Note

Muscone

Muscone smells softly warm and musky, with a skin-like sweetness and a faint animalic edge. It forms a lasting base, rounding flowers, woods and amber while helping the perfume feel cohesive.

In 3 perfumes.

Found in Afrika-Olifant, Opus VII Reckless Leather and Rose Atlantic

Most popular with muscone

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to muscone more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Musky and animalic above all. Reaches for leather, aquatic and fresh far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for sweet and vanilla.

  • musky
  • animalic
  • woody
  • fresh
  • balsamic
  • leather
  • earthy
  • citrus