Soft Musk

(reviewing a vintage bottle on a warm summer day) Do you know the "Soft Kitty" song? This is it in perfume form. Warm, very very powdery, comforting and enveloping as a blanket or an embrace. This is not one of those sharp musks that hit you with an energizing sharp scent. This is soft, mellow, warm and cozy. This is a relaxing massage. This is an early morning spent lazy-ing in bed with a loved one cuddlying you. I can smell musk, perfectly melded with an almost liquor-like vanilla, spices and white flowers. Starts soap-ish, floral and almost old fashioned like those very perfumed soaps the old ladies used to keep inside clothes. But it's after that first floral blast of floral soap subsides that this perfume shows its true beauty. It's a very warm musk, with something liquorish and warm, dark, spicy, human and very powdery. I love it :) ---- Further review on a cooler day, humid and foggy: This is one of those fragrances that performs differently in different temperature / humidity. On cooler days the musk goes sharper and woodier, and very "volatile chemical scent", for lack of better description. It's still very good, but different. My experience today is that the vanilla note does not appear in cooler weather. Instead, the musk went on hairspray / cosmetic product direction, sharper (still enjoyable, but different, reminds me of the musk in Noa but dirtier, less ethereal), the rose is much more discreet and an unexpected "old woods" (like old dark furniture) appears and is very enjoyable for me. Well done, Avon :D ---- Yet another review in a crispy autumn day: This fragrance performs differently every time I wear it. Today it's a very sexy, carnal musk, darker, strange. Mixed with wafts of vanilla that come and go, and dirty, sort of decaying flowers. Today it's really strange and with a hint of decadence and I am loving it! ---- I received this in a giveaway here. Thanks to Mirabele :)

The only musk perfume which I loved ..I am not into musk much, more of a floral girl but this is one of the first Avon scents I had had back in the 90's when Avon came to my country ..Even the girl in the catalogue looked beautiful & chic ..I don't know why Avon keeps discontinuing such pretty & unique fragrances ... Update : It seems my lucky day , I bought an old favourite & saw Soft Musk in Avon 's catalogue this month :)...Yes, it's coming back to my country ,but there's no offers for it this time ..A little bit pricey for a 50ml Avon fragrance ..but gonna get it when it goes under discount. Update : Got a bottle from my great friend Rouu who is on this site as well , so amazing , great sillage and longevity , specially for Avon fragrances ..Still as beautiful as it is and I will get another one ;)

I have several "vintages" of Avon Soft Musk from old to new and I like all of them. My early 1980's seasonal (Christmas) demi bottle of ASM is the one that has the most "real musk" smell to it. Truthfully all my ASMs are all so nice to wear. Having qualities of powder, floral and musk, Soft Musk really is like a plush blanket of a scent, a warm embrace in a bottle and it's an overlooked beauty. Soft Musk is like the quieter one in a room full of loud talkers that actually has the most interesting stories to tell if you'll take a seat and listen. Years ago an older co-worker wore Soft Musk from time to time and I found it so warm and wonderful to be around her. It's like walking through your front door after being gone a while. Often times it's the nicest place to be yourself.

Gifted to me on my ninth birthday in 1992, Avon Soft Musk was my first perfume. I loved it. It was so warm and soft. Something about it was also "churchy." I continued to receive Avon Soft Musk as a yearly birthday present from my aunt throughout elementary and junior high school. I remember my teachers coming to my desk to help me with school work and saying, "You smell nice." I was so excited when I saw that Avon was reissuing Soft Musk in star decanters. My mother-in-law bought me one of those Soft Musk star decanters in Christmas 2011. Sadly, it was not what I remembered. It was pure alcohol with no softness to it. Jovan Musk for Women concentrated spray is as close as I can get to soft musk, but it lacks the depth I experienced in Avon Soft Musk as a child.

I have been wearing this off and on since the 80`s. One of the few Avon scents I have really liked. I have received quite a bit of compliments ( from men, especially) when I wear this. I , like another member, also have layered this with the old staple- Jovan Musk, also with Victoria`s Secret Vanilla Lace body spray. ( As well, I have paired the Jovan Musks with Vanilla Lace) The latter, I prefer. I feel soft, inviting, non-intrusive, not too sweet, not too musky. Delicious and comfy cozy. Perfect for fall, and winter , goes well with the furries and the fluffies of the season. It`s too bad it has been discontinued, but I will pick up an unopened bottle online, or my sister will find one and present me with it.