Incense Oud by Kilian is a scent that I keep coming back to as I seem to be craving an incense background to my winter activities.
I’m not sure whether to be sad that it’s discontinued and almost-impossible to find on the Internet, or be happy that my wallet is safe for now. Actually, having an Arabian Nights collection doesn’t seem like a concept that would age well, but the perfume world can seem a little insular at the best of times, so maybe it doesn’t matter.
This is such an incense-intense fragrance, and I hardly smell any oud in it, but as always, Kilian delivers elegant smooth scents with intense projection and wearability. They’re interesting but wearable. What I do get with this is so much incense, but without any smoke, but also an earthy rose which is a note I can enough of.
Incense seems to remind people of church, but I can’t say that I can place this scent there. Instead, I’m finding this incense to be grounding in a time where it seems like there is a lot going on. Despite having a plethora of rose scents, I don’t have one with incense in it, and so this seems to fill a void in my perfume wardrobe. I’ve only got these few ml to satisfy my rose-incense needs, and maybe by the time I finish them, I’ll have found something else.
People who have smelled this on me have called it very a very “Henna” fragrance… make of that what you will…
