Musc Nomade

Musc Nomade by Goutal Paris (0282A/48, USD 85) Musc Nomade was a blind buy for me, as I was collecting Goutal. I familiar with all the note listed. However, when I sniff for very first time I am not sure. It is dry woody ambretty musk, I doubt. I test on my hand a few time. I don't get a concept of the name "Musc Nomade either" After Leaving this for a big while and when it is about to go to decluttering. I decided to wear this for the last tine, I remember that I never really full wear this one. Just for a laugh but I discover something greatly in return. I spray heavily, around 30 sprays as this is really soft fragrance. Both Fabric and Skin, and I understand this why so call "Musc Nomade" Because Musc Nomade blends seamlessly into your skin. It like you skin but smell much better, sweet and floral. It smells like natural goddess skin. I think this fragrance must introduce with moisture. That why I am not successful when I test on my hand. Because that area is dry. But when I applied on more damp area of skin. It becomes translucent, sweet Musc that really enjoyable. I think, This will be another keeper in my collection. As this layer also well with other scent and on it own. If you appreciate 2nd skins scent. I think this will be so wonderful. It calls Musc nomade because it blends so well to your skin. Score : 9/10 Longevity : 8 hours Projection : Very close to the skin Classification : Unisex Summary : God/Goddess-Skin ===== Extension 1 on May 2, 2024 (Shake of back and fort) “In the Orient of 1,001 Nights, princesses perfumed their bodies and hair with a divine mixture of musk and refined essences. Like a trip through time, Musc Nomade invites us to join the caravans that carried the precious ingredients used in this perfumed ritual.” To be honest, I am quite back and fort with Musc Nomade.. I now collect all 3 fragrances from Les Orientalistes collection (the new one, not OG with myrrh). Musc Nomade was the new replacement. Yes, they do smell Oriental to me. Especially the incense one and the amber one. But the Musc.. I have no idea. This might be the interpretation of ancient princess skin smell like (?). I can’t see that vividly, the translucent dry powdery-woody but sweet moist medicinal musk (?). I don’t like the smell of sprayer, to be honest. It is unlikeable woody musk, I bring out to spray on my skin yet I fall in love when perfumes bloom on my skin once again. This is one is so tricky to really appreciates the quality of it. When I get a whip in the air of sweet woody moist musk. It so natural to my nose and smell wonderful but when I put my nose my elbow nook... it just not as good as when I get a whip of it. It might be quality of amber kind of fragrance after all. I could see a neat, polite person wear this. If their is 1 step up from Molecule 01/02 this should be it. The wried point that I now start to don’t care for Jersey or No.18 (both are Chanel fragrances).. but this one I still comeback to it. The transparentness yet good in longevity is the key I think what make Musc Nomade beautiful. Please allow me to reflex true score for this fragrance, consider how hard to understand. I will reduce score to 7/10 for now. ===== (You make skip the below paragraph, I just actualize certain thought but it is not part of Musc Nomade) I was messy with my Chanel fragrance collection a big while. I own 11 of them, I can cut to 10 (Sorry, Misia) but my cabinet can put only 9 but I can’t decide which one I wanna cut further. I mention somewhere in one of my Chanel’s fragrance review about 3 musk offering from Chanel. 18/1957 and Jersey so I can’t decide what to cut.. right after I put extension review of Musc Nomade. Then I realize I quite like No.18 in the way it merge to skin using “Ambette seed”, Champagne party skin, I may say. Then I actualize, that.. Jersey even it is musky.. it is not really musk fragrance. It’s green vanilla with Lavender. If 1957 is epitome of Industrial white musk, No.18 is other hands Human musk with floral tint. It on difference side of spectrum. Jersey, it somewhere in the between, twist and go in other direction. I gonna kept Jersey in storage now. Maybe I reunite or maybe I will pass it on. I appreciate musc nomade as corner stone for my actualization. But for fragrance itself. Tbh, my thought remains the same. For another beautiful usage of Ambette seed, you may try no.18 too. For actual 1001 princess interpretation. Try Aerin amber musk, or slightly rougher interpretation “JML Midnight musk & Amber” ===== Extension 2, June 11, 2024 I am sick for a week already. My body is weaker than usual. I know, because I can’t use majority fragrance without feeling uncomfortable. Good thing, I can spend more time with lighter fragrance. In my collection... I have just sniffed Jovoy’s musk pallas which a beautiful blends of Ambrette and white musk. I think Ambrette really add dimension to the musk fragrance. The oiliness, thick body mesmerizing musk, soft wood with dusty quality. My nose, changed.. I can perceive through the texture of Ambrette and behind the Ambrette. In Musc Nomade, is beautiful blends of woody powdery, natural sweeten. Like you take powdery the heart of Cologne Blanche (Almond Powder) mix with older interpretation of sandalwood (Powdery) lightly and green edge become scent of soft actual powdery. Non descriptive scent of skin after bathing in unwritten beauty elixir. I finally know the interpretation of 1001 night princess, should smell something like this. Naturally musky. Damn, finally, at long last, I know how beautiful.. Musc Nomade are.. I believe, only handful of people. Will be able to dig this deep, to enjoy something like this. It takes me almost 1 full years after many tests to truly understand. It is a bit hard to suggest musc nomade as first option. But Musc Nomade, I believe is use Ambrette musk front and center ad star like no else fragrance.. can do. 9/10 Projection : closer to skin Longevity : long lasting Classification : unisex Summary : best Ambrette without Iris, goddess skin.

Musc Nomade presented an interesting wearing experience for me. This perfume is, in my opinion, very different from many other Annick Goutal fragrances in that it defies a traditional open/middle/bass sequence. The first blast of Musc Nomade is bright, fruity, rosy. A lot of notes rise from the skin, things like pomegranate, blood orange, figs, grape leaves. The musk is bold and only slightly creamy the way many other musks are. To my surprise, the musk becomes stronger very rapidly (within 30 seconds on me) and it's a very animalic and slightly bitter musk. As a point of contrast, I thought of Kiehl's Original Musk, which is far creamier and sweeter. Annick Goutal's Musk in Musc Nomade has an almost acrid quality which reminded me of turmeric and hiacynth which was just about over-ripe. My first try with Musc Nomade wasn't a success. It was too harsh for my skin and too linear. It didn't change much from the moment I put it on. At some stages it seemed to have disappeared, a moment later it was loud and bold. Something wasn't right. I gave it another try a few days later, and my experience was very different. It was a much warmer day, about 20 degrees warmer. I sprayed it on early in the morning... there was something about the way the scent reacted with sun and air, and it mellowed into a far more gentle and mysterious creation than my first wearing. A few sprays and settings later and I figured it out: This is most definitely a warm-weather scent, best worn in the morning or daytime. Completely unlike Amber Fetiche, this Orientalist is a creature of sunrise. For some reason, I'd thought that musk scents were primarily for the cold months and for evening, but not in this case. As I was driving in my car with the windows down and air pouring in, and sun on my skin, the scent was fascinating. Suddenly there were grapes and peaches and vanilla, gentle oud and potpouri roses, and a salmon-colored musk so different from the golden-hued honey-type musks I've been used to before. Musc Nomade has been a great fragrance 'event' for me because it's one of the few fragrances I've owned that really needs to be applied only at certain times. I have so far gravitated to over-all perfumes that can be (pretty much) worn at any time without worry. I've since learned that this isn't the case with them all, nor is it necessarily a great asset if a perfume can be worn all the time. Certain scents are going to show their finest elements in certain light and temperature, and Musc Nomade is clearly one of them.

This is a 5 star musk fragrance. I don't really know any other way to put it. It is absolute perfection - for a straight forward musk that is slightly more on the dirty side than typical white but still remains clean. If you like white musk, this may frighten you a tad so PLEASE do not see the "white musk" part and think this is going to smell like Musc Bleu or Clair de Musc or anything like that or you will be disappointed. This has an amber and woody base that "dirties" it up a tad. It isn't a monster by any means, it isn't on the order of Muscs Koublai Khan or anything like that...but it is probably slightly too animalic for some people. It is much less sweaty beast and is a safer bet for most but maybe a little too much for others. Musc Nomade starts out nice and stays nice but you still get a full on musk fix without it being TOO dirty or powdery. There is no hiding in the house for an hour until you stop reeking and start smelling amazing thing going on. You can put it on and head out and wild animals will not start head butting your car or anything. And nobody will think you haven't bathed in a week. If you are looking for a PERFECT (but slightly more dirty than soapy white) musk that still remains rather soft, fresh and clean...look no further. Because for this style of musk, it simply does not get much better. But you do need to reapply it or spray your clothes and hair to get any staying power of it. (Note: AG only highlights "synthetic" (musk) to let people know that animals were not killed or tortured to create this fragrance. Synthetic musk is pretty standard in all fragrances now and has been for quite some time.)

Musc Nomade is at first deceptively diaphanous, a discreet complement to the skin, a personal enhancement. I had nearly forgotten that I was wearing it just an hour or two in on the first day. Then, after a walk in the summer rain, opening returning home and relaxing after the work day, there were these wafts, lactonic, animalic, but also slightly herbal and sweet, hints of angelica root and tonka. Mind you, they are wafts, but they are just so hauntingly beautiful. Subtle transmutations can be detected within these facets, and the somehow, the delineation between me and my bed seemed to disappear, is this my own skin, my body odor (it never smelled this great!), my bed sheets, is there something else in the air? What puzzlement! I think this might be Musc Nomade, its alchemy, both sensual and comforting. As I nuzzle into my skin eight hours into the wear, there's the tell-tale aroma of ambrette seeds. There it is! Just like the essential oil and absolute I have in my possession. But then there's also dark woods that weren't noticed up until now. The ambient impression, away from the skin, is so different, a different 'vibration', for fear of sounding a bit too cosmic. I really look forward to experiencing this in different environments, different temperatures and times of the year, because I can tell its fascinatingly mercurial. Mind you, I have a bottle with the older classic Annick Goutal label as pictured that should have never been updated, perhaps from around 2012. . Musc Nomade is groovy, man...

I really enjoy this scent as a base to layer with other fragrances where I want the musk to shine through, but on its own this fragrance seems a little unfinished. Like a room with no furniture. The musk is sheer and slightly like salty skin, but not dirty or veering too far into animalic territory. If I had to describe this musk it’s nude or slightly tan, not white and sterile. When I layer this with other scents it breathes life into them, but on its own it’s only a mere shell or ghost of a perfume. This smells like those remnants of fragrance that are left behind after a shower, but without having to actually shower the scent off to get there. And I quite enjoy it but find it lacks the tenacity and honestly, the performance to be a standalone scent on my body chemistry. This is almost what I expected out of those Narciso Rodriguez fragrances everyone talks about that I’m anosmic to. So far I’ve layered this with Hermes Eau des Merveilles and Cashmere Mist. Can’t wait to try out more combinations. This is also the first fragrance in my collection I’ve been excited to layer with and accepted keeping for the sole purpose of mixing with other scents. Musc Nomade is a nomade no more, she is here to stay in my wardrobe. Like a white t-shirt or camisole of the fragrance world. Could pair with anything, and is high quality yet basic enough to ensure endless combinations.