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.

My full bottle came today and I am so happy! Starts with full-on, photorealistic beet with plenty of earth. Over time, the beets fade into something more fruity and floral, but not like any fruit or flower I can recognize. Even at the opening, though, you never feel like you're wearing pickled beets- the musk keeps it from being edible. I love aromatics, but many of them feel too harsh or masculine to me. Musc Amaranth feels fresh and earthy, but also sweet and soft. I'm utterly in love.

If you want a more earthy and soily version of this, try Demeter Beetroot or Earthworm. I like this because it lasts a lot longer than either of those (though it is a lot more expensive) and feels more polished and "formal" than the quirky, dirtier vibe of those Demeter scents, but honestly, if you're on a budget, try one of those two.

Fascinating musk, the beetroot adds this metallic and mineralic zing. Cold dirt from whence it came lifted onto the most chic porcelain plating, a borscht received with a kiss, cozied up with the ambrette seeds.

This is probably the most realistic fragrance in the collection. It truly smells like beets covered in soil fresh out of the ground.

it’s like if a pile of dirt gave birth to a clean baby.

MA reads as freshly cleaned beetroots in liquid form! I can picture the kitchen towel used to wipe off the soil from the beets, and the veggies are in a bowl ready to be pickled or sliced. This is a faithful interpretation of beetroots. I’ve seen some reviews highlight an earth note, but my nose doesn’t detect it. I don’t get petrichor or the smell of fluffy, dark soil. In my humble gardening experience, beets (even when cleaned) have an earthy quality that’s complicated by an unexpected sweetness, similar to a carrot. Smelling this makes me feel closer to a homestead or garden. MA is definitely a photorealistic beetroot. Because of that, MA is not a mass-appealing scent. Few people are going to want to smell like the least loved root vegetable, and I can’t blame folks for that. I think MA could quiet a craving for gardeners and cooks, but I don’t think this will ever debut at Sephora, Ulta or Boots.

Musc Amarante initially caught my eye with its beautiful dusty pink color. At first sniff, I got a strong earthiness, instantly connecting the dots to the color and scent. It was clearly a beetroot fragrance, and I loved it. A musk note was apparent too, as I felt that I couldn’t stop smelling it. On my skin, it ended up smelling like soil. Again, a very earthy fragrance. Although it was not for me, I could appreciate something so photorealistic and unique. Typically, I don’t believe in buying fragrances as gifts because scent preferences are so subjective. However, I think this would be such a cute and thoughtful gift for someone who might enjoy gardening.

This is really nice! Its warmth surprised me. Where Demeter's Beetroot is fresh and wet, Musc Amarante is subtly green-spicy, similar to the taste of nasturtiums or the smell of marigolds. It's the kind of scent that lingers in your nostrils, getting sweeter until you go back for another sniff. It's definitely a unisex scent. I can imagine this being nice on men and women (and anyone in-between). I agree with nastyenka, this beet is not edible; rather, it is fragrant in a soft and lovely way. This reminds me a bit of a Dossier's Woody Sage (a dupe for Wood Sage & Sea Salt) though without the fig.

Very earthy. The beetroot is there, but it's not too strong or unpleasant; it smells fruity rather than vegital. There's definitely ambrette in here, which give it that musky quality. So, it's like this: beetroot + earthy + slight powder + musc...voilà! It's quirky, but pleasant and surprisingly very wearable. Just like 'Iris de Gris', another one in the same line, the performance isn't good on me. Personally, if I pay £150 for a perfume, I expect at least 6-7 hours of longevity, and at least one hour of projection, which did not happen here.

A tender and humble scent with unquestionable beetroot note. I love beetroot and in this iteration, it's a little softer and tidier. It's... beetroots washed and prepped in a the kitchen, rather than beetroots yanked out of the ground with dirt flying around. I think the musk adds a quiet, sentimental quality about it. Because it's a little earthy, I think this would be really nice (and an unexpected choice) for a 20-something guy. The sort of guy who likes Aesop and Malin + Goetz, but isn't necessarily a hypebeast.

I really like this one. I don’t want to smell like it, but I thoroughly enjoy the craft. This smells like a fresh dirt patch in the best way possible with a hint of fresh sweet aroma. It does smell like beet, but a romantic, poetic, cottage-core depiction of beet instead of the grocery store variant. Where you grow your own beets in your cute little garden, harvest it, and all the way into the lovingly made salad on the table.

The beet is so photorealistic I can almost picture it, in all its earthen glory, sitting full-bodied in my hand and dripping its juice down my wrist. I'm not sure about the choice of name, though I do admit that flat-out putting Beet in the name may be too on-the-nose. As a musk lover, this is not musky to me - but instead is a sweet, simple, earthy deep red beet.

Opens with the hyper-realistic beet, freshly picked and sliced. Sweet, tart, and vegetal. Although it's so realistic, I found it to be quite wearable when lightly sprayed. The beet mostly fades away over 2 hours, but is still very faintly detectable on my skin 8 hours later. The rest of the fragrance is a fresh citrus musk - nothing to dislike there. I am a fan!

Smells like pulling beets out of moist soil. The soil scent dominates, but I definitely get the beety vegetable notes. I sampled this before checking the notes for this fragrance, and instantly thought of pulling up beets with my dad in his garden. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, not a safe blind buy for most, but I really love it.

This smells very similar to diptyques Fleur de peau. However, it’s a little more sharp and vegetal like. Actually, the more I smell it the more it smells like dirt and iron, like beets lol. It doesn’t seem wearable in public, but it’s a nice smell to experience every once in a while.