The oud that gives its name to this creation comes from Laos, where it grows the purest, the rarest and the most expensive. It took Francis Kurkdjian a while to tame oud’s animal nature, to welcome this prince of Arabian perfumes as a charismatic newplayer in his perfumer’s palette. From that point on, its story was sketched between the fine-grained sand of the desert dunes, the fragrant harmattan wind and the star-studded night – an Arabian perfume born from a western sensitivity.

Francis Kurkdjian has found some new travelling companions for this fragrant giant: cedar wood from the Atlas Mountains and Indonesian patchouli. Delicate saffron and whimsical elemi gum add sparks to its opulence.

Its palace is a bottle of One Thousand and One Nights crowned with a golden dome, and set in an exquisite box like a projecting Arabian latticed window. Bewitching, narcotic, mysterious, it is both feminine and masculine.