Musc

UNISEX?? This is a total feminine powder bomb to me. While I think people should wear whatever fragrance they like despite any label, this is outrageously feminine in my opinion. Once it settles, after a good hour, it is an absolutely beautiful fragrance. The opening is pretty potent and a little all over the place for me but after 15 minutes it starts coming together and you could consider getting around other human beings but I would highly recommend waiting at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour. Others may not share the joy until this settles a bit. But once it develops into the final product, it is actually quite soft and lovely while still having a little heft to it. This has an spicey amber oriental vibe to me initially and I was not expecting that. I don't think there is even any amber in there but the combination of notes creates it for my nose. It is definitely a fall/winter fragrance in my opinion. While it is soft and powdery there is a weight to it and it just feels like a bit much for the warmer months. I am wearing it today in August and it keeps indirectly reminding me that fall is around the corner. I can see how it could be something that some would fall madly in love with.

A lot of people think Musc smells like some sort of baby/body lotion, and I see where they are coming from, but to describe Musc as a cosmetic product is a bit unfair and quite reductive. Yes it smells powdery thanks to a delicate almond-leaning heliotrope note, but it also smells a bit salty, like sun-dried skin. Not quite something you apply to your skin, but more so your warm body wearing a lotion. Its structure is dry and airy, not wet and dense like most baby powder smelling perfumes'. It's more or less a skin scent but lasts a long time. I wear it on cozy evenings spent alone, quiet nights dedicated to introspection and recharging.

In my opinion this is the best muscs ever made in perfumery. There is nothing artificial or metallic in this fragrance. You can feel real animalic musc note, however it is nothing unpleasant or stinky. The fragrance creates unbelievably cozy aura, like warm blanket made of Kashmir wool. Forget Musc by Serge Lutens. This one is sophisticated made with passion not to shock people around as other niche musc fragrances. Tonka is perfectly balanced and together with heliotrope creates buttery soft aura similar to almonds. I can imagine how perfect it will be to wear this fragrance during cold fall or winter days.

To quote Lady Macbeth "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't.” This went straight to the to purchase pile and i can't wait to have a full bottle at my disposal. A perfect, balanced fragrance. Good for day, night, casual, dressy, it makes me rethink my " no signature" policy. I usually don't pick up much from musk notes but this one I can smell in all it's glory. Powdery and light with something darker and dirtier lying just underneath that just hovers on the edge of perception. Cravable, lovable, warm, sensual, makes you want to lean in closer with its tonka dry down.

Despite few terrific comments - by..... some "laureate" experts - I believe that M. di O. Musc is - in all its complexity - one of the best existing or at least that I've chanced to meet. Sincerely I'm so puzzled because I've never been a fan of this ingredient... but...."coup de foudre!" That was the very first time I fell in love with it or Mona must have put a spell on me. I'd suggest to those who ignore what I'm talking about to have a go with it: try it on your wrist and.......wait, the miracle won't be late!!! ;-)

I am a huge musc fan, when I wear it I often get compliments from men! I can wear this soft musc to go to work, I also have the Lorenzo Villoresi musc but that is so strong and lasting I only wear it to go out. Unfortunately the only shop in my city that sold it recently closed. I am not use to bying things on the internet, so I will cherrish the little bit that is left in the bottle until I find another place to buy it. Edit: december 2014 I decided after all to order a new one online! Can't imaging myself without it.

When I first sampled this I didn't much care for it, thought it was forgettable. One day I needed something unobtrusive and I reached for it and then I fell in love. It's not too soapy, powdery or sweet, not too animalic, it will offend no one, interest no one, seduce no one. It will never precede you, speak for you or insult those around you. It is polite, warm and well behaved. If you don't like or want a statement fragrance but you do want a calm, collected, confident embrace of a fragrance then this may be for you.

To tell the truth,I'm not a big fan of Musc,but I like that:yes it's simple but suave and no synthetic at all. I'm in mourning for the cancellation of the old Mona di Orio Line,such a loss! They were difficult perfumes,especially Nuit Noir,because of the known indolic note,but in these scents I could recognize all the talent of the creative Mona.

با رایحه زیبا و ملایم گلی شروع میشه و بعد رایحه پودری به رایحه گلی اضافه میشه و با ملایمت یه حس مخملی زیبا داره رز به اون شکلی که بشه گفن رزی خیر ولی یه رایحه ملایم و پودری توی عطر داره بنده زیاد حرفه ای نیستم ولی اون چیزی که به عنوان مشک توی چندتاکار دیگه بو کرده بودم رو اینجا حس نمیکنم به اون شکل فقط کمی پودری بودن بیشتر میشه

This is gorgeous. On application, I get a lovely baby powder scent that lingers until the vanilla and musc remain. This would be very suitable for work wear as it has good lasting power but is close to my skin. I only got a small sample, so this may become a full bottle as soon as I can afford it.

Full on powder in the beginning, but after a while MDO Musc dries down to one of the most loveliest and softest scents I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. It contains very little musk but this is a wonderful fragrance to say the least. Again I warn you, powder phobics beware.

Very lovely soft musk that on me evolves into soft flowers and even a rose/chamomile type scent. A bit gourmand with the tonka and almonds. Absolutely loooove this. It's very feminine and yummie! 9/10

Wonderful, mystical and smooth! It can work for those guys who like powedery scents like Dior Homme intense. Dior has a woody quality as well what makes it more masculin.

being eau de toilette it lasts and lasts very long.Not for everyday use, I have to be in the mood for Musc.

I remember when sampling "Musc" few years back (2013 maybe) and so as Ambre, i didn't like any of them! or in another words, i didn't understand any of them cause i was so much concentrating on "Cuir" as it was presented to me by a seller in a niche shop & it was one of the weirdest fragrances that my nose experienced back then that even took me days and weeks to accept it, got along with it, fell in love for it, got used to it, and then wanted to experience something weirder than it (Cuir). From that experience, honestly i didn't understand how the mind works until i meet Jeroen this month, He summed up what i was facing and made me realize that the "NO, NOT FOR ME" rejections was just new scents that i haven't smell before and i am rejecting them just because of that! The weirder things that i have realized after meeting him are the replies i get from the sellers i know for years in some niche shop that i always go to every-time i meet them, they keep on giving me that look of "Really! now you like it? what happened?"... it was because i gave these weird scents more time to understand, find away to enjoy it, and again give it more time, cause who knows it might end up to be one of my favorites! and that what i was exactly experiencing.. for instance, i used to extremely dislike animalics now the animalic is my favorite note! so as for vanilla, & floral. Now this musc as Jeroen described, he said Mona wanted to create something animalic but she didn't want to use the Civet so she combined few notes to give an animalic with sensuality, something sexy, luring, and full of ecstasy... Eventually .. yes she did... This is a sexy musc, animalic with slight clean fresh.. skin smell (not skin scent) that shouts sexuality AND NOT synthetic in any way and surprisingly it doesn't contain real civet!!! Superbly blended & balanced.

Fragrance with a very prominent note of musks, with a powerful heliotrope and a smooth, pale rose note. The opening of neroli is short and since the beginning appears a note of aldehydes undeclared enduring enough and that brings the whole effect between soap, clean and somewhat waxy. All this combined with heliotrope and musks produces a sensation almond, dense and creamy, all very wraparound at the same complex. And wake lasts well above the average, with a semilinear evolution. It's funny, but Musk and Rose Etoile feel them as the most retro versions of Mona, however, Musk is not among my favorites. Rating: 6.5

This was a totally unexpected hit for me. The opening is big and floral with the heliotrope, but it settles very quickly into a beautiful delicate musk. This isn't a sexy, feral musk, its sweet but not too sweet, light and ethereal, almost like clean scented skin. There was definitely a touch of fresh linen and laundry in there, a clean soapy note. This is very understated with minimal sillage on me, but it's long lasting. I think this is a summery day time fragrance.

A present. This scent was very unable to scare on me, and it had a smell of low-fat milk with sugar or a small sweet or two that dropped into my glass and drowned there. People around me liked it. Did I? Well, it was kind of nice and even not bad sometimes, when I felt like it, it did not sound like a screaming scent. But I like milk that has all the fat it should as long as I can remember.

muschio dolce che ricorda un bel po' teint de neige di villoresi, senza però quell'effetto di borotalco. non si tratta di un muschio bianco (per fortuna) nè del muschio erbaceo, ma piuttosto di un muschio non troppo invasivo perchè sostenuto da eliotropo e fave di tonka. il risultato è un bouquet dolce e leggermente saponoso, che non comprerei, ma che non mi disturba troppo. discreto.

Like a floral baby powder. Its very innocent and sweet, like a dried rose in the sunlight. The powdery musk makes it like a very expensive baby powder. The heliotrope and neroli are nice delicate floral notes but the rose does not come through as much. I really like this scent, its very pure and delicate and different from other perfumes ive smelt.