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

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.