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Tobacco oud is certainly one of the most polarizing fragrances. I think that is hptsl. at the top note. The can actually be a bit pungent - as just real tobacco now times partly smells. Much more pleasant after half an hour and a dream after an hour. I smell then especially a very mild tobacco and wood. For me then also everything very creamy and gentle. Many compliments will probably but still not get for the fragrance, if that should be important to someone. The durability is good, but there are certainly winter fragrances with better durability. In my ranking for winter fragrances nevertheless place 1:
1. Tobacco Oud
2. Tuscan Leather
3. Herod
4. Oud wood intense
5. Oud wood
6. M Puredistance
7. Tobacco oud intense

The scent smells incredibly good. I know nothing comparable. I have often read it smells like fir, balsamic etc. That always put me off a bit. I always had a sauna association with it. Fortunately this is not the case. I have worn the scent quite often now and asked many people how they like it. One of the very few fragrances that really pleased everyone.

Please don't get the wrong idea now, because maybe the comparison is a bit far-fetched: i can still remember when i got aventus many years ago. i simply had the feeling of possessing an unbelievably "sovereign" scent. a scent that floats above everything else. for me it was simply a sublime scent. if i had read that time that it smelled like pineapple, i would probably have flinched and would never have given the scent a chance. it's similar with ormonde jean. yes it smells balsamic. but the association i have with the scent is the same i had with aventus many years ago: i have a very "sovereign" scent with me again. and fortunately this one is, much less common, so you don't have to listen to it anymore: you smell like you ex, dad, brother etc...

unfortunately, i'm not gifted enough to describe the fragrance sufficiently well in its individual components. but maybe one association: i've always been very impressed by helmut schmidt. his eloquence. his intellect. he never had to push himself into the foreground but he was always the center of attention. he was noticed by everyone and respected equally. i think ormonde jeane would have been the perfect perfume for him...even if a tobacco scent would have been more obvious with his cigarette consumption...

by the way: the photo here is not quite right. you can only buy it in a store in london. i got it in a 120ml bottle. it only says edp on it although it is the 50% version. the red cord is missing completely. the scent is also much darker. more like olive green.

compared to the 40% version i honestly didn't notice any difference in the store. but i thought the 50% version has a better durability and so i got it. but there are significant differences to the edp. it's just a completely different league. i wouldn't recommend edp. either 40 or 50% version.

for me, it's a signature fragrance not because i think it suits me particularly well, but because i think it simply suits everyone and always.

and finally some scores:
scent: 10/10
shelf life: 9/10
sillage: 8/10
unique: 10/10 (I know nothing comparable and if you have smelled it once you recognize it immediately)
compliment factor: 10/10 (pleases everyone, women and men alike)
flacon/packaging: 3/10 (really doesn't look like much, they could have tried a little harder)