An exquisite rose-oud fragrance. I get absolutely none of the faecal skank, for me it's medicinal and oily, slightly petrol-like, but no barnyard element. The drydown is almost leather-like. Update: this really is a magical journey every time I wear it, possibly my favourite perfume.
I remember the day when I got this perfume. it was a blind buy. I was totally thrilled from the first spray and still this is one of the best ouds in my collection. Oudh Infini is all what you can expect from really good oud scent with a rich and deep blend together with Civet and Musk while flowers, sandalwood, benzoin and vanilla make the scent very pleasant. This is not just some creation made because of the hype of oud. There is no oud in this fragrance just because you can tell it has it. Oudh Infini is a bold blend from Pissara and definitely not an easy choice, this is only for those who really like animalic vibes. This opens up with amazing mellow and edgy splash of Laotian Oud and Civet is very opulent from the start as well. This is straight away slightly skanky, it’s dirty and animalic and wow it’s so sexy! 🔥 For a few seconds you can get a barnyard vibe but straight away it gets tamed and starts to show the beauty with a beautiful Rose de Mai in it - in the same moment you are already hooked. Good quality strong oud and Civet, and Musk in the base make sure that this experience - which this perfume really is - doesn’t fade away for many hours. Yet, this is very enjoyable, not pungent at all and after the opening very smooth and wearable. Musky base with Civet and a little bit sweetness from Vanilla is amazing. I ❤️ this perfume a lot and it’s really adorable and addictive scent. I just want to smell my arm more and more, I feel that I don’t get enough! I don’t know if Dusita has even one scent which I don’t love. I just wish that Pissara will create more oud masterpieces, at least this is the proof that she can do those well! 💯 Thank you for reading and I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes
This is a straight masterpiece. Yeh for sure it's very barnyard when you first spray it, but it's fantastic and even if you're not into barnyard, it turns into a gorgeous, dark rose and blossom scent layered over dark woods, the whole thing scorched and smouldering with soft smoke. Magnificent. Nothing more to say.
Hold on to your hats people, this fragrance is not for the faint of heart and this is not my declaration of surprise or disdain at this fact, I'm well and truly onboard the skankier side of things as a fan of artisan oud. You can't say that this doesn't deserve to proudly display oud in the title because it proudly displays it in the composition that's for certain! Pissara is a perfumer that I've heard a lot about without sampling much of her output, in fact I think this is only my second Dusita. She's become famed for being some sort of floral savant or flower whisperer, creating some of the most innovative and evocative floral accords in recent memory. I only have Splendiris to go on and I thought it was very acomplished, this is a completely different vibe to say the least. Opens with a blast of castoreum,(not the civet listed here) rough/sharp, floral/musky and of course leathery, personally I love it! It's like boozy malt whisky and fresh leather, but it quickly turns into the fine cheese that is the oud material in here. Now I know the country of origin doesn't necessarily define the smell of the oud but I have laos, Cambodia, India etc... split into categories in my mind, probably by the first material I smelled from there? This falls somewhere in the Cambodian-Indian variety of strong, very vivid barnyard/manure but with a complexity of an aged material, that has absorbed lots of life experience. Going from tobacco, spicy cigar wrapper and pepper, to full poop. It has a dancing rose type note, sandalwood and a powder which probably adds to that dirty/clean effect and the association with babies nappies. Well as someone who has recently had to deal with nappies, let me tell you this stuff has you sniffing and sniffing to try to better understand the unusual nature of a fecal edged but phantasmagorical, mind poem that is this fragrance. I think the blend perfectly captures an unforgiving attar, casually smeared on to skin and don't get me wrong it's not as brutal as some civet/castoreum perfumes or a potent Indian oud oil for example, this is quite reserved if you have an extremeists palate or are used to undiluted raw materials like ambergris and deer musk. This is classical stuff in the sense that it's rose/oud/sandalwood/musk etc... but presented in such a way by a brand with largely floral output that it raises eyebrows. Okay so I understand that civet replacement is something which has this sort of vibe, unpleasant, faecal etc... however my experience is that it stays on the skin the drydown when everything has gone in a kind of dirty protest. Oudh Infini, if you can last through the wave after wave of skank, you get treated to an almost darkly spiced woods and no cheesey oud at all. Bare in mind this is hours into the experience but still, it's about the most divine thing imaginable, cozy and like nothing else out there. I thought it was a knockout, bold, refreshing and a really well made perfume because despite the quality of oud being so paramount to the success of this perfume, the surrounds & setting make this stuff special, because it doesn't just smell of oud, and that's a difficult balancing act to perform. Wearability for me personally would only be on very special occasions when I felt in the mood for something racy and opulent. A real experience though and the price likely reflects the rare, raw natural ingredients inside. Bravo!
I’ll start by saying that yes, Oudh Infini is one of the most realistic and natural smelling Oudh’s around. Blue cheese, goats, smoke; it’s all there as a natural facet of the oil, but done very finely. After the opening it doesn’t standout as Oudh, but rather like an animalic note. The smell of Oudh here reminds me slightly of Oud Palao, but apart from that it’s like comparing Mysore with synthetic sandalwood. The note shines on its own and really puts to shame many other Oudh’s with its authenticity. Just sprayed on skin, it opens with a stunning blood red rose, jammy and opulent just like it was in former Amouage creations; bold and bigger than life, incredibly beautiful and smelling as if a bouquet was under your nose. The Oudh shows right from the start all the facets that people either adore or loathe. I really enjoyed smelling the dirtiness and the side that is usually restrained in other Oudh centered creations but I know most people don’t really like the cheesy goaty smell. To me it’s an extension of animal notes and it was a real pleasure. Up until the mid notes it’s simply a rose/oud combo; well done but eventually something that’s been done before and I struggled to find a reason to justify the enormous price tag that accompanies the fragrance. But when the heart and base notes start to show, I feel like I’m not smelling an oud perfume anymore; the oud along the civet (poooooooootent!) act like a catalyst that transforms the fragrance into an animalic chypre oriental. It’s not about oud anymore, it’s rose and animalic notes and a stunning Mysore sandalwood that harkens to perfumes of yore. It’s ‘vintage’ done ‘modern’, it smells like a million bucks, and it strongly reminds me of the perfumes not longer being made. There’s this stage in the long long drydown that reminds me of the base notes of Salome; animalic, engulfing, like the smell of skank on a fur coat. And here, Pissara has used the oud and the civet to create a chypre sans oakmoss and patchouli and bergamot, but that somehow smells more chypre and balsy and elegant than most ‘chypres’ nowadays after reformulations. Smelling is believing. The quality is superb, strong and long lasting with just one spray. The development into something different than what first appears is worthy of praise, and the quality of the ingredients used is evident from the start. What convinced me is Pissara’s ability to use current notes and materials to create something else, and at the end of the day it’s an homage to past perfumes. But, having so many vintage chypres and orientals, choc full of the ingredients now banned or restricted, do I really need an updated version of those? Bogue did it with MAAI, Papillon does beautiful ‘vintage power’ inspired scents, and Vero Kern is simply my diva. All bring something different at affordable prices. At the end of the day, if I have to pay Roja Dove prices, I want and need something out of this world, and as much as I loved trying Oudh Infini, it’s not worthy of its price, to me. Beautifully well made but something I can live without. My travel spray will do, when I just want to luxuriate in its richness. Maybe some day, when I’m filthy rich!
