Musc Amarante

Opens with crisp and fresh beetroot, and as it dries down, it gets shots of white musk and a nicely nuanced but clean dirt/mud accord. Simple, mass pleasing, unique, and easy to wear. One big hell yeah. personal thoughts - Normally, I have a big yap sesh review, but my fraghead brain just... turns off? I don't know, sounds odd, but it is that simple: beetroot, (clean?) dirt accord, and white musk, but for the majority of it, they're all working in perfect harmony with each other. Didn't get it at first, then I let it bloom under the late July heat of Orlando on vacation, and was blown away. Trust me, wear this under some summer heat (but don't nearly get heatstroke like me, lol). performance - Moderate to intimate projection for the 8.5-9 hours performance I get out of it, but it pushes much harder under the heat. rating - 9.7/10 (Can see moving up, just need to test more) song vibe - Watch Out Now by The Beatnuts

This is literally the best thing ever... I dreamed of this earthy smell, I wanted to smell exactly the way beet leaves in a salad taste... a bit like Geosmin / petrichor, dry earth .. It does also contain some sweetness, more like cooked beets where I would have preferred uncooked ones, but I don’t mind as long as this amazing earthiness is there... I opened my sample, sprayed this on my arm an ordered a full bottle within 5 minutes ... admittedly that could have gone wrong but luckily it didn’t because the earthiness stayed... I smell like a beetroot freshly pulled from the ground... will try layering this with mitti attar geosmin oil to amp the earth up even further but this is allready signature scent material for me

I LOVE the opening! It smells real, raw, humble and joyous at the same time, like a young village girl in her vegetable garden. Seems that I'm all for beets and I had no idea before trying this on. Edit: I previously called the dry down boring, which proved to be as far from the truth as possible, once springtime kicked in. Beautiful, beautiful all the way through! It's such an intelligent spring fragrance - unexpected, vegetal, but with a hint of earthy, mouthwatering sweetness from the beets. Smells clean, and dreamy, and a tad bit like dirt. It's relaxing, but also energizing. So well-balanced that for a village girl who grew up surrounded by vegetable gardens, it hits all the right spots at the sime time.

I love this fragrance and have it in the #1 spot on my wishlist. What I find fascinating is the vastly different views on this - not in a bad way. Some smell dirt and bugs, others get a pleasant earthy accord that compliments the musk. Reminds me of the Santal 33 (Le Labo) debate with pickle juice v. creamy wood. I really appreciate everyone’s candor. I’m learning a lot. For me, when it comes to Musc Amarante, I’m in the pleasant earthy accord camp. I get a beautiful faintly floral and musk petrichor. Just gorgeous.

As a chef, I think this fragrance is fantastic! Its like I went to the garden and pulled a beet out of the ground, walked back to the kitchen, and sliced it open still covered in dirt. I do get bergamot and it plays well with the beet note, just as a citrus would with beet in real life. The dry down brings out the musk but that dirty beet still lingers throughout the life of the fragrance for me. Lasts about 4-5 hrs on me. Maybe about a wingspan in projection. I think a woody note would really just do it for me.