Review of Raghba Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

again in juxtaposition of another perfume it was that 'Lataffa Raghba' got its power back it already had in my opinion. "Janzen-Coral-58-Bodyspray" with saffron, amber and exotic flowers which proved too light for me and made me grasp to Raghba again and then you get an ultimate presentism of this perfume which sits in my collection already for years and which I have always loved. the oud, sugar, vanilla, incense, sandelwood and musk immediately all come to the fore. sometimes the oud flashes a sharpness which makes this dense perfume more complex and distincts the oud from the sandelwood. I have smelled many ouds (Dusitas Oudh Infini, Histoires des Parfums Petroléum, Ex Idolo Thirty Three, Montales: Nepalese Oud [as Montale scripts 'Aoud'], Black Oud Intense, Oud Purple Roses and Louban and, the as veritable oud imposing doubly distilled Mysore Sandelwood in Attar, Maai, Mizensirs Rose Exaltante, Creeds Royal Oud and Guerlains Santal Royal, Sultan Paschas attar Oud Douce Amère) and so there are a bunch of smells and differences. skanky, foul, hypersophisticated, with thousand faces, deep-woody etcetera. the 33 years old oud in Ex Idolos 'Thirty Three' smells sharp and metallic, as does the oud in Petroléum. then we have the strong ouds in l'Artisan Parfumeurs 'Al Oudh', Juliette HAGs 'Midnight Oudh' and in Terry de Gunzbergs 'Terryfic Oudh' and 'Terryfic Oudh Extrème'. I feel that in Raghba the oud is at once 'cottoned-up', sugared up with sugar, vanilla and sandelwood and on the other side gives this whole perfume its boost. I guess this is a sophisticated Arabian way to treat oud. as it is in Montales 'Attar', where the sandlwood is 'oudified', while yes, Montale DOES use real oud, as I see him on Arabian perfume sites while the other posh Perfume Elitists (Lutens, Roja Dove, Creed and Penhaligon are ABSENT) [not: Malle], while here the clearly distinct oud is sugarspun and soft. as Ensor says: Oud has thousand faces.