Madame X
by Ava Luxe

Yes, this fragrance says sex. That kind of morning after, roll out of bed and put on last nights clothes before leaving, kind of sex. But the animalistic notes settle down as the day wears on. I find great longevity with this scent. And if I want to wear it in the daytime I pair it with Ava Luxe's Love's True Bluish Light....bit of a lion tamer.

27th January, 2011.

Some of the previous reviews got me wondering whether I was wearing the same fragrance yesterday. Anyway, this is my take:
I have very high respect for Ingmar Bergman's movies and therefore, one of my most favorite is "Hour of the Wolf", which is also one of his most challenging and disturbing ones. It kept me busy thinking for at least two weeks. It features a very prominent scene - a party at the castle of this deserted island. Wearing and sniffing Madame X I figure being impressed by the appearance of Madame X at this party, beautiful and classy wearing a red robe. I turn around to get her a glass of champagne and turn back to see her in the red dress, but a wolf's head :) The fragrance Madame X starts off with style, a burst of opulence and class (read the note list above!) just to very soon transform into something deeply and smokily animalic and only hints of the initial beauty left. In the drydown, which stays very close to the skin, the initial complex smelling beauty, is gradually coming back to the foreground a bit, but never to make a full appearance again. This is a surreal fragrance like the movie I am referring to. What an experience! This is fabulous and I'm so happy I dared to buy it blind. On the more "technical" side it wears very close to my skin with moderate longevity, which I don't fault it for. This is more of an experiment and experience than a fragrance I would ware every day. For comparison reasons I had Rose de Nuit on the other wrist, Muscs Koublai Khan on the inside of my arm and further up both of them layered. All three variations share a certain vibe. Unfortunately, I am not experienced enough to distinguish castoreum or civet as individual notes, but maybe these added to a layered RdN and MKK would make a very close scent...

22nd June, 2010.

I tried Madame x because I was looking for a new ambergris fragrance, and after reading the reviews here, I was impressed.
Its everything everyone here says: ambergris, moss, animal, hot sex.
I LOVE it.
If you like the majority of the fragrance notes listed, you'll love it too.
When I wear it, I dont douse myself in it, just dab on my neck and wrists - so I dont know if its just me or if it isnt long lasting at all.

13rd August, 2009.

I love this one!
Sexy, mysterious, and a tiny bit bitchy; lasts well and projects teasingly, stays quite close and hovers slightly; but never engulfing the room.
As a bystander who catches a whiff, your emotions are stirred....What is that smell???
Who is it????....I want to smell it again!!!......
Sophisticated and complex, I detect musk, patchoulli, leather, amber, wood, powder, flowers and some vanilla maybe?
I think this is a femminine frag, and I like that it's warm and a tiny bit sweet but this is balanced by the woody or leather note.
A very attractive fragrance.
One of my top 10

25th July, 2009.

This house continues to charm me with pleasing, unpretentious scents. Of those I have tried, Madame X has thus far been the most complex. I smelled: rose, sandalwood, vanilla, amber, powder, incense, patchouli, and something else I couldn't quite put my finger on, but had a sort of astringent and dry quality to it. I did not necessarily smell the notes in the stated order

Madame X reminds me a bit of Givenchy Organza Indecence, but is more dry, less spicy, less woody, and much shorter lived (after about 4 hours it is an amber-vanilla skin scent). It is a beautifully composed oriental, right smack in the middle of what I am typically attracted to. I am going to enjoy this large sample!

19th October, 2008.

Towards the beginning, this was a lot more powdery than I thought it was going to be. I get this intense note that reminds of jojoba talc and it dominates for a while, but it doesn't entirely cover up the sexual animal underneath. After a good while this starts to get raunchy yet calculated and refined, and I say raunchy with the utmost praise. I had a hard time phrasing that sentence because its not quite right. It's not that the scent is ambiguous, but it just stirs up so much that I'm at a loss for concise words. This is fantastic on a woman, it drives me absolutely wild. A bit too powdery for a man, though it eventually backs off, but I think the right guy could still pull it off. Madame X is a seriously complex character, and I look forward to every meeting.

13rd August, 2008.