Fragrance Family:
Dry Woods

Main Notes:
Agarwood Assam, Blue Cypress, Labdanum, Castoreum (synthetic), Amyris, Bitter Almond, Ylang, Oakmoss.

Concentration:
Eau de Toilette

Occasion:
Passing through its dry, funky, and animalic opening, A’Oud Ancienne reveals a fragrance of plentiful character. Its power is persistent and concentrated – folding leather and floral aspects into its dark core. It is a scent to ponder over, appreciate, and from which emerges a wisdom like that from anything truly made carefully.

Made in U.S.A.

Rogue Perfumes work along the axis of time, which is to say that these perfumes are composed like music, not painting. Perfumes like these are to be experienced through the passage of time – not in a single instant, but in the dynamics of change and development. By virtue of their density, oud fragrances welcome this, and A’Oud Ancienne becomes a firm counterargument against the demand for instant gratification and prettied up ouds that saturate the mass-market of perfumery. This scent is an unfolding, or to maintain the musical theme, a motif that repeats itself – developing and rising with every cycle and connected by resemblance until the final movement has everything opulently exposed; all variations made to coexist. A’Oud is Ravel’s Bolero in scent, as if everything grows out of, and around, its oud note. Move into this note, and find not only ambery notes or leathery notes, but floral ones and delicate ones, too.