Real?
Pro: nice bottle, sensual fragrance, arrived early<br />Cons? I'm not sure if it's authentic. It doesn't smell like the dry noxious cedar smell of synthetic ouds in Montale or Swiss Arabian western oud fusion fragrances. Buuut, I can't be sure it's real. I got a mild headache even though it's a really faint scent. A dab of oil on my wrist only lasted 2 hours, and the smell stayed incredibly close to my body. In my experience, pure oud is very concentrated, so I doubt this is undiluted real oud. The smell was like leather and sangre de drago (aka, dragon's blood or fragrant palm sap). The acrid smell of the sangre de drago faded within a few min on my skin, and I was left with leather and a ghost of something sweet and mapley which was quite enjoyable but once that faded, it was pure new car smell. I don't have much experience with real oud to say if this is fake oud, or diluted real oud, but I can say that it seems unlikely to be pure since I had to put my nose directly on my wrist to smell it after an hour. In my experience with one real attar of oud, I used one drop and you could smell it a mile away for days. Perhaps age of the oud and the particular tree it came from impact the silage and longevity of this oud. Overall, it's not what I had hoped, but I'm glad I bought it with an Amazon credit and hope to try more ouds from reputable sellers to compare in the future.
Rating: 3 stars