Oud Stallion

Amazing. Not as great as Oud Maracuja. Yet, still fantastic. POTENT. I used two sprays (my mistake) and was admonished by my wife. I came out of the bathroom and didn't even get within 10 feet of her before the chaos. She absolutely hates strong fragrances. Her sense of smell is 10 times better than mine. So while I look for bombs like this but less than Kerosene Followed, she looks for softer offerings. We have to compromise somewhere. I normally stick to 1 spray on new items and samples in efforts to temper her tolerance. With this, I just got carried away. Love it. Nice lightly fruity oud with leather. The saffron and cardamom hit me more in the opening over the nutmeg. Regardless of my affinity for this, I have ruined its reputation in my house. I was threatened with abandonment if I sprayed it twice again. 🤣

A week ago I was introduced to this oddly enough against my will by an overly-qualified saleslady in Bluewater. She was kind enough to gift me a sample to try at home, despite me not being blown away by the scent on spot. My first impression of it on a paper-strip was not remarkable: typical narcotic oudey rich young Emirati type of scent you bump into daily while shopping in Dubai Mall. It smells expensive and exclusive (especially to those who are not into fragrances); it's evident this house does not compromise on the quality of the ingredients but you'd expect that anyway considering the price tag. Days later I smelled the paper again and I liked how the scent evolved on it, it as it lost what I then considered some of the boozinness and the earthy/rubbery chemical note that overwhelms the opening.

This smells like you just finished being perfumed by a harem after slaying a man while riding your horse in a Roman Coliseum. If that sounds masculine, well, yeah - this is in no way a unisex fragrance. It is an above-average performer on my skin in both longevity and projection, but not the monster that others are making it out to me. Rose/oud fragrances are a dime a dozen, and adding the leather is interesting, but I don't think it makes it $500 a 100ml bottle interesting. Like the scent, like the performance, don't like paying a $100 premium for the name on the label. Because it's a fairly simple profile, clone fragrances will get you almost all the way there.

I was soo into the oud maracuja, so i bought a full bottle, but then i realised i turn more and more towards my travel size oud stallion... and figured out that i love thos one even more. The animalic depth and commanding oud is soo well put, the oud maracuja feels like a perfect tuxedo spoiled with a pornstar martini cocktail. And the oud stallion is the perfect black tuxedo. Iam not going to invest in a full bottle of oud stallion, until i have the oud maracuja. They are really similar in their dna, stallion is jist better. Super equilibrium. Oud maracuka is not this sophistocated.

Perfomance worshipers will love this one, it projects and lasts like a muscular stallion. You need to like nutmeg, leather, saffron and oud because they are dominant (on my skin at least) in this perfume. I've smelled this DNA before over the years, and if you've been involved with oud fragrances long enough, odds are you have too. But if you're looking for something in this genre because you don't already have one, then this is a great choice. Cold weather exclusive, it's just too powerful for summer heat unless you're from the middle east and like to rock oud in the heat.