Badee Al Oud Lattafa

Badee Al Oud is Lattafa's oud line — and the easiest way to discover this wood without being overwhelmed by it. Each variant sets the oud in a different frame: rose, amber, vanilla, fruit. This page gathers the whole line and its set.

The variants

• Badee Al Oud Glory — oud and saffron over rose and amber; the reference most often bought.
• Badee Al Oud Noble Blush — the softer, floral-powdery reading, more feminine in expression.
• Badee Al Oud Honor & Glory — the gourmand version: vanilla and fruit over the oud.
• Badee Al Oud Sublime — brighter and fresher, with citrus in the opening.
• Badee Al Oud Amethyst — fruity-floral, the lightest oud of the line.
• Mini set, 25 ml — several variants in travel size.

What oud is

Oud — agarwood — is the most expensive material in perfumery: a resin the Aquilaria tree produces to fight a fungus. Its smell is woody, leathery, animalic, with a depth that stays on the skin long after every other note has gone. In Gulf perfumery it serves as a foundation and is paired with rose, amber or vanilla — exactly what Badee Al Oud does. More on the oud perfume page.

How to wear it

One or two sprays are enough: oud gets noticed. Autumn and winter are its season; in summer the density quickly becomes heavy. On clothes it lasts several days. Newcomers to the line start with Glory or Amethyst and move to the denser variants later.

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