Tom Ford
Oud Wood
Woody Oriental · 2007 · Richard Herpin
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
Oud made approachable. The smokiness is there but tempered with rosewood and cardamom. Sophisticated without being stuffy.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Oud Wood smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Oud Wood reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Oud Wood reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is among the highest in the catalogue for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Oud Wood sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 33rd percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Oud Wood sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Oud Wood sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Oud Wood keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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