Oud Ispahan – Dior
"A scent of quiet mysticism" "The oud and labdanum serve to make the rose appear in 360, fully fleshed out, with leaves, stems, and dirt attached to it. All this still serves to showcase a blackened but vermillion rose, deeply tinted and endlessly fragrant" (c) dior.com "Oud Ispahan is pure ornamental bliss" "The sandalwood in Oud Ispahan would be a damp but crisp wood, able to be squeezed, milked to release a rose-colored liquid, much like drinkable rose syrup in milk" Preemptive Ramblings: This makes sense as my first review. In the journey of fragrances and other sensuous experience, Oud Ispahan marked the point of standing in a store and smelling something so outlandishly beautiful, that I understood the aims of high perfumery in a different light. While Noir de Noir by Tom Ford set off the bomb of me wading into the endless array of scents not just as a hobby but a field close to music, and China White by Nasomatto m...