Royal Musk

I think this is supposed to be a dupe for Tom Ford Musk Pure. This is a weird one but I like it! It's so refreshing and clean smelling. The beeswax note I found strange prior to purchasing it but now I get it and it totally makes the scent. It's actually the strongest note after the musk. I don't get much of the floral notes besides the lily of the valley. It's musk, beeswax, orris root, LOTV, and a little pepper and bergamot. At first, I didn't really love it that much. However, I've worn in the most out of all my new fragrances and I've put quite a dent in the bottle in the past couple weeks that I've had it and that says something. It's just such an easy reach, it's quite nice to wear out of the shower or before bed. You won't smell like anyone else wearing this. It's a bit soapy but I wouldn't classify it as soapy. IF you're looking for a clean musk scent that doesn't smell like anything else and is unique, try Royal Musk. It's sophisticated, pretty, slightly powdery but not really a powdery scent. I would have never thought of using beeswax but I find this scent addicting and I envision repurchasing it when this bottle goes dry.

What I was hoping for is a musk scent that is a more modern "White Musk" for Men and this is exactly that ! Admittedly the opening to this is a little off putting as I get a cleaning wipe smell with also a slightly astringent hair spray type of note in the background. It's not horrible but it's not my favorite. After this dries down it gets much nicer as it develops into a more soapy,powdery,fragrant laundry musk type of smell that's comforting but also refreshing! The drydown remains pretty similar but it gets smoother and more powdery! Very beautiful smell !! As a guy I'd say this is unisex! The one compliment I did recently receive was from a girl that said it was refreshing and smelled like a more musky,manly version of a Kate Space perfume she has. So again, it's not girly but not super masculine as well. Performance on this is actually great for the price ! This lasts me 6-10 hours with moderate/strong projection with excellent sillage ! Overall rating-7.75 out of 10 ! Not a personal favorite but an excellent choice when I was a fresh/musky/clean smell that's going to last most of the day.

There is magic when musk is permitted to be the matchmaker of the marriage between ylang ylang and beeswax. When a slightly earthy orris finds a willing heart with a pepper note. Oh my, is there such magic. My very first words upon application were, "wow" and I do not use those words often. I am not usually impressed... however, something about royal musk takes me back to a scent memory of my childhood that I did not know I even had. It spirited me away in that brief moment of time to the 90s and early 2000s when royal jelly cosmetic and body products were all the rage and my mother was swept up in that storm. If there was ever a royal jelly dusting powder for grown women, it would be be royal musk. It is not long lasting in my experience of wearing it for full work days in my home office (3-4 hours), but I adore it so much that I don't mind reapplying sprays to my neck. That's all.

Blind bought and pleasantly surprised. Probably the best purchase of this summer. It's a flowery musk fragrance, easy to wear, but somehow quite different from many musk scents I smelt before. I've been wearing it both in the daytime and at night as a comfort scent. The next morning, I can still smell it on my pillowcase. Aside from it being crowd-pleasing yet different, what I enjoy the most about it is its texture. It's clean but not soapy, musky but not too fleeting, screechy, heavy, or cloying. The overall texture stays fresh and light, but beeswax grounds the structure to have enough body, and the floral notes just bloom on the surface. I'll have to try it this winter, but this fragrance might work beautifully on a snowing day too.

I love layering this with Insolence EDT and it becomes so nice on me. I wear this by itself too but I really wish it also had violets in it and not just the orris root. I see that it is more unisex with orris root and not having violets or iris in it, but I still wish it had more purple flowers in the note structure. It's peppery, powdery, and the musk and beeswax are the strongest notes in RM. It smells clean, refreshing, waxy, and it's just a really nice fragrance. It's not soapy at all and I'm glad it doesn't have vanilla in it because I'm not the biggest fan of sweet musks.