Honey and Deer Musk

Honey Deer Musk is one sexy perfume, and I don’t use that description lightly. It’s sweet, alluring and captivating all in equal parts, with an element of classical French perfumery behind it which tickles that particular spot in my brain. Seeing both real deer musk and civet used here you might expect something very challenging and animalic, but it’s not. Instead the animalics are very tame and subtle. The notes listed here on fragrantica are only a fraction of what’s actually in here. This scent is actually constructed similarly to a classical Chypre with a mossy, amber base. The beeswax gives the scent that honeyed feel, it’s intensely sweet and erotic alongside the musks. Overall, I think this is a fantastic fragrance. If you’re looking for a scent which truly embodies everything about natural deer musk then this is not it, but if you’re looking for a complete perfume with endless versatility and won’t offend everyone around you whilst using real musks, you’re in luck.

I haven't bought a perfume in a long time. I don't really *need* anything in my collection. But I ended up almost by accident with a tiny vial of Honey & Deer Musk and I wore that thing until there wasn't a drop left. My bottle just arrived. Unlike so many very small perfumers it arrived in a lovely wooden box, (sealed with gold foil) packed tight with strands of wood curls/raffia. The bottle is incredibly simple, but elegant. And well, there's that powdery, warm, soft hug of a fragrance. This is one you have to experience. It is sunlight on a shimmering pelt. But it is also a jar of honey warm and sweet. And it is neither because of course it is a lovely medley of the two. I wish there'd been a sample of one of his other creations included, but then again, given how good Matthew is my pocketbook probably rathers there weren't.

I love this! This is soooo clean! You wonder how?-It has strong animal notes civet and castoreum -- animal notes have funk stinch and tang. HDM turn down funk stinch; turn up tang. Its like the green soapy tang in realistic florals (indolic). HDM not indolic. Honey and Deer Musk is very soapy. This powdery clean. Dirty honey! The animal notes used to make honey realistic raw unprocessed; animalic. This mature sweet. This transition into sweet floral. Honey dominant perfume, honey transition too. This like surypie slight buttery salted-caramelized amber with floral greeness. Transition again to sweet leather; the sharp nasty animal stinch is curved into 'genuine leather smell'. The soapiness keep the stinch curved HONEY FELL ON FUR SET ON SANDALWOOD Remind me Bengale Rouge Papillon Artisan Perfumes

I am writing the same general review for my favorite Meleg perfumes - Civet Cat Chypre, Birch Tar and Russian Leather, Honey and Deer Musk, Madeline Peach, Oakmoss Forest Florals, and Mushin. I am very particular about perfume, and it is not often that I find something I really love. I expected to really like 1 out of the 10 samples of the sample set I received from Etsy, but there were 6! They are very special - unique, smooth, well blended, interesting, wearable, beautiful, and addictive! Nothing weird or harsh standing out, and nothing like I’ve smelled before out of the over 1000 perfumes I’ve encountered just in the last few years.

That 80s honey with vintage musk! Sounds cliché, but smells like sex. In a classy, elegant fashion. It is NOT as strong as the infamous Kouros "urinal" note. (Which I love!) Reminds me of the musk from Opium. A bit linear: You get sexy musk and 80s honey all night. It is a simpler, more natural version of Balenciaga Pour Homme. Makes it really hard to choose which full bottle to buy...