The Mystery Of Musk: dupetit Botanical Musk Nr. 5

Alfredo Dupetit-Bernardi had his own unique way of interpreting the brief Anya McCoy laid out. Hr. Dupetit-Bernardi chose to work with three of his existing compositions as the foundation upon which he would build his “woody erotizing musk”.
Botanical Musk Nr. 5 served as a primer on Hr. Dupetit-Bernardi’s style of natural perfumery.
Hr. Dupetit-Bernardi found his own solution to the “mystery”. In this case it involved taking what came before and re-interpreting it into something brand new.

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The Mystery of Musk Natural Perfumer’s Guild Internet Project Epilogue: * a secret about the mystery of musk* + Draw for Strange Invisible Perfumes Temple Of Musk

Is it difficult to blend an accord similar to animal musk but solely with botanicals? You betcha. But the skilled perfumer can provide his or her customer with scents similar in effect to real musk by providing the human system the stimulus needed to enhance ones own ‘musk’ or personal scent. – We thank Anya McCoy and the Natural Perfumer’s Guild for including Cafleurebon in this project. We chose to spotlight each perfumer and their work individually. The draw for the bottle of Strange Invisible Perfumes Temple Of Musk we are giving away in conjunction with the project, ends July 7, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST

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The Mystery of Musk: Charna Ethier Providence Perfumes Musk Nouveau * les vices de ma jeunesse à Paris*

As in the words of Jean Claude Ellena, “A perfume must tell a story on the skin”. With eleven of the twelve submissions in, and having sniffed each one, I chose to write about the Mystery of Musk fragrance that told MY story…. Charna Ethier’s Musk Nouveau. The fragrance truly reminds me of the vices of my youth;a flashback to Paris of the early 1980s. Nous rencontrons l’auteur quand elle vivait à Paris

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The Mystery of Musk Verdigris by Elise Pearlstine of BellyFlowers Perfume *The Perfumer’s Walk*

Elise Pearlstine’s Verdigris is dirty, it is green, it is as rich and sexy as it was meant to be. The fir balsam, the clary sage and green mandarin greets the nose with a rainbow of bright flavors, the complexity and depth of the natural plant essences matched equally with the animalic drydown.
its as if Eve was indeed approaching Adam in the Garden and I… the voyeur…

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