I'm coming to the conclusion that I must be amnosmic to musk.
I have a big 5ml decant of Musk Kulbi Kan, and I can soak myself in the stuff, and I get none of the skanky dirty rotting urinious notes that seem to be the main attraction of this Lutens Classic.
All I smell is a not-particularly-interesting sweetish somewhat rose-floralish thing that fades quicker than I might want it to. If I use my imagination, I might get an edge-wise hint of smoke, but even that could be illusionary.
I suspect I'm not the only one with this problem, so I have two questions.
1) If you are among that apparently-some-what common group of people with the same problem, what does MKK smell like to you ?
2) How would I go about getting a sense of what musk actually does smell like ?
As an aside, I seemingly have no problem ( or so I think ) smelling many of the nasty smells that musk apparently smells like to some people, and I certainly have no problem smelling castorium, the natural musk of beavers.
We used to canoe along the river and picnic at a spot where beavers would make those little mud pie-like scent mounds, and if the weather was hot, and the wind turned in the wrong direction, the musky sweetness could almost drive you out of the place. I can also smell the sulferious musk of skunks as well.
I'm assuming that the musk used in perfume is different than those two.....but how would I be able to tell ?
Are there places that sell straight-up samples of the sort used in perfume, and which might be strong enough for me to get a hint of what people are talking about when they talk about musk ? Are there "reference musk" types of perfume that might be able to tell the tale ? I always thought that MKK was one of them, but perhaps I'm wrong ?
But my sense is that if I can't smell anything particularly special in MKK, then I must indeed be amnosmic for musk.
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I have a big 5ml decant of Musk Kulbi Kan, and I can soak myself in the stuff, and I get none of the skanky dirty rotting urinious notes that seem to be the main attraction of this Lutens Classic.
All I smell is a not-particularly-interesting sweetish somewhat rose-floralish thing that fades quicker than I might want it to. If I use my imagination, I might get an edge-wise hint of smoke, but even that could be illusionary.
I suspect I'm not the only one with this problem, so I have two questions.
1) If you are among that apparently-some-what common group of people with the same problem, what does MKK smell like to you ?
2) How would I go about getting a sense of what musk actually does smell like ?
As an aside, I seemingly have no problem ( or so I think ) smelling many of the nasty smells that musk apparently smells like to some people, and I certainly have no problem smelling castorium, the natural musk of beavers.
We used to canoe along the river and picnic at a spot where beavers would make those little mud pie-like scent mounds, and if the weather was hot, and the wind turned in the wrong direction, the musky sweetness could almost drive you out of the place. I can also smell the sulferious musk of skunks as well.
I'm assuming that the musk used in perfume is different than those two.....but how would I be able to tell ?
Are there places that sell straight-up samples of the sort used in perfume, and which might be strong enough for me to get a hint of what people are talking about when they talk about musk ? Are there "reference musk" types of perfume that might be able to tell the tale ? I always thought that MKK was one of them, but perhaps I'm wrong ?
But my sense is that if I can't smell anything particularly special in MKK, then I must indeed be amnosmic for musk.
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Whoa! I did not expect that.
