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Amouage Musk Attar

post #1 of 7
9/19/10 at 5:21am
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Does anyone have any experience with this one?

I thought it would contain some real musk but apparently it doesn't as I just read on les senteurs webpage that Amouage Musk - a mixture of vanilla and pure sandalwood oil; an environmentally acceptable alternative to pure animal musk.

I have already turned half my back to it but there could still be hope if there are some positive things to be read about it.
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post #2 of 7
9/19/10 at 7:36am
Are you referring to the Musk Abayad ? If so then this Amouage perfume is plant based white musk - nothing out of the ordinary and not that strong nor long lasting. There are better white musks on the market.
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post #3 of 7
9/19/10 at 7:39am
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Originally Posted by mikeysmyth View Post

Are you referring to the Musk Abayad ? If so then this Amouage perfume is plant based white musk - nothing out of the ordinary and not that strong nor long lasting. There are better white musks on the market.

No, I was referring to Amouage Musk, one of the several single note attars that they have, the others being Sandalwood, Jasmine & Rose.
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post #4 of 7
9/19/10 at 8:15am
I was shocked but how ordinary and uninteresting and unmusky it was.
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post #5 of 7
9/19/10 at 8:37am
I believe al qurashi has real animal musk, very expensive though.
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post #6 of 7
9/19/10 at 10:18am
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Originally Posted by hirch_duckfinder View Post

I was shocked but how ordinary and uninteresting and unmusky it was.

Thank you for nailing that for me. I am not even going to bother, sampling it.
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post #7 of 7
9/19/10 at 10:37am
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Originally Posted by Ekove View Post

I believe al qurashi has real animal musk, very expensive though.

I am wearing Al Qurashi's Musk Gazelle today and I seriously doubt that it has anything "real animal" in it. It is however a far more palatable fragrance to a Westerner than its Ajmal's namesake, much softer, more refined and attractive, but "real musk" it ain't. I am not complaining though, I've tried a number of pure animal musk tinctures and blends too and with one notable exception (Arabian Oud's King Fahad) I can't handle any of them - they tend to be way too uncompromising, in-your-face, brutally animalic scents of an alpha male who could roundhouse-kick Chuck Norris and generally out-man The Most Interesting Man In The World (who incidentally calls him sir).
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