While we love many fragrances, from juicy cherry to delicate rose, we reach for the best oud perfumes when we want to feel—or rather, smell—impossibly fancy and undeniably rich. (What can we say?

‘The finest raw materials are perfumes in their own right,’ says Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, master perfumer for Louis Vuitton and the mind behind the brand’s latest fragrance, Pur Oud. The perfume ...