Musk
Bourbon vanilla
White amber
Japanese chestnut blossom
Stefanu155
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Stefanu155
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Warm skin, cool touch.
Two things that cause me significant formulation difficulties here:
A cool scent that feels warm is a contradiction.
And an almost intimate skin closeness that comes across as distant and (at first) rejecting.
Additionally, the scent of musk, which I also enjoy in its more animalistic forms, completely eludes description for me. Because: What does musk actually smell like? What am I smelling? Musk rounds off the sharp edges, liquefies the dry, and enhances and smooths certain fragrance notes, making them more assertive. Musk itself usually remains more of a hint, a means to emphasize a certain effect, and that can really range from innocently clean to guilty unclean, everything is in there.
I don't trust the fragrance pyramid.
The citrusy opening is, as described further down, explosive, as if a long-caged citrus spirit were escaping from the bottle, immediately seeking freedom. Unfortunately, you don't get three wishes. No one can formulate them that quickly. You don't need to say anything, because it simply disappears after a few seconds, i.e. gone.
I also soon perceive something woody, but light, like very dry cedarwood, which only has a faint scent but is persistent. This light wood floats on water, but someone has already bathed in this water. Cardamom (yes, it is present) can evoke a certain "soapy" quality in a subdued form when you don't stick your nose directly in.
MuskS creates an imaginary film on the skin and gives me the feeling that the sunny warmth amplifies my own body scent. It has a physicality that feels more ethereal than sensual (or finely sensual instead of coarsely material...).
The hinted pastel floral note enhances the cleanliness, while the vanilla (is it really vanilla? To me, it has a slightly nutty quality...) clings the scent even closer to the skin. One is pleased to have such a scent, as this musk fragrance brings out the best in it, in my humble opinion.
My criticism relates to the very weak sillage; I would also like to smell more of it myself, as the light woody component spreads further than the actual heart of the fragrance, and it is precisely this combination that gives it its cool, translucent elegance.
A close-fitting yet airy scent.
Like the temples of that British redhead beauty I once admired - the blue vein suggested that she possessed a body beyond her porcelain surface...
I emptied the sample from Franfran's wander package.
And now I would like to own this scent.
A cool scent that feels warm is a contradiction.
And an almost intimate skin closeness that comes across as distant and (at first) rejecting.
Additionally, the scent of musk, which I also enjoy in its more animalistic forms, completely eludes description for me. Because: What does musk actually smell like? What am I smelling? Musk rounds off the sharp edges, liquefies the dry, and enhances and smooths certain fragrance notes, making them more assertive. Musk itself usually remains more of a hint, a means to emphasize a certain effect, and that can really range from innocently clean to guilty unclean, everything is in there.
I don't trust the fragrance pyramid.
The citrusy opening is, as described further down, explosive, as if a long-caged citrus spirit were escaping from the bottle, immediately seeking freedom. Unfortunately, you don't get three wishes. No one can formulate them that quickly. You don't need to say anything, because it simply disappears after a few seconds, i.e. gone.
I also soon perceive something woody, but light, like very dry cedarwood, which only has a faint scent but is persistent. This light wood floats on water, but someone has already bathed in this water. Cardamom (yes, it is present) can evoke a certain "soapy" quality in a subdued form when you don't stick your nose directly in.
MuskS creates an imaginary film on the skin and gives me the feeling that the sunny warmth amplifies my own body scent. It has a physicality that feels more ethereal than sensual (or finely sensual instead of coarsely material...).
The hinted pastel floral note enhances the cleanliness, while the vanilla (is it really vanilla? To me, it has a slightly nutty quality...) clings the scent even closer to the skin. One is pleased to have such a scent, as this musk fragrance brings out the best in it, in my humble opinion.
My criticism relates to the very weak sillage; I would also like to smell more of it myself, as the light woody component spreads further than the actual heart of the fragrance, and it is precisely this combination that gives it its cool, translucent elegance.
A close-fitting yet airy scent.
Like the temples of that British redhead beauty I once admired - the blue vein suggested that she possessed a body beyond her porcelain surface...
I emptied the sample from Franfran's wander package.
And now I would like to own this scent.
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