Chinese portrait. What if it was a trip? It would be in Laos, in a dense forest and in places pierced by a ray of sunshine. Smell? The meeting of a woody intensity and a tawny leathery sensuality. An image? The checkerboard of a chess game. Because in Original Oud, the very powerful and nervous white synthetic woods are opposed to the dark gurjum balm, almost black and as velvety as cocoa powder. A raw material? Wood leather, an ingredient born of Firmenich research. Rare and unpublished, it concentrates all the fragrant quintessence of Laos oud wood. A spice? Green cardamom. Because it requires liveliness, a spicy breath. A flower? Joker: Two are mentioned, iris and geranium. For the ultimate in elegance. And the final word? Alberto Morillas’. « This fragrance built around wood leather is like an oud fantasy. I put all my fascination for the power and mystery of this essence into it.