Egyptian Goddess

This is definitely my signature scent...I feel naked without it. 😅 Egyptian Goddess touches everything I touch. My sheets, my clothes, my car...it has a way of lingering softly on the edges of your life. A lot of people recognize this scent immediately. Several times a month I get asked, “Are you wearing Egyptian Goddess?” and then they usually share a memory of someone they once knew who wore it. I think that’s why I like to wear this...I’m the kind of person who wants to hear about your cousin from New York, or your 6th grade German teacher. It makes me smile. Makes me feel connected, like all of us Egyptian Goddess wearers are in a secret club. The scent itself is a bit of an enigma. It’s warm and musky in a clean way...there’s light, unidentifiable florals on a bed of clear amber notes, with a touch of sandalwood. It smells “golden,” if that makes any sense? It is truly not easy to explain this scent in words...it’s sweet like a woman is sweet...not like candy. It’s a bit like smelling a loved one’s pillow. Or kitten fur. Egyptian Goddess, like all musks, is a chameleon of a fragrance...it changes based on the weather and on your individual skin chemistry. She plays hide and seek with your nose. You may not smell it, but others still can - it will surprise you! There are times when it smells rubbery, or like pencil shavings. Other times it’s just simple and clean, similar to Jovan Musk Oil for Women. This oil really shines outdoors on warm, breezy days. It smells like a freshly-washed hippie who doesn’t wear patchouli. The projection/longevity are wonderful. A few swipes on pulse points will surround you with a soft cloud of fragrance for many hours. !!️ Never over apply this one!! It loses its beauty that way. Less is more. This type of fragrance really has its own presence, as if it lives and breathes alongside you. People will subconsciously know you by this scent, if you let it become you. PS - Buy the big 2 oz bottle, it’s only $30.00 and it will last you for years...and, like most oils, it only gets stronger with time. ✨

I was half-expecting to be disappointed but the minute I tried this, I immediately went back to order more. Just in case. I have only come to like musks in the past few years when I realized that was the note I really liked in some perfumes. And love oils. Kuumba Made got me interested in trying more from other brands. This Egyptian Goddess by Auric Blends is everything I wanted from K.M. musks. Where Kuumba oils (except for the Amber Paste) go a little "plastic" smelling on me - or they dissipate too quickly for an oil fragrance. This one goes on really mild but as soon as it warms up, you get more from it. Powder. I get a lot of powder directly under the really fragrant musk note. And there is not just an amber musk but a floral musk to this. This is very feminine and sultry. I was worried about wearing it in our humid summer heat but it's behaving beautifully. This is one that I like to wear alone or with a spray perfume. Wearing it alone, I get the best projection and longevity by applying it to my throat and bosom. To blend it, I apply just a little to my wrists. I have a roller of The Only One (D&G) that disappointed me for the missing notes on my skin. With the Egyptian Goddess, it shows up and shows out - in a good way. You know you found a good scent to wear when you just can't stop wanting to smell it on yourself. By the way, I might try getting this directly from the brand site in the future. I got this one from Amazon and am so happy that I didn't get a knock-off. P.S.: I let another lady try this and... nothing. She had to apply quite a bit before we could notice it on her. What we did get was more floral and one of the musk or powder that I get. Very weird. I have a feeling that this one REALLY depends on the wearer.

Egyptian Goddess is an interesting one! It seems to play a funny peekaboo game with my nose. The scent kind of melts into my skin and, like mizhoopz below, I *almost* have trouble smelling it. The scent itself "reads"/presents more as a temperature -- "warm" -- than as a fragrance/smell, if that makes sense. But when fairly liberally applied (I have the oil rollerball) to wrists, neck, and chest, it nonetheless radiates this mildly sweet warmth, for about 5-6 hours; to me, decent longevity. In comparing it to other musks, it does not resemble Nemat's Egyptian Musk, which is also truly lovely, with its interesting mineral smell, and it definitely doesn't resemble any white musks I have -- Al Rehab or Body Fantasies Signature. I just ordered a bottle of Perfectly Scentsable (formerly "Remedy Northwest") Egyptian Musk and am eager to compare that one with it, plus, I might drop by Whole Foods to sniff Kuumba Made. Most of all, Egyptian Goddess reminds me of Solstice Scents Pharoah. Both have this lovely "your-skin-but-better" warmth, but Pharoah is a little more honey-sweet and has a little aromatic/resinous olibanum, though just in the top note. If you're a warm, clean musk fan, Egyptian Goddess is a lovely choice.

I recognize this! I'm not sure on whom, or where I've smelled this, but I'm certain I have before. I live in a hipster area, so I don't find it surprising. I LOVE this. It's so simple, and so beautiful, it's exactly what I was hoping for...and more! Truthfully, I expected this to be earthier, but this is bordering on soapy. I can't believe there's no citrus listed here in the notes, because this has a tart, almost sour candy quality to it, but it's also quite sweet. It almost reminds me of Pez. Again, it's almost soapy and smells like gardenia to me, possibly jasmine too. These florals are light and hang in the backseat...leading me to say... This is mostly a linear, gorgeous feminine-leaning (but still unisex enough) musk! It's so sultry, and so sensual, it's hard to understand how it's so affordable. I'm incredulous, really...how is this not hyped up more? I almost don't want it to be, but it's astounding that this isn't a household name. I can tell this is going to do just fine in the heat (and bloom even more) and so far, it's sitting pretty and lasting quite well. It's an intimate cloud, but when moving around it leaves a lovely, but not-too-strong scent trail. Yes!! Majorly successful blind buy 😊

This is my signature scent/ride-or-die/fall-back scent. No matter what else I experiment with, I always come back to this. Sometimes I layer this under lighter perfumes to make them stay on longer. Nothing else smells as comfortable and skin-like with my chemistry. This is a your-skin-but-delicious scent. It lasts a long time but people won't ask what perfume you are wearing. It garners compliments, but they are mostly compliments such as: "You smell wonderful," rather than "I love your perfume." I can't believe it's so affordable. I've been wearing this for years, and I must say, the current formulation is less rich than it used to be, and has a slight chemical twinge to it in the bottle, but it still smells better with my particular skin chemistry than pretty much anything else. It is a warm, clean, creamy, musky, hug of a scent. It is persistent but doesn't shout out its presence. It stays on clothing. And it stays on people's minds without them knowing what hit them. Tip: Go with the oil rollerball. I have tried the lotion and the perfume spray, and they are too weakly scented.