Bois d‘Oud

This is most easily compared to Tyger, Tyger by 4160 Tuesdays. This smells like fruit, plastic, a bit of non-indolic jasmine. It's sweet but smells artificial. I don't mean the ingredients are synthetic - the majority of perfumes use synthetic ingredients - I mean it captures the smell of something made with synthetic materials, like plastic or faux leather. UPDATE: Second wearing: Now I am getting spice in the opening. A spicy chai with no milk. Opens up like a cinnamon and clove tea.

pretty fruit-dominant in the opening. i think this fragrance has made me realize my disdain for fragrances with a prominent plum note.... something about the plum mixed with powder from the iris and vanilla/musk softness makes me feel a little ill. i think if you enjoy fruity-woody-sweet scents you'll enjoy this—i just personally prefer something more balanced

Perres makes incredibly beautiful and natural scents. This scent is slightly woody, a little sweet at the beginning and smells like real Oud. Despite the sweetness, it is a masculine scent. I really enjoy wearing this perfume!

I got a privete message about this perfume and answered: "I remember when I bought it and I always beforehand know I'll buy a 100ml. flacon. I never deliberate beforehand if a perfume will shock my environment. I am a homosexual man from 1957 so, 65 years of age. but already in 1974 my career as perfumista begun. I understood immediately I needed female perfumes. it started with classics. actually Dior's Jules which I gave to my straight twinbrother. No. 5 made a deep impression. I combine a certain classicism and chic with punk esthetics. then the 80s came ! my coming of age decade in perfumes. the louder the better, with my mom. Poison, Giorgio, Obsession, Coco, Knowing, Opium (1971), Moschino parfum de toilette and Christian Lacroix parfum. now about oud. it came around 2000 right ? in the West. I have much oud perfumes in all facets. I particularly like all Montales with Rose-Oud. I just peeked what the notes of Bois d'Oud were. rose, oud, iris, 'blackwood', peach, plum,ambergris. I immediately felt a great hauteté, chicness, decidedness with the perfume. I have Ylang-Ylang Nose-Be (an isle near Madagascar). I almost devour that perfume. Bois d'Oud is superior definitely. the oud is discernable. the fruits (I am not so fruity !). but plum I remember from Boucherons Jaipur and that was smashing. it is not a perfume in the grey zone. I had to look up 'blackwood' which causes some austerity and directiveness. it had to grow on me. and the perfume in its entirety enheightens you, is posh and present. for instance the Montales have ballistic projection and durance. this perfume is more demure and austere. but the austerity of for instance Knowing, makes it hyperchic. I think that qualifies this Perris' perfume the best. I have 5 flacons of Dusitas Oudh Infini, times $ 400... there the Laotian oud Paolo has a fervent, rotten but also very refined scent. the Rose de Mai de Grasse tames it, and the civet animalizes it all. this is all not the case with Bois d'oud. it is a sophisticated, chic perfume and I imagine myself trodding on 5th ave like a million bucks. you have to have self-esteem. but the perfume helps you with that ! love, aad de gids, Madonnatella, Jaguarundina."

"Bois d'Oud" has a very nice opening, but it goes downhill from there. The opening is very rich - full of oud (the rubber-y leather kind) and syrupy sweet plum and a bit of powdery peaches. Even though the first sniff makes you go "Oh wow this is pretty" in a way it instantly becomes too much, the sweetness is not balanced at all and together with the oily rubber note it does not work well. As the scent develops it gets a bit boring, the first heavyness of the scent is gone and I'm left with slightly interesting composition of faint odor of oud and some flowers. The staying power is good - more than 8 hours, but worth the experience in my opinion are only the first 2 hours. This is the third from Perris Monte Carlo I've tried and so far even though they have been nice I can't see them being worth their price tag. I hope some other of his scents will prove me wrong.