Francesca Bianchi Perfumes Unspoken Musk has both the comfort of a velvety cocoon and the intense naughtiness of a silk corset – all at once.
This Valentine’s Day look for fragrances with ingredients known for their sensual qualities: chocolate, rose and musk
Ramon Monegal Atractone Musk is a beautiful musky floral that floats above the skin like a reconstructed and re-composed memory.
In creating Jeroboam Insulo meaning (Island) in Esperanto, Vanina Muracciole created fragrance 24k magic by using two of the most common ingredients in perfumery musk and vanilla
It is testament to Vanina Muracciole’s talent that she has created a perfume that can both surprise and enrapture in equal measure. It is a scent that takes you by surprise and by the end one is transfixed in its luxurious and tempting nature. Jeroboam Ambra truly is a ‘Smooth Operator’ – an original and stirring take on the fantasy musk accord we think we know so well.
Parfum d’Empire Musc Tonkin opens with the most memorable erotic funk of the past several decades, but it’s far from being a mere muscular exercise on animalcy. Its roaring warmth is interwoven with heady white flowers, possibly tuberose and ylang-ylang along with a luscious confectionery of honeyed rose and osmanthus absolute melts on skin like a sumptuous liqueur. What makes Musc Tonkin really break through is the sparkle of orange blossom boosted by a genius marine note bridging the urinous mineralcy of African stone. The endless salty skin base accord softens in the hay-like hues of coumarin and patchouli, hinting in my mind to the languorous opium smokers of French Indochina. This miraculous balance of immaculate and dirty is the very soul of the XX century French perfumery featuring the (back then) widely available musk Tonkin as a the key ingredient. As many perfume reviews on the web point out, that there is a common ground with classics like Guerlain Mitsouko, Femme de Rochas, 1000 de Jean Patou and many others is no surprise. The vintage vibe is a happy result in this case, not a goal.
