Indonesian Oud

Ermenegildo Zegna · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2012

≈ $195 · 125ml · approx. retail

An oriental-woody entry in the Essenze collection that opens on the house's signature Calabrian bergamot before a rose-and-amber heart settles into a smoky agarwood base. It brought a Western-house interpretation of oud to Zegna's fragrance wardrobe in 2012.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

Perfumer

Harry Fremont

French · 20 in collection

Harry Fremont is a French master perfumer at Firmenich, born in Cannes and trained at ISIPCA, who received The Fragrance Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. With hundreds of fragrances to his name, he co-created Calvin Klein's genre-defining CK One and composed the bestselling Ralph Lauren Romance.

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Frank Voelkl

German · 11 in collection

Frank Voelkl is a German-born, New York-based senior perfumer at Firmenich (now dsm-firmenich) who trained at ISIPCA in France. He is best known for his long collaboration with Le Labo, most famously composing the cult unisex woody musk Santal 33.

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Pierre Negrin

French · 8 in collection

IFF perfumer known for bold, modern compositions.

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