Happiness Oud by French Avenue
Men 2023
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Description
Happiness Oud by French Avenue is a spicy woody fragrance for men. Launched in 2023, this composition features ginger and bergamot as top notes; licorice, cedar, and oud wood in the heart; and vanilla, herbal notes, and musk in the base.
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In the collection
Leading answer I want it
306 votes
What do you think?
Leading answer Love it
66 votes
Season
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107 votes
Time of day
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55 votes
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About Happiness Oud
Happiness Oud by French Avenue is a spicy woody fragrance for men. Launched in 2023, this composition features ginger and bergamot as top notes; licorice, cedar, and oud wood in the heart; and vanilla, herbal notes, and musk in the base.
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Longevity
Leading answer Long-lasting
40 votes
Sillage
Leading answer Moderate
42 votes
Character
Leading answer Balanced
48 votes
Value perception
Leading answer Excellent value
43 votes
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BassoProfumo
Nice scent. Spinetta would describe it; ‘Smells green, rebellious, and insurrectionary.’ Practically the same as Lattafa Safeer.
BassoProfumo
Smells green, rebellious, and insurrectionary, just as Spinetta would say. Practically identical to Lattafa Safeer.
waLplanet
I’ve tested it several times in-store and it always leaves the same impression: a brutal opening, sweet, spicy, and smoky, almost like caramelized roasted red peppers. Then it clicked for me: it’s not licorice, it’s saffron. That warm heat and that reddish smoke don’t lie. Everything fits there. This perfume doesn’t fit either the official notes it declares (ginger and licorice) or the luminous profile associated with Oud for Happiness. But it also doesn’t dive fully into the denser, darker side of Oud for Greatness. It lands on a curious middle ground: it has warm sparks of one and aromatic echoes of the other, as if orbiting between both worlds without fully defining itself. The fact that the official notes hide it only adds mystery… or marketing. Testing it calmly at home: – Opening: a spectacular, complex, and addictive blast. – Development: within minutes, the intensity drops, leaving a creamy, pleasant but discreet oud. – Longevity: it disappears before 2 hours. All the power of the extrait is concentrated in a majestic opening that makes me think a dragon is coming… but after its first breath of fire, it gets sluggish. Happiness Oud deserves to be smelled because its opening is a treasure: red, warm, spicy, hypnotic. For me, it’s like that bridge between two styles I now want to explore. Since I don’t find the longevity or the lasting sillage I expect from an extrait on my skin, I’ll go for the original Initio ones to see how their DNA sounds.
Jere1985
My batch lasts very little on skin; it holds better on clothes but has something I really don’t like about this perfume. It might mellow with time or my perception might change, but honestly, I don’t recommend it.