French niche brand Parfums de Nicolaï will launch Rose Oud & Amber Oud this month.
‘I have created perfumes using the oud – or agarwood – because I wanted to enrich my collection of powerful and high running fragrances’ explains Patricia de Nicolaï. ‘With this extraordinary richness of the essence of agarwood, sign of purification in the Middle-East, I wanted to associate, for one of the two new perfumes, an amber combination and for the other, a rose combination. By adding rose and amber in my oud perfumes, I wished to remain faithful to a certain tradition of French elegance.’
Rose Oud ~ a woody floral with raspberry, davana, osmanthus, rose, lily of the valley, agarwood, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, musk, castoreum and amber.
Amber Oud ~ a woody oriental with lavender, thyme, sage, davana, cinnamon, saffron, agarwood, Atlas cedar, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, styrax, musk, castoreum and amber.
Parfums de Nicolaï Rose Oud & Amber Oud will be available in 30 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
(via press release)
The end is nigh.
Got the same comment yesterday for Hummer Black though…and as I said then, pretty sure we post evidence that the end is nigh nearly every single day 😉
LOL fair enough!
This joke with the bloody oud or agarwood isn’t funny anymore.
I try to keep smiling anyway 🙂
Sometimes I just wonder where the hell they find ALL that supposedly rare oud OR agarwood.. Oh dear..
I don’t think anybody is even pretending it’s not synthetic any more.
I think there are now some companies manufacturing some variation of natural oud.
Oud is a trendy note, but not necessarily a bad one. I don’t see anything wrong with a talented perfumer trying to use it, or trying to make a quality perfume in a style or ingredient which people want,
Oh, natural oud is definitely available. But it is not what is fueling the oud boom.
Et tu, PdN? Argh.
I’m trying to think of a brand that hasn’t fallen. There aren’t many.
I know. It’s just at this stage it’s less jumping on a bandwagon as it is flogging a dead horse!
CdG has used agarwood, but I think it’s drawing more from the Japanese usage. LesNez, Serge Lutens, Parfumerie Generale, and Parfum D’Empire?
Fair comment (re the ubiquity of oud) but if anyone is going to make me want to sniff ANOTHER oud fragrance it’s Patricia de Nicolai. I am particularly interested in the Amber variant. And anyway, 30ml bottles people!
And that is true too!
I so agree. When I saw the announcement on this blog, I was actually quite excited. She tends to do orientals so well. And 3 loud cheers for those wonderful small bottles.
May have to find time next month to pop into the Fulham Road shop when I’m in London, though that will be more to see if they still have any of the reportedly discontinued Le Temps d’Une Fete than to smell either of these! LTdUF my favourite of hers, in both its incarnations.
Any day now I will walk down the supermarket laundry/bathroom aisle and see a detergent scented with oud (Jasmine Oud – “for a sparkling clean just like washing in the Ganges”) or an aerosol air freshener (Ozone Oud – “just like the scent of a night market in Patpong”)….
Lol! Thanks for the laugh 😉
I was worried there was going to be a shortage of oud scents..good thing these came out. Kilian has an Amber Oud which I think is a lovely one…now, I have even more amber oud to sniff…thank goodness. *sigh*
So how big is the Oud market anyway? Perfumista enthusiasm is clearly flagging, and my tastefully dressed, perfume purchasing (notice I didn’t say perfume wearing) friends are totally oblivious to any agarwoodmania… oh, perhaps it is just my age. My peers and I are probably equally blind to certain music and fashion trends that are fueling 2013 holiday shopping overdoses even as I write…
Hi everyone!
I would like to thank Robin for talking about our new OUD in her blog. The entire NICOLAI team is also very aware by all the comments provoked by the post.
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Thank you very much and ‘Joyeux Noël’ to everyone!
Damien Flynn
NICOLAI head of communication