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Saffron
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Rose
Oud
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Praliné
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Notes09/21/2021
TristanKalus
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TristanKalus
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Sticky baklava
If I'm honest, I was very skeptical for a long time what the apparent buyer from the house of Swiss Arabian concerned. I was already a little busy with the subject of oud and could hardly imagine that at the price called a passable oud fragrance was to be expected, nor why such a fuss was made about him. Despite my skepticism, I did not want to pigeonhole him in advance, but at least give him a chance out of my interest.
As luck would have it, a nice conversation with a perfumer resulted in a bottling being on its way to me very soon. Unfortunately, the fragrance mail did not make it to me undamaged, which is why again quite a while went into the country, until a new filling made its way to me.
I must say that I was very excited about what would await me after the first spraying, although my expectations were not extremely high. First of all, I took a quite sharp combination of rose and saffron in the head. I found both the saffron and the rose used here to be extremely synthetic and pungent. So pungent, in fact, that I first perceived the opening as quite unpleasant. After the first surge of fragrance had passed, the sharpness also settled relatively quickly and made way for a clearly perceptible oud accord.
Why chord?
Even if the oud note is well implemented here and comes across fine, bright and woody, I do not expect to find real oud in this price category. Regardless, the accord comes across quite solid and can be absorbed into the category of light-woody ouds, which are usually quite pleasant for Western noses. So the first impression confirmed my assumption that I was basically dealing with a rose oud scent. So far, so good.
Then, however, it became abruptly sweet and sticky, because the praline and vanilla notes were not long in coming and ensured that the fragrance drifted in a strongly gourmand direction. Really, I didn't have to think long about what Shaghaf Oud reminded me of now - fresh baklava with rose water. And just as you can be overwhelmed by just one piece of this really very sweet seduction, the same happens here if you press the spray head a little too often. And even though I am one of the faction who likes to apply 10+ sprays, I have to say that I can only dose Shaghaf Oud sparingly. Because it's the gourmand notes that make the scent pungent and unpleasantly sweet on the nose, causing mild nausea.
And that brings us to what I consider the biggest shortcoming of Shaghaf Oud - the implementation. In principle, you can not complain about the offered at the price, however, it lacks me here clearly in subtlety in the implementation. You get a brute perfomance, but just as brute and ungraceful present themselves the individual notes, so the fragrance is for me only in the good midfield. All in all, you get a conventional rose oud scent with a sticky sweet gourmand twist. Who likes sugar-sweet fragrances is well advised here, all others should perhaps sample it once before.
As luck would have it, a nice conversation with a perfumer resulted in a bottling being on its way to me very soon. Unfortunately, the fragrance mail did not make it to me undamaged, which is why again quite a while went into the country, until a new filling made its way to me.
I must say that I was very excited about what would await me after the first spraying, although my expectations were not extremely high. First of all, I took a quite sharp combination of rose and saffron in the head. I found both the saffron and the rose used here to be extremely synthetic and pungent. So pungent, in fact, that I first perceived the opening as quite unpleasant. After the first surge of fragrance had passed, the sharpness also settled relatively quickly and made way for a clearly perceptible oud accord.
Why chord?
Even if the oud note is well implemented here and comes across fine, bright and woody, I do not expect to find real oud in this price category. Regardless, the accord comes across quite solid and can be absorbed into the category of light-woody ouds, which are usually quite pleasant for Western noses. So the first impression confirmed my assumption that I was basically dealing with a rose oud scent. So far, so good.
Then, however, it became abruptly sweet and sticky, because the praline and vanilla notes were not long in coming and ensured that the fragrance drifted in a strongly gourmand direction. Really, I didn't have to think long about what Shaghaf Oud reminded me of now - fresh baklava with rose water. And just as you can be overwhelmed by just one piece of this really very sweet seduction, the same happens here if you press the spray head a little too often. And even though I am one of the faction who likes to apply 10+ sprays, I have to say that I can only dose Shaghaf Oud sparingly. Because it's the gourmand notes that make the scent pungent and unpleasantly sweet on the nose, causing mild nausea.
And that brings us to what I consider the biggest shortcoming of Shaghaf Oud - the implementation. In principle, you can not complain about the offered at the price, however, it lacks me here clearly in subtlety in the implementation. You get a brute perfomance, but just as brute and ungraceful present themselves the individual notes, so the fragrance is for me only in the good midfield. All in all, you get a conventional rose oud scent with a sticky sweet gourmand twist. Who likes sugar-sweet fragrances is well advised here, all others should perhaps sample it once before.
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