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Parfums de Nicolai Rose Oud & Amber Oud ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 13 November 2013 22 Comments

Parfums de Nicolaï Rose Oud & Amber Oud

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)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: patricia de nicolai, please no more oud

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  1. Dusan says:
    13 November 2013 at 7:26 am

    The end is nigh.

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    • Robin says:
      13 November 2013 at 7:54 am

      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 ;-)

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      • Dusan says:
        13 November 2013 at 7:29 pm

        LOL fair enough!

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  2. Querelle 3 says:
    13 November 2013 at 8:19 am

    This joke with the bloody oud or agarwood isn’t funny anymore.

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    • Robin says:
      13 November 2013 at 9:37 am

      I try to keep smiling anyway :-)

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      • Querelle 3 says:
        13 November 2013 at 10:23 am

        Sometimes I just wonder where the hell they find ALL that supposedly rare oud OR agarwood.. Oh dear..

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        • Robin says:
          13 November 2013 at 10:32 am

          I don’t think anybody is even pretending it’s not synthetic any more.

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        • Dilana says:
          13 November 2013 at 10:59 am

          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,

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          • Robin says:
            13 November 2013 at 11:20 am

            Oh, natural oud is definitely available. But it is not what is fueling the oud boom.

  3. TheSnailsPajamas says:
    13 November 2013 at 8:44 am

    Et tu, PdN? Argh.

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    • Robin says:
      13 November 2013 at 9:37 am

      I’m trying to think of a brand that hasn’t fallen. There aren’t many.

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      • TheSnailsPajamas says:
        13 November 2013 at 10:03 am

        I know. It’s just at this stage it’s less jumping on a bandwagon as it is flogging a dead horse!

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      • engelwurz says:
        13 November 2013 at 12:43 pm

        CdG has used agarwood, but I think it’s drawing more from the Japanese usage. LesNez, Serge Lutens, Parfumerie Generale, and Parfum D’Empire?

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  4. donanicola says:
    13 November 2013 at 10:18 am

    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!

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    • Robin says:
      13 November 2013 at 10:32 am

      And that is true too!

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    • austenfan says:
      13 November 2013 at 4:44 pm

      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.

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  5. Carolyn says:
    13 November 2013 at 10:53 am

    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.

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  6. Santemon says:
    13 November 2013 at 5:15 pm

    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”)….

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    • floragal says:
      13 November 2013 at 8:57 pm

      Lol! Thanks for the laugh ;)

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  7. Omega says:
    13 November 2013 at 8:09 pm

    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*

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  8. Oakland Fresca says:
    13 November 2013 at 10:24 pm

    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…

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  9. DamienFlynn says:
    1 December 2013 at 4:20 pm

    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.

    [ed note: sentences removed; see comment policy]

    Thank you very much and ‘Joyeux Noël’ to everyone!

    Damien Flynn
    NICOLAI head of communication

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