Oud 27

as someone who typically likes to over spray, 2 is more than enough for this fragrance. it reminds me of hot sweaty summer nights in my early 20s. smoking cigs and going out dancing in a mini dress with my hair down. like others have mentioned, it is quite animalic with a hint of urine. the longer you wear it and the more you smell it, the better it gets.

My cat ran away from me when he smelled this. Maybe it was the smell of another animal intruding into our space. There is something beautiful here, something earthy and natural in the dry down. It reminds us all that we are nothing but animals anyways. You just have to make your way out of the gas station bathroom first to find it.

Poop heaven right here folks. Love it!!

old furniture, astringence, a whiff of urine— thrift store on a humid day? probably my least favorite of le labo.

while the bestiality and here and there, skankiness of the oud come forward immediately, as I noticed this morning, and the civet, civetone or zibetin [if I am not mistaken] keep pushing their furry urinal yet fixative influence forward (which I all like), the perfume quicky 'resume, detract, subdue' its chic poise, its preciously measured balance of notes. I love the perfume, as I also love 'Labdanum 18' and the Patchouli I gave to my straight twinbrother. what I try to remember is the price I then payed in perspective to the preposterous rise in prizes I guess not only with 'le Labo'. $ 525 for 100 ml and I am in doubt if I payed 350 guilders (so, before 2000) or 250 guilders for these three times 100 ml each ? I never was shocked by any price and I remember that I thought, wow this gotta be special. my brother was very very pleased with the patchouli, as I am with the oud and labdanum. so the other factor comes forward: 'do perfumes age'. not in my case. I NEVER experienced any wrong turned, sour, bland, emptied out sensation on the contrary. I have quicky bought myself in in Gale Hayman's 'Beverly Hills' (1990) six bottles. they all thrive wonderfully as they did in their glamour haydays also with a TON civet. now the oud 27. I definitely smell cedar, which gives it refinement. vetiver which does actually the same. and via Creed (the scents from 1990s) I have an idea about ambergris and I can smell that too. this has a subdued animality, an all encompassing lifting as well as grounding effect on the fragrance. I love patchouli but it has the tendency to eather smell fatty (not here) or a sharp scent of herbaceousness, which I love. to me patchouli often vanishes between the other notes and that is the case here also. I think the amber and rose make up for the rest of the perfumes' profile for me. which is fine to me, a great lover of rose-ouds preferrably of Montale (yes Montale from whom the perfumes are often sold on Arabian websites while the posher and so called 'more authentic' brands are nowhere to be found). this perfume isn't 'montalish' and gives off a rich and layered sniff of perfume. I think I have to put it this way: I love rose-ouds. Dusita's Oudh Infini: while discontinued I managed to get hold on 7 flacons of 50 ml á 395 euros, with help from my brother. but also 'Thirty Three' from Ex Idolo: a Thirty Three year old Chinese oud oil with the recognizable kiss of white roses, Midnight Oud from JHAG, Tierry de Gunzberg's Terryfic Oud and Terryfic Oud Extreme, Cartiers Oud-Rose, from Montale: Louban, Oud Purple Roses, Attar (with double distilled sandal instead of oud), Nepalese Oud, Pashmina Oud, Dimasq Oud (or Damascus) , et cetera. strangely this oud from le Labo stands out against each one of them. perhaps only the civet and then yet, the oud, speak with loud voices. yet soon they get drawn in in a whole symphony where I smell what I said I smelled. I think they costed 350 guilders then (perhaps only this flacon 300 euros). yes what to say about the rise of these prizes. nothing really. I am not rich but have had, and still do, a remarkable collection of loud, chic, vulgar and unconventional perfumes. I am more the Versace-Versailles type then the RalphLauren-Metlife type. and in the mean time: enjoy and have fun with these Grande Personnes, les Parfums de les Cocottes de la Nuit.

Older, musty, ivy league university library bookshelves is what this smells like. The old wood bookshelves is quite photorealistic. Not bad. Its kind of pleasant oddly enough but I'm not sure if I wanna wear this. Ever.

This, to me, smells like when you've spent an entire day in bed with a lover, then you go out for a walk and come back into a room reeking of sex. It's pure raunch.

the episode of hot streets where the planet is colonized by "the smell"

tested this 3x, smelled like straight up poo 3x

Truly, we all smell something different and what makes Johnny tick, doesn’t make Cindy tick, doesn’t make Ahmed tick…and so on. You get the point. Scent, especially niche, can be a Rorschach test in that the smeller smells what they smell. This can be said even with the most straightforward of compositions. (Vanilla anyone?) So, i say all that to say: This stink. It stunk when i very first smelled it at the beginning of my journey and it equally stinks now. I tried this three separate times. My last attempt, at some point, will be on skin. I have yet to apply this one. As of right now, i don’t see any merit in this fragrance, whatsoever. Judging from these comments, your mileage may vary. The first sentence of @masonreed comment, several below from mine, sums up my EXACT sentiment.

funky and sour, it feels like acid is going up my nose and it gave me a headache. hard pass

Smells like cat pee and stale cigarettes. I really dislike it but i know theres some freaks out there that dont play about this fragrance. I respect the freak

Animalic barnyard and wood varnish, BUT also plasticky? Like someone else said, expensive horse. Mellows out over time but still not for me.

Funny how our tastes change. I smelled this 3 years ago and was repulsed. I assume I’m in the majority because the Le Labo’s around me don’t display it. But one of them had it on display again today and I loved it. It smells slightly animalic, but in a tasteful way. It’s also very clean. Seems like a contradiction, but there you have it. I picked up a 15ml and will pick up a larger one if I continue to enjoy it over the holidays.

If you've ever worked with very old reclaimed oak, this is the smell, with a little more tartness. Several people have made the connection to wine. More accurately it evokes wine barrels, or cork. Not on my budget.

In my honest to god opinion, this is the only Le Labo fragrance worth the money for a full bottle, albeit having mostly nothing to do with its namesake Oud, and everything to do with a truly beautiful, slightly skanky civet. To my nose, this is primarily an animalic (again, civet) and aldehydic woody musk scent with a touch of rose for levity. While I understand that animalic perfumes are polarizing, I genuinely don't see a world where Oud 27 could be perceived as offensively fecal or inappropriate for daily wear - I've received more blind compliments wearing this than many other objectively "safe" perfumes. There is a slight barnyard style funk, but nowhere close to compositions that heavily feature real, natural oud, and the barnyard in this image is clean and quite welcoming. I really don't like to give Le Labo my money, but I love this perfume. This could easily be my signature, but between the absurd price, the truly poor longevity (I'm lucky to get 3 hours from this on skin, though I've heard that age is a friend to Oud 27 in this department), and the Estée Lauder of it all, I reserve my small bottle for special occasions.

Smells just like Wine.

I dont get any BO or rancid smell from this at all. For me this smells like the big industrial wood workshop at my old school. Warm and woody. It smells amazing in the air, like a shower of tree splinters.

Like putting very expensive aftershave on a very expensive horse.

Layer with a Vanilla of any kind and you will see the light.

This one is all about the civet, and not much else... I actually remember getting this decant -- I got it sent to our apartment in KC (instead of at work at WSC), and I had to go pick it up from KC plaza -- I remember getting the parcel and I could sorta smell this through the STC packaging! At first sniff, 12 years ago, this was TOO much -- WAAAY too much -- in all honesty, I'm glad 2013 me didn't turf this sample. Yes, it's brutally animalic. Yes, it is a bit noxious. Yes, it is most likely unwearable. BUT: it's also got a hidden artistry behind the animalics -- there is soft musk in there, along with 'oud' and what MUST be woods and amber -- and there is some softening patch in the back, too, so whilst this comes across a bit pissy and brutal, it's not TOO brutal. 1 spray, or 2 (max) and those soft nuances make their way to you -- you just need to be patient. Will I ever buy this? Unlikely, but I do see myself wearing this again...

Oddly addictive, it's ugly but sometimes beautiful and mesmerising. A scent for those seeking a visceral reaction. An acquired taste for those who like a sour vinegar-like note in a fragrance.

I don't find this fecal or urine-ish, per se, but it's definitely dirty, particularly in the opening. For the first twenty minutes or so, I get a scent sort of like balloon rubber, with undertones of sharp sweat—and okay, yes, there is a touch of barnyard stank in the mix. It's sour, salty, and a little bit sweet, all at once. However, as it dries down, I find that the sharp, dirty edges get smoother, and there's a paradoxical, laundry-like cleanness that begins to emerge. Once it's dried down, I would describe Oud 27 as the scent of a freshly laundered cotton t-shirt you chopped a bunch of firewood in, then took off and draped over a log afterwards in order to air out the sweat. I don't dislike this, but I would be disinclined to wear it in social situations, due to the significant risk of coming across as unwashed and stanky to some noses. I could totally see it making a great camping fragrance, though—if you can get past the absurdity of wearing a $300 fragrance camping.

Cheap chinese plastic, acetone, lacquer, varnish - these are the things that Oud 27 reminds me of, and i dont mind it at all! Its not this crazy stinky beast to my nose, i get varnish, rose and musks. Its not crazy or disgusting to my nose at all, its a quite nice take on oud that i dont see anyone else doing, its super medicinal, and i think people mistake that for it being animalic.

I like this. Not sure why I like this, but it’s enough to always have it on hand. The slight animalic “barnyard” is not offensive in the overall scent profile. Up close it has a rubbery oud accord - so don’t do that to your nose. In that air it’s a wonderful woody “pencil shavings” accord. It’s fresh and bright with a peppery spice. I think this is something you can wear all year ‘cuz it’s not too loud compared to the heavy hitter ouds out there. Some days you just gotta do Oud 27. Today was another one of those days.

This does not smell good! It smells like when a horse poops and it’s sitting out in the sun letting off that nasty funk. DO NOT BLIND BUY WHATSOEVER!

I am very intrigued by this fragrance, but because of the comments I am now a bit scared to wear it lol... I can see how it can associate horse stables, for example. However, I think it's mostly Oud itself which smells a bit dirty. That's just the reality of Oud. Personally I don't like to associate fragrances with animals or leather. But in general, to me Oud 27 just doesn't smell like what most people describe (personally, I wouldn't associate it with anything animalic whatsoever). To me it's kind of woody and bright, but also kind of fresh, fizzy, and "sunny". Also I feel like Oud 27 and Tonka 25 both have this interesting industrial quality, which I love. Like an older American/Canadian city where you see a lot of bricks, wood, steel, and rust, and it all smells in a certain way. BTW, I heard that Oud 27 has been discontinued. I don't see it on their website for at least a year. But at this point they still have it physically in stores. (At least some of them... I got mine in Toronto.)

Someone buried a burnt fruitcake in a peat bog a year ago and I just dug it up! Smells like poop? It certainly doesn't smell like my poop! Yes it stinks but I LOVE it. I love the red wine and burnt tyres in the beginning, the civet/rose/wood in the middle and the powdery dusty old Duchess dressed in a leather jacket at the end. An exciting fragrance that I'll never tire of.

Too animalic and winey to be pleasing enough for most people yet still too western and buttoned up to please real Oud lovers. Has sweet and fruity facets similar to notorious Oud but way more naturalistic, also has similar dusty grandma vibes that Oud palao does. It’s a little bit too in the middle to commit to any one story and I feel like that’s a shortcoming. It’s like if you turned the volume down halfway on the scent stercus has when it dries down. Important note to everyone else leaving reviews: this is NOT discontinued. You just have to ask for it. Most le labo locations keep it behind the counter because it sells really poorly. Cheers

This smells like rancid BO and urine with a musk undertone. However, for some inexplicably reason I cannot stop breaking out my sample every once in a while. Its objectively repulsive but addictive, which is so confusing. Do not blind buy.