Fragrance Reviews by stella

egyptian musk. some top notes throw in for fun, but nothing that bears mentioning. but here's the thing...if you like plain musk, this is one, in the edt (edp) form, which lasts absolutely forever. i mean, this stuff had serious cling. i spritzed a sample on my forearm yesterday morning, then took a shower, put on cuir de russie (a waste, i could only smells this light but insisitant musk) worked all day, put lotion on, spritzed bal a versailles on the same arm, more lotion, slept...and now i am still smelling this musk.
so if you have extra cash and would rather buy something pricey rather than one of the millions of inexpensive but identical egyptian musks out there, this is for you.
me...i'd recommend the bal a versailles.

first some sweetness, then mothballs. mothballs and cedar for a good while, enough mothballiness that i wondered if my coworkers thought i had taken my clothing out of storage this morning.
later on, it turned to something similar to but sweeter than the different company's sel de vetiver. i would swear this scent's notes were fruit, cedar/mothballs, and sweet vetiver. not bad, but not really likeable.

you kow, at first i found tthis rather horrendous, in that same screeching vein as NR and SJP. but now, an hour later, i'm finding i rather like it....it loses the screeching note and the flowers remain, as well as the musk. really not bad at all. no way is this a chypre, though.