Intended to "signal a return to ancestral sources" and "the intoxicating scents of sacred mysteries" La Closerie des Parfums' Oud Cardamone touches on some borderline-medicinal-smelling themes that feel almost familiar... but then it quickly shrouds them in trails of elemental smoke.

After opening up with the herbal accents of Guatemalan cardamom and Moroccan artemesia - which together create a rather coarse, dry kind of minerality - the fragrance reveals a darkly unique balance between the very prominent gaiacwood accord, the sensual richness of oud and the moreish tones of Bulgarian tobacco absolute. 

Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin, Benzyl Benzoate, Eugenol, Benzyl Cinnamate, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Citral, Cinnamal, Benzyl Salicylate, Geraniol