The fifth and final perfume of the Arabian Nights collection, announced by Now Smell This in May 2013, Musk Oud is the oud Alberto Morillas composed for Kilian: a Western take on the rose and oud pairing, made of syrupy rose and geranium petals, silky musk, spices and a rum-laced opening.
For Kafkaesque, Musk Oud is a pleasant but simple cardamom rose that does not live up to the animalic promise of its name.
What critics say
Kafkaesque, June 21, 2013
Kafkaesque admits to liking Musk Oud and its cardamom and rose accord, whose first hour reminds her of Rose Nacrée du Désert. Yet she finds it simple, not very inventive, and hardly finds in it the animalic musk or the oud the name promises.
She considers it far from the more animalic musks and ouds of Frédéric Malle, Parfum d’Empire or Amouage, and concludes that she would never buy it, Musk Oud being, she writes, “simply” not distinctive enough.
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