Oudh Infini

Oh amazing one! To me it smells like real oud and lasting power is beyond imaginable! PS. I have decants of this at reasonable price, pm me.

Gahh! I'm in love with this one. I'm thinking of doing something really stupid with my credit card. Maybe I just have strange tastes, but perfumes that typically put other people off due to indoles, cumin and the like never seem to bother me. I find this absolutely nuzzle worthy and intriguing. I've always liked oud but I can't take the sharp and harsh versions that seem to predominate the market. This one is so smooth and inviting! The earthy, warm undertones are comforting to me. I also love the pairing of orange blossom with oud. I don't actually notice the rose standing out much, which is a good thing for me because the combination of rose and oud, though beautiful, is predictable. I'd like to see more of oud paired with other flowers. This is special and full bottle worthy.

This smells like gasoline on me. Weirdly, I kind of like the smell of gasoline so that keeps me from hating it. I don't get any feces or urine. Just straight petrol and some general funk with the tiniest amount of floral notes. It's obviously well blended...But glad I didn't blind buy.

Well, now that I own a bottle and have worn this a couple times, I can firmly say this is my favorite rose. Pure magic is this thing. The opening is the harshest part, but it only lasts 5 min or so, the rest is smoothness infini.

Hold on to your hats people, this fragrance is not for the faint of heart and this is not my declaration of surprise or disdain at this fact, I'm well and truly onboard the skankier side of things as a fan of artisan oud. You can't say that this doesn't deserve to proudly display oud in the title because it proudly displays it in the composition that's for certain! Pissara is a perfumer that I've heard a lot about without sampling much of her output, in fact I think this is only my second Dusita. She's become famed for being some sort of floral savant or flower whisperer, creating some of the most innovative and evocative floral accords in recent memory. I only have Splendiris to go on and I thought it was very acomplished, this is a completely different vibe to say the least. Opens with a blast of castoreum,(not the civet listed here) rough/sharp, floral/musky and of course leathery, personally I love it! It's like boozy malt whisky and fresh leather, but it quickly turns into the fine cheese that is the oud material in here. Now I know the country of origin doesn't necessarily define the smell of the oud but I have laos, Cambodia, India etc... split into categories in my mind, probably by the first material I smelled from there? This falls somewhere in the Cambodian-Indian variety of strong, very vivid barnyard/manure but with a complexity of an aged material, that has absorbed lots of life experience. Going from tobacco, spicy cigar wrapper and pepper, to full poop. It has a dancing rose type note, sandalwood and a powder which probably adds to that dirty/clean effect and the association with babies nappies. Well as someone who has recently had to deal with nappies, let me tell you this stuff has you sniffing and sniffing to try to better understand the unusual nature of a fecal edged but phantasmagorical, mind poem that is this fragrance. I think the blend perfectly captures an unforgiving attar, casually smeared on to skin and don't get me wrong it's not as brutal as some civet/castoreum perfumes or a potent Indian oud oil for example, this is quite reserved if you have an extremeists palate or are used to undiluted raw materials like ambergris and deer musk. This is classical stuff in the sense that it's rose/oud/sandalwood/musk etc... but presented in such a way by a brand with largely floral output that it raises eyebrows. Okay so I understand that civet replacement is something which has this sort of vibe, unpleasant, faecal etc... however my experience is that it stays on the skin the drydown when everything has gone in a kind of dirty protest. Oudh Infini, if you can last through the wave after wave of skank, you get treated to an almost darkly spiced woods and no cheesey oud at all. Bare in mind this is hours into the experience but still, it's about the most divine thing imaginable, cozy and like nothing else out there. I thought it was a knockout, bold, refreshing and a really well made perfume because despite the quality of oud being so paramount to the success of this perfume, the surrounds & setting make this stuff special, because it doesn't just smell of oud, and that's a difficult balancing act to perform. Wearability for me personally would only be on very special occasions when I felt in the mood for something racy and opulent. A real experience though and the price likely reflects the rare, raw natural ingredients inside. Bravo!