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Notes02/19/2021
Jingle
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Jingle
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Milk, a difficult note for me to pick out beyond diffuse roundness, particularly interested me in this scent - and Elemi is one of my favorites. I was curious about vanilla insofar as I find it to be a fiddly, often cheaply made, and therefore widely disliked fragrance note. I appreciate the vanilla in Eau Duelle, in my beloved Santal Carmin, the one in Milk Musk I approached skeptically, as I do most vanillas. Wrongly so.
For me, Milk Musk has a clear baking ingredient assonance in the opening, lush, edible vanilla as in the thick-flowing, full-fat Danish vanilla sauce from the tetrapack. Delicious, safe, like at mama's house. No dark vanilla bean here (there's always something tobacco-y about it for me in real life), but Black Dot vanilla dissolved in milk. A great vanilla, and again quite different from the ones I know from other perfumes, but not my favorite either. (Compared to bspw. Eau des Missions it is here: butterier, less spicy, more familiar and more cozy than elegant.)
The tonka bean represents in the fragrance, as well as in the seasoning with the same, a supporting role for the vanilla, without itself too strongly emerge. This is well done, I think.
The fragrance has gourmand qualities for me, not the biggest gourmand fan, and musk, ambroxan, benzoin only underscore the edible aspect. They move the scent out of the nibbling corner, but only just enough to make it smell perfumey and not cakey. I don't get woody notes here at all (sadly, I love wood), but I can appreciate the liqueuriness I mentioned earlier. The sweetness holds up in my estimation, thankfully.
The bottle matches its contents wonderfully, by the way: the creamy white bob on top, like a snowball, a milk chest, the pom-pom on the winter hat. You read the bottom line: a scent that reminds you of your childhood, a scent of security for the cold season, for falling asleep. For me, a scent to wear in private, at home or maybe under a warm sweater for a comforting walk. Nothing that would equip me for a day at work, nothing that I would wear to go out
For me, Milk Musk has a clear baking ingredient assonance in the opening, lush, edible vanilla as in the thick-flowing, full-fat Danish vanilla sauce from the tetrapack. Delicious, safe, like at mama's house. No dark vanilla bean here (there's always something tobacco-y about it for me in real life), but Black Dot vanilla dissolved in milk. A great vanilla, and again quite different from the ones I know from other perfumes, but not my favorite either. (Compared to bspw. Eau des Missions it is here: butterier, less spicy, more familiar and more cozy than elegant.)
The tonka bean represents in the fragrance, as well as in the seasoning with the same, a supporting role for the vanilla, without itself too strongly emerge. This is well done, I think.
The fragrance has gourmand qualities for me, not the biggest gourmand fan, and musk, ambroxan, benzoin only underscore the edible aspect. They move the scent out of the nibbling corner, but only just enough to make it smell perfumey and not cakey. I don't get woody notes here at all (sadly, I love wood), but I can appreciate the liqueuriness I mentioned earlier. The sweetness holds up in my estimation, thankfully.
The bottle matches its contents wonderfully, by the way: the creamy white bob on top, like a snowball, a milk chest, the pom-pom on the winter hat. You read the bottom line: a scent that reminds you of your childhood, a scent of security for the cold season, for falling asleep. For me, a scent to wear in private, at home or maybe under a warm sweater for a comforting walk. Nothing that would equip me for a day at work, nothing that I would wear to go out
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