Al Oudh L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

Well, I like it, but I think it's just too expensive for something that is as light and fleeting as this. Granted, it does do the human body odor smell very well thanks to the cumin, castoreum and synthetic oud, but there are other scents (or combinations thereof) that can do that too - and for much cheaper.

Here's a thought - try dotting on some synthetic/low grade oud oil on strategic points on your body, add a couple of blasts of John Varvatos (for the dates and a touch of leather), now spray a good deal of Kiss Him all over (for the sweaty cumin and sweet woody amber drydown). Voila! You have a budget Al Oudh for about a quarter of the price - maybe even less if you shop around.

It would smell about the same and last about as long - maybe 4-5 hours. When I'm done with my bottle of Al Oudh, I might give this mixture a try. Or not.

I had high hopes, I thought I would love this. This smells like b.o. and unclean sex. like what sex for days without a shower might be like? yuck. It also smells like a wood-centric wannabe-exotic gift shop in some dopey Epcot Center sort of place where you can get a phony taste of far way places right here at home, kinda thing. It's also got this moldy books sort of note. This is the first l'artisan I tried that I didnt like. just blah and strange. "unshowered nymphos... party of two?, your table is ready..."

Purchase blind disappointment. I bought this perfume trusting the well known name. I was wrong because the Oud notes here is very weak and almost certainly synthetic, to say the M7 vintage (amber bottle) is far more oud (agarwood) and this is much better as a composition! Here are common synthetic notes, and notes but I think natural dilution. Yes, Al Oudh is light, its duration on the skin is a small thing for an Oriental. Sillage good but only for the first hour. Do not recommend this purchase relatively expensive. Similar to this fragrance is Royal Oud by Creed, is an attempt to stay on the market facing competition, but it is a failed attempt.
This is not OUD!

I think this is a great inspired by oud fragrance. The smell reminds me of bakhoor shops. If it makes sense, oud oil takes you to places, al oudh takes you to places of oud. Cumin, saffron, castoreum, styrax and fruit were my first impression of notes. Excellent.

Another BeDu (Bertrand Duchaufour)great creation. I love almost everything he does. This parfume hugs me and reassure me for hours (not as much as Dzonka, but enough for me). Thanks BeDu, you are great.

Very strange parfum. I tried to not like it because it's too heavy for me. (I mean, i agree with those persons who say it's a bit like a medicine), but this medicine is good! It's bitter, but at the same time it soft and sensual. Very sensual!

My only problem comes from this... . If it's Al Oudh (agarwood) why is sooo mixed? Nomen est omen says the Latin.

But I say it's a good, unisex parfüm in the winter.

Uniqueness: 8/10
Erotica: 8/10
How i like it: 7/10

Good for a first date? Not in summer! And you have to know, this parfum is better if u want to add something new in a relationship. Where u can find lot's of agarwood? In India! What comes also from India? Yes! The Kamasutra!

This is probably the most interesting fragrance I've ever smelled. To put it bluntly, it smells like sex. No, I mean really. It smells like hot sweaty dirty sex. Now, I think that smell is hot, but I can't decide if I actually want to walk around smelling like this all the time. Something about this scent is so intense... I love it, but it's a tough decision for me. I have a sample and I'm going to test it out on different days and see if I actually want to buy a bottle. When I smell this scent from the bottle it smells like richly spiced and woodsy, but on my skin the musk comes out. Again, it's musky in an incredibly sexy way, but it might just be too much. On a guy I think that this would be mouth wateringly amazing. I might have to spritz some on my husband and test this theory.

Edit: I continue to smell my sample and spritz myself whenever I am near a bottle of this stuff. It smells like sexy magic and I have to get a bottle.

I was wondering between AL OUDH and Tom Ford OUDH Wood which will be consider the better OUDH fragrance . come on everyone I need some input here

It was a little disconcerting to find that oud is not a big component of Al Oudh. However, given the huge list of notes scattered all over olfactory space, I suppose this is to be expected. I was also surprised that this is not a big, strong, assertive scent, but rather a thin and delicate fragrance that pretty much fades away completely after 5-6 hours.

In the beginning I smell saffron, cedar, some very subtle spices, a little bit of civet and/or castoreum, a lot of myrrh, and a generic floral note. If there’s any oud at all in the mix, it’s lost. At least I would have expected to smell some synthetic oud. As it starts to dry down I smell vanilla and a hint of incense along with the resins and animalic notes. For a little while there’s a nice, clean, woody sillage subtly floating around, a totally different scent from the one that’s close to the skin, which seems heavy on the castoreum and myrrh. That elusive bit of sillage is the only thing that hints of oud.

It’s possible that the intention was to try to put together an accord that smelled like oud using a whole slew of non-oud notes, but for me it doesn’t work. I can see the intended resemblance, but the notes remain separate and the Gestalt never materializes. It’s not that I don’t like the scent, because I do. It just wasn’t what I was expecting.

This was eagerly anticpated.Lucky I just orderd a sample. I don't get it. I smell nothing but cheap aftershave. The silage is quite ok as I cant scrub it off.

L’artisan parfumeur AL OUDH is a dark, charcoal-like oudh perfume with an addictive aspect to it. Although this composition seems in some ways simple and is relatively linear, it is nonetheless rich and inviting. This is the first wrist-sniffer that I’ve encountered which is detectably devoid of either floral or sweet notes. Yet I do find this smell comforting, like the smell of burnt black logs at an idyllic campsite far from the madding urban sprawl. AL OUDH is not smoky in the usual sense—it really offers more of the scent of carbonized wood than the smoke from a fire. Somehow it also smells clean—wearing AL OUDH does not make one feel like a soot-covered chimney sweep.

Equally suitable for women or men, AL OUDH has medium sillage and excellent longevity. Slowly but surely, I’m beginning to comprehend the mania for this note in twenty-first century perfume. From my thusfar rather limited travels through the world of oudh, I can definitely affirm: so far so good! AL OUDH is a splendid wintertime perfume.

Though I adore BD as much as I can, but...
This piece is quite unfocused-- well, I am not a fan of oud theme, but I like the animalic note very well, so I decided to forgive it. But look at the box, it reads: magnificence du bois de oudh. Apparently, Al Oudh is too narrow as well as weak in all aspect: the thickness, the warmth, the tenacity, blablabla.
The only thing to be happy is, I can still find the oud note, so I use is to support Rossy de Palma (ELdO). They go quite well with each other, and turn out to be an animalic rose-oud scent.

This is a weird one. It's like there's two fragrances at once: one is pleasant, reminds me of cheap aftershave. The other is nasty, like you're in a car repair shop. Tobacco mixed with all sorts of chemicals. The pleasant side to this perfume is not interesting enough to make up for the nasty side of it, and somehow they just won't blend together.
Interesting fragrance to say the least, but not one that I would ever, ever wear.

This is quite a scent. I disagree with those who don't think it smells like oud - sure, it doesn't smell like Montale's horrible medicinal oud, nor does it smell like a high quality oud oil. What it does smell like is agarwood chips and the smoke one gets when burning them. The wood chips have a very complex aroma of wood, resin, rot, and a funky fruit aroma that smells a bit like raspberries if they were old and moldy. The smoke is similar but of course smoky, and has an even more pungent quality.

Al Oudh smells like I'd imagine a temple to smell that was burning oud and had rose petals and spices on offer to various gods on altars spread throughout.

The castoreum is quite noticeable here (I've smelled real castoreum from profumo.it - it is dark and leathery and has hints of tar and oil, but is surprisingly smooth), not so much as a note but the way it influences the texture of the scent. There is quite a bit of cumin but it blends so well that it simply adds a hint of a human note to the scent. Body odor - yes, but not in a negative sense. The most alluring smells imaginable emanate from the human body - not all of them are nasty or funky. Al Oudh captures the beautiful scent of human skin and sweat - prior to it becoming fetid - and incorporates it masterfully into the very Moroccan atmosphere of the scent.

One of if not the most velvety smooth and downright *dark* scents I've ever smelled (I feel the box represents the impression of colors I get from this scent very accurately - mostly black with some red and gold woven throughout).

As far as oud scents go, M7 is probably the closest comparison, as M7 also goes for that raspberry, fruity, spicy, funky agarwood wood chips impression. But while M7 is more earthy and rugged, Al Oudh is more refined, velvety, more overtly sultry and heck, downright sexual.

Very spicy, slightly smokey and long lasting. I agree with the others that it's more masculine than feminine, but not unwearable by the female population. In fact, it's quite soft and close to skin so that it's not going to offend anyone but those very close to the wearer.

I can't say if it's not close to the real oud as most easterners claim; I'll just take their word for it. I agree that oud is supposed to be strong and loud and this one definitely isn't. What it is though, is a very nice, spicy, warm, oriental scent. If you're a fan of those you should try it anyway ignoring the oudh part altogether. I'm not sure I want to buy a full bottle of this, but I definitely like it enough to order another sample of it and give serious thought to the idea.

Just nice!
Very Smokey, Incense driven
A hint of spicy wood notes ..
Should be marketed as a masculine fragrance.
I can't see a woman really liking and buying this ..
unless she is getting it for her other half.

A nice INTRO for those like me ..
that want to see/ smell what this OUDH
fad is all about.

i am moroccan, and i have tested many real oudh perfumes from saudi arabia, oman cambodge etc , and oh my god, this smells all but oudh, ther is absolutly no oudh in there, i think even that they tried to put some artificial oudh, which is very bad bad quality of kitchen scent and lasts 2 seconds, oudh is some of the rare ingredients which cannot be made in laboratories, l'Artisan is a so fake brand, all the perfumes i v tested were fake and synthetic, and they dont last cause it is cheap synthetic chimical igredients in there, all all, tubereuse, ambre, al oudh etc so pityfull so cheap quality and so expensive, a comble !! if all iv said before was not enough,

The problem with all L'Artisan perfumes, not matter how beautiful and original, is that they don't last. Every single scent I have tried disappears within half an hour and that is just not good enough.
Al Oudh, besides having the same problem, is also a very weak composition, which is totally incompatible with the whole concept of oudh, which is meant to be strong, long-lasting, and dark.
Al Oudh is not dark at all, only slightly spicy. A bit sweet but really non descript. The best part of it is the bottle.

Wow, this is something interesting. Smells like young red wine, woods and incense.

Wow, this one manages to combine an oriental flavour without being heavy or intrusive in any way. Neverthelss, it is still preferred for older males. Therefore it suits a good looking older gent.

PS: Beware - when this scent comes in contact with clothes, it lasts for weeks. In fact, it lasts for weeks even on those clothes that came in contact with clothes that in contact with the scent. This can be quite annoying.

Mhm, this is it- all pure beauty of the east in this totally different from other L'Artisan bottle. (It looks weird on this pic, but it really does look like that, only better in person).

I didn't think it's masculine- this is kind of scent that can be worn by both.
Oud is very prominent and leads the party.
At fist it appears just 'a basic oud fragrance'. Well, it's not that simple- I thought it lacked some extra note until it opened it's beautiful wings and I almost got headache of many serious notes. Spices, leather, iris, oud. Animalistic and spicy, woody- that's right, you'll find it all here.

Just like other L'Artisan travel inspired fragrances- this fragrance is packed with staying power as though it'd steal it from other lot (that has poor staying power) <-- joke.
Anyways, I spritzed just one time and It's so enough that I wouldn't ever spray more. (It seems my nose become more sensitive- I use perfume in way less doses that I used to)
Further search- if interested- more feminine Juliette has a Gun Midnight Oud

At first application, I felt this was a masculine scent. For some reason, I was reminded of Aqua Net hairspray. After 15 minutes of wear, it settled nicely to a woodsy mossy slightly spicy fragrance. I like it but it's still a bit too masculine for me. I'd prefer it to be a bit sweeter but that's my personal preference. Overall nice if you like smokey, masculine fragrances.

nice parfume just like pure oudh from kilian hause.