Musk Extreme

Simple scent, simple review... I wear this always when I want to calm down. This is comfortable, soft, cozy, baby powdery musk with Iris and Vanilla. It’s anyway somehow classy as well when paired with totally light beige or white clothes. I even feel self confident when wearing this and white or light beige clothes. With this perfume, the color is everything. With black clothes it’s just some boring baby powder. It's great scent when worn after a shower as well and then it feels like a second skin. I like Ambre Gris | Perris Monte Carlo a lot as well but sometimes, rarely though, that feels too synthetic and cloying. That problem I have never with Musk Extrême. What comes to the notes, I don’t find anything animalic here, just a pleasant sensual musk but I have to mention that I love very animalic and dirty scents so my range is wide. To my nose, this is not spicy either. This is good scent especially if thinking the price but the texture is a bit rough compared with more expensive perfumes in this genre, like Musc Infini | Ex Nihilo for example. Still Musk Extreme remains one of my favorite musk Vanilla scents. Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more.

What I get is a very soapy, dry musk, polished and perfumed, with a light aldehydic sparkle and plenty of sheer iris giving it a refined air. It feels clean to the point of sterility – perhaps that’s the “extreme” the name refers to. If you’re looking for dirt or warmth, you won’t find it here. This is musk at its most pristine: soapy, slightly aldehydic, scrubbed clean.

Musk is generally obtained for deer glands and i own few essential oils which are very animalist which is how deer musk should smell like however Perris monte carlo musk extreme is more clean musk IMO and its using Muscone which is organic compound of natural musk and mostly used in all Musk perfume. As you spray this perfume you smell tinge of citrus along with good dose of carnation and jasmine. It gives a very powdery feeling now and reminds of my childhood where i used to go to school with good dose of powder to get through the heat of Delhi, this opening will stay for few minutes only and then it moves into musky iris fragrance which is quite classic genre style and suited for matured gentleman. This perfume is quite linear in its development once its comes into dry down and will very good projection and silage. It stays good 10 hours on the skin and as stated that i feel this is suited for person who is above 30 or may be older to rock very well all year along. It’s quite a clean fragrance and some folks may ne anosmic as musk is one note which is not detected by everyone. This may be slow love as at first I was not very pleased when I first tried however I have started to appreciate this more and on some days where I want to smell musky I reach out of this and gives me a nice feeling from my childhood. It retails for 190$ for 100 ML so I would suggest you sample this first and if you looking for cheaper option then musk extreme by alyssa Ashley is good option with exact same note breakdown!(7/10)

I must have a lovely bottle! The scent is gorgeous warm cosy musk. Yes, very similar to Alyssa Ashley (AA) Musk perfume oil (in the long dabber bottle) but Musk Extreme is not soapy on me. I havent tried the AA version of Musc Extreme and if it shares the uncanny resemblance with the Perris version then i can see why the latter will be criticised for being so overpriced. However one thing i must point out is that whilst AA musk is similar, that gives me a headache and Musk Extreme doesnt - which is rare for a musk fragrance as most (including other niches) end up giving me an awful headache. I understand the No 5 without aldehyde comparisons, though Musk Extreme is less in jasmine and its so not extreme in musk! It is a very clean cosy furry animal type scent and far less animalic than Clair de Musc which is the closest i can describe after Alyssa Ashley Musk (for those who havent smelt AA Musk). This happens to be my HG musk scent. Fortunately i received this in a swap and wouldnt purchase this for its close to the skin sillage, but would probably check out the Alyssa Ashley version as an alternative. Thanks soooo much SabrinaUK :) xx Update June 2018: I smelt this at a dept store in London and the scent was different to that in my bottle. The dept store tester may have been off and had I based my review on that one then I wouldn't have anything wonderful to say about it!

Pleasant. It's a lightly animalic, sweet carnation + vanilla + musk. I prefer it in the drydown, where the musk feels rounder and more cozy. Personally, not sure I'd buy this just because I find the price hard to justify (if I squint, it's close enough to many other cheaper, equally enjoyable musks) - I have Clair de Musc (sharper and soapier), Original Musk (similar vibes, except Musk Extreme is slightly sweeter), White Musk (Monotheme) which is fairly similar... lovely, cozy, but for 200+ dollars in my country? Soft pass. --- Edit: I went back another day, hoping to give this another shot, but found that this dried down slightly metallic this time.