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Carnicure
L'Animal Sauvage
Marlou 2016

7.6 / 10 117 Ratings

A popular perfume by Marlou for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is animal-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Animal

Floral

Sweet

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Musk

Civet

Patchouli

Sandalwood Violet

Violet

Orange blossom

Perfumer

Tristan Rostain

Ratings

Scent

7.6117 Ratings

Longevity

7.694 Ratings

Sillage

6.795 Ratings

Bottle

7.381 Ratings

Value for money

7.241 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 09/25/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Original Musk Blend No. 1

Muscs Koublaï Khän

Animalix (2020)

Ma Bête

Musc Invisible

Carnation

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/02/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

sebjar
55 Reviews

sebjar

Very helpful Review 4

Marlou L’Animal Sauvage + 50ML D’Ambiguite Review

This is my Marlou First Impressions Review Video. A Marlou L’Animal Sauvage + 50ML D’Ambiguite First Impressions Review video. Marlou L’Animal Sauvage and 50ML D’Ambiguite are both very different animalic fragrances. Marlou Perfumes is a fairly new brand from France. They have two fragrances in their collection and recently launched at Lucky Scent. L’Animal Sauvage which was launched in 2016 focuses on musks with civet and 50ML D’Ambiguite which was launched in 2017 focuses on Costus with Castoreum. Watch the video to find out more about these two totally unique fragrances focusing on animalic perfume styles. Please watch my video to further learn about Marlou L’Animal Sauvage + 50ML D’Ambiguite. Thank you.

07/31/2019

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Pepdal
238 Reviews

Pepdal

Helpful Review 4

L'Animal Sauvage

L’Animal Sauvage introduces itself with fluttering eyelashes of a powdered, creamy floral accord. But this combination of violet and orange blossom is just a facade for the true personality of this perfume. Within a few minutes i find myself wondering how this pretty opening turned into this still pretty, but quite slutty perfume.

The first sense of “animal” i get is what I can only describe as powdered fur. Some nondescript mammal that someone has sprayed with Shalimar or some other scent of that ilk. Following this stage, the imagery i get from this perfume is more realistic yet no less bizarre.
The first time someone smelled this on me, their immediate response was that this smelled exactly like the décolletage powder their mother used to wear on fancy dressed-up occasions. It is clear that stuff had some smell. But as happens often with me, this suggested imagery has screwed itself securely to the inside of my brain, and I can’t shake it out or imagine it as anything else now. I had a chain smoking, heavily made-up, middle-age aunt as a child in the 70s. Most of the time, this perfume reminds me of her – after she had sprayed some cheap perfume over herself to cover up the smell of the man she had just slept with.
I know I am not making this sound attractive so far but really, this is one of those perfumes that is much better to smell than to imagine. L’Animal Sauvage doesn’t really develop a hell of a lot from the “whore’s bath” stage onwards, but there is a sumptuously blended musk and civet combination that takes centre stage. The tang of the civet like the glowing outline of sun behind the musky beige clouds. Finally deep into the dry down, the musk fog lands softly on a creamy wood base. It is at this point that L’Animal Sauvage spreads its warm hands over your cheeks and through your hair, while it breathes its warm breath on your face.

If you love this type of soft, but still animalic musk with average to soft projection, and between 6 – 8 hours longevity.

01/27/2024

Katzevogel
49 Reviews

Katzevogel

5

A True Tiger

The funkiest musk I've ever smelled. Compelling and disgusting, it's so hard to put your finger on. Wearing this scent is verging on smelling dangerous. Like the smell of a tiger that you're too close too, fur and piss and all. This musk is animalic and feral, nothing tame about it. I think I'm obsessed?

07/01/2021

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 3

Indecent patchouli

Similar to Marlou's Ambilux, this is one for the fetishists of the animalic genre. While Ambilux simulated a furry sweaty skin, Carnicure goes down the road of bodily fluids. Greasy excretions, not urinous. Waxy unwashed hair, sticky skin. Again a very primal quality.

Kind of inappropriate in any social setting, like wearing an animal costume. Indecent almost, yet not quite as perverse as Ambilux. That must be because there is a little more going on than just a stand-alone sweaty note. With Carnicure there is some interplay between a mediocre patchouli, a faint floral note and a fine set of animalic musks.

A fun experience, gimmicky, only to wear once or twice, I guess.

08/03/2025

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Zokicar
12 Reviews

Zokicar

Helpful Review 2

Carnicure

The top notes are a bit of a jump-scare: there is a phantom decay note, almost roadkill or carrion, but it really only lasts a few seconds before you get to the good part. I only mention it because a passing spray on a mouillette could give an impression of something more shocking (for better or worse) than what Carnicure is for 99% of its run-time.

Once that moment is over, Carnicure becomes a lot more friendly: a warm, furry musk; powdery violets; an “orange blossom” note that smells like buddleja bushes; animalic aspects of civet and costus; and a slightly scratchy cedar-sandalwood woody note. It’s not the most symphonic affair (indeed, it largely stays the same from fifteen minutes to fifteen hours), but the interplay of woods, florals, and musks is exceedingly pretty and wearable. The vibe is cozy and cuddly, rather than feral and spiky.

There are a lot of musk fragrances that I enjoy, but this has become my favorite in-category musk, even over other beloved musks such as Muscs Koublaï Khän, which is has many similarities to (it also shares some features with L’Air de Rien). Poudrextase, also from Marlou, shares many features: Poudrextrase is the rosy extrovert; Carnicure, the violet-y introvert, but neither are really shy.

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