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01The Dua BrandIntense Black Oud

Intense Black Oud

by The Dua Brand

● Top pickModerate match

~$36

Guerlain Oud Khôl (L'Art & La Matière, 2022, by Thierry Wasser) is a pitch-dark, polarizing woody-oriental: a charcoal-tinged, leathery oud softened by aldehydes, a caramelized praline note and mossy chypre facets, meant to evoke the smoke of bakhoor. It is a niche, relatively recent release and clone consensus is thin — there is no established, community-vetted roster of dupes and no independent side-by-side testing surfaced in forums or on Reddit. The one genuinely intentional clone is The Dua Brand's 'Intense Black Oud,' which Dua's own product page explicitly markets as its inspired expression of Oud Khôl (oud, leather, aldehydes, praline, oakmoss), and which Parfumo also lists among scents similar to the original; it is reported moderate-match but has no independent skin-comparison corroboration yet. A second candidate, 'A+ Oud Khôl' from Universal Perfumes, appears only on a single similarity-listicle site under a name templated identically to the original, with no independent pairing confirmation or community discussion, so it was dropped per honest-sourcing standards. Treat this as moderate-confidence at best.