6th Collection

Musk Lave Areej Le Doré 2020

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8.8 / 10 159 Ratings

A popular perfume by Areej Le Doré for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is animal-powdery. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Animal

Powdery

Floral

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Lavender

Heart Notes

Siberian deer musk

Lavender absolute

Mysore sandalwood

Osmanthus

Base Notes

Iris

Labdanum

Oakmoss

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Ratings

Scent

8.8159 Ratings

Longevity

8.7148 Ratings

Sillage

8.1148 Ratings

Bottle

9.4146 Ratings

Value for money

7.488 Ratings

Submitted by Rosie88, last update on 06/03/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection "6th Collection".

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/20/2023

Georgeman
14 Reviews

Georgeman

2

Under the Mysore tree, a small deer is looking at the lady with lavender

The little deer is clean, bathed. He ate a small slice of lemon.
He stands still, he is not wild. He stands by a large Mysore tree, next to a lavender-scented lady with a butter iris in her hand. At the end, everyone leaves.
Everyone in their own direction. But the Mysore tree will remain in place.
Nice perfume in extract version, projection is medium. It's not beast mode. The bottle is beautiful. The limited quantity raised its price.

03/05/2025

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Radjal
12 Reviews

Radjal

1

Smooth and easy to wear fragrance with good quality, vintage ingredients

Very pleasant to wear and comfortable fragrance. Personally, I don't detect a retro vibe in it, as some people write in their reviews, despite Adam's use of vintage ingredients. There is indeed a bit of citrus and lavender in the introduction, but nothing here comes to the forefront. The whole thing is very smooth and pleasant. The musk has no animal character. Iris is also the important ingredient in this composition. ,,Musk Lave'' is a very safe fragrance. I noticed many similarities to ,,Al Majmua”. If one owns ,,Al Majmua'', I don't see the point of looking for ,,Musk Lave''. ,,Al Majmua'' is still available, on top of that the price is incomparably lower. Of course, these are not identical fragrances, and it is clear that one can have both in a collection. However, the overall character of the fragrances is very similar in my opinion.

06/03/2025

ClaireV
731 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Musky, spicy sandalwood fougère

Musk Lave has one of the best real sandalwood finishes I have smelled outside of attar and mukhallat perfumery. For fans of real sandalwood, the real treasure lies here, and not in Santal Galore. But be aware that this is the type of musky, spicy, masculine-leaning sandalwood that used to feature in high quality ‘barbershop’ fougères before Indian sandalwood became generally unavailable to commercial perfumery in the late eighties, and before entire carpets of beige, sweetish tonka bean were conscripted to fill the gap.

In other words, though it certainly smells rich and incensey, like all good sandalwood should, this sandalwood is the handsome, rugged version that smells more like good wood and bay rum spices than a creamy dessert that will send you into a stupor. The invigorating sparkle of the sandalwood is beefed up by a nice lump of labdanum, so you get the full balance of aromatic-dry and sweet-incensey that the very best examples of sandalwood possess, e.g., the Mysore 1984 by Ensar Oud, which, because it is aged, has developed that rich, incensey sonic boom ‘loudness of voice’ that would be most unusual for a pure sandalwood more freshly distilled.

Winding back to the start, Musk Lave opens with a fresh, powdery lemon and lavender accord, which would be a naturally lean kind of thing were it not for the immediate upswell of an unctuously buttery musk or tonka that adds richness, like a pat of yellow Irish butter melted over a salad. Think Jicky but with real sandalwood and musk dialled in for that naughty ‘skin musk’ feel, writing over the rather sharp, sometimes foul-smelling synthetic civet of the Guerlain. Given that Jicky is my favorite fragrance in the world, hopefully you’ll take my word for it that Musk Lave is the upgrade nobody knew was in the wings but immediately presses the install button on.

03/03/2025

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Omarareej
29 Reviews

Omarareej

1

Classic chypre

Een mooie klassieke geur. Gemaakt door een hele goede neus. Als je van lavendel houdt ga je deze geur super lekker vinden. Het is old skool Franse parfumerie in een nieuw jasje. Goed gemixt en sterk. Maar niet zo sterk dat anderen last van je hebben. Een mooie geur om in je collectie te hebben. Helaas heb ik de mijne verkocht.

10/13/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Rosie88
106 Reviews

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Top Review 24

Association: "dirty fizzy drink powder"

For a long time I have been looking forward to the new collection of Areej le Doré... When the preorder was done (which wasn't easy at all, because the site collapsed again and again) and I got over the waiting time, it was finally done and I was allowed to add the new collection to my collection...

I was so excited to see what Musk Lave would smell like... Lavender in scents is not always easy for my nose, but let's see...

A good sprayer up on your arm and off you go:

WOW, a proper load of bergamot - fresh, tangy, intense and in the top note here absolutely great ...
Added to this is an amazingly soft lavender, light, soft purple, young and also fresh...
My association (Attention: not meant negatively): Fizzy Shower Powder !!

My nose really compared this with effervescent sherbet powder and for me there is really something to it.... --> yeah, just counter it ;-))

Later the fragrance takes on a softly animalistic touch, which becomes more intense with time... the deer musk lives up to its name and gives the fragrance a wonderful "dirtiness" - in combination with a fine powdery iris note - the fragrance envelops you with a "dirty" powder, "dirty powder" so to speak ;-)

So Musk Lave remains a decent time on my skin until later something soft-earthy and creamy-woody is added: The base is reached.... A completely successful fragrance for me, which I have never smelled before... not commonplace and for me an absolutely unique fragrance with the unmistakable signature of Russian Adam....

The more I wear it, the more I don't want to give it up... for me one of the best fragrances in my collection :-)
If you want to "get rid of" your flacon, please contact me ;-))

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