Review of Royal Princess Oud by aad de gids

it is a nice perfume. actually the lady beneath this review characterized the perfume very apt. it is a light, airy, fleeting, swirling perfume. I think my expectations were measured to the swanky, sweltering, swooning feminine perfumes of Creed from the previous Century. I had better known. there is a wellknown Breach pre-, and post 2012 with the arrival of Aventus. the feminine perfumes I bought after 2012 (Windflowers, Aventus for her) are barely feminine let alone Present, Full Flowering, but managed to have a metallic (Aventus for her) or Totally Blown and Airy (Windflowers) over-editing over and in them. it is not different with this perfume. first I thought the slight metallicness and in the first place, SOURNESS, that lasted through much of the perfumes' development, either came from the Oud, used, and the Sourness from the Bergamot, while I never pick up on Hesperides, so that would be the first time I actually smell a Citrus in Full Armour. it then would have that in common with the other feminine wrongly named perfume from Versace Eros Pour Femme. there the Citron and Lemon Blossom keep persevering for hours. why not naming these perfumes (I meant) Aventus for Her ---> Amazonia, Xena or Zuzana, and Versace could have named Eros Pour Femme Poppea, Erotica (a Madonna knixe) or Lucrezia [Borghia]. then Royal Princess Oud is aptly named and it would disappoint if it were a kind of Oudh Infini or Terryfic Oud (Terry de Gunzbergh). the perfume must have payed reverence to the Royal Princesses. that is why I found the previous review so good. but then it covets Ingredients (actually not) but rather a 'Light, Demure, Detracted, Anglosaxon' Treatment which is never my cup of Tea. my fault is that I have the 1950s-1990s Feminine Creeds as Measuring and I have them ALL because they are so Brilliant, Opulent, Annexationist, letting the full Flower appear in a Space of (Compartmentalized, as with the Training of Fireworkers) Nasal, Rhonchal, Pharynchial Zones and Aerospatial Airport Fly Spaces. so Present and Rich and Voluptuous were these perfumes. I have them ALL. Fleur de Bulgarie, Irisia, Vanisia, Royal Delight, Jasmal, Jasmin d'Impératrice Eugénie, Tuberose Indiana et cetera. so the review below gave my new perfume Royal Princess Oud a new life, but I can not ignore the persisting SOURNESS veiling the entire perfume and its (floral and woody and resinous) Notes in a kind of Sea Spray. that is not my idea of a good perfume and yet. I give this perfume time and patience and Possibility to Come in the Open. it does last for hours. I am a Creed fan and was never infected with the Hate Talks about this Brand. fuck them. (new june 2026) there are reviews here that exactly pinpoint this perfume which sits in my 'collection' from off 2015. emphasizing the aquatic, fizzy, sparkling, champagne-like character this is precisely what this perfume does. to me it is revelatory that I can smell the Bergamot. I never smell hesperidic fruits, not Orange, Bergamot, Lime, Mandarine. only in Versaces Eros Pour Femme could I smell the Lemon. but here the Bergamot surely does not only get a lift, but also lifts the entire perfume into the realm of indeed the Sparkling, Zinging, Effervescent athmospheres. I just came with a wrong conception of the 1960-2000s Creed super opulent, classical flowery, imposing richness of ingredients, expectation that this perfume would somehow duplicate. bc of the energizing reviews I got to comprehend and appreciate this perfume much better. it is still obvious Creed uses high quality ingredients and that the flowers kind of appear fromout a Hesperidic aquarium. then I think that it had to be a Princesse-worthy perfume and in that way, it is. what others also mentioned was, and is, that the Oud note is of lesser importance and is interwoven in the other woody elements (Sandelwood, Patchouli) and that a 'woodier' Oud can also be used for that usage. so it is truly a Champagne-Fizz like perfume post-Aventus which I am now glad it is still around.