Musc Eau de Parfum

Molinard Musc is a perfume I gifted to myself for my birthday in 2019. It was also my first touch with the great and old house of Molinard from Grasse, France. What attracted me the most about Musc was the affordability of the brand and interesting notes that seemed like they would be right in my alley. Here are my 5 quick takes: - The best affordable woody oriental niche perfume on the market - A complex and rich composition with a sublime performance - Created in 2015 as a part of Matieres Les Elements collection - Recommended for leisure use during the colder months - Fragrance enthusiasts will love it but could be challenging for casual wearers. Harsh top and middle notes I liked and enjoyed Molinard Musc. It offers something else for perfume connoisseurs, and you owe yourself to at least sample it out. Read the full review at scentgrail.com

Lovely stuff, highly recommended even to the musk haters since this is a quite interesting experience. The nag champa, head shop in cornwall, hippie association is obvious but why not? I love it quite a lot and it gives a much more enjoyable edge to musk. After a pretty brief opening note of citrus and jasmine, the scent becomes a lovely skanky sexy musk, with sweet undertones of vanilla and amber. Patchouli here is pretty huge but it's so lovely (and I'm not a regular patchouli fan) and so sweetly well blended with everything else that's impossible not to fall in love. I have many perfumes from Molinard and I've never been disappointed: they are doing what a quality brand should be doing, creating simply brilliant work.

I agree completely with the nag champa incense. The smell of a head shop or hippie vinyl record store. My hubs said "It smells like grape cotton candy in Bob Marleys dressing room." The opening has a grape fruity note. It moves into the nag champa phase quickly and there even was a brief sour metallic almost cat pee note that I endured. It wasn't off putting oddly enough, just strange. Then the drydown which pretty much just smells of incense. If you missed the summer of free love and daisy headbands then this is for you. It's groovy hippie juice.

I read a review of this fragrance on a Facebook group for fragrance lovers and it was referred to as smelling like a "head shop." Growing up in a liberal, college town in the late 60s early 70s left me with a love of fragrances reminiscent of that era. I blind bought this (my first blind buy ever). I could not wait to put it on once it arrived and it was love at first smell, which lasted maybe thirty minutes, and then nothing. I absolutely adore this fragrance but I am going to have to figure out a way to make it last on my skin.

Molinard is an amazing Niche House with high-quality fragrances for an affordable price. I recently discovered it and I am in awe. Musc is a unique take on Musk's fragrances. Smells deep rich and balsamic like a boho Indian Shop from the ’90s. Longevity and sillage are outstanding. Not a crowd-pleasing kinda fragrance but definitely for those who love unique niche-like scents. My goal is to buy every single one from the Collection Matieres Les Elements. This shows how much I am deeply impressed with Molinard. @deepgreenbeauty

This could have very well have been named Opoponax Labdanum. The opening is a delicious syrupy concord grape (methyl anthranilate, perhaps the intention was to impart orange flower, but its all Grape Crush to my nose, in the best possible way). This gives way to the opoponax, all toffee-like with a dash of savory. However, it's worth noting that entire fragrance seems to use a fractional distillation of labdanum like ambrarome or dynarome, all dusty, animalic, and tenacious. 'C'est ne pas une musc.' 8.5/10

First and foremost if you are looking for a "hippie" fragrance look no further, The patchouli, amber and musk combine to make the beautiful "Nag champs" like scent without the smoke ....the opening will throw you off but give it a minute initial spray will smell similar to grape soda and five minutes later you feel like you could be watching Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, if you like Nag Champa you will not be disappointed, it's not a loud fragrance in any means but it does seem to last most of the day

Rich, enveloping, persistent ... a complex, mostly balsamic bouquet with fruity floral notes between frangipane and strawberry grapes. Molinard is a perfume house distant a thousand light years away from all the famous and notorious niches which often offer cheap fragrances at unreasonable prices. molinard combines a very high quality and originality at reasonable prices. The Grasse show room is a place where you can lose yourself in fragrances and dreamy atmospheres. well done Molinard!

From my amateur nose perspective, there are three different musk in this fragrance world; the real musk, the easy white musk, and the musk from Molinard. Yes Musc EdP from Molinard is different than any type of musk, it's intertwined and mingling with heavy but smooth patchouli. There's also something resinous but sweet benzoin or frankincense or opoponax that smells so good and comforting. IG @fragranceisindividual

Dear Lord I adore Molinard and have numerous bottles. For some reason, I've waited a while to buy this one. And it's my favourite! There's a distinct nutmeg note here and it's totally my vibe. Don't get anything pissy at all just pure spice and I love it. As with all the Molinards, smells far more expensive than it is. Definitely an Autumn/Winter fragrance. Big love 10/10 for me.

I love this. Sillage is heavy and it lasts for over eight hours on my (dry) skin. It is indestructible on clothing, so be careful where you spray it, unless you don't mind smelling like a hippy shop in Cornwall which sells tie-dye clothing, incense and wooden dope boxes with brass inlay on the lid. And wind chimes.

Wow, this is something I have been looking for so long. This enormous rich beauty that smells like incense... Its practically the same as oils that I used to buy in Indian shops in nineties. This perfume can also be layered- I tried Guerlain l'instant magic and its absolutely amazing... velvety magic

Sweet bubblegum type of scent with something animalic underneath. Interesting! It’s like a fluffy cloud of musk, flowers and tender sweetness, but then you have something woody and a bit skunky in the sillage (I believe it might be patchouli that gives that effect). Follow me on IG: scent.guide

The description here has the fragrance name spelled incorrectly , can that be adjusted to "Musc" ? Excellent festival , gypsy, hippie, head shop ,nag champa fragrance !

Absolutely brilliant, deep blended mix of resins, amber , musk and incense. Some may say it smells vintage but who cares. It's delicious, seductive and mysterious

Smells exactly like nag champa incense sticks... so meditative. A must have for all collections. Incredible quality for price. Very long lasting and potent

This smells like a head shop and a Halloween shop mixed together! Semi sweet musk with a tiny bit of spice. So good. Easily my favorite musk. 7/10

A beautiful well blended creamy musk, easily someone's everyday scent. Such a perfect musk. I love that its affordable yet feels good quality.

Whoa Nelly, this is Nag Champa incense in a bottle! I love it!

So, Im sitting her utterly dissapointed and perplexed bc I purchased Molinard mainley bc of these reviews folks have left which RAVE about the longevity, and uniquess of Molinard Musc. Sadly Im quite dissapointed bc the perfor.ance is really bad at the moment. Its very faint and does NOT seem to last very long at all in spite of what many of these reviews claim. I do like the actual scent, but again, quite shot-lived, about an hour or 2 tops of a faint scent. I REALLY, REALLY hope that this scent changes DRASTICALLY soon, bc $56 is NOT chump change! Anyhow.. Fingers Crossed and here's hoping. GRRRR😡 ‐----------------Edit---------------- Yeah, so I overreacted a bit OK! Lol! So it took about a week to open up, looks like my bottle just needed some air in it so it could "Oxidize". Its very smooth, NO harsh perfumer's alcohol blast in the opening. Im definately getting a bunch of Patchouli in the opening, which quickly transitions into a "grape soda vibe", I also see what folks mean about the Nag Champa incense vibe which makes this fragrance super unique. Although easily pulled off by us fellas, I feel that this fragrance is unisex with a lean to the feminine. Also, NOT that Molinard's Musc smells anything like these scents, but this kind of unique dna sorta reminds me of those great, "epic" 80's/90's fragrances like Dior's poison, Ysl's Opium or Calvin Klein's Obsession. It has excellent performance, about 8 hours on skin and days on clothes with really good projection, Id done just one spritz on the back of my hand to test it, and kept getting hit in the face by the BEAUTIFUL scent. Again, super unique and yeah, "Hippy-ish" I suppose, yet "Hippy nor Headshop" are words what immediately come to mind when I smell this. Great scent!