SoOud

SoOud is a luxury niche perfume house founded by the famous perfumer Stephane Humbert Lucas in 2010. Since Ood is the king of the Orientals, Stephane Humbert Lucas created this brand to celebrate the scents of the incredible fragrances of the East. Through this brand, he essentially seeks to create a fusion between the abundance of these scents and the more refined world of French perfumery, if you will, a kind of East moving closer to the West. The man behind the brand Behind this brand stands, as is well known, the famous perfumer Stephane Humbert Lucas. He is a passionate French perfumer who describes himself as temperamental, expressive, and romantic. There is no doubt that the most distinctive oriental Ood fragrance has become fashionable in Europe over the past decade. Stephane, who says he tried to avoid this wave for many years, ultimately found it difficult to ignore and resist. This was mainly because he is a curious creator and researcher. He therefore traveled to Africa and Asia to see the tree and smell the oil. After all, it is impossible to preserve the composition of an Ood perfume unchanged using the tree's natural oil. The reason is that the scent changes from the moment it is collected and harvested until the moment it is preserved. Incidentally, something similar happens with the Jasmine flower, for example. According to Stephane, this difference is not only related to that, as the scent also changes from tree to tree. Therefore, instead, Stephane recreated the scent of the finest Ood he found. When presenting the brand's collections SoOud, Stephane took a very creative approach. He suggested inhaling each of the brand's perfumes through glass tubes, so visitors could enjoy their aura free of other scents in the exhibition hall. The SoOud brand fragrances The brand's collection consists of eight fragrances. Four of them combine Ood, while four are made without it, and all are intended to capture the sensual and mysterious Arab East. They bear Arabic names and are housed in bottles designed to evoke Arabic architecture and traditional clothing: white for men, black for women (although the color is not intended to refer to the gender of the fragrance). The transparent section with the visible liquid in the center of each bottle is reminiscent of a woman's hijab. Stephane also has another brand called Nez a Nez. When asked why he did not simply include Ood scents in the Nez a Nez line, Stephane said that he has a completely different relationship with this collection. "Nez a Nez is my home to return to, my loving wife, my peace and pleasure. SoOud was my exciting adventure, my femme fatale, my mistress, filling my thoughts with the desire to discover her power and mystery." Paradise and the Dark One Two of the brand's fragrances can attest to Stephane's intention. "Al Khana," or, in translation from Arabic, Paradise, is a perfume intended for women. It was produced in 2010 and is particularly suited to pleasant spring days. This is an aromatic woody fragrance for women, composed in its top notes mainly of star anise, Immortelle flowers, clary sage, Thyme, Ylang-ylang, Tonka bean, and sandalwood. Its base notes include Vetiver, cypress, Virginia cedar, and Lemon. It is a fragrance with moderate projection that remains on the skin for a reasonable amount of time. In contrast, the fragrance "Asmar," or, in translation from Arabic, the Dark One, is a unisex fragrance. This is an oriental spicy fragrance intended for men and women, also produced in 2010. Its main notes include white honey, Tobacco, amber, Vanil, Coffee, Grapes, suede, Clove flowers, musk, and Bergamot. It is a fragrance with powerful projection that remains on the skin for a particularly long time. Those who choose to wear it would be better off doing so on cold winter nights, allowing them to achieve its desired effect.