Musk and new Musk Extreme (Alyssa Ashley) 1/2
Sometimes I've heard people say that only spending
at least 100 euros you can buy a perfume
- Well-built and original
- Harmonious
- Exciting
- With a sillage
- Long-living on skin.
Uhm.
A part that I'm not sure 100 euros will always enable you to purchase something with even one of the above described
features, I found some great scents -both industrial and artistic-
with a fantastic price per quality ratio. But sometimes they're so
advertised and highlighted... as to be almost invisible!
Alyssa Ashley's Musk from for example,
is one of these. Just because it's sold in GDO does not mean it's a
trivial or poor scent. Indeed, in this case the lineage is among the
noblest and the scent is, for musk lovers, is a must-sniff. But in
order to appreciate it you have to broaden horizons a bit, realizing
that name, bottle and packaging may have no importance at all -as far
as I'm concerned they may even be absent- and the only thing that
really matters is the scent itself, how it's built and how you
feel when you wear it, if you keep sniffing your wrists, if you smile
and your everyday tasks get smoother.
I remember I used to wear it as a kid,
it seemed the most seductive scent I could imagine!
A few years ago I
bought and edp and then an edt, but neither of them took me back in
time: both were slightly less sensual then the one I remembered. I
guess the mix of musks in the original formula did't comply with
IFRA's regulations and therefore a suitable replacement was needed. I
decided to let it go.
But then in a shop I saw the tiny 15ml
vial in oil and decided to give it a try: the 12 euro I spent didn't
bankrupted me, and made me rediscover an old love. I found that
people who used to wear this perfume twenty-five years ago, as me,
today certainly prefer the oil version because it's quite similar as
it used to be then.
But only when I tried the newest
"Extreme" version in oil I had the epiphany: here it is,
finally! The Musk Extreme only slightly differs from Musk (both in
oil) and mostly in the topnotes: where Extreme is warmer, creamy,
velvety, Musk is brighter, with certainly more aldehydes and a fresh
flowers accord (lily of the valley and rose?). Both possess the happy
characteristic of blending well with the skin on which they sit, and
this is due mainly to their vector being oil. In fact, in
alcohol-based perfumes alcohol evaporation leaves essential oils and
molecules "naked" on the skin, to heat up and evaporate in
their own, slower time; oil instead is a vector that incorporates the
other oils and evaporates together with them, allowing a slower and
more harmonious development, especially with particularly heavy notes
as musks. And although it tends to "close" fragrances a
little, when it comes to musks this is not a minus: it would be if we
were talking about citrus fruits or flowers, whose characteristics of
freshness, exuberance and directness are generally welcomed and
enhanced, while their usage in oil could "extinguish" a
little bit. (follows)
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