Montale

The perfume house Parfums Montale was founded by Pierre Montale in 2003 in Paris. Pierre Montale spent some time in Saudi Arabia before that, creating perfumes for nobility, kings and queens. Returning to Paris, the perfumer introduced his stunning oriental creations to the Western world. The mysterious East, Arabia and the perfumer's love for them can be found in every bottle in the Montale collection.

Montale creates its scents from natural high-quality materials, in high concentration, which makes the scents very intense and long-lasting. The aluminum bottle is specially created to protect the precious essences from light.

Montale creates fragrances for men, women and unisex whose main components are precious woods, such as frankincense, aoud (agarwood), cedar, sandalwood, and many other materials used by Arab perfumers. A special place in his collection belongs to perfumes made from aoud or agar wood. Oud Pafums Montale is the first French line of perfumes dedicated to aoud, a royal ingredient in the true sense of the word, and considered an aphrodisiac in the East.

Aoud is an aromatic resin - oleoresin (other names are: aggor, agarwood, eagleswood, aloeswood, in Arabic: oud or oudh). Oleoresin is the product of an immunological reaction from the Aquillaria tree to Phialophora parasitica mold. When the tree is infected, it produces this precious, dark, aromatic resin in the heart of its trunk. Oud and its extracts are very expensive. Its value is estimated to be 1.5 more expensive than gold, so it is also called "liquid gold" or "wood of the gods".