Black Musk

My dad used to purchase the regular Jovan Musk for my mum, but he passed away. So, this year I purchased the entire Jovan Musk line for her (black, white, original), except the tropical, I couldn't find it. I love ALL of them! I remember smelling a musk scent on her when I was a child, but never knew what it was until my order came. I must say, this scent is a classic scent. It smells youthful and classic at the same time. I can see any woman over the age of 21 wearing this fragrance. Jovan is classic, soft, and beautiful. White is floral, soft, and reminds me of a wedding. Black is soft and sexy - it reminds me of a modern, much more expensive scent, but I am not sure which...I'll update when I remember. All-in-all my mommy was happy, I am happy, and I will be ordering these for myself too. Thank you Daddy!

I picked it up as the white musk, musk and black musk were the cheapest in the shop and as ive had white musk before I know its strong for the price. I smelt white musk and musk and found it was way too white floral and not as deep and warm as I like musk. Black musk was really beautiful though, youthful, sweet and very sexy and didnt smell cheap like the others. Amazing value for price and even reminded me of my mother's old bottle of black opium

Like the description says, Jovan Black Musk Women is truly a mysterious, sexy and sensual fragrance. It works with your body chemistry to create a dangerously seductive scent. Floral, indulgent and warm! So true. I love it. Also its so inexpensive, does not mean its drug-store quality. On the contrary it smells like an expensive scent, nothing cheap about it. Worth a try. At that price, you get a very good deal. I love it !

I can’t explain where I’ve smelled this perfume before but I can tell you that it smells delicious in my opinion. It’s very floral with a hint of some berry. I’ve definitely gotten some compliments wearing this and it’s by far my favorite perfume I own!

My new love <3 Not without the help of all people who reviewed it. I can't believe this is EDC! This perfume has such personality! It's bold and sexy and flirtatious. Feeling I'm 20 again :) It is sweet, yes, but not cloying. It is a perfect blend.

I got this in very cheap price. And it actually smells nice, good value considering the price. It smells flowery with berries, and it reminds me of CK Euphoria. I think this cologne is very good, especially if you're on tight budget.

Cedar, purple berry, a tiny chocolate hint and vanilla woods. Reminds me of something I smelled in the 1980’s as a small child. Definitely has an 80’s vibe to it. Great for layering with white musk.

I feel like scent notes are missing! On me this is a this is a plum,jammy,musk incense scent on me. Longevity and sillage are pretty decent for me. In my opinion this is wearable year round.

There's a fruity note, perhaps raspberry, that makes this sweet and a bit juicy. Other than that, musky/amber and maybe orchid. Pretty!

I wore this scent throughout my freshman and sophomore years of highschool so it’s very nostalgic. I still like it :)

I got this for my mom in an online order and this was surprisingly nice. It's youthful, it's modern. It reminds me of something along the lines of the original Black XS For Her, then again the last time I smelled it was when it released so take that with a grain of salt. Scent wise. Imagine a dark and juicy pomegranate, some jasmine and other florals breathing life into this and it finishes with some wood and patchouli. The patchouli isn't dirty. There's a lot more notes to this on other websites than the two we're given on here as a heads up. From a male perspective I'd love to see a scent like this on a woman in the right situations. Although it may not be a 12+ hour room filler with a sensible amount of sprays, comparing it to a lot of other fragrances in the $10 price range in my part of the world this doesn't smell as cheap as I thought it was going to, it's not some forgetful light flowery smell or something out dated so I can't understand why there's so many negative reviews about this. Are people just mad they didn't get black orchid or whatever the internet told them they need. some reason the opening of this fragrance reminds of of a £490 fragrance called "blonde amber" by Clive Christian. It's going in a completely different direction but If you love the opening of black musk for her and don't want the opening to go. Try the way more affordable clone of it by Mason Asrar called Faris Al Arab. It's a mouthful to say but when I got that fragrance in I immediately thought of that, along with a handful of mens fragrances.

i believe this is going to be my signature scent. (it didn't. a really cool fragrance with a bad formula(?) maybe) it reminded me of myself in a awful period of time. - just a little fruity, flowery and musk with just enough amount. when i first sprayed it on my wrist i heard pomegranate with musk and some leaf-ish notes with alcohol. when the alcohol dried the leaf-ish notes were gone and i started hearing vanilla. i think my nose didnt pick up most flowery notes separately because it was the first time it picked up pomegranate in a perfume. then i started hearing vanilla more, with more musk. it is really beautiful. - not the best sillage and i cant really talk about longevity on skin because wash my hands too many times because of covid BUT on my t-shirt it stayed 6 to 7 hours, im happy with that. (update to this after two months, this sillage and lasting made me so sooo sad. i realised it didnt stayed even 5 hours. on my skin it was maybe 2 hours, on clothing mayyybe 4?) - it matches with my dream perfume idea soooo i love it even more - probably not a good gift because my sister and my dad dont like it and my mom dont have any feelings about it. but i think this can be a cool scent for any woman. (update: my sister really likes this scent now, actually she is going to buy one bottle for herself. my dad still says this suits for an older lady than me but i still use it because the sillage is so bad only i can smell it.)

Just had a chance to try Black Musk. Initially, there was too much alcohol to detect any of the notes here. But about after 10 mins or so, my nose picked up pink berries with leather and musk. The berries and the musk are equally present here. But note that the berries aren't exactly fresh as they would be in a fruity/floral perfume. The berry note in this gives it a heavy (but not cloying) sort of sweetness due to the generous amount of musk they put into it. After about an hour, the berries and the musk settled on my skin equally strong. For my own personal preference, I wish that they turned down the musk a tad bit and added some more of the sharper leather note that was present in the beginning. It certainly could use a "pick me up" after about a couple of hours because it gets really heavy due to the musk. Still though, it could totally rock the boat of those who appreciate these types of fumes! However, that being said, for the price, you'd be getting a cologne with the staying power of ANY expensive EDP in the market. Projection and sillage are just excellent! If you like berries and your skin works with musk and leather really well, given the low price this large bottle, Black Musk could be your everyday scent or even special occasion companion. Ultra sexy, berry-laced, leathery musk... This is a woman's perfume; NOT for little girls! ;)

For me, the House of Jovan never disappoints! Black Musk was a blind buy for me that I recently purchased online. This is my sixth fragrance from Jovan--two of which, have been in my collection for what seems like an eternity. Jovan just knows how to do fragrance! I'm wearing Black Musk today whilst I'm at work. Later, I'll be wearing it to run a few errands before adjourning home. Black Musk is perfect for a snowy, casual Friday. To my nose, it reminds me of Jovan's Silky Rose when it is first sprayed; In that, it smells similar without the effervescence. Both fragrances evoke feelings of positivity. Black Musk is straight up flowers, berry candy (not listed), musk, and powder. That's it! A wonderful fragrance in its simplest form. It creates a very nice scent bubble for the first couple of hours of wear. Then, it dries down to a wafty, incense-y, skin scent in the 3rd hour. This definitely needs to be re-applied throughout the day, if you're not into skin scents. Black Musk works for women of all ages, and does not smell dated. In fact, it is a great break from the sugary-sweet fruitchoulis of today. As a result of low longevity and the musk note, I do not think that Black Musk is a safe blind buy.

Found Jovan Black Musk on the clearance rack for $5.24 the other day. Wow! A big 2 oz. bottle of cologne that several of my Fragrantica friends said was lovely, and practically a steal at $5.24? I'll bite! Unsniffed, even! Jovan's entry into the berry musk category is a bit late in the game, and while it's not in the category of . . . say L'Artisan's Mure et Musc, it's still a very nice scent. The berry notes have kind of a "snowcone" aroma on my skin. Yes, like the blue snowcone that is somehow raspberry-flavored. And like a snowcone, Black Musk is more cool and fruity than sweet. It has some flowers and a touch of incense as it dries down. Honestly, I don't get much of the musk until several hours in. Even then, it's not a "sweaty" musk, but more of the clean, shower-fresh variety. The scent has amazing longevity for a cologne concentration, lasting 7+ hours. Black Musk is proof that smelling great doesn't have to cost a fortune. I think it's more of a warm weather scent, but I'll probably leave it in the rotation for winter, too.

This smells just like Flower Bomb extreme on me. It is a sweet burnt sugary scent like the original flowerbomb (which I cannot stand as it is too sweet) but has added depth with something dark woody and patchouli like on my skin just like the Extreme version. A dark musk with berry and some green-ness. I think I can smell some patchouli but it might be my over active imagination. This is a very good perfume for the price and the staying power is excellent on my skin. The lotion is amazing too. I cant stand to part with the exorbitant ammount of money to buy another bottle of the original Flowerbomb extreme as I own so many other perfumes so I will stick with this for now :-) I have also noticed this has the same cucumber mixed with burnt candyfloss note that I find in both Chanel Chance and Black Orchid. Give this a test if you like any of the above mentioned fragrances

JBM is rather a Western and modern interpretation of black musk. The darkness comes from vanilla and dark berries. You see in Arab perfumery black musk is mainly the very animalic, carnal, almost dirty, and very warm musk (as opposed to the very clean, synthetic, cool white musk as in laundry and soap). In the past it was obtained from a certain species of deer 🦌 but now it is implied by other notes like leather, civet, incense and dark smoky woods. JBM is not this type of black musk, there’s nothing really dark, skanky or mysterious. I sense blackberries, tangy and sweet, then soft and creamy florals then a quite sweet vanilla with a relatively clean but warm musk. It’s very pleasant and lasts for 2-3 hrs, more like EDT rather than EDC. Great for the humble price and packaging but not as memorable as the OG JM.

I was intrigued by this but I don't think that it was sold in the USA so I ordered it online. I've wanted this because I like everything I have from Jovan so far and I wanted to complete my collection. I find all of the fragrances from Jovan to be easily wearable at work and in daily life. I never have to worry about offending someone with my fragrance when I wear something from Jovan. This fragrance is similar to a lot of things that are popular on the market today. I can smell berries and musk and fruit in general. I don't necessarily smell flowers like I thought I would smell. This is very similar to Bath and Body Works Black Amethyst without the patchouli and because it stays close to the skin this makes for a more wearable fragrance in my opinion. It lasts a reasonable 4-5 hours.

I’ve got a soft spot for Jovan, they’re good at making inexpensive fragrances that are at least a step above most other fragrances in their price range. Like others before me, I definitely get pomegranate (or other non-descript dark fruits. . . ), vanilla sweetened patchouli, a bit of florals, and Jovan’s signature soft, creamy white musk. This is the sweetest Jovan I’ve tried, but it’s not cloying to me. I feel like this might be Jovan’s take on a fruitichouli. Longevity and potency, for me, are on par with Jovan’s other feminine branded musk fragrances. Two or three sprays is enough; I tend to apply this after an evening shower and I can still smell it on my pajamas in the morning. I think I paid 8 bucks for my bottle, and it’s a definite like for me.

Well...I can say with a certainty that this fragrance does NOT work with your body chemistry to create a "dangerously seductive scent". I haven't been seduced once today, not even a wolf whistle!! All I get is a bunch of floral and the slightest of musk lingering in the background. When I first applied it I didn't smell a thing, it wasn't until I started to work up a sweat that the fragrance started to appear. Seems to work best with body heat, a good one for the gym methinks. It is certainly a nice floral, wears close to your skin and wafts up with the heat, good price too, worth a try if you like soft perfumes. I'm glad it's not dangerously seductive, I would have a hard time explaining to my husband all the men following me home....