White and "Light" Musk Recommendations

[biocarolyn]

A couple of things I thought of...sometimes the easiest way for me to isolate a note is to find a couple of blends that mention the note in descriptions, and then find the "common thread;" for me, the skin musk in Tamamo-No-Mae and Velvet Nudie was very similar, and easy to identify once I'd smelled it in both blends. I would agree that it is similar to white musk, but "rounder" to my nose. I get white musk as an almost cologne-y sharpness sometimes, but skin musk doesn't have that to me.

 

For Skin Musk (sorry, these were all LEs; but there are a bunch of Salons with skin musk listed that I haven't tried):

Tamamo-No-Mae

The Illustrated Woman (CD, this one is still available)

Velvet Nudie

Giant Vulva

 

Other white musk blends that I've enjoyed:

Embalming Fluid

Fae

Zephyr

Kuang Shi

Phobos

Ehecatl

 

And if you are interested in LEs:

F5

Thoos (this feels like Fae but with mandarin orange instead of peach to me)

The Girl (I know the description says "pale musk" but this is definitely white musk to me)

[Altaira]

Breathless Horror from this years Yules (icy white musk and thick olibanum with niaouli, carrot seed, white mint, and camphor) is a terrific light musk on me. It is a great 'clean body' scent. Mostly light musk with a fresh scrubbed skin scent with just a touch of astringent woodiness from the camphor.

[subtlesiren]

Just tested the Lurid Library and on me I get skin musk and books. It's very light and subdued.

[Deceitfuldescender]

Kinda craving some skin musk (honeyed as a plus as Capax Infinity is what has me jonsing.) but having issues with search to find just skin musk and not skin and musk seperately which is about a million.

[Lucchesa]

Kinda craving some skin musk (honeyed as a plus as Capax Infinity is what has me jonsing.) but having issues with search to find just skin musk and not skin and musk seperately which is about a million.

 

Have you tried RPG Neutral? You could layer it with a favorite honey scent.

[Assimbya]

Resurrecting this thread seeking some more skin musk recommendations!

 

I tried a decant of Brides of Dracula yesterday and the skin musk + honey + floral combination worked like a dream on my skin and was truly one of the most beautiful things I have ever smelled. I would love some more recommendations of scents which use skin musk in a related way while I continue to long after more Brides.

 

The only other scent I have tried with skin musk as a listed note is Vasilissa, which I like and want to retest soon, but the sandalwood rather takes over on me.

 

White musk also tends to work very well on me, but I have and love more scents with it already (Katharina!), and it doesn't quite give the warm, sensuous melting ambrosia of the skin musk.

[amoray]

25 minutes ago, Assimbya said:

 

I tried a decant of Brides of Dracula yesterday and the skin musk + honey + floral combination worked like a dream on my skin and was truly one of the most beautiful things I have ever smelled. I would love some more recommendations of scents which use skin musk in a related way while I continue to long after more Brides. 

I recently tried Like a Girl and it's a very pretty skin musk! I smelled it on my sweatshirt sleeve yesterday and was like "omg I smell so gooooood" and then I remembered the last time I wore that I used Like a Girl on that arm lol. It has sandalwood but it's Mysore sandalwood which works better for me than a lot of other sandalwood notes. It's creamier? I also have Woman Putting on her Stocking which has a skin musk note but I haven't tried it yet...will let you know. Neutral is just skin musk. And then also I think Glowing Vulva has a skin musk thing going on but it's not a listed note, but the vibe of that perfume is *skin musk*. As always YMMV.

[Assimbya]

2 hours ago, amoray said:

I recently tried Like a Girl and it's a very pretty skin musk! I smelled it on my sweatshirt sleeve yesterday and was like "omg I smell so gooooood" and then I remembered the last time I wore that I used Like a Girl on that arm lol. It has sandalwood but it's Mysore sandalwood which works better for me than a lot of other sandalwood notes. It's creamier? I also have Woman Putting on her Stocking which has a skin musk note but I haven't tried it yet...will let you know. Neutral is just skin musk. And then also I think Glowing Vulva has a skin musk thing going on but it's not a listed note, but the vibe of that perfume is *skin musk*. As always YMMV.

 

Ooh, thank you so much for these suggestions! I would have avoided Like a Girl because of the sandalwood, so hearing the way it works on you is very intriguing. I'll keep an eye out! And would love to hear how Woman Putting on Her Stocking works for you - it was one that intrigued me, but not enough to go for it.

 

I haven't gotten into the RPG scents yet mostly because of an aversion of layering, but I'll consider....