Year: 2009
Notes: Italian bergamot, artemisia, Egyptian geranium, oud, teak, tobacco leaf, Sumatran patchouli, amber
Comment: Wild Aoud is part of the Bronze Collection
Wild Aoud commences in a coy manner but its intensity does increase with time. That's not to say it develops into a sillage monster like the classic Montale ouds because it doesn't. It stays very close to the skin and, like most of Montale's recent oud offerings, hardly much oud can be detected. What can be identified, instead, is a sweet woody accord with hints of tobacco and amber in the background.
By this point, it smells concerningly identical to Duro by Nasomatto. However, it's during the drydown that Wild Aoud's lack of originality becomes even more apparent. Either most of the notes collectively convene to create an olfactory illusion or there's an abundant (and underhanded) addition of smoky cedar, resulting in what smells like a blatant rip-off of Serge Lutens' Serge Noire.
Its longevity is what one would normally expect from this house, but don't expect anything decadent (apart from the generous serving of a cedar-like accord), as it's far too demure for that.
Wild Aoud?! More like Timid Cedar.
By this point, it smells concerningly identical to Duro by Nasomatto. However, it's during the drydown that Wild Aoud's lack of originality becomes even more apparent. Either most of the notes collectively convene to create an olfactory illusion or there's an abundant (and underhanded) addition of smoky cedar, resulting in what smells like a blatant rip-off of Serge Lutens' Serge Noire.
Its longevity is what one would normally expect from this house, but don't expect anything decadent (apart from the generous serving of a cedar-like accord), as it's far too demure for that.
Wild Aoud?! More like Timid Cedar.
