Muskara Phero J

I've been mulling over buying this for myself and finally SPLURGED! I'm quite interested in perfumes and generally pretty articulate about how to situate one perfume against all others, however, I was drawn to this perfume because instead of triggering a flood of references/ingredients this scent seems to refer to nothing other than itself. It's the scent equivalent of a James Turrel piece -- effectively 'empty' and substance-less, but spatio-temporally endless. It can be experienced forever without ever 'getting it'. It has no resolution, no bottom, no beginning or end, no point of reference other than the wearer(/viewer). And highly democratic in a way--it's so stripped down of referential content that it's possible to land on virtually any interpretation. It's confounding but not intellectual at all. This scent is a place to meditate. It's unsurprising Julian Bedel's influences are Borges and Darwin. This scent is a vast blank slate--an olfactory aleph. It's ambiguous, isolated, and transitory, and somewhat reflective in it's form. It's definitely a white musk, but, as mentioned, doesn't recall any other musks. As I'm writing this it's the dead of winter so it's a little dry, smells simultaneously organic and chemical but definitely not 'tech'. Though, I recall wearing my sample in the summer and it was much more warm, a more mammalian than cyborg. It's wonderful. I don't like or dislike it but I do want to spend a lot of time with it and can't imagine it ever getting old. It will be good for layering with virtually anything. Personally I think it would layer well with something a little waxy, oily, salty, milky. Alternatively it would be wonderful to mix with virtually any family of scents. It's that vast.

Raw wool. Lactonic. Clean sweat. Skin. Corporal. NC-17. Somehow clean and simultaneously intensely erotic, more so than any animalic. Think of the smell of lover’s t-shirt - both comforting and sexual. Innocent and lustful. As for projection, arms length. Lasting power: I bought a small vial of this. I wore it on a trip to the Caribbean. I remember unpacking and trying the first spray in the bathroom. The bathroom later smelled of it for two days, a drop having spilled on the wooden shelf. With one spray on my chest, I smelled this constantly until night. To me, it is extremely potent. I even tried layering it -once with Dior Fahrenheit and once so the Diptyque Philosokos. Those poor eaux were no match. Hits the mark of being a non-scent scent. It is that, in that it is not perfume-y or fragrance like. Yet it is delicious. It is also complex. It can be a signature scent without you smelling like you wear perfume. It can be layered. Best money I ever spent on a fragrance, despite the expense. Absolutely sensual.

Barely scented musk that vaguely reminds me of an after-dinner mint. It's as though I've crushed a pillow mint all over my skin. It's not a common white musk that I've encountered before. Nor is it galaxolide, ambroxan, or iso-e super. Mysterious and pleasant, but I just don't want to pay $180 for a tiny bottle.

I agree with the others. Soft, sweet, and simple. I'm in love with the tranquility it brings.

This has become a favorite. A light fresh musk- bright, clean elegant, effevescent.