Parfum d'Empire Ruade | 2ml Sample

Hay, leather and oud built to smell like a stable.

Oud sits at the center from the first spray, wrapped in narcissus and cut hay absolute that reads as straw, tack leather and warm horse rather than perfume. It stays animalic and agrestic through the drydown, gaining a little more hay and leather but never turning sweet or polished.

Perfumed by: Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

KSI Take: The opening is genuinely rough, closer to a stable than a fragrance counter, and it is a bad match for anyone who wants oud to mean sweet or resinous rather than literal barnyard. Give it real time on skin rather than a paper strip, and wear it when you want something confrontational rather than easy, since moderate sillage and a five hour run mean it will not linger past the point of the joke.

KSI Scent Profile: Animalic · Leathery · Green · Earthy · Oud

Standout notes: Oud, Narcissus, Cut Hay Absolute, Leather, Straw & Animalic Musk

2ml KSI Decant
Hand-decanted from an authentic bottle into a 2ml atomizer so you can properly wear the fragrance before deciding whether the full bottle deserves a place in your collection.

This is a Kaleidoscope Scent Index hand-decant and is not a manufacturer-produced sample. All fragrance samples are final sale.