musk

Description:

animalic, clean, comfortable, long-lasting, powdery, round, sexy, soft

Olfactive Profile:

Musky notes are animalic, skin-like, and sensual. This popular note adds depth and longevity to fragrances and has a familiar yet abstract, interesting quality. While traditionally sourced from a gland on the abdomen of the musk deer, this practice is now illegal and most modern musk notes are synthetic.

Facts:

Professor Leopold Ruzicka, a Nobel Prize-winning Croatian-Swiss chemist, analyzed the composition of animal-derived musk and discovered molecules with warm, soft, powdery, round tones. He then became the first to synthesize musk molecules, making it possible to make musk fragrances without animals—a discovery still hugely important to the fragrance industry today.

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