Musc Ravageur 2000 Eau de Parfum

Musc Ravageur (Eau de Parfum) by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle
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Ranked 53 in Unisex Perfume
8.1 / 10 1901 Ratings
A popular perfume by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle for women and men, released in 2000. The scent is spicy-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Spicy
Sweet
Animal
Oriental
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CinnamonCinnamon LavenderLavender BergamotBergamot Mandarin orangeMandarin orange
Heart Notes Heart Notes
MuskMusk VanillaVanilla AmberAmber
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood

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8.11901 Ratings
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8.51656 Ratings
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7.91628 Ratings
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6.9964 Ratings
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Missk

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Top Review 6  
Feel free to ravage your lover wearing this...
You tend to hear a lot about this fragrance on the niche forums. Many people say it's sexy, raunchy, hot, sensual... you get the gist. So of course, like any hot-blooded woman would do, I made it my mission to scout out Musc Ravageur.

Before I begin, my favourite musk prior to smelling this fragrance was Kiehl's Original Musk, which is a rather 'dirty', animalistic and heavy unisex musk. Musc Ravageur on the otherhand is different. It's a lot sweeter, smoother and softer.

This is the kind of sexy musk you'd wear with baby pink, frilly lingerie and cute bows in your hair. It's innocent and naughty at the same time. Most of the time the scent is cuddly and vanillary.

Occasionally I get hints of sweet, aromatic lavender, which is strangely compelling on the skin. The cinnamon, vanilla and musk drive the composition, and with this fantastic blend, I can see where the 'gourmand musk' references come from.

The sillage is pleasingly intimate. I wore this fragrance out clubbing the other night and my man was the only that could smell me, which in itself was a beautiful moment for the both of us. It's a romantic fragrance for me, not necessarily raunchy or outrageously seductive. Just alluring.
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ZeZe

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ZeZe
ZeZe
Top Review 6  
Sensual foreplay. Worth it's weight in gold.
Musc Ravageur by Frédéric Malle..
I got my hands on a 10ml decant recently so I decided I would give this a few good wears before any review.
The opening took me by surprise, for the wrong reasons I will add. I would best describe the opening as a bottle of medicine alongside some baby powder.
Not the best start for the fragrance I had high expectations for.
The opening mellows after 5minutes or so & I didn't pick up on the musk note up until the 30minute mark, which I noticed by that stage it was developing into something warmth & soft, but nothing to suggest It would win me over.
60-90 minutes pass by & Musc Revageur has now developed into a gorgeous, soft, warm & irresistible musk scent which is flirting with my skin. I find it to be so sensual, yummy & irresistible which puts me in such a good mood, I feel like Casanova at this stage. The longer I wear this, the more complex the scent, so gorgeous without any over powering smell that would scare the opposite sex away.
The projection is good but the longetivity is fantastic(10hrs+ on me), I could smell the trail on my skin the following morning which just made me want to put more on.
Perfect unisex fragrance for people in there late 20's & up.
A soft, subtle, sensual warm scent that would set the perfect mood for a romantic evening. Give this a a good hour before it works its magic.
The verdict: 10/10

Sensual foreplay that's worth its price. My new favourite fragrance.
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jtd

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jtd
jtd
Very helpful Review 6  
Musc Ravageur
L de Lolita defined my fear of the gourmand genre. Thick scents of chocolate dessert are coupled with musks and ambers, both of which are known for their fixative properties. Amber 'fixes' the gourmand quality of L de Lolita the way concrete shoes 'set' in a mafia fable before you're thrown in the river.

Wearing L de Lolita could well be a Catholic-school lesson on the sin of gluttony and the threats of eternal hell. The anticipation draws you close, the titilation makes you give in, the satisfaction is the pleasure you've been denied. Then you continue to eat, unable to control yourself, long past the point of nausea and revulsion. Jaques Guerlain gave a seminar on the line between plenty and excess when he took Shalimar close to crème brulée, but then pulled back. The value of gourmand notes is in the suggestion or the temptation, not in the pudding. L de Lolita demonstrates the lesson by failing it and falling into the more-is-better trap.

So if L de Lolita (2006) is a sin against god, does Musc Ravageur (2000) have a more original sin?

I experienced Roucel's trio out of sequence. I first smelled Labdanum 18 (2006), then L de Lolita (2006) and finally Musc Ravageur (2000). I hadn't known that the same perfumer made all three, nor had I known that the two 2006 perfumes were derived from Musc Ravageur. Now I understand who's who, or better, who's the flanker.

Musc Ravageur is the template. The other two variations were made by turning up and down the volume of specific notes of the original. Labdanum 18 skips the aromatic topnotes but overdoses the sweet vanilla and powdery musk. Without the loud aromatic topnotes of Musc Ravageur, Labdanum18 feels listless by comparison, yet is famously le Labo's best seller. If Labdanum was made by subtraction, L de Lolita relies on the addition of chocolate and maple syrup to distinguish itself. The classic vanilla 'oriental' is given the chocolate-steroid treatment and the bergamot topnote of Musc Ravageur is twisted into a candied orange. Piling a maple syrup/imortelle/fenugreek note on top of the chocolate makes L de Lolita a Frankenstein-Gourmand and poster-child for the excesses of gourmand perfumery.

L de Lolita is so egregious that having smelled it a number of times seven years ago it tainted my experience of Musc Ravageur. This week I wore Musc Ravageur for the first time. I wore it three days in a row, haunted by the anticipation of recognition that wouldn't come. While distracted, the flashback to L de Lolita struck me in the gut and having made the connection, there's no turning back.

How might I have experienced Musc Ravageur if I hadn't first been affected by L de Lolita? We all arrive to a perfume with our bags packed, but the recycling of ideas across different lines without marketing the subsequent perfumes as flankers muddies the waters. Maybe I've been damaged by the Lolita perfume association and have made the jump to Nabokov's Lolita. With its effusive barbershop masculine reference and smarmy musky-amber sweetness Musc Ravageur reads like the perfume a stereotypical dirty old man would wear.

(Please don't take my 'kitchen sink' quibble with Musc Ravaguer as a blanket criticism. I'm all for excess in perfumery generally and in Roucel's work specifically. He's used it to great success in Guerlain Insolence, Hermès 24, Faubourg, Missoni by Missoni and Gucci Envy.)

from scenthurdle.com
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Drseid

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Drseid
Drseid
Top Review 5  
One Of The Two Or Three Best Musks On The Market...
Musc Ravageur is a very nice scent indeed. For the most part the scent pyramid posted on this review page is accurate based on my experience with it on skin. It opens with a blast of natural smelling lavender with just a hint of bergamot to balance it out. The heart notes emerge rather early, where a nice cinnamon and clove combo of about equal proportions mix with a very nice musk note that does not overpower or smell too "dirty". The dry-down consists with the musk dominating, supported by hints of vanilla, gaiac wood and remnants of the clove/cinnamon combo from the heart notes. Projection is about average and longevity is excellent.

As to my feelings about Musc Ravageur, I find it to be an extremely well-rounded musk scent that is much more wearable and versatile than most (if not all) of the others I have tried. Roucel has balanced the scent from start to finish near perfectly, and in its category this has to be considered the reference in my book. This, and Villoresi's Musk are my two favorite musks, but Musc Ravageur is more of a "true" musk scent, so it wins the tie-breaker (in a category that I don't care much for as a general rule). To musk scent lovers who can afford it, this is a must smell (and buy), to all others it is worth a try at least to experience what a master can do with musk. It is superb, earning 4 stars out of 5.
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Thatbwoy

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Thatbwoy
Thatbwoy
Very helpful Review 7  
Album: 'Cameosis'; Side A track two
Ok I’m about to go for some long eulogy about my one my favourite artist of all time a man I consider a genius and the musical genre he was munificently and imperially ensconced.

Prince.

Currently I am listening to his underappreciated album ‘1999’ - when I say underappreciated, I mean by Prince fans I have encountered in my 40-odd years of mooching about on this rock. You get the usual chatter about how great ‘SignO’ the Times’ is and everyone loves ‘Purple Rain’. You can get some love for ‘Around in a day’ and ‘Parade’..oh and everyone at some claimed to have had a copy of the ‘Black Album’ (yeeeeaaah riiiiight mate) like the girlfriend that went to another school that “You wouldn’t know”.

But this album is one my favourite Prince albums because until others (I’ll single out Around the world in a day) it didn’t aim for a crossover, this was pure Funk. Now according to Spotify Funk is my most listened to genre of music; along with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Sly Stone, Rick James and James Brown; Prince is their equal.

But there’s a reason why I chose this album over the others he has released; this album was prime ‘Sex(y)’ Prince this was in the era when Prince sang about sex on tracks with an almost dangerous regularity and with imperforate performance. I love this album because it is relentless funk from the get go, I may be wrong but there was story (and it might not be related to this album) that when the record label executives invited Prince in to talk about his upcoming album, Prince was ready to deliver, but they played him a Bootsy Collins album, Prince stood up and left and did this album.

I will always maintain that Prince was a Funk artist, people may say that he was a crossover pop artist, but that is because they nothing about how wide ranging and brilliant the genre is. I promise this is related to the fragrance I’ll figure out how to get to it within the meandering.

Anyway. Prince and the album 1999. The whole album is not about sex, but sure there are some songs where sex crops up, but even the title track is about Nuclear Arms proliferation. But the fact that this album crossed over and did so well for an album that is primarily a funk album is no small feat. This was a world that was just coming out of the ‘Disco Sucks!’ era, and Funk is like the older slinky sassy sister of Disco – where in this analogy Disco is the bratty little coked up kid sister wasted and smeared across the lap of some corny Perma-tanned couple who flew in from buttscratch in the middle of Nowheresville. Disco is the wiggly hips, the razzle dazzle the happy hands the four to the floor; Disco is Baccarat Rouge 540.

Hey nothing wrong with Baccarat Rouge 540. I like it, Like Disco I can vibe with it for a while and its fun. But its not Funk.

No, Funk, is that itchy-hard-booger expression you get when you hear it, Funk is on the One, Funk oozes sex, Funk is elastic, Funk originates from in the stank, Soul might make you move your body, and Disco might make you wiggle your hips. Funk MAKES YOUR ASS MOVE. In fact your whole naughty bits grind, wind and gyrate to funk. Go one try it, go to Spotify, search for Cameo’s ‘Shake Your Pants’; your groin will be doing figure 8’s in no time.

Funk is Musc Ravageur (see I did it)

Musc Ravageur is Funk.

Musc Ravageur has that same raw stank – I mean that this in a good way, not in any way bad. There’s a meme with a kid pull that stank face with the words ‘As a musician this the highest compliment you can receive from another musician’ - google it. That face right there that’s the funk, Musc Ravageur makes you contort your features into that face but with that silent adoration and pleasure that purveyors of Funk know all too well. I know people have described this as ‘animalic’ and people have complained that it is not ‘animalic’ enough or at all. I have to oddly agree with the latter, it lacks that late 70s animalic thrust; even though this element is lacking I still get a sort of lurking aspect of a beast albeit hidden inside a suit. Imagine Rick James wound in a Gieves & Hawkes suit; that’s what this fragrance reminds me of, yes, its Funk but there’s an element of refinement, though you you’d want some rawness to it. That’s the lack of pure animalics, I don’t know if there was a raw castoreum or civet it would add that element of dirtiness that I believe people are whinging about. I think it's great as it is and it is balanced. An ‘Animalic element would tip it toward that rubber splanking funk of Parliament/ Bootsy Collins and not Prince. And to wrap it all up.

This is a fragrance that perfectly accompanies that album ‘1999’ though it has all the elements of dirty funk it just misses that target by a half a gnat’s ass hair. But it's definitely in the Funk sphere. The thing is one of the highest accolades I can lay on fragrance is to liken it to my favourite musical genre, so you need to understand how much I appreciate this scent.
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NicSealNicSeal 3 years ago
9
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8
Sillage
8
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8.5
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Modern Classic. Musky, animalic, and smells of Christmas time. Oddly comforting & I appreciate it's uniqueness. Mildly daring too.
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MrLawmanMrLawman 3 years ago
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A complete masterpiece. So warm, dense and seductive. Overload of clove and cinnamon which are laid down on a vanilla bed.
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OoughOough 1 month ago
This is what a rural, 15 year old Francophile thinks French men smell like.
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ConRADICALConRADICAL 7 months ago
Dried, possibly rotten Jasmine flowers, cola candy, lavender and piss.

Amazing
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Patj1994Patj1994 1 year ago
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10
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5.5
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To me, the smells like going down on a woman right next to a table with Christmas desserts on it. Don’t think I’d ever wear this in public.
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HugoMontezHugoMontez 4 years ago
10
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8
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9
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Great smelling fragrance. A classic already. Not a masterpiece but a good signature scent if you love vanilla and Musk. Pretty linear. 4/5
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KraemdonKraemdon 2 years ago
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How can a fragrance be sexy/sultry and comfortable/cozy? It just changes with my mood, amazing. Even this new version is a true masterpiece
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InbnkInbnk 3 years ago
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Musky but somewhere in between animalic and delicious. Very complex and unique. The best one from FM alongwith POAL &Promise in my thought.
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ModusModus 3 years ago
10
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Complex, intriguing, intelectual, sensual, alluring, slightly animalic, slightly dirty vanilla. Probably my favourite from FM line.
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 4 years ago
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After a pronounced spicy-fresh opening, this slightly animalic, yet powdery-sweet Oriental fragrance settles to a warm resinous-woody base.
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