Aoud Cuir d’Arabie Montale for men

Totally agree with suburbanites. Breathtaking! A masterpiece. The best cuir fragance ever. Even I'm a woman,I must get it!

Quite disappointed in this as compared to their Aoud Red. Interesting open. Strong. Rich. High sillage. But it quickly dies back and then is barely there. Maybe 90 minutes to 2 hours of worthwhile scent. Effectively dead after 3 hours unless my nose is touching my wrist.

Just astounding! I've experienced Ouds, but this...this renders me speechless. It's truly a magnificent experience! I'm so glad that I ordered a sample of this to understand just why Montale's fragrances have become as close to a "de facto standard" for Ouds, and this is such a rich, luxurious fragrance that I'm really at a loss to provide a description that does it justice.

I've seen it described as somewhat linear, but for me this opened with a strong note of leather, Oud just beneath the surface. Over the course of wearing, it dried down to a much more subtle note that revealed a deep rose-like scent that softened the overall composition. Tobacco -- a very deep tobacco -- was present through the first several hours until the base was reached, and it seemed to transform itself to Oud, tobacco, and rose. Depth is stunning, sillage and longevity are both very good.

Love it! Absolutely love it! This could easily become my favorite or signature scent -- I must get this!

This is breathtaking! Two of the strongest and potentially most challenging ingredients around mixed together with an awesome result. If you like oud and leather this is possibly one of the best takes around but be careful because this is not a fragrance for everybody. Oud Cuir D'Arabie is quite challenging and incredibly intense. The opening is almost arresting with a blast of animalic notes and oud (a-là Montale). In this phase the fragrance is skanky, unpretty and raunchy but it quickly evolves into a more conventional yet nonetheless fascinating blend of luxurious rose and leathery-tobacco laying on a resinous oud base. Brutal, intense and absolutely unpolite!

You've to be in the right mood to wear Oud Cuir D'Arabie and make sure to be in the same mood for the whole day as it lasts over 12 hours. A must-try for anyone into Oud 27 or Dior's Leather Oud.

Rating: 8.5/10

At first it’s a mixture of strong animalic leather, a sharp citrusy floral, and green notes reminiscent of melon and grass. It’s as if the scent is traveling in three very different directions at once. If there is oud in the mixture, it melds into the leather accord to give it a pungent, woody dimension.

As the components fuse and the drydown begins, the floral part reveals itself as a citrusy rose that starts dancing in step with the leather, which is more of a new raw leather than a dyed and finished leather. There’s also the slightest wisp of campfire smoke from the birch tar that presumably is part of the leather accord. I never figured out how or why the melon came into the picture, because it seems completely incongruous. It does gradually dissipate, leaving behind a beautiful, fairly straightforward rose-leather combination. After some time there’s a nice, sweet amber-labdanum in the base.

The interesting top notes only last about an hour with low to moderate sillage, after which all that’s left is an ambery skin scent that manages to make it through 2-3 hours before giving up the ghost. The beginning 5 minutes are somewhat bizarre, the next hour is an enjoyable leather-rose scent, and the last couple of hours are just a faint leathery amber that sticks to the skin. The concept is interesting, but the serious lack of longevity in this scent is disappointing.

ACDA is one of the worst scents I have ever smelled.
I am by all means fond of strong and "special" fragrances, I wear Black Aoud, for example.
However, this composition made me scrub it off after I managed through the first 20 minutes or so because I was hoping for an improvement.
There was none.
ACDA smells like leather, yes. But the leather is still on the dead animal. It is gruesome !
Would not want to smell this stuff anywhere again, it made me sick.

I disagree that this is a totally masculine scent. It's very leathery, in a good way. Unlike at least one other leather scent I'm familiar with, this one doesn't morph into hot asphalt and burning tires on me (Knize Ten!) If you wander through Wilson's Leather stores just to sniff the air, you will probably enjoy this one. And while a man can wear this alone, I tend to pair it with other scents, sweet or spicy, to feminize it a bit. Makes a great base.

I cannot stay without anymore :-)

Wonderful. I have no other words to describe this scent.
One of the most courageous perfumes that I've ever tried. You need a lot of courage to wear it, and if you will be successful to wear it, then Aoud Cuir D'Arabie will become a drug.

At the top notes it's pure oud. Simply.
Initially, the smell is like a "stable" and hay, a stink, very hard to smell! But after a few minutes this flavor fades and oud became more aromatic: powerful, but beautiful.
After many minutes starts to emerge a smoky, wet, fat leather and tobacco notes with oud always present in the background. Leather and burned woods with power of oud makes the (very savage) middle/hearts notes.
In the dry down the the scent becomes less wild and more gentle and fine. The leather is a leather more delicate and elegant. I've never tried a leather reproduced in the purest way as in this perfume.

I think that this is the fragrance closest to the pure and precious oud and the fragrance that reproduces in the most perfect way the real smell of leather. Surely it is the wildest fragrance I've ever worn: savage, smell of tannery. It transports me into an arabic market full of leather clothes for sale. Either you hate or you love it. No middle. And I love it. But remember: it's stuff for "die hard men".

Sillage is very good (more discreet than Black Aoud).
Lasting power/longevity: excellent.
Masterpiece.

Vincenzo F.

I received this as a sample from Lucky Scent and have tested it on myself 4 or 5 times. It is definitely a masculine scent. I find the combination of oud and wood assertive but not unpleasantly so. I do not pick up a tobacco scent at all. It lasts 4 or 5 hours on me.

My least favourite of Montale's Aouds this blends tobbaco and aoud in a winter green camvas. Totally for men, but i would'nt like to smell it on my habby!