Note

Muscenone

Muscenone smells musky and softly powdery, with warm skin-like sweetness and a subtle animalic edge. It is a lasting base material that gives depth and diffusion to flowers, woods, and other musks.

In 3 perfumes.

Found in Afrika-Olifant, Blu Indaco and Governors Island

Most popular with muscenone

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to muscenone more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Musky and woody above all. Reaches for powdery, animalic and smoky far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for sweet and citrus.

  • musky
  • woody
  • powdery
  • animalic
  • balsamic
  • smoky
  • amber
  • leather