Oud
A single Assamese oud distillation, opened up with saffron and Turkish rose and left to settle on labdanum. Dark, resinous, slow — it takes about twenty minutes to become itself.
The Assam oud in this bottle is the same lot we sell at Perfumer's Apprentice. Take the material apart yourself.
BUY THE RAW MATERIAL ↗Assam oud, distilled in small copper stills
Agarwood from the Brahmaputra valley, where the resin forms slowly and the distillers still run copper rather than steel. Each batch smells different — leather in one, stonefruit in the next — so we buy a lot and build an edition around it rather than the other way round.
Priya Raman on why she chose it
“Everyone reaches for oud to sound expensive. I wanted it to sound tired — the good kind of tired, the end of a long evening. So I kept the saffron low and let the rose go slightly overripe.”
Based in Bengaluru. Trained in flavour chemistry before perfumery, which is why her formulas read like recipes. This is her third Scent Trunk edition.
ALL EDITIONS BY PRIYA →Amber Shadow, from lot to bottle
Four minutes at Priya's bench: the raw oud straight out of the bottle, the saffron accord that nearly killed it, and the mod that finally worked.
MORE FILMS FROM THE BENCH →What people say
★ 4.9 average · 341 reviews“Bought the sample expecting a novelty. Wore it three days straight and ordered the bottle.”
“The rose goes almost jammy after an hour. I have never smelled anything like it from a house this small.”
“Enormous projection — half a spray is plenty. Worth every cent of the sample credit.”
If you like Assam oud
Other editions built on resinous, slow-drying materials.