Viktor & Rolf will launch Invisible Oud, a new addition to last year’s Magic Collection…*
Juliette Has A Gun Another Oud ~ new fragrance
French niche line Juliette Has A Gun has launched Another Oud, (yet) another oud fragrance. Another Oud follows the brand’s Midnight Oud…
Molton Brown Mesmerising Oudh Accord & Gold ~ new fragrance
Molton Brown has launched Mesmerising Oudh Accord & Gold, a new personal fragrance to match the Oudh Accord & Gold body and home collection introduced in 2014…
One of the aoud pioneers
Dove was one of the aoud pioneers (it can also be spelled "oud"), launching the first of his smoky fragrances in 2011. Other best-sellers, such as Acqua di Parma’s Colonia Intensa d’Oud, didn’t come to the market until a year later. Tom Ford’s Oud Fleur was launched in 2013.
— Read more at Roja Dove, 'the nose', on creating a Western aoud cult at The Telegraph. Tom Ford, of course, launched Oud Wood in 2007, and did M7 for Yves Saint Laurent in 2002. I was personally so sick of the avalanche of oud scents by 2011 that I started the please-no-more-oud tag that very year.
Oud: returning after a short absence
Oud: returning after a short absence, this note delivers a rich, musty, woody-nutty scent to create a sultry Middle Eastern backdrop to compositions.
— From Seven Predicts Fragrance Trends for 2015/16 at GCI Magazine. I was initially confused about the "short absence", but since these trend predictions are for next winter, perhaps this means oud will take a well-deserved vacation in the early part of 2015.