Dolce & Gabbana · 2013

Velvet Desert Oud

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Smoky incense and saffron over oud, tobacco and dark woods, warmed by deep amber and soft musk.

Dolce & Gabbana says

You’ll smell incense, oud, tobacco, saffron and dark woods.

More from Dolce & Gabbana’s description

It also mentions Dark wood, Deep ambery notes and Soft musky notes.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Velvet Desert Oud’s scent picture, a draft: frankincense, oud, tobacco, saffron, dark woods, soft musky drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Velvet Desert Oud, top notes: Frankincense

Dry-downwhat stays

Velvet Desert Oud, dry-down: Oud, Tobacco, Saffron, Dark woods, Soft musky

What’s inside it

What the label names

3 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 green

Citrus1

Herbs & lavender1

8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Yellow 5Ext. violet 2Red 33BHT (keeps it fresh)Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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OutlandsAmouage · shares frankincense, agarwood, saffron and cashmere knit$475 for 100 ml
Opus XIV Royal TobaccoAmouage · shares frankincense, agarwood, tobacco and cashmere knit$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Velvet Desert Oud’s $345
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.