Mûre et Musc Extrême (1993)
by L'Artisan Parfumeur

Now please dont anybody take this the wrong way, especially if you're a Mure et Musc lover .. but this scent literally made me want to vomit!
I got a strong aroma of sweaty, dirty bum (seriously, i kid you not. Does no-one else get this?) laced with sickly sweetness. Literally like someone had poured some sweet, syrupy gloop down a sweaty, dirty bum-crack. Thats the mental picture i got with every sniff, and couldnt shake off (no wonder i wanted to vomit, right?). I think the musk notes in this must be the animaly, dirty type musk? (rather than the soapy, clean white musks im used to).
And the sweet notes.. something akin to artificial (rotten) fruit. Urgh! For someone who is usually a lover of sweet gourmande notes this is just WAY too synthetically, nausiatingly sweet, even for me.
So yeah, for a scent i was dying to sample, and thought i would LOVE, this turned out to be a wholly unpleasant experience. I NEVER want to have to smell this odour again.
Actually, i tell you what else it reminded me of: When someone has been in the bathroom and, erm, stunk it out, and then sprayed a load of cheap sickly dewberry airfreshener to cover it up, but it just mingles into a sweet, poopy, dirty, gag-reflexing stench.
Yup, thats Mure et Musc in a nutshell for me. Thoroughly disgusting. :(

8th September, 2011.

No. I see, together with Off-Scenter and others, a bombastic accord of blackberries-raspberries-white musk too much pushed towards the fruity side in the way that, unlike than the original Mure et Musc, this one is unbalanced, too much fruity and deep, too banal. This one lacks that airy-woodsy feel of the regular version. The daring original one (courageous formula) is not my cup of tea but is better for sure.

30th May, 2011.

A WARNING TO ALL:

This is FEMININE! If you are a man and you wear this, you must not have any delusion about your masculinity carrying the fragrance. It's not as feminine as something specifically marketed towards women, but I do feel that it isn't quite wearable by a man that just wants to smell good. Even in today's world of vague ambiguity and metrosexuality, this is a little too much. It is also very potent, so go easy.

Now women, on the other hand, can wear this with impunity, unless I'm around, in which case they may have to get a restraining order. It's delicious and sexy and edible and everything a woman should smell like.

And it really is basically just berries and musk.

22nd September, 2010.

More potent than the original, it's true, but also seeming different in its composition. Whereas the berry-musk accord in Mûre et Musc is perfectly balanced, here things tilt decisively toward the sweet fruit. As a result, it misses much of the original's miraculous poise.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" never was more apt.

24th December, 2009.

Uhmm You smell like candy! is what my son said. Love this Berris and musk - who would have thought it would smell this good together.

23rd July, 2009.

Smells exactly like it says on the tin. A nice potent blackberry/raspberry combination on soft musk.

19th July, 2009.