To beautiful evening occasions, I can also recommend the fragrance without further ado, because it comes along very elegantly and fits a good suit as well as jeans. If anything, M7 was the first fragrance marketed as oud-centric fragrance (that is: some damp/dark woody aromachemical in the top, that is nothing close to oud, not even remotely, but that's for a different discussion). Overall, I'd define M7 as an orange-y myrrh fragrance, not at all an oud fragrance. I discovered this scent about half a year ago in a perfumery and knew of its existence, but I had put off testing it for a long time, as I was still a beginner at that time (I would still call myself a beginner) and therefore preferred other scents.

What we have with the original M7 is — without a doubt — the template for many of the fragrances that Tom Ford would go on to put out under his personal label. The closest and most obvious progeny is his Private Blend Oud Wood, but there are also traces of M7’s impact in Tobacco Vanille, Café Rose, and even to a minor extent, the new Sahara Noir fragrances. I have no doubt that M7 was a work of love for Tom Ford, even if he didn’t actually blend all the notes together himself. For this, his very first fragrance, he must have directed Jacques Cavalier and Alberto Morillas to include all his favorite notes or combinations: oud with cardamom; oud with labdanum; oud with frankincense; labdanum and frankincense; a jammy rose with bitter, earthy elements; woody notes with vanilla and vetiver; and more. M7 is a roadmap that branches out to all sorts of Private Blend fragrances, but, honestly, it is better than almost all of them with two exceptions: sillage and longevity. On my skin (which admittedly is wonky) M7 had maybe 0.01% of most Private Blends’ potency and duration. I’ve often said that Tom Ford’s Oud Wood was an attempt to remedy the mistakes he went through with M7 but, clearly, he also decided to make up for M7’s sheer body and lifespan as well. Is Oud Wood a better fragrance? That’s a personal, subjective matter. I think it’s a very different fragrance; and I much prefer M7. M7 was one of the most hyped fragrances around 2008-2012. As an Arab, I didn't find it oudy. It was an ambery incensy scent with light woody sweetness, & a hefty dose of patchouli that gave it a lot of depth. The 1st version was too heavy & too mature for most to wear, inc. me, but I bought it because of the hype. It grew on me with time. But some time ago I sniffed at him for the first time and was very surprised, in a positive sense. So surprised that I said to myself: "Oh, it's beautiful. Not the way oud usually smells." When I entered a barber shop in Caracas in the mid-90s, I was immediately hit by a scent when I opened the door. A scent that made me think about whether I had possibly opened the wrong door, the door to another service perhaps. I think this is one of the most unisex ouds I’ve come across in a while, short of the purely, totally feminine stuff with heaps of roses (like Mohur) which only have a portion of oud amidst all the notes. But in terms of oud-centered fragrances, this is totally something that can be worn by women. At least, based upon how it was on my skin which often amplifies base notes and power notes (like oud). I truly didn’t find it to be hugely masculine but, rather, a very spicy oriental woody fragrance. And I think it would be beautiful on women.

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The shelf life is very good at about 8 hours, after about 2 hours the fragrance recedes, but remains present when approaching the wearer.

As for Mitzah, it’s a totally different fragrance. Even ignoring the oud issue, M7 is more aromatic and herbaceous at the start, it has a definite lavender component along with rosemary, and the base is different too. As a whole though, M7 is so much more woody-spicy than Mitzah which is more primarily labdanum-frankincense-cardamom with an almost chocolate-y feel at times to it. The degree of smoke and labdanum vary substantially too; there was significantly less smoke on my skin with M7. As for the cherry-cola aspect, the oud in M7 turns it to something that feels closer to cherry cough syrup at the start. A sort of Cherry Nyquil, if you will. Yet, the oud is also very, very honeyed and warm — honeyed in a way that I don’t often encounter. Its box is also different; it now lists 14 ingredients instead of 4. Despite the increase in ingredients, however, the reformulated version is substantially weaker than the original, emphasizes amber over faint oud, and lasts even less time (both on my skin and on others). That said, both versions have the same dry down. I wear on the arm so a sail dew bracelet which I like to spray, here I take the scent good 4-5 hours again and again perceive. The salt is used as a transition, trying to unite the sweetness of the fruit and the oud. This idea is brilliant and one of the reasons why the top note mixes so much with the heart note and remains present for so long. I can imagine salt here as a natural flavour enhancer, just as it really is in the kitchen. Especially in the current season the M7 is the best and most suitable for me. Because of the fruity-citric start and the oriental swing it brings with it afterwards, mMn can be classified as a great all-rounder, which you can wear very well on these autumn days. And also on cooler days in spring I can imagine him very well.i like to wear even though i’m a girl. smells very dark, erotic, strong,wild …… it makes me think: “Take me!” We all have certain preferences for certain notes, just as we naturally have a kind of aversion to other notes. Spontaneously, leather, aniseed and oud come to mind, with which I personally am not very good at, for example,

Zinedine Zidane may be a forceful, brutal panther on the football field but, in a suit, he is the most perfect embodiment of raw, sharply-chiseled masculinity and muscular power sheathed in refinement. Tamed, he is sophisticated, jawdroppingly sexy, debonair and virile. He is exactly like M7 which is an oud fragrance that belongs in Monte-Carlo, my old home, and nowhere else. It smells like sex, just in a bottle. That’s all. Yes, there is so much more, but that’s all that you, dear reader, need to understand here. There’s nothing else quite like vintage M7, and it lasts for DAYS.With the Santal Royal by Guerlain and Intense Oud by Gucci I owned two other oud-heavy treasures besides the M7 for a long time, but in the end I passed them on, because the Santal Royal was simply too leathery and the Intense Oud was too sour because of the saffron (I also wanted to reduce my collection, which fortunately went well for me recently). I persöhnlich am very satisfied with the fragrance, he stands out but something from the crowd without being extravagant. The original M7 seems a little lighter, fresher and brighter to me. The citrus fruits seem a bit more sparkling and the scent is a bit less medicinal. On the one hand the feeling as if the oud would bring a depth and maturity into the perfume which makes it a very noble perfume and on the other hand as if the whole menu would be served in a cowshed. Oud is something special. In this combination, with the fruits and the salt, it is converted to mass production.