Pure Oud By Kilian for women and men

Shoe polish and old, cracked tires. Not sure who would ever wish to smell like this.

Pretty much the name gives it all away. Smells like oud and musk, full stop.
Though the components of this fragrance are fairly simple, the quality of the ingredients is still noticeable.

The oud here is realistic and pungent. It almost smells like a sharpened pencil...sharp, resinous, and woodsy. Some might feel it's medicinal.
Later, the smokiness comes in. Mellows down the sharpy spiciness sensation and becomes darker.
I wouldn't recommend buying this blind for sure. This isn't for everyday use either. If you are a collector of oud fragrances, however, this could be a relatively wearable one compared to other ones on the market.

Personally, I cannot justify buying it considering the price point. It hurts to say it, but I would just buy Khalis Oudi (Pure Oudi) from Lattafa, which smells much cheaper, and add a few drops of saffron attar to it. The similarities in the woodsy oud with a hint of resinous spice could be replicated just by a simple step. Then, wear it every day without cringing at the fact that I spend $400 for 50ml.

straight from the lab in switzerland, this oud note is here selled untransformed 50 times is price just to be put in a Kilian labelled bottle and Madame Becker sign this scam.
Faux niche at his finest

In 2009 By Kilian was still in its infancy. In 2009 he launched his eighth and ninth perfumes, more precisely Back to Black Aphrodisiac and Pure Oud, which generated initial brand recognition in the perfumery market.
Bearing in mind that M7 had been a sales flop, By Kilians' Pure Oud was probably the second commercially successful western Oud fragrance after Oud Wood launched in 2007. Currently, I believe that hundreds of western Ouds are launched every year. But that wasn't so in 2009 and there was an early bird market heist to rush the novelty note fragrances to the market. A lot of experimentation was still going on and scents derivate from Middle East unknown fragrances seemed not to be the answer. Tom Ford's Oud Wood has been a shot in the dark (literally) and it is still a success today. Unfortunately, that's not really the case with By Kilians' Pure Oud even if the perfume can still be purchased.
Killian partnered the Pure Oud creation with Givaudan, using the "nose" of Calice Becker. Both parts end up creating 41 perfumes together. The perfume stands for a linear dark scent that relies mainly on gloomy balsams and resins to achieve the somber side of agarwood and guaiac wood. It is spiced solely with saffron, it's quite dark and smoky, and the oud note has a slight medical acuity. It doesn't smell sweet or spicy which permitted Kilian to undeservedly name the scent as "pure oud". On top of it, I don't consider there's enough oud in here, or at least, quality oud. Agarwood is a strange ingredient and it works properly only when the whole of the 'alquilaria tree' wood pieces are 100% fungus infected and the distillation process is perfectly achieved. Not doing so may result in a "poor man's oud" lacking some of its features and resulting in behaviours like bad performance, medicinal scent twists, or a skanky smell. As far as Kilian Pure Oud is concerned, I noticed an unexpected only average performance and an oud note with a medicinal facet.

My opinion about this fragrant dark oud shadow:
It became a collector's item. It pleases the wearer that surely is a dark fragrance lover, and other night vampires (myself included). I would never recommend a blind buy even with an affordable price. I may suggest a somewhat similar scent type but for a small fraction of the price with Maahir Black Edition. People sometimes do strange things and I confess that my flask of By Kilian Pure Oud has been a blind purchase. What a waste!
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The music: Simon & Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Smells like that room where your school or office keeps all their office supplies. This brought me back when I had my first summer job as a cleaner of the office where my mom worked. I was terrible at my job and I didnt know what I was doing. But buy this if you want to smell like that office storage room. I can not vote this as suitable for male or female because I find office supply room a sexless scent. This could be useful for someone who lost their office job and didnt have a heart to tell their family. After spending a day in the park or coffeeshop they would just spray on some Kilian Pure Oud to smell like office. But hey, take this with a grain of salt as I am a cook not an office worker.

Add sugar to Kurkdjian Oud Cashmere Mood and you get this. I slightly prefer the mfk, but good luck finding either these days.

Not for me, I can’t small any oud in it.
This causes me headache, too chemical-medicinal-synthetic.

At first I thought it smelled something like Our Royal by Armani but side by side comparison says differently. Smells to me very much like an overworked Cathode Ray-tube TV. To me it was such a common smell in those days. Not really something I want to be reminded of or even want to smell like. Will probably layer it with other perfumes.

What did I get myself into with this scent?

This. Stuff. Is. Hardcore.
I like challenging frags but this is almost too much. It almost smells carcinogenic! Opening is so strong it makes me light headed. Medicinal and acrid burning smell on the opening that instantly cleared my sinuses like a nasal spray. Smoke to the 10th Power. Tons of cypriol and a bang of castoreum and tar.

I don't get any sweetness from the saffron, it actually kind of smells like medicinal gasoline.
And yet somehow, after saying all that, I kind of like it due to its uniqueness.

This type of Oud profile is becoming extinct (discontinued) along with Cashmere Oud, Oud Wood Intense and Tobacco Oud Intense. I'm glad I got to try this before it disappears.

Challenging Creosote Oud.
Only for the coldest of cold weather.
Only for the adventurous.

Kilian Pure Oud 6/10
Projection/ Sillage 10/10
Longevity 6/10

P.S. Late dry down smells like I've been fighting a forest fire 🔥
A bath of fire and ashes on my skin.
I think this is Satan's perfume 😈

Does this smell like pure chemicals to anyone else? It literally smells like a chemistry lab. Not like a perfume. It’s super weird.

This is a magic little night scent. It's unique. At once woody, spicy, medicinal, leathery and warm. Off putting but also magnetic. It projects moderately. I absolutely adore when someone gets close enough and catches a whiff of Pure Oud By Kilian, they light up with a ravenous look in their eyes. I have had strangers on different occasions get right up in my neck and take a deep breath in. With four sprays it's run time is six sexy hours.

It is very like the oud opening in Ensar Oud Tigerwood 1990. But lacks the depth, earthiness and progression of that natural oud oil. But still a very good dupe for that.

There is no Oud here purely synthetic

Oudy. Leathery. A little smokey. A little bit of burnt rubber.

I love Oud and really enjoying Pure Oud by Kilian. Yes, the Oud here is on the synthetic side. This is a pretty linear scent, Smokey, a bit Spicy oudy woody fragrance.

Bit too medicinal for me. Still glad to have it in the collection.

For sale or swap. Message me.

Open a bottle of pure Cambodian oud and a bottle of Indian saffron oil put them next to one another on a table then hover your nose about 4 inches away and you have Pure Oud By kilian...

This is discontinued but extreme oud is a pretty good substitution. Pure oud has a very bitter ending note, but in the extreme oud, it turns into a floral type. So if you prefer floral more than bitter, then extreme oud is the one, except it's more expensive.

Edit: After 5 years of comparison, finding substitutes, figuring out substitutes also discontinued, trying to make one my own from authentic oud oil or chemicals, and almost going to do a GC-MS to analyze the composition of the only sample I have, I went back to this and found 1 authentic bottle from the current market. I feel my life is complete now. Good luck to others who are trying to find one of these or its substitutes--either of these options is extremely hard nowadays.

This is being discontinued. No worries though, MFK Oud Cashmere Mood smells pretty much identical to it. If you run out of the Kilian, just buy the MFK. You won’t be disappointed. EDIT: MFK Oud Cashmere Mood and Oud Velvet Mood have been discontinued as well. The future of this style of oud fragrance suddenly looks bleak. Hurry up and get Pure Oud, Oud Cashmere Mood, or Oud Velvet Mood if you’re into this type of oud fragrance before everyone is out of stock.

The aptly-named By Kilian Pure Oud includes a heavy dose of the eponymous note, balancing slightly medicinal and animalic nuances. It's smooth, specifically due to the animalic side being rather leathery, as opposed to castoreum- or cumin-like.

It's a bold oud scent without being even borderline offensive, in my opinion, which is a difficult tightrope to walk with oud-intense fragrances, which tend to be overbearing even when pared down via a blend with rose or gourmand elements.

Pure Oud performs excellently, roughly the best of house, save Pearl Oud, which is more exceptional.

The retail cost of $395 for 50ml, like many of the oud-named By Kilian offerings, is absurd, but there are usually deals to be found that omit the expensive (albeit lovely) presentation of the coffin and key.

This is certainly one I'd consider buying at a much lower price point.

8 out of 10

I own a lot of parfums with different Ouds, but Kilian Pure Oud stays above all others. Its warm, sensual, woody and leathery scent is of very high quality, very long lasting and hauntingly beautiful. My second favourite Oud is from Kilian which i madly love is MUSK Oud.Both Ouds are increadible (and i am a lady!), i am getting a lot of compliments, when wearing!

This is one you definitely need to try on your skin. This stuff is very strong and harsh. It opens with a bitter oud and heavy chemical plastic note. This juice will make you gag and make you feel nauseous. This isn’t a pleasant scent and it definitely isn’t for the faint of heart. I will recommend layering this fragrance with something floral to calm down the plastic note. Tom Ford’s White Suede calms this scent down a ton. The dry down is barely acceptable but still will make you regret spraying this stuff on skin. This stuff just smells carcinogenic. I don’t know who would want to smell like this but if you like it, good for you. Stay away. Age range >50

It smells like a new leathery belt

I've just now started to get into fragrances. The gentleman I have been buying them from at Nordstrom introduced me to this. I've been wearing Tom Ford Oud Wood Intense since August and it just dawned on me the other day that the two smells almost identical. Could a more seasoned nose tell me the difference between the two?

I tried this today and wow, as much as I like oud, this is a bit much. It's a strong burnt rubbery tarry oud. Although there are 5 notes listed here, the SA told me its only two notes: Myrrh and oud. Maybe I like my oud a little more blended and softened down. This is just too much. Not a good blind buy.

I have an extra bottle to sell

I love this oud! It's cold leather, freshly lauqered wood. Oud can be funky and a bit too animalic for me. This one wears on the more rubbery, medicinal side which I like. That warm, earthiness isn't there for me in this one. Unfortunately, and this is a big negative for such an expensive perfume, it doesn't last long. Both silage and longevity are low. I even went to the Kilian counter and mentioned this to the sales person who responded, "I hear that a lot." He also said the Kilian ouds generally don't seem to last long. This and the fact that someone thought I was wearing Tuscan Leather (there are similarities), which I already own, make this a deal breaker when it comes to making a $395 purchase.

I love oud. I have many bottles of different interpretations of oud in my collection so I'm no novice. And I don't like to slate a fragrance. But this is hideous. Straight up, eyewateringly hideous. Creosote fence treatment for an hour and then it's gone without a trace. And thank God for that. Vomtastic.

warm rubber

This was the one. This was the perfume that started it all for me. My love affair with oud. I don't recall where I stumbled across the need to try this particular note but I ordered a sample of this and a few others from lucky scent. The others were forgettable. I think one was Heely oud and one was mona di orio or something like that. Anyway, this was one and I put it on my wrist and I couldn't stop smelling it. I was hooked. Stark, dank, cheap band aids, somehow cold like sticking your nose into an axe wound you have just administered to a tree in the depth of winter. It just smelled like nothing I,d ever smelled before.

I have smelled many ouds since. Some better, some not, but this one will always hold a place in my scentual heart. I just got a refill bottle (so much more cost effective) and an Atomizer and have added it to the collection. This one is an addiction.

Scent 10/10
Projection 5/10
Fortitude 7/10

Let me begin this review by stating that I have not smelled many of the "traditional" ouds such as those from Montale that everyone seems to be talking about. I have a sample of Dior Leather Oud (not for me), Tom Ford Tobacco Oud, and one or two others that have oud as a main accord.

Like so many other of my fragrances, I almost gave my sample away because it smelled awful to me. Something kept my nose coming back to my wrist and sample bottle over and over again though.

I can relate to others' opinions that it smells medicinal; however, I don't get a plastic scent at all. For a plastic scent, I encourage you to try Cuir Ottoman. That scent smells like a blow up pool toy immediately after it has been taken out of the wrapper. I can recognize a faint leather smell, but that was only after I read a review that stated it smelled like mildewy leather. It may just be my mind playing tricks on me. Mildew, it does not smell like in the slightest though.

I believe I read one reviewer state that Pure Oud layered with Back to Black brings both to a whole other level, and they are correct. I wish I were able to objectively describe how these two scents smell layered, but I cannot. All I can say is that the layered scent is completely unique and fantastic.

Unfortunately, my bottle is in transit and I based this review off of my sample of Pure Oud. I will update it with Scent, Longevity, Sillage, Price, and Value scores once I have received the bottle and worn the fragrance for at least a few days.

It has been the only fragrance that has actually made me puke. That sour accord mixed with plastic mix kills my olfative sense and stomach. I never could imagine a winter fragrance being "stinky" or intolerable, until I smelled Pure Oud. But i recognize each nose is different, and glad you like it.

This is probably the daintiest straight forward oud fragrance I have ever smelled. It is very simple, just an oud and leather note with dry, slightly smoky light wood....and that is about it. No spice or rose or anything. If anything else is there it is buried. It is very delicate and seems almost fragile. Sits close to the skin. It is rather unremarkable. It is my least favorite of the Kilian Ouds not because it is bad I just do not find it interesting and it is just SO light. Sadly, Pure Oud followed my sampling of Dior Leather Oud which is a powerhouse home run in the leather/oud department. It is kind of like A Great Big World doing "Say Something" after Placido Domingo finishes Vesti la Giubba.

totally dislike, I prefer Mona di Orio Oud

Should have been called: leather and mildew. Very strong, extremely true-to-life, leather smell and not luxury leather but military surplus including the mildew. Intensely smoky tar smell and strong polish/dye inky smell. Wonderful. But a novelty that might be tiresome to wear, not to mention way too expensive. A twin to Patchouli 24.

So werid. I had never smelled oud until a few weeks ago. My first reaction was repulsion and that it smelled like rubbing alcohol and disease! (I worked in nursing homes for years)....then something strange happened....

I couldn't stop smelling it despite being repulsed....then I tired a few different brands of oud (Montale, By Kilian, Mona di Orio, etc.). I then went home and kept smelling the oud. I really hated it.

Then a week later, I loved it. I just purchased this Pure Oud By Kilian and can't wait until it arrives because I've used up my samples.

Really, this oud thing is inexplicable. The only thing I can say, which is weird and still not really explaining anything, is that it does smell like a barnyard and animals but maybe that's part of the appeal...visiting barns and pet zoos as a child and with my child was always a great experience but I don't want to smell like it but THIS JUICE smells so sexy despite a bit of a barnyard memory....like I said, it's werid!
Anyway, if a man wore this I would have a very difficult time taming my libido....in the meantime, I'll wear it and think about Viggo Mortensen.

By modern day perfume standards, Pure Oud is both incongruous and anachronistic. It's anything but loud, shirks attention and all but throws the notion of conventional fragrance classifications out the window.

I doubt it's something one would ever wear for others, so what it comes down to is how you want to feel instead of how you want to smell. Or to put it another way, Pure Oud is about creating a personal aura such that you are aware of, and perhaps even welcome, its presence, but can't articulate why.

The oud, saffron and other assorted woods are all very nice here, combined to give an abstractness that appeals to the contrarian in me. To that end, I wouldn't mind having a bottle of Pure Oud in my collection - not to mention an inkling of how well it would work layered with something else.

Ultimately though, it's too epehemeral for the asking price and I'm happy enough to make do with the few sample vials in my possession.

very similar to cashmere mood. that sickly medicine oud note is almost identical to kurkdjian's. would only work in special circumstances. kinda made me a little ill, but maybe i put too much on...

Apart from the OUD!!! in capital letters I get tar and vinyl. A bit peaty as well. It's a dark, cold gothy smell. It's very weird in the beginning at first spray. It's somewhat pokey and plasticky, do not like the first hour.

But once it settles, this scent really agrees with my skinchemistry. I'm drawn to it, it's a note that smells fresh without giving me fresh associations. It smells like it is clearing out any other smells.... It's really strange and difficult to describe, it sort of gives the impression of salmiak pastilles at the back of my throat and it makes my mouth water a tiny bit I keep smelling my hand and I am drawn to the scent. It fascinates me.
I've received a tiny decant from a friendly SA and I will definitely use it up. I will for sure not buy the whole bottle as the price is way to steep but in my opinion it's an oddly mesmerizing fragrance.

Sillage is on the small side but it's such a 'non-mainstream' fragrance you want to keep it personal and for yourself. However I'd rather smell this than say Flowerbomb any day.
Longevity is good
It's kinda flat so I'm not sure if the complexity is worth a 4/5 but me likey a lot so this is what it gets.

Edit: tried this again. Oh the horror of horrors. Burnt tyres, burnt plastic... what happened?????

اگر تمایل به خرید محصولات"گروه گُلد" این کمپانی داشتید،پیغام بگذارید

Not a lot of saffron or incense in this at all.

My humble opinion...It's oud and guaiac wood no sweetness there and nothing to lift it.
It's really good if you like the smell of agarwood don't get me wrong...Longevity and projection are massive.
A dark, strong, dank, woody smell but it's not great and certainly not worth the money.
What I love about MFK OUD is the saffron and patchouli are totally evident and make an actual perfumers composition...a piece of art if you will. It's one thing being minimal but this is just lazy and the only way the price tag could be justified is if the finest Oud has been used. I don't know if that is the case? I find the mark up on By Kilian has a lot to do with the packaging...I mean the bottles are nice sure but not THAT NICE!
The refills are quite reasonably priced if you enjoy the scent, I'd just get them.
Not this one though there's a bewildering array of more imaginative Oud based scents out there.
Shame too because I've quite liked By Kilian perfumes so far.

Listen to the wise words of @jht4060 below and you won't go far wrong.

like maison francis kurkdjian cashmere oud
but cshmere is more soft & smoother
more elegant & feminine
really high class & upper scale

It's okay - but I still prefer Creed Royal Oud the best of all the oud scents I've tried.

By Kilian Pure Oud to my nose is nearly identical to Firmenich Oud Blend, available at Perfumer's Apprentice in pure form for about 1/10 the price of the Kilian (and that is the small-scale retail price). KPO smells to be about 20% Firmenich Oud Blend, which means it sells for 50-fold the cost of home brew. What a rip off. And it doesn't even smell that great. Yves Saint Laurent M7 Oud Absolu is better (as is the original M7) - at least it has other notes that call upon some perfumer's skill to blend well. Maybe this is made from authentic natural Oud, which would at least help explain the price, but if so their Oud source is no better than synthetic.

Comment added - there is a woody note (probably guaiac) in the base that is in addition to the Firmenich Oud, so at least they didn't just dilute and sell. Still not impressed. Still at a high price, but much better and more interesting is Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud.

I am an amateur perfumer and I sometimes try to replicate professional scents, but only rarely do I run across something so easy. In fact, the only other perfumes so far this easy are the Escentric Molecule "Molecule" scents, which are also a rip off but at least have the grace to admit what they are. Shame on Kilian, which has made some other good scents (though always overpriced). Selling this for $400 for 50 ml is obscene. Note to self - buy Kilian stock.

Nearly all oud perfumes smell just like hermit crabs to me. (If you've ever had a hermit crab for a pet, you know what I mean.) This pefume is no exception, but it's a step above most of the other ouds I have tried because it develops slower and melds with the skin, creating a spicy warmth.

I must be very lucky because this lasts every bit of ten hours on me. It is also quite strong and aromatic on me in the way that Santal-33 is. I really don't understand it because according to the other comments I am apparently in the minority.

pata1's and Doc Elly's comments were spot on in my opinion. I have several oud based frags and several real oud oils, and if I am in the mood for oud this one is a standard go-to for me. After a fleeting top note of saffron (thankfully), this smells just like oud and Guaiac wood to my nose, with the oud in the driver seat for a couple hours. After that, the Guaiac wood becomes more prominent. I have found that I become easily anosmic to this (like Aventus, etc.) but if I spray it low (hands) and also on the back of my neck, I definitely get wiffs of this for eight to ten hours. I quite like it!

I agree with other viewers who said that this is neither pure nor Oud. Most of the time the smell is a heavy fake leather sent. Imagine if you will the smell off of of a cheap leather jacket. I would not recommend pure oud to anyone who wishes to impress .

It is evident. What we get here is - oud. Straight, dry, masculin, earthy, simple oud. Too straight, too dry, too masculine and too simple to my taste. Drydown is a bit more comfortable with a slightly sweetish nuance. But longevity is really bad, sillage also. That is all. Sadly.

Honestly, for a fragrance which uses synthetic oud, this is beyond overpriced. At this price point, you can buy real Agarwood oils and mukhallats from Arabian fragrance houses like Ajmal or Al Haramain.
As for the fragrance it basically takes the same synthetic oud accord found in M7 and superimposes it in a concoction of woods and resins and while it does a create a deep woody ambiance, it fails in that it gets very sickly and synthetic after a few hours.
5/10

Really was looking for so much more from BK here. Pure Oud is certainly well done but not what I expected or wanted.

Surprised Pure Oud is not sexy or exotic. Smells more like an old man's work shop. lol! It's really musty, warm and earthy. A sweet smoky note straddles the notes.

IMO not very unisex. Does nothing for the ladies.

Packaging is (as) always deluxe.

Sillage (for the price) is disappointing. Longevity not much better.

Maybe there is no Nirvana! So off to Shangri-La!

Unsurprisingly this smelt of old wood. Musty and woody. My family universally declared that they didn't like it and 1 hour later the verdict was the same. As an oud I thought it was quite good. Fairly strong but not overpowering. 3 hours later I couldn't smell it anymore.

I'm with scorpiosheep on this one. Maybe its cuz I'm new to oud scents, but I really dig this. It has the sweet woody I have been seeking. But alas, the price! I will continue to search for something more friendly to my pocketbook. But if someone wanted to BUY this for me.... hint hint. ;)

By Kilian's Pure Oud is packaged in a gold emblazoned bottle, but its true color is black. If humans could smell in the salty depths of the ocean, Pure Oud would be the odor of the blue-black ink ejected from the central gland of a languorous giant squid.

But we cannot breathe underwater, much less with our heads pressed close to the mother squid by her grasping tentacles. Pure Oud is a scent that you smell with your mouth and tongue instead of breathing it in through your nose. It tastes of skin and rubber and the proximity of hair.

This is a loveless, beautiful, sexual ink for a woman to stain her body with. Trace it behind your ear and along the line of your neck. Spill it under your arms and down your legs. Then you can smother us men in your tentacles. Please.

"Blending oud oil with other essential oils such as papyrus oil, gaiac wood oil and saffron oil, Pure Oud is composed as a contemporary interpretation of oud."

This one starts oud as a smoky, burnt woody aroma, much like if I was working in a woodsmith factory and after the day of work this was the smell that would be attached to me adding some saffron. The Oud note here is so pleasent and easy to wear compared to Montale Black Oud, YSL M7 (original formula) with their medicinal vibe!

I'm getting to the conclusion that comparing western ouds to the real thing is turning a bit pointless. Anyone interested in real oud should probably stop looking for it in western compositions and order a small vial from any oud farmer selling his products on the internet.

That being said, there are western ouds that still smell terrific and Pure Oud is, in my opinion, surely among them. The fragrance is like a dark and monolitic sphere that hits your nostrils with a pungent leathery/spicy aroma. The woods and balms break in right away and start to interact with other elements creating a sort of kaleidoscopic effect that is based on countless micro-nouances ranging from black to yellow via brown. Oily, viscous and apparently minimalistic yet incredibly complex. In this context Pure Oud may somehow resemble the real thing as the scent is so unlike anything we are familiar with in our daily lives, that our brain fail to classify it through the usual associative parameters.

Pure Oud is surely dark, gothic and somehow dreadful but never claustrophobic or overpowering. Its monolitic but not heavy. Extremely addictive and so pleasant to wear.

Downside: average lasting power.

Rating: 8/10

I don't know many oud fragrances, but I have tried a bunch of them, I don't care if it's the "real" deal or not, I just love the way it smells in many of the creations, but this gem which is how I learned worth 400$ is simply disgusting, for first 3 minutes I felt that I'm enjoying it, it felt incensy, but then oud completely dissapeared and I was left with the smell of warm rubber.

Why do you call a perfume "Pure oud" if the oud is completely gone after 3 minutes? And where are the other notes?

Not worth the money. I'll be harsh here and I will even say - not worht the try - I wasted my wrist for this sample, I'd better tested something else.

Reworking

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Presentation: 9/10
Uniqueness: 3/10
Value: 1/10
Longevity: 3/10
Projection: 2/10
Smell: 1/10

Overall: 2/10

Straight out of the sample vial this smells just like - drum roll - oud! It’s resinous and musty and mushroomy and woody, and it smells very much like the oud absolute that I have. At first there was also a little bit of a pine note.

If this is synthetic oud it’s more realistic than the Firmenich version or the Givaudan black agar. Soon the saffron appears and the fragrance warms up to be more resinous, but the oud doesn’t disappear. The resinous phase lasts for 4-5 hours before fading away.

This is a lovely version of oud, but I have to say that if I were paying the big bucks that Kilian asks for it, I would just go with a few ml of straight oud oil. However, if the magic genie popped out of my lamp and offered me a big bottle of the Kilian stuff, I’d make room for it in my collection and happily wear it often.

In my opinion it is much more masculine than feminine. Warm, pretty and very long lasting on me - more than 12 hours! It is boring for me - i am tired of that monotony of the long and only warm fragrance.
And also very-very expensive...

the guest below does not know at all what oud is lol pure oud, doesnt not evenm deserve to be called like that, it is so much an arnak, it is a very good blend but there is so little oud in it in quantity that it becomes an abuse to buy this 300 dollars, with this price i can afford very good average oil of oudh 12 ml / 1 tola from Al Qurashi ( famous house of saoudian oud and plus perfumes )that is more powerfull and true than the killian mascarade, i love killian other perfumes but they are fool to buy this this price, maybe it deserves 100/150 dollars and i am really generous with them, but never 300 !!

yes i agree with kankuro, i am moroccan and in my country we use to burn oudh and to use it to perfume bodies, i have to say im very glad not to have bought pure oud by kilian cause i tested it, and despite the good oudh they used to put in , i have to add that they did not put a lot, and it is an euphemism !!
its very poor concentrated so it is not surprising at all that it hasnot sillage at all !! good oudh but not a lot, very bit used ! what glad i am not to have spent 300 euros !! ouf