Oud 27

while the bestiality and here and there, skankiness of the oud come forward immediately, as I noticed this morning, and the civet, civetone or zibetin [if I am not mistaken] keep pushing their furry urinal yet fixative influence forward (which I all like), the perfume quicky 'resume, detract, subdue' its chic poise, its preciously measured balance of notes. I love the perfume, as I also love 'Labdanum 18' and the Patchouli I gave to my straight twinbrother. what I try to remember is the price I then payed in perspective to the preposterous rise in prizes I guess not only with 'le Labo'. $ 525 for 100 ml and I am in doubt if I payed 350 guilders (so, before 2000) or 250 guilders for these three times 100 ml each ? I never was shocked by any price and I remember that I thought, wow this gotta be special. my brother was very very pleased with the patchouli, as I am with the oud and labdanum. so the other factor comes forward: 'do perfumes age'. not in my case. I NEVER experienced any wrong turned, sour, bland, emptied out sensation on the contrary. I have quicky bought myself in in Gale Hayman's 'Beverly Hills' (1990) six bottles. they all thrive wonderfully as they did in their glamour haydays also with a TON civet. now the oud 27. I definitely smell cedar, which gives it refinement. vetiver which does actually the same. and via Creed (the scents from 1990s) I have an idea about ambergris and I can smell that too. this has a subdued animality, an all encompassing lifting as well as grounding effect on the fragrance. I love patchouli but it has the tendency to eather smell fatty (not here) or a sharp scent of herbaceousness, which I love. to me patchouli often vanishes between the other notes and that is the case here also. I think the amber and rose make up for the rest of the perfumes' profile for me. which is fine to me, a great lover of rose-ouds preferrably of Montale (yes Montale from whom the perfumes are often sold on Arabian websites while the posher and so called 'more authentic' brands are nowhere to be found). this perfume isn't 'montalish' and gives off a rich and layered sniff of perfume. I think I have to put it this way: I love rose-ouds. Dusita's Oudh Infini: while discontinued I managed to get hold on 7 flacons of 50 ml á 395 euros, with help from my brother. but also 'Thirty Three' from Ex Idolo: a Thirty Three year old Chinese oud oil with the recognizable kiss of white roses, Midnight Oud from JHAG, Tierry de Gunzberg's Terryfic Oud and Terryfic Oud Extreme, Cartiers Oud-Rose, from Montale: Louban, Oud Purple Roses, Attar (with double distilled sandal instead of oud), Nepalese Oud, Pashmina Oud, Dimasq Oud (or Damascus) , et cetera. strangely this oud from le Labo stands out against each one of them. perhaps only the civet and then yet, the oud, speak with loud voices. yet soon they get drawn in in a whole symphony where I smell what I said I smelled. I think they costed 350 guilders then (perhaps only this flacon 300 euros). yes what to say about the rise of these prizes. nothing really. I am not rich but have had, and still do, a remarkable collection of loud, chic, vulgar and unconventional perfumes. I am more the Versace-Versailles type then the RalphLauren-Metlife type. and in the mean time: enjoy and have fun with these Grande Personnes, les Parfums de les Cocottes de la Nuit.