Virtuous Oud
Virtuous Oud, composed by Alberto Morillas for Zara's 2023 WO/* collection, opens with a citrus-marine brightness — lemon and bergamot sharpened by calone — that gives the opening an aquatic freshness unusual for an oud fragrance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 accords.
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- Oud70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Calone
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- White Musk
- Lavender
- Ambroxan
- Agarwood (Oud)
By the editors · 2 min readVirtuous Oud, composed by Alberto Morillas for Zara's 2023 WO/* collection, opens with a citrus-marine brightness — lemon and bergamot sharpened by calone — that gives the opening an aquatic freshness unusual for an oud fragrance. As the citrus retreats, agarwood arrives alongside ambroxan and lavender: a clean, modernist interpretation of oud, stripped of incense and resinous smoke.
The sandalwood, vetiver, and patchouli base grounds the composition in warm woody territory without adding weight. This is oud as a contemporary building block rather than an atmospheric centerpiece — more architectural than evocative. It sits comfortably in casual and semi-formal contexts, working across seasons wherever a clean-woody masculine is appropriate.
Scent twins
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