4.1 Le Musc & La Peau Pierre Guillaume 2016

4.1 Le Musc & La Peau by Pierre Guillaume

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A popular perfume by Pierre Guillaume for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is fresh-creamy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fresh

Creamy

Powdery

Woody

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Rosemary

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Cedar

Ylang-ylang

Sandalwood

Base Notes

Musk

Ambrox

Tonka bean absolute

Perfumer

Pierre Guillaume

Ratings

Scent

8.0538 Ratings

Longevity

6.4479 Ratings

Sillage

5.6477 Ratings

Bottle

7.6430 Ratings

Value for money

6.5304 Ratings

Submitted by ParfumoNews, last update on 01/18/2025.

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Reviews

18 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/29/2022

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 4

Rosemary milk

Now this is a peculiar creamy musk. It is dressed up in somewhat masculine notes and leaves a clean sensual trail. I would describe it as milk infused with rosemary and cedarwood.

When sniffed up close, the musky character and its different qualities are to be found. Overall clean, close to milky soap with a moldy, cheesy side. Later on a bit dryer and minimally powdery. The burnt tonka note is very present and, together with the herbs, it adds a sharpness that offsets the creamy side.

In the 'white musk' topic where uniformity seems to be the standard, Pierre Guillaume's take clearly stands out both in quality and in creativity. Thanks HugoMontez for the recommendation.

05/20/2023

SLNY
14 Reviews

SLNY

5

Wonderfully subtle skin scent

Some days one doesn’t want to smell like perfume. Some days one doesn’t want to smell like bergamot, or vanilla, or tobacco, or some flowers, or leather, or a mixture of any of those, or really strongly much of anything at all. Some days one just wants to smell like a human body — perhaps like sexy skin magnified. That’s Le Musc & La Peau for me. It’s a white musk (and supposedly combines seven kinds of musk) that is just creamy and soft. Like coming out of a shower. Or putting on a clean white linen shirt. For me, on the right days, or to just be unadulteratedly musky and, as such, sexy, this is a darned good choice.

A note on comparing it Le Labo Another 13 - that might help explain Le Musc & La Peau better - since they are often spoken of as similar. I have both and both are mainstays, but I find them different. While both are unabashedly skin scents, Another 13 is more forceful, is more affirmatively of a scent with its peach and apple - in fact, at first it almost smells floral to me, although that dies down to more of a metallic or dirty musk. Another 13 has more a defined character as a perfume. Le Musc & La Peau is closer to simply musk, ambroxen and aldehyde — cleaner, simpler and more skin like. Very faintly underneath you can get an underlying whiff of the rosemary, cedar or tonka that it has but they are quiet and subtle. Altogether it’s quieter than (at least on me) than Another 13. More subtle, more of a fresh shower than - as with Another 13 — Iso-E over a slight white fruit dirtier sexiness. Another way to think of Le Musc & La Peau is to compare it to Histoires de Parfums 1740 Marquis de Sade — They stand at opposite extremes: if 1740 is raw animal sexuality, Le Musc & La Peau is quiet sensual intimacy.

The sillage on this is low but the longevity is not bad: at least 4-5 hours or so. But altogether quiet and most certainly not a monster scent in any way.

Finally, this is a fine base for any number of perfumes. It add a quiet musky undertone that is almost imperceptible but it is there. I prefer it to Molecule 01 or 02 for that purpose.

10/18/2024

Mikuru
10 Reviews

Mikuru

1

Very pretty, just not for me

Classical skin scents, it performs completely different onskin. At first extremely clean, comforting and gentle, it tends to lose the powdery component as time goes on and take on a milkier, dustier version of its own skin scent. Unfortunately, on my skin it sadly enhanced and sweetened the smell of sweat; the overall effect was not the best. I don't doubt that on the right skin it can render wonderfully

01/10/2025

5
Pricing 8
Bottle 3
Sillage 5
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Ebichuunee
83 Reviews

Ebichuunee

1

Where's my rosemary ?

I received this sample from the official boutique in Paris, where I had a wonderful customer experience—highly recommend! The friendly staff mentioned that this is their best-selling fragrance and suggested I might enjoy it as an aromatics lover.

However, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. I was hoping to pick up on the rosemary note, but instead, I only get a faint, clean musk. While it’s undeniably pleasant and easy on the nose, it feels too simple for my taste. I don’t see myself reaching for this beyond finishing the small sample.

03/31/2021

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 9.5
Scent

UntermWert
39 Reviews

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UntermWert

Top Review 46

... the name could not be more appropriate

We have never met before.
A blind date, after his properties with my fragrance preferences several times resulted in a "match", and so some review here had thrown him proverbially at my neck. Despite the excellent Parfumo matchmaking, it still wasn't love at first sight. 4.1 Le Musc & La Peau.

It took us a few days to get close. On first impression, I was almost disappointed with it. I was promised a warm musky skin scent, cuddly and gentle. But that he also has something contradictory about him, something profound and in the musk accord actually something quietly "animalistic" flashes through, I had in his profile and the attached testimonials simply overread...

There he stands now before me - in his clear, beautiful bottle. From the packaging sails me still a certificate of authenticity.
A rosemary kiss to the greeting. Bergamottig-krautig also - I feel my gaze drifting into the transfigured (if it's the aldehydes... i don't know much about those.... i used to have Chanel No 5, which is the only scent I can think of, and I don't think 4.1 has much in common with it). Hach, there he throws himself but in the stuff....
But before I can sink willy-nilly into his arms, pretty fast in the first few minutes, he fakes with a surprising coolness briefly an aquatic side - which he has but according to the fragrance pyramid not at all!
As if Squid had stopped by for a moment. Och nöö.
I don't get it either. Is there cool toca bean? Nah, I know it, I've smoked it myself in the lamp. No, it has no relation to any waters at all.

I feel a slight twitch in my lower eyelid. Instead of letting the disappointment break through, I spray the scent on Mr. UntermWert - and find it there to be fragrant. This makes it only worse by his remark "with you this smells a little bit like granny".... BUT: I go into defensive position and stand protectively in front of the scent. No, that is not true now so times.

... but I can't deny some childhood associations...
And there it is again - the journey through time ... The fragrance envelops me in images, but only briefly hints at them.
TonkaTonkaTonka
None of my memories are concretely awakened. It's as if they roam the periphery of my perception as the scent connects more and more with my skin.
I wonder at first, but then I realize that what all these memories have in common is myself. With my own scent.

I turn back to it. A soft sweet musky touch is still there. Minimal. But I think I smell great.

He gets to stay.

***!

Le Musc & La Peau could not have a more fitting name. The fragrance melts into and enhances your own skin scent in no time. After the herbaceous-fresh intro, the coolness soon turns into an un-soapy, unpowdery tonka musk dreamy, eventually transitioning into a very pleasant "just out of bed" whiff (Nanu calls this one an "animalic musk wink" - a very apt description, I think).

"Skinnish", but not a "clean scent" - more "at peace with itself".
His volatility triggers deep regret - I'll try times to layer him with Monoscent G, maybe it clarifies with the two...

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