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Our The House of Oud Dates Delight samples and decants are rebottled by Scent Split from genuine fragrance bottles. Scent Split is a wholly independent entity not affiliated, connected, or associated with The House of Oud. |
Original bottle not included with sample/decant purchase. Scent Split rebottles the genuine fragrance into smaller bottles.
Are you the kind of person who looks at the dessert list before choosing the appetizers? Well, then welcome to the most sumptuous dessert trolley you’ve ever set eyes on – Dates Delight. Imagine a gold dish piled high with sticky Riyà dates as plump as a baby’s fist and dripping with raw honey and caramel. Now picture them dunked into a bath of the silkiest crème brulee, thick with vanilla bean underneath and crackling with melted brown sugar on top. Visualize all this dusted with a thick layer of spicy cinnamon. Are you salivating yet?
Thankfully, although this scent is delicious it stops short of total gluttony because of the inedible elements at play. So while the honey and dates may make your mouth water, the coumarin, with its nuances of warm, pungent hay, bitter almonds, and tobacco makes you hesitate to put it in your mouth. Benzoin and labdanum add smoke, leather, and a hint of tar that reins it in even further. Even the soapy little peony note up top whispers, don’t eat me. It’s this level of abstraction that balances the scent, and renders it sophisticated. Fans of Oajan by Parfums de Marly and Ambre Narguile by Hermes will feel right at home here.
Peony, dates, coumarin, caramel, tonka, cinnamon, honey, labdanum, benzoin, vanilla, sugar
I need a full bottle of Dates delight. It smells great
Everything smells good delivered on time and packaged well
Smells sexy
I love this so much! Such a great fall sweet feminine fragrance, will be buying a full bottle!
I will preface by saying this creamy fruity/floral/gourmand hybrid is my very first from the House of Oud and that initial impression has secured that I will be ordering more samples in the future (Grape Pearls is already sitting in my ScentSplit cart).
The surprising peony opening softens an otherwise drizzling gourmand to make a feminine-leaning (it’s advertised as unisex), unique accord. My sweet tooth is dying from this combination: every single note in this contributes to its sweetness! Floral sweetness from the peony. Fruity sweetness from the dates (which are also featured in the exotic sweetness of Zoologist’s “Camel”, a favorite masc date-night scent of mine). And the majority of course stems from the gourmand sweetnesses from the honey, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, and icing sugar.
The fruity/floral opening being strong enough to withstand the gourmand foundation and base dash of cinnamon prevents the caramel and tonka bean from densifying this scent, making it unexpectedly effervescent, yet the left-field addition of the smoky tobacco elevates this from a gooey gourmand to a mysterious sophisticate. While still sexy, I find myself at odds with the packaging, yearning for something more delicate to complement this yes exotic, but *flirtatious* (not erotic) fragrance. Not what I expected (based on so many reviews being fixated on the sugary aspects), but velvety and vaporous.
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