Dark & Dangerous: Lancôme Oud Bouquet – The Perfect Fall Fragrance

I’m a fan of fragrance with a bouquet of wood, resin, and musk. This plays into why I wore men’s fragrances for years. Now, with more women’s perfumes embracing deep base notes like oud, gourmand, patchouli, leather, and tobacco, sexy, sensual scents are trending.  Fall is the ideal season to shift to an alluring fragrance.

While I find many Lancôme fragrances a bit too floral or sweet, for fall, I am spraying Lancôme ABSOLUE OUD BOUQUET on my pulse points, and this dark and dangerous scent does not go unnoticed.

About LANCÔME ABSOLUE OUD BOUQUET $270

Fragrance Family: DARK & DANGEROUS

A RADICAL ROSE ENCOUNTER WITH OUD & PRALINE
Raw and warm all at once, always on the edge between good or bad, right or wrong.
Its unpredictability is addictive.
Rich, dark, warm and heady, intense oud wood wrapped in a blanket of sweet praline and delicate rose.
Reminiscent of clear night skies in the Domaine during the peak of summer.

PERFUMER’S INSPIRATION
“The first gourmand oud: a deliciously irresistible oud… This ‘oud plaisir’ awakens our senses with its addictive intensity and its epicurean signature.”
– FABRICE PELLEGRIN

MY REVIEW OF LANCÔME ABSOLUE OUD BOUQUET

I love when a perfume transports me to an enchanting destination. Or, I feel like I’m the captivating presence in the room, even it  it’s just me. That’s what Lancôme ABSOLUE OUD BOUQUET does for me. I feel like I should be in an exquisite French restaurant with impeccable service.

WHY LANCÔME ABSOLUE OUD BOUQUET  IS ADDICTING

This captivating heady scent immediately hits me all the captivating notes at one time. Unlike traditional perfumes, the nootes in Absolue Oud Bouquet  don’t develop as a traditional pyramid in step-by-step phases. Think of diving  into a multilayered dessert; you taste all the components simultaneously, which delivers a complete taste sensation. Similarly, Absolue Oud Boquet presents as a sensual dance with all the notes wafting air so that you inhale the full composition of this warm, woodsy, parfum.

I believe that Absolue Oud Bouquet complements the chemical  makeup of my skin. Even the “juice” of this fragrance is brown, deep, with  the appearance  of a fine cognac.

Let’s talk about the notes. Praline, rose, vanilla, oud, guaiac wood, copahu balm embrace each other to fashion a deliciously seductive fragrance. While I consider Absolue Oud Bouquet a “special  occasion” or date night fragrance, I’m comfortable with a small spritz and curling up with a blanket and a book.

Lancôme   Absolue Oud Bouquet is not for the timid.  Prepare to be intoxicated by your own scent. Expect heads turning, men (and women) asking what fragrance your wearing. Formost, enjoy the sillage this scent leaves as you exit a room. I call that perfume swag.