04 Musc Maori Pierre Guillaume 2004

Basically, I would describe myself as a true gourmand lover - especially when the sweet regions are covered. Pierre Guillaume has captured this part very beautifully: I smell warm cocoa with vanilla; additionally, there are light marzipan and almond aromas.

If it had stayed that way, we could have certainly become good friends - but then the animal in him comes out! The amber and especially the musk cause the fragrance composition to drift into a corner that makes me feel slightly dazed and really uncomfortable. Not so bad that I want to get rid of it, but enough that I don't want to wear it again.

I can only imagine that this was meant to satisfy the unisex compromise. Because without it, the composition would really be almost a pure women's fragrance. In my eyes, this hasn't quite succeeded: it remains a women's fragrance - albeit with an animalistic/male disturbing factor.

Women who enjoy sweet gourmand fragrances with a distinctly animalistic note should take a closer look at this mixture.