordered my third bottle in less than a two years time frame.
Keep your scent high!
What all that has in common with Ferrari (the perfumes, not the cars) ? - Ferrari sells fragrances as fashion acessories, all of them displaying the "cavalino rampante", and , as a business - not so different from polos, T-shirts and watches merchandising.
After some mainstream and vulgar colognes, unexpectedly Ferrari started launching "varietal" fragrances, with a very good quality standard. It's the case of Amber, Cedar, Musk, Vetiver, Bergamot, Leather, Neroli, Fig, Lavender... and "Essence Oud". The differentiated sports car company decided to differentiate their own fragrance business, getting a position half way between being one designer more or an innovative niche player. So, in the Ferrari range, this oud fragrance pop up naturally and not only to follow the steps of company X or Y that desperately needed to add an oud scent to their portfolio.All of the above mentioned "varietal" Ferrari fragrances have a surprising very pleasant scent, and essence oud has a shiny place in that elite range.
Another fragrance market dogma it's the generelized idea that a good differentiated perfume is necessarely expensive. Well, Ferrari broke that unveiled code and offers all of their "semi-niche" offer under 30 Euros per 100 ml flask.
The juice...
A strong untamed oud note is simply to pungent for the Western nose. In order not to intoxicate their customers, the oud perfumists do blend the different types of oud oils with either florals for smoothness, or leather for eartiness, or Rose for elegance, or saffron for earthiness, or Labdanun for added amber, or frankincense for woodiness and smokiness. Nathalie Feisthauer just added all of them and the final result is great.
Before buying my first bottle of Ferrari Oud Essence, I was a bit suspicious about its list of notes. I feared a blind buy to avoid the disapointement of smelling an oud cacophonie due to all those strong matching notes. I could not be more wrong. I overcome that fear with a couple of arguments:
- The bottle is gorgeous;
- It's inexpensive;
- Nathalie Feisthauer made perfumes for Clarins, Amouage, Comme de Garçons, Versace, Etat Libre d'Orange and so on.
Instead of the notes cacophonie, I got was a fine tunned symphony. The resinous floral opening gives way to smoky oud that is later on amplified with leather and animalic tones before the long and pleasant drydown. No hiding defects sweetness is present here, making it a more masculine scent than feminine. It's one of the best Western ouds I have tried.
Longevity is great with more than 9 hours after two good sprays. Sillage is less impressive with a top of six feet and 2.5 hours projection.
I truly recommend it. I already ordered my third bottle in less than a two years time frame.
Keep your scent high!
