First it smells like slightly over-roasted coffee beans. Then it smells like coffee in a cup, made from medium roasted beans, sweet, with vanilla liqueur and tonka beans. Oud (in Arabic oudh) is valued strongly by perfumers for its warm sweetness mixed with woody and balsamic notes. It's an aromatic and complex scent. Many are baffled by the term “aquatic notes “, unrightfully thinking it's a synonym for watery, odorless perfumes. The term applies to the ingredients that give the fragrance a distinctively fresh, clean, translucent and airy scent.