Les Nombres d'Or - Musc by Maison Mona di Orio

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Les Nombres d'Or - Musc Maison Mona di Orio 2010

7.6 / 10 211 Ratings

A popular perfume by Maison Mona di Orio for women and men, released in 2010. The scent is floral-powdery. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Spicy

Animal

Fragrance Notes

Musk

Heliotrope Neroli

Neroli

Rose

Tonka bean absolute

Perfumer

Mona di Orio

Ratings

Scent

7.6211 Ratings

Longevity

7.6156 Ratings

Sillage

6.4153 Ratings

Bottle

8.3139 Ratings

Value for money

7.511 Ratings

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/26/2012

7Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

3

Not One Of Mona's Best, But Still Very Good...

Musc is a bit of a departure from the family base scent Mona di Orio has used for most of the other Les Nombres d'Or releases. It definitely has a subdued rose that sits in the background, dominated by heliotrope and musk notes. The musk here is a relatively clean but strong musk that blends relatively well with the rose and heliotrope to produce a pleasantly wearable unisex scent.

Musc is rather linear, extremely strong (one to two sprays max should easily get it done), has superb longevity on my skin in excess of 15 hours, and has above average projection and sillage. The bottom line is Musc is a very good scent, but it is not one of Mona di Orio's best in the Les Nombres d'Or line, IMO. I give it about 3.5/5.

12/27/2013

8Scent

Kleopatra
229 Reviews

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Kleopatra

Top Review 21

Summer Warmth of Sunscreen Skin

In search of the perfect musk fragrance Part VI
Imagine lying in the not-too-hot sun, slathered in a pleasantly scented sunscreen, while a gentle breeze wafts a hint of it into your nose. Then you go inside to fetch a freshly baked cake from the oven. Or you stay lying in the sun and treat yourself to a piece of fresh, still warm butter cake: What you then smell is somewhat like Les Nombres d’or Musc.

Sun-warmed skin, coated with luxurious sunscreen: That is the main association I have with this fragrance. I acquired a small decant of it and tested it several times, but I just didn’t know what to make of it. This might be because I am on the hunt for the perfect musk scent, and like so many other musk fragrances before this one, I smell ZERO POINT ZERO musk here. Well, that doesn’t mean the fragrance has to be bad. Today, I wore it properly for the first time and completely set aside the musk theme, and now I can form a clearer picture of it.

I still find it hard to describe this fragrance, let alone break it down into its components. At the beginning, there is an unidentifiable note that annoys me a bit, but fortunately, it dissipates towards the heart note; I suspect it is the angelica. The association with sunscreen remains, although this fragrance is a bit sweeter than a sunscreen would normally be. But not too sweet to be bothersome. And despite the sunscreen feeling, this is absolutely not a summer fragrance for me; it is far too cozy for that. Musc is soft, flattering, and snuggly. As mentioned at the beginning, it also has slightly gourmand (cake) nuances for me, but even these are never annoying or too extreme. I perceive the musc clearly, as does the immediate environment.

Sunscreen and cake: I hope this combination doesn’t scare anyone off, because Musc is really beautiful! It’s just not easily graspable; I constantly have a different facet of this fragrance in my nose, which makes it very interesting. Whether it would be a candidate for purchase for me, I cannot say yet, but fortunately, my decant is not empty yet. Anyone looking for a gentle, soft, non-floral cuddle scent - even those who can’t stand musk! - should definitely test Musc!

Conclusion: This one is also not the perfect musk fragrance due to the lack of musk. But I am glad to have discovered a great scent this way - musk or not.

06/18/2013

10Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

ParfumAholic
257 Reviews

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ParfumAholic

Top Review 18

On Par with the Greats!

When I look at my collection (which seemingly stubbornly denies every end of growth thanks to Parfumo), it is clear that my fragrance preferences are distinctly visible and I obviously have a penchant for the scents of certain manufacturers (Chanel, Dior, Hermès, Guerlain, Monegal).

I suppose I now have to add Mona di Orio to this list of manufacturers. After being completely convinced by "Les Nombres d'Or - Vanille," "Les Nombres d'Or - Musc" has now joined the ranks.

I like musk. It is a "difficult" candidate, as it sometimes has the tendency to slip into overly soapy and sweet territory, but when it is well-crafted, it is a wonderful and wearable scent component.

Until now, "Musc Nomade" by Annick Goutal was my "favorite musk scent": rather clean and not too sweetish.

But now that I know the counterpart from Mona di Orio, there will be a fierce battle for the number 1 spot on my musk list.....

I can only wholeheartedly agree with all my previous commentators: This scent is as soft, non-soapy, gentle, noble, cuddly, unexcitable, harmonious, and unsweet sweet as I never suspected, expected, or even remotely experienced in a similar configuration!

I find it extremely difficult to identify all the scent components (except for angelica at the beginning, heliotrope in the middle, and shortly thereafter a musk-tonka-something base) even remotely.

But this elegant and luxurious base alone makes this scent worthwhile!

It also stays close to the body for me. Once it has settled into all the sprayed pores, it reveals its beauty and grace only gradually, time and again, over many hours.

For me, Les Nombres d'Or - Vanille is a scent for eternity, a classic beauty that will never go out of style. With this fragrance, one is always well advised, as it never comes across as loud and intrusive.

Also more than wearable for men, as it is, despite its many flowers and blooms, not an opulent floral scent.

The final and more than fitting words of this comment therefore belong to the woman who can unfortunately no longer speak up:

"I want to create perfumes that make people feel, dream, travel, remember, and surprise themselves." (Quote from Mona di Orio)

10/25/2018

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Augusto
177 Reviews

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Augusto

Top Review 15

Like a Muff

Warm and fuzzy right from the start. Yes, musk, no question about it. Clean, but not soapy.
Creamy, a light hint of vanilla or tonka and a somewhat indefinable freshness. And all of this right in the top note, just two drops - !
Old-lady musk? I remain undecided.
No flowers, just creamy-powdery musk, heliotrope or almond or vanilla or tonka, something like that. But it never gets too sweet.
Musk a bit steamy, occasionally piercing through the cleanliness into the nose.
Not for summer. Not loud, but with strength and endurance. Certainly enough sillage. For AugustA, almost a bit too much of a good thing. Maybe I just don’t have a particularly musk-affine nose...
It remains fuzzy, smells a bit animalistic, but quite pleasant, no big cats or anything like that, more like a cat or a rabbit or something. Like a muff for the hands, into which you occasionally press your nose.
Soft fur, lively, with vanilla. And a bit of closet.
Well, who feels addressed?

05/10/2012

9Scent 10Longevity 2.5Sillage

Louce
138 Reviews

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Louce

Top Review

Soft Focus Fragrance

LNd´O Musc is such a delicate, weightless, and gently graceful scent that it hugs the skin, no, it nestles INTO it and plays around the wearer like a hint, like an aura, barely tangible and actually not functioning "like a perfume." At first, I hardly noticed it and had more than a raised eyebrow for it: I sniffed, waited, and sniffed again when I sprayed LNd´O Musc as an evening perfume for the first test… and could hardly smell anything. A very faint hint of pale musky floral notes and a touch of coumarin softness… and that was it. I suspected some olfactory anosmias on my part or that Mona di Orio might have gone a bit overboard with an idea of filigree.
Fortunately, I conducted a second test.
Here too, the first result was a dubious almost-nothing. I checked the fragrance off my inner to-do list and started my day.
And then I got to know it.
With movements, a light scent memory unexpectedly and surprisingly came to me, again and again a fine, very musky, slightly floral, and somehow a bit doughy, simultaneously milky scent enveloped me. Directly sniffing on the skin yielded little, but in the next moment, I was again surrounded by a distinctly noticeable, very pleasant waft of fragrance. At first, I doubted that this scent was emanating from me, but after several hours of involuntary aura experience, I became convinced that it must indeed be LNd´O Musc.
A secretly charming, quietly conquering scent, initially completely inconspicuous and silent, but then imperceptibly creeping up and perceptible over a long time as a timid scent infusion.
It is delicate. It is lovely. It is clean. It is young (but not girlish), refreshing (but not fresh). It is exceedingly soft, tender, bright, pure, slightly powdered, floral (without me being able to identify any floral accord by name except for heliotrope), and it is uniquely soothing.
LNd´O Musc makes you smile. Again and again and for a long time.

With LNd´O Musc, I feel like a female figure in a 70s soft erotic film: Always with maximum soft focus, always with candlelight on the left and right, and with silkily combed hair and in a white lace nightgown. Barefoot, I wander through the somewhat time-slowed day with soft background piano music, and the contours at the edges of my field of vision blur opaquely.
And all this with a pack of butter cookies under my arm. Butter cookie is also detectable, especially and increasingly so in the base phase. The tonka/coumarin touch has something cookie-like, dry, and somewhat matte-vanilla.

At first, I was quite sure that with LNd´O Musc, I would experience something beautiful and uplifting, but actually not smell a "real" perfume and not really need it. But I find myself wanting a "soft focus day" more and more often and use the sample with increasing joy.
I believe it has enchanted me sustainably, and I no longer want to miss the Bilitis-butter cookie feeling.

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Statements

33 short views on the fragrance

Itchynose

5 years ago

7Scent

2

A narcotic dose of sweet heliotrope that quickly settles into a soft, powdery musk. More feminine than unisex.

Hermesh

10 years ago

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

2

Restrained gentle, transparent and delicate (powdery), sweet-tart floral and slightly spicy. And radiant (despite its unobtrusiveness).

Ascentofdrms

2 years ago

1

A perfectly made, safe for work musc scent. It smells good, mostly heliotrope with just enough rose to give it air. I just wish it was less safe.

Pollita

5 years ago

6.5Scent 8Sillage

22

11

Powder overkill. A scent like lipsticks from the eighties. Dry and intense with just a hint of sweetness in the background.

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Violett

4 years ago

6.5Scent

20

15

Dry, dusty-powdery, somewhat dull harmlessness, blooms a bit in between, later becomes a little
more vanilla - dispensable.

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Gold

5 years ago

6.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

13

7

Musk-heliotrope mix that feels sweet, a bit almondy, and cozy. Tame, gentle, and very powdery in the drydown. A scent of a perfect world.

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Saphia

4 years ago

7Scent

12

10

Neroli & Heliotrope is captivating.
After an hour, it softens.
Then comes powdery vanilla,
flowers linger in the background.
Tonka says hello.
Musk base.

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