Sandal Oud

Sandal Oud opens with a warm pepper-and-cardamom pairing, a gentle spiced lift rather than a sharp one. The heart brings in tonka bean, vanilla and vetiver together, building the comforting sweetness the name promises before the base arrives. That base is the point of the fragrance: exotic, warm oud paired directly with sandalwood, rounded by rosewood. Reviewers repeatedly describe it as having real depth, calling it divine and gorgeous, with the house's own oud-and-sandalwood combination reading as woody, vanilla-tinged and slightly musky rather than sharp or medicinal. It is Oud Attar's most reviewed scent by a wide margin, and the volume of repeat customers speaks to how broadly it lands. As a rollerball oil, Sandal Oud is built to last on the skin rather than project outward, with the house rating it at twelve-plus hours from a small dab. Limited to a numbered run, it sits at the more universally wearable end of the house's oud range: comforting and confident rather than dark or polarising, equally at home through autumn and winter.