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Erwin de Silva Top Diamond is a nice enough perfume in its own right. A good balance between Amber notes, Rose and Oud, a classic and well trodden combination that is so quintessentially Middle Eastern for me. The similarity with Roja's Amber Aoud ends there. Roja's takes this scent back to Europe with a complexity that is warm, herbal and fruity, with just the right amount of animalic notes from musk and real oud that is always going to be a challenging to recreate. Top Diamond is good enough to wear but Amber Aoud it is not.