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Musk fragrances

Musky notes with soft, powdery, clean or animalic facets, depending on the composition.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

55 fragrances

212 Men NYC Eau de Toilette

Carolina Herrera — One wearer smelled it on a well-groomed colleague and ordered a bottle, another has worn it for seventeen years, and a third hears New York nightlife from before social media.

5th Avenue Eau de Parfum

Elizabeth Arden — Lilac, lily of the valley and linden blossom, clean as a fresh white shirt: a polished 1990s floral that one owner kept for a conservative office and another traced, on a dog walk, to a woman of 84.

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum

Issey Miyake Parfums — Soft in projection, wearers often find, and anywhere from short to long in duration: creamy almond milk, lilac and rose on a powdery vanilla..

Alien Eau de Parfum

Mugler — Current bottles project strongly and persist, by many wearers' accounts, with jasmine sambac in the lead and warm cashmeran and amber behind it..

Amazing Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Clean laundry and soap in a bottle: a soft, powdery floral that reads as freshly showered, quiet enough for a library and unlikely to offend anyone.

Amber Perfume Oil

Nemat — More clean musk than amber: sun-warmed cotton and freshly washed skin with a faint sweetness, worn close and often layered under other scents.

Ari Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Juicy pear, pink grapefruit and raspberry open sharp and sparkling, then muguet and rose settle into a marshmallow that several wearers place exactly: the coloured ones from the supermarket bag.

Aventus

Creed — It starts as pineapple, apple, bergamot and blackcurrant and turns smoky and mossy as birch, patchouli and musk come through, a clean, fresh thread running from start to finish.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

Bright Crystal Eau de Toilette

Versace — Tart rather than sugary, pomegranate and yuzu sit on an icy, watery lotus: to one fan, an iced floral lemonade on a hot day.

Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Tuberose front and centre, with a cool, green eucalyptus-and-melon opening.

Champaca Parfum

Ormonde Jayne — Moderate, close wear is the usual report for this creamy champaca and freesia on warm, starchy rice, freshened by green tea and bamboo..

CK One Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — Clean in the literal sense: wearers describe citrus and green tea over a soapy musk, the scent of having just showered.

Classic Warm Cotton

CLEAN Beauty Collective — Freshly dried laundry, as reviewers keep putting it, built from bright lemon, cotton and a marine note on warm musk.

Concrete

Comme des Garçons — Its mineral side divides reviewers, chalk or cement dust for some and a sherbet or bubblegum sweetness for others, set among cumin, clove and a metallic rose on creamy, powdery wood..

Daisy Eau de Toilette

Marc Jacobs — Staying close and lasting a few hours, by reviewers' general account, this is light wild berries and white violet on soft sandalwood..

En Passant

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Glow Eau de Toilette

Jennifer Lopez — Just-showered skin is the brief, and wearers say it delivers: clean soap, cold cream and body lotion over a soft, musky powder.

God is a Woman Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Pear carries this one and the wearers know it: fresh-cut, watery, candied, stored in its own juice, dipped in caramel.

Her Eau de Parfum

Burberry — The limited reports describe jammy berries, violet, clean musk and dry amber.

Jasmin et Cigarette Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — In the accounts of those who wear it: rich jasmine and cold tobacco ash, a dry turmeric accent, and a little tonka sweetness under the smoky floral..

Kouros Eau de Toilette

Yves Saint Laurent — Soap and sweat in the same breath: clove and carnation over a musky, animal warmth that owners liken to clean bedsheets and, less kindly, to a urinal cake.

Libre Eau de Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent — Noticeable at a distance and long-wearing, by the general run of reviews, it pairs sharp, aromatic lavender and orange blossom with sweet vanilla..

Light Blue Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Crisp and fresh is how wearers put it: sharp lemon and green apple against a light cedar background..

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

Lovely Eau de Parfum

Sarah Jessica Parker — Musk dominates for many wearers, under a lavender-and-bergamot opening and a soft floral heart, and the argument is whether it is the bargain twin of Narciso Rodriguez For Her or a pale copy.

Million Gold for Her Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — For one reviewer the dry-down is the whole point: they smelled it on their boyfriend's chest, found that store strips could not match it, and bought a bottle once a stray spray landed on a finger.

MOD Blush Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Raspberry and passionfruit hit first and hard — a fruit explosion, in one wearer's words, with a ripe peach nobody can find on the note list — before magnolia and rose soften it and an ambery wood holds the end.

MOD Vanilla Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Cool rather than sugary, this is what one wearer calls a vanilla for people who dislike vanilla.

Modern Muse Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Strangers stop wearers to ask what it is, and one owner's car still smells of it at the end of the workday: a white-floral bouquet led by jasmine, with honeysuckle, tuberose and lily on patchouli, vanilla and a woody musk.

Mûre et Musc Eau de Toilette

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Picked off the bush, leaf and thorn included, the blackberry sits on a clean white musk, though for some the fruit barely shows and it wears as fresh laundry.

Narcisse Noir (2021) Parfum

Caron — Less animalic than older Narcisse Noir, wearers who compare the two often find: dry orange blossom and jonquil, a green, waxy narcissus, and sandalwood and vetiver beneath..

Night Flyer Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Damp earth, mineral air and resins, with ripe figs, banana and other tropical fruit.

Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum

Juliette Has a Gun — A single molecule, and it behaves like one: clean, faintly woody, musky skin that some wear straight out of the shower and others layer under everything.

Oud for Greatness Eau de Parfum

Initio Parfums Privés — Very strong early projection and long persistence are what many reviewers report from this saffron-and-lavender oud, smooth and sweet, though some accounts describe weaker wear..

Passage d'Enfer

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.

Pure Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Soap and water, mostly: laundry off the line to one wearer, a white T-shirt to another, Nivea cream out of the cold blue tin to a third.

Salome Eau de Parfum

Papillon Artisan Perfumes — Jasmine and rose with the lights turned down: cumin, honeyed musk and a warm animalic purr that wearers compare to Bal à Versailles and other vintage chypres.

Santal 33 Eau de Parfum

Le Labo — To the people who wear it, this is smoky sandalwood and cedar, spiced with cardamom and softened by something creamy, violet and iris.

The Ghost in the Shell Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Soft as it is, some wearers find it long-lasting: yuzu and a milky skin accord that leaves synthetic, plastic or cool metallic impressions, resting on moss and amber woods..

Vanilla | 28 Eau de Parfum

KAYALI — Sweet vanilla and brown sugar after a jasmine opening, with patchouli and amber giving the drydown an earthier edge.

White Musk Eau de Toilette

The Body Shop — Clean, soft musk with a powdery floral lift, comforting rather than loud: owners of thirty years call it uplifting and still collect compliments, and one layers it under everything else.

White Rice Eau de Parfum

d'Annam — A skin scent by design, and owners wear it that way: steamed, faintly nutty rice and green pandan that settle into orris, jasmine and clean white musk.

White Tea Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — If neutral had a scent, one wearer says, this would be it: creamy tea and a clean sea breeze settling into soft musk, as easy at the office as at bedtime.

You Eau de Parfum

Glossier — Pink pepper, powdery iris and a warm, faintly sweet musk that reads like skin.