Milk

I've been looking for this fragrance all of my life. Smells exactly like Eagle Brand condensed milk, with a note of fresh, steamed whole milk, like you would put in a latte. It's so comforting, and so perfect. As someone who has breastfed three kids, I can see how people could be reminded of lactating- it's milk, and it's sweet, the musk is clean, like a freshly showered mama. That being said, I LOVED the way I smelled whilst lactating, and so did everyone else. That sweet little baby head smell no one can get enough of? Yeah, that's from breast milk and new skin and it's the best scent in the entire universe. Maybe that's just my ovaries talking (yikes)... but in reality Ava Luxe's Milk seems to quell the baby fever for me by providing the part I adore without the part that requires me to send it to college and lose sleep over their terrible decisions. Wear it loud and proud in public. You'll smell fertile at the very least, and that's pretty hot on the most basic level.

I get a lot of compliments on this one. It is a warm enveloping skin scent - a combo of milky musk with lots of lactones. Nothing is sharp - it is all smooth and rounded. On me this scent stays the same the entire time I have it on. It doesn't finish in a simple musk scent - it stays a sensuous milky musk the entire time. The next day if I smell the shirt I was wearing the day I was wearing this is still has the full milky musk smell. I love it and have gone through several bottles at this point. I can't say enough about how much I love the quality of Ava Luxe fragrances.

“Therapeutic” the best sweet milky musk in existence. smells like a warm cup of steamed milk in the most amazing way. so comforting, easily the most soothing fragrance I’ve ever smelled. Ava Luxe Milk is basically therapy. wearing this is incredibly enjoyable, I literally crave it when stressed.✨ 10/10. ✨ other fragrances that create this soothing enveloping calm for me are Guerlain L’Instant Magic and L’Artisan Bois Farine but Ava Luxe Milk is my #1.

I love ava luxe in general. Living in Europe not easy to get. Milk is what is said. Fluffy cosy warm milk and musk. mhmhmhm.

"Milk" is nothing like what you would consider a straight up "milky" smell to be like, its really the "idea" of milk as comfort and deliciousness. Honestly, its more Dulce de Leche (caramel jam, of sorts) with a very softly done brushing of musk - nowhere near as vivid in the musk notes as Ava Luxe's "Love's True Bluish Light" but very much in that general vein. Its a very gentle fragrance, and quite cleverly composed, because the musk saves it from the ho-humness of just being "candy for the skin" and turns it into a real perfume. I must note here that even though "black musk" is not my thing, in "Milk" the musk brings a very gentle reminder of the animality of milk itself, perhaps even of its mammalian origins. And although this may sound icky to many of us, its pretty darn fab for wee babies. And somewhere inside all of us, that tiny, fragile baby still exists. Milk really leaves me somewhat pensive, I tend to wear it as a layering scent together with other gourmands. It is especially lovely with Ava Luxe's almost edible almondy goodness "Amandes", and to soften some rather sharpish compositions when the mood for sharpness isn't upon me. In the end, I feel Ava Luxe's Milk is almost a work of mad genius. There is definitely something Jean Baptiste Grenouille-sque about it (the insane protagonist of Patrick Susskind's "Perfume" novel). To me it feels like a tribute to motherhood, to the first smells we encountered in our life as humans. Milk's sillage is discreet and the lasting power is about 6-8 hours, which is creditable, however, I cannot really rate this on a 1-10 scale because it is such an intimate, evocative scent. Definitely glad to have Milk in my collection, though.