Virtuous Oud

8 reseñas

Mostrando las más recientes primero.

• Fede

  August 28, 2023

  

  I couldn’t visit Zara to test this collection, and being an impulsive shopper, I bought Virtuous Oud blindly based on its notes. It arrived yesterday, and today I watched Carlos Rubio’s video where he claimed it smelled of sepia. Well, terrified, I applied this fragrance this morning, expecting to smell like chocolate meatballs for the rest of the day. Fortunately, I didn’t. Virtuous Oud is a citrus fragrance with a very natural, pleasant, fresh, and suitable opening for this summer. Supposedly it has easy-to-detect notes (calone and ambroxan), but I don’t notice them as clearly, except for the calone in the first fifteen minutes. That’s the only thing noticeable: fifteen minutes. After that, it drops to skin-level and lasts about four hours as a citrus with a faint woody sandalwood base. And that’s it. The same thing happened with the previous Morillas collection for Zara, where I was let down by Morning Sunray in Seville. I can understand the result being limited by the budget Zara asks Morillas to work with, but it doesn’t justify it, as Zara has great perfumes even at lower costs. What did you do, Carlos, to make this smell like sepia to you? (:P)

• uhm

  October 18, 2023

  

  Maximum Calone. The performance is average and the overall impression is rather mediocre.

• IyanMV

  October 22, 2023

  

  I’ve read several reviews saying it smells like fish. Today I tried it at Zara, and the truth is, I don’t find that scent on my skin. It’s a citrus, aquatic, and woody fragrance. Very similar to an Acqua di Gio, though a bit darker. At first, it’s quite different, but after ten minutes, it shares much similarity. At twelve euros on sale, it’s not a bad purchase, although I’m not buying it as I already have many similar to the Acqua di Gio aroma.

• IyanMV

  November 1, 2023

  

  I’ve read several reviews claiming it smells like fish. Today I tried it at Zara, and honestly, I don’t detect that scent on my skin. It’s a citrus, aquatic, and woody fragrance. Very similar to Acqua di Gio, though slightly darker. At first it’s quite different, but after ten minutes it shares a lot of similarities. At €12 on sale, it’s not a bad purchase, although I’m not buying it as I already own several with a similar Acqua di Gio aroma.

• Malicench

  December 30, 2023

  

  The only good thing is that it bears Alberto Morillas’ name, because the scent is a disaster. It starts with a very synthetic citrus note, like a cleaning product, then the calone kicks in, which doesn’t smell of fish but rather something rotten. Later, the woody notes appear, but they’re very faint as they get lost in that critical note and the calone. I can’t find any similarity with Acqua Di Gio or other Morillas fragrances, which are usually pleasant and enjoyable. This one, by contrast, just seems like cheap cleaner. I wouldn’t recommend buying it blindly.

• Malicench

  January 22, 2024

  

  The only good thing is that it bears Alberto Morillas’ name, because the aroma is a disaster. At first, there’s a very synthetic citrus, like a cleaning product, and then the calone enters, which doesn’t smell of fish but of something rotten. Afterwards, the woody notes appear, but they are very faint because they mix with that critical note and the calone. I find no similarity with Acqua di Gio or other Morillas fragrances, which are usually pleasant and tasty. This one, instead, only seems like a cheap cleaner. I don’t recommend buying it blindly.

• Tomorrowsdust

  February 13, 2026

  

  If you asked me which is Zara’s most overlooked gem, it’s undoubtedly Virtuous Oud. It was a fragrance that got ahead of its time, and people simply failed to appreciate it. The reason for its failure was Carlos Rubio, that YouTuber who lives at Zara, who claimed in a video that it smelled of fish or cuttlefish. He later retracted his statement, saying the tester was broken, but the damage was already done. Furthermore, Virtuous was eclipsed by Elevated Oud, which stole all the spotlight. It was also unfairly labelled as an Acqua Di Gio clone just because Morillas was the creator, much like what happened to its sibling Elevated with Gucci Guilty Absolute, despite having nothing in common. It is an accessible oud ideal for beginners, with no risk of the scent overwhelming you. Although it was compared to Acqua Di Gio’s ADN, for me it follows the path of Tom Ford’s Oud Wood, but much more citrusy at first. It could be the perfect hybrid between both. Its profile is a winter citrus that gives you energy and makes you feel good even in the cold, without being too dense or too fresh. It’s like a white oud, a true all-rounder that goes anywhere. If this had been released by a niche brand for $100, it would have had much more hype. But it came out at Zara at an accessible price and passed without making a splash. I believe if they relaunch it, it will finally put this gem in its rightful place, one we were unable to enjoy.

• Tomorrowsdust

  February 20, 2026

  

  If you ask me which is Zara’s most ignored gem, it’s undoubtedly Virtuous Oud. It was a fragrance that was ahead of its time, and people didn’t know how to appreciate it. The reason for its failure was Carlos Rubio, that YouTuber who lives at Zara, who in a video said it smelled of fish or sepia. He later retracted, saying the tester was broken, but the damage was already done. Furthermore, Virtuous was eclipsed by Elevated Oud, which stole all the spotlight. They also slapped the Acqua Di Gio label on it just for having Morillas as the creator, just like what happened to its sibling Elevated with Gucci Guilty Absolute, despite having nothing to do with each other. It’s an accessible oud ideal for beginners, without the risk of the scent killing you. Although they compared it to the DNA of Acqua di Gio, for me, it goes more down the path of Tom Ford’s Oud Wood, but much more citrusy at the start. It could be a perfect hybrid between both. Its profile is a winter citrus that gives you energy and makes you feel good even in the cold, without being too dense or too fresh. It’s like a white oud, a true all-rounder that goes anywhere. If this had come out under a niche brand for one hundred dollars, it would have had much more hype. But it came out at Zara at an accessible price and passed without pain or glory. I think if they relaunch it, it will put this gem in its proper place that we couldn’t enjoy.