Woah... this is special juice! For a combo which has been done to death this is a remarkably classy take on the theme. I love it... I must admit, Rose d'Arabie is so rich and opulent you can just melt away into it...it's truly heavenly. I'm very peticular about my rose scents and my oud come to mention it. Quite full of rose this one but not to the point where it's too much. This is not too sweet but rather dark and velvety as it should be with a hint of vanilla also...and the oud? Well the oud is prominent and perfectly balanced to give a middle eastern feel. Sillage and longevity are very good in the realms of what you'd expect for the price. Would I wear it? Probably not as I'm very sparing with the attention paid to rose scents in my collection but I appreciate the artistry of this fragrance and it's up there.
Released in 2010
Classified as an Oriental Floral
Notes: Patchouli, Vanilla, Rose and Oud
Sweet and dark, jammy rose scent. Opens up with a blast of patchouli and rose, has a very sweet and bright, subtle paint like scent. The scent after a few minutes starts becoming slightly smokier and has a warm spicy nuance from a saffron note. The oud adds a smokey woody base but is very subtle and very much a backing player. As the scent develops into the drydown, the vanilla really blends well with the rose, creating a very syrupy jam like rose scent. Oud is very much in the background but its always there, the rose and vanilla really are the most prominent aspect of the scent. The rose becomes richer into the dry down, compared with the opening where it is very sweet and bright. The scent has a velvety feel.
Longevity is beast mode, I could smell it the next morning in the shower, after spraying the evening before as my scent of the night. Projection is excellent for the first couple of hours, after which it is average, you still have a nice scent cloud around you, but it doesn't scream off your skin, which might not be a bad thing, becomes a skin scent around the 7 hour mark.
This is a brilliant night wear scent during the fall and winter and as far as occasions go, I would wear this for dates and formal occasions.
Overall rating 4/5.