Musk

🐚 Musk

Fragrance Family: Musk / Oriental / Floral

Definition: A soft, warm, and sensual fragrance family originally derived from animal sources but now primarily created synthetically. Musk adds a clean, powdery, and intimate depth to fragrances, enhancing longevity and smoothness.

Ingredients: Natural musk (historical), synthetic musks (e.g., galaxolide, ambrettolide, muscone), white musk, animalic musks, musk ambrette.

Subfamilies / Styles: Clean musk, animalic musk, floral musk, powdery musk.

Character: Soft, warm, sensual, powdery, clean, intimate, smooth, comforting.