London Oud Fragrance Du Bois 2014

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London Oud is a limited perfume by Fragrance Du Bois for women and men and was released in 2014. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still available to purchase. Limited Edition

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Perfumer

François Merle-Baudoin

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Lemon Bergamot Spearmint
Heart Notes	Lavender Jasmine White blossoms Marine notes
Base Notes	Patchouli Cedarwood Nutmeg Cardamom Oud

Ratings

Scent

7.190 Ratings

Longevity

7.876 Ratings

Sillage

7.477 Ratings

Bottle

8.975 Ratings

Value for money

4.929 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 14.08.2022.

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06/29/2022

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 4
Sillage 6
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Nabeste
5 Reviews

Nabeste

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Vintage and Freshness

An aromatic and fresh fragrance, in the style of a barber shop. It opens on a note of seawater, not a salty seawater but rather a marine air, the smell that we perceive when we approach the beach in the middle of summer, facing breaking waves. To this is added a fresh mint quite present, which overlays well on the sea water. Quickly we perceive there lavender, and a lemony aspect. However, where is the Oud? No perception of it, wondering why "London Oud".

In any case, I am not a fan of aromatic barber shop style, I find very vintage, and this one is no exception to the rule. A rather old-fashioned perfume seen and seen again, which does not distinguish itself either by its originality or by its rather mediocre performance.

Too bad, Fragrance du Bois is a qualitative house but cruelly lacks personality. No perfume of this house has really convinced me, except maybe Sahraa Oud and Oud Noir Intense.

Conclusion: 4/10, only for lovers of vintage freshness

04/22/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Megalojohn

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Megalojohn

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Mysti London Oud...

Sherlock Holmes who, on a street still covered by fog, buys lavender, mint and a bouquet of various flowers on Sunday morning.

A nice bright, unexpectedly minty rise, with a pleasant drydown, floral But oud is written in small letters! Very pleasant, but at this price you can also hear humbug in the streets of London...! and surely also in other countries...

01/30/2019

6
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

FvSpee

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FvSpee

Top Review 21

At Oudistenstrand Part 1 or Paragraph 291 Criminal Code

I'm not the big oud aficionado, but now I take a little trip to the oudist beach and report about my observations. The tested fragrances are randomly selected and do not claim to be representative of any kind. This would also be a difficult undertaking, given the real flood of oud fragrances that has flooded the market in recent years.

I would like to start with London Oud from Fragrance Du Bois. This scented house is obviously not named after a Dubois family, but is a play on words - "du bois" = "from the forest". The company is specialized in woody and in particular oudige smells. It has its mailbox in Paris, boutiques in about 2 dozen cities around the world, mainly in Europe (but not Germany), Arabia and East Asia, especially where it's expensive (Geneva, Singapore and so on). It is not so easy to find out where the shed actually has its roots. I'm guessing the Arabian Peninsula.

London Oud no longer costs 695 Euros per 100 ml bottle, but is now available online from the manufacturer for a ridiculous 565 Euros (someone says that everything is getting more and more expensive), so we're talking about a real bargain. If you consider that a typical 3 ml tester ("I'll pack you some more samples") has a retail value of about 20 euros and four sprayers behind your ears and on your wrist (i.e. a daily dose of this drug) and a street price of about 5 euros, that's quite remarkable
What sets me apart from most of the previous glossators here is that I actually perceive oud in this fragrance. But one thing at a time. Right at the beginning I am surrounded by a fine fresh and quite pleasant cloud of mint and lavender, which remains dominant over long distances. In it, however, a quite co-dominant stink note, which becomes somewhat plastic-like at the very beginning and then piercing, mixes, which I at least perceive as an oud. In view of the widespread opinion that this scent hardly smells of oud and my little oud experience, I also consider that vetiver, cardamom, patchouli or something from the lab ("do something stinky about it") are also part of the game
So it goes back and forth for a while, until after 4 hours at the latest (shelf life and sillage moderate, shelf life especially moderate, vice versa would be better) the end sets in, in which the unisexual (I wouldn't want to talk about unisexy) lavender-mint direction has changed into the citric-woody spicy standard men's scent correctly described by Angua, but the oud cardamom stink counterpoint continues. Here one could classify the fragrance as "stinkoudig accentuated standard men's fragrance like a thousand others". The oud then disappears and after 6 to 7 hours everything sounds out, already extremely close to the skin, in any male wort.

What I agree with all the previous speakers is that the price can only be taken as a joke. But even if there are (admittedly mostly very old) people who fall for the trick "Hello, this is the police, their possessions are in danger. Please immediately put all your cash and valuables in a plastic bag outside your front door and don't look out of the window. We'll send some people by to keep things safe for you", so why shouldn't London Oud also find buyers?

09/12/2018

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 3.5
Scent

NikEy

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NikEy

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SpeedDating #03/4: London synthetic & airborne

Due to the many misunderstandings in the perfume community about the brand, going for the hiking package with a somewhat queasy feeling, this opinion should be confirmed today, at least with one fragrance. London Oud starts and remains with an unpleasant synthetic shower gel freshness. Smells more precisely like too much AXE (actually almost 1:1 like one of the sprays) in the sports dressing room. With sports changing room. The musty, shaving-water-like note that opens up over time could be described as spicy, but seems rather annoying to me. It gets more airy and herbaceous over time, but that can't save the fragrance.
To call the used aquatics a "maritime chord" seems just as cheeky to me as it is a pity about the great oud oil, which according to the information was probably used here. So far rather as'not of high quality and outstanding enough', I have reached a point with this fragrance where I have to say: To get a price that is beyond good and evil and to sell a fragrance for it that could be dusty on the bottom shelf of a drugstore is an impertinence to me. But there are still the others of the brand...