Review of Rose-Oud by aad de gids

I immediately have bought three (also beatiful) boxes of Rose-Oud and while with interest I read your account about the perfume, I may 'sense' it differently. I am a great lover, if not fanatic, of rose-oud perfumes and at first I had the feeling this perfume was so refined, that the oud was hidden. sometimes the oud comes on late... but here, with comparison of several Montales, Dusita's 'Oudh Infini', Ex Idolo's 'Thirty Three', Histoire de Parfums 'Al Oudh', Juliette has a Gun 'Midnight Oud' and Tierry de Gunsberg 'Terryfic Oud' and '-- Extreme', I have learned to wait and also have learned (Montale) the rose and oud are equally strong and have their departure together and interchangingly reciprocally interdependent. this is here the case I believe. what you immediately smell is this infernal duo rose and oud. the rose being the only flower that really goes in symbiosis with oud. the rose of course, already has woody aspects of its own ('Portrait of a Lady') and even thorny and rooty (P.O.a.L.) and the oud, there are so many ouds. if it is woody (Oud-al-Dehn [Hindi Oud]) then the woodiness is a veil dominating the perfume. if it is also flowery (Cambodian Oud) then this fleurage goes perfectly with the rose. this perfume is at once very deep and lasting (castoreum, like the civet in Dusita's 'Oud Infini' and castoreum in Tierry de Gunsberg's 'Terryfic Oud' ) these animalics give this perfume a boost and little reminiscence to the French Classics: 'Chanel No5', 'Balmain's Ivoire', Dior's 'Miss Dior' (1947 that is), YSL's 'Y' which is that marvelous and unforgettable but also inescapable Chypre. Jean Patou's JOY, but also Americans like Calvin Klein's 'Obsession' and Estée's 'Knowing'. and her 'families' ' Nahéma and Guet Apins et al. this perfume from Patricia de Nicolaii is from the start very chic and sophisticated. it definitely contains Oud (but of course not a kilogramme !), the best of roses, the osmanthus in a flower in supportive role; and this iron wrought base with vanilla, patchouli, amber, sandelwood and musc (which I can not smell). if you inhale deeply (a tric I learned myself) as if to almost choke on it, you get all kinds of notes (from the fysical contents) which otherwise evaporate in the 'rose-oud violence. she (Patricia) is a genius perfumer and really down-to-earth and chic.