Le labo

    Le Labo.  Oud 27 opens with a sour, medicinal oud and a bunch of lovely animalic notes. I say lovely because they are filthy and grubby, not really because they smell lovely. It is musty, dirty and intense, with some beautiful saffron glowing upfront. I love this opening because I love oud, animalics - and saffron is an awesomely under used spice in perfumery.
These notes slop around each other messily for a short while before settling into a neat order. The oud is still barnyard-y and some dark woods creep in from underneath. It smells somewhat familiar, and kind of reminds me of a dirtier/oud-y version of L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Dzing – without the vanilla.
The packaging in my opinion is artistic in a minimalistic vibe, which I feel perfectly relates to Le labos brand identity; laboratory themes.