Oud Minérale fragrance notes
- sea salt, aquatic notes, oud, pink pepper, styrax, seaweed
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Latest Reviews of Oud Minérale

Tenacious. Unbearable. Discontinued for a reason. I scrubbed twice with soap. It survived. Drenched with 99% rubbing alcohol and brushed with a hand brush. It survived. Considering self amputation of my left arm.
You've been warned!

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There are also the fumes of a petrol station, with petrol fumes in the background.
Soon the oud arrives. It an agreeable, soft, smooth wood and a far cry from the shrill and synthetic-intrusive unpleasantness that often camouflages as oud wood. Restrained pink peppers and an equally smooth styrax add just a modicum on contrast.
I get moderate sillage, very good projection, and a longevity on my skin of six hours.
A pleasant oud/marine mix in the first phase, which is agreeable, with an original twist, and with an unusually balanced oud - not the real stuff, of course. The second phase, however, is rather bland though, and lacks depth and vibrancy, and develops into a very ordinary sweetish-ozonic tedium. Overall 2.75/5

This smells more like the ocean than any other supposed marine fragrance I've smelled personally. As a sailor and aficionado of Islay Scotch, this scent was love at first sniff. The name is a bit misleading though, because if there's any oud in this it's so well blended that it just fades into the woodsy resinous base, adding its magic there. It is a very unique scent, and one of my favorites.

Oud Minérale is fascinating.
It's such a weird combination of notes and yet it all works together unexpectedly well. Plus, it smells exactly like the beach. And I mean EXACTLY like the beach, with all its delightful smells and all of its wretched bad odours. It's really quite uncanny and I feel instantly transported to one of my local beaches.
Performance wise, it's bloody brilliant. I am right now in the tenth hour of a wear and it is still projecting strongly into my nostrils from only one spray in each elbow pit. Quite unbelievable for something so "marine".
Yet, having said all that, and despite the fact I find it intriguing and love its performance, I don't actually really like how it smells. One minute, it smells fine, and then the next, it smells totally off putting. Utterly confusing and I can't make up my mind on it.
I suppose, however, that further adds to its mystery and what makes it so interesting to me.
Neutral.