If you don't have any real oud agarwood, don't buy anything else. Spend money on a good oud, it is the king of scents. Get a decanted sample from one of those bougie department stores like Nordstrom or buy a 5ml decant online. "Western" ouds aren't really oud, but you can get an idea for how agarwood smells with something like Tom Ford Oud Wood or Tobacco Oud if you're sharp enough to smell "past" the other stuff. If you want to really know what it smells like, you'd need some sand nigger perfume oil. Something from a French house will be a close second. Tom Ford's ouds aren't "oud", but they're good at what they do HAZMAT if sprayed more than once.

Expensive Shit and/or Perfume Oils

Abdul Samad al Qurashi - Khashab al Oud

If you want oud as a note in something you can spray, just get this. If only because the oud they're using is NOT synthetic. You will smell like a rich sand nigger.

Abdul Samad al Qurashi - Aoud Musk

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So good. This is the smell I think of when I think of "Eastern" fragrances. Musk is supposed to be the main note, oud in the background - but it doesn't smell animalic or "musky" at all - kind of sweet actually. At room temperature, it starts to solidify, which fucks with the "dabber" attached to the cap you'd normally use for this kind of oil. I kept a pack of sterile cotton swabs, think Q-Tips, next to it, no joke. Stir the corners vigorously, wooden end, not the cotton end, use it as a dabber instead. You could probably use a coffee stirrer or Q-Tip but I didn't want to risk something starting to grow in a bottle of expensive oil. You could also just warm it up, but that takes time.

Abdul Samad Al Qurashi Makkah Blend

This is sold as both an oil and an EdP spray. They smell very different, the spray is a lot more feminine, the "floral" notes are more pronounced. You will smell like a mosque.

Abdul Samad al Qurashi Safari Extreme

When an Eastern house tries to make "this smells fucking expensive".

Rasasi, as a brand

If you want to try oud oil, IMO they're a better choice than ASAQ or another Arabian house. Both stores sell actual agarwood, often more expensive by weight than the fucking gold the rich Saudi housewives buying kg of that shit must've been using to pay for it. They have dozens of different tiers, different years and harvests of fucking oud, etc. "Mubakhar Cambodi" (Cambodian Smoked) was what I walked away with a tiny, expensive vial of. If I wear oud, I am wearing it for me. I don't think I've ever worn it out of the house. It's very strong, can smell almost fecal right when you put it on, but God damn does it smell amazing as the day wears on.

Do not bother with anything they sell in a bottle with a sprayer - they're mostly weird, cheap, strong or weak, knockoffs of popular Western perfumes. "La Yuqawam" = Tom Ford Tuscan Leather, "Daarej pour Homme" = Valentino V pour Homme, "Rasasi Pour Homme L'eau Verte" = Guerlain Homme speaking of, that's a nice one.

Their "Al Boruzz" line is nice for fancy, "not synthetic smelling", oud based unisex perfumes. Too expensive, not something you'd want to buy without smelling first either, but I liked "Al Boruzz Cambodia" a lot. They have a newer "Qasamat" line that seems to be the same general idea, but I haven't smelled it.

Tom Ford Tobacco Oud and Tobacco Vanille

THE boozy tobacco scents. Tobacco Oud is more boozy, Vanille makes Pi smell like Irish Spring.