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grach_su25 – :
Re-post for An Article about this scent..
I was given a sample of this, I feel, after I mention my skittish, then love for Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire, at Barney’s.
I was impressed with the gourmand nature of this fruity fragrance. That was four years ago , but I still have the two sample I was given. I hadn’t really thought about it, ironically till last week, with the uproar of Tom Ford Lost Cherry, and a sample( card) I obtain. I sniff this from the sample vial, thinking this is what the Tom Ford should have been. This, Mure Et Musk, is worth 300.00 USD.
I typically don’t favor fruity(specifically berries/cherry)scents and would rarely wear this but this is an exceptional fruit scent. If I could afford the luxury of having something I would rarely wear and I believe it up there in price with Tom Ford Cherry, this would be worth a purchase.
a-timohin – :
This is all about berries. I don’t get blackberries as the note pyramide shows but more something like rasberries and strong bel berries.
It’s a thick & rich berry scent with strong white musk traces of basil and lemon, strong bel berries with a greenish vibe at the background. Very safe and very pleasant leaning slightly to feminine scents.
This is not a new smell for me. I had an air freshener which is almost indentical with Mure et Musc. So it’s not a very appealling scent for me but I highly recommend it for red colored berry lovers.
The sillage is moderate. The projection is moderate to soft. The longevity is high – moderate. Overall it’s a beautiful scent.
Dimeng – :
I tried this lately and it is different from the original. It smells very commercial and not as natural and high quality. I think this brand changed its formulas after it was bought out. Once I found most of their fragrances very appealing. Now they all seem rough and not refined.
nvp666 – :
You’re bathing in a stream with a bar of Ivory soap while your clothes dry out in the sun, draped over some moss-covered stones. Mure et Musc by L’Artisan Parfumeur.
Auyrnim – :
Berry and musk but after spraying 5ml only a whisper of a scent can be sniffed. Sample before buying.
vyugov – :
I can’t decide what I think about this! The first time I sprayed I thought it smelt like Kheils or jovan musk so….stinky. Then the next time I smelt it I got a bit of berry. And now I just don’t know. Someone else said it smells soapy which I can’t detect at all. I kind of get a bad breath whiff from time to time from it. I don’t know what to make of it! I think I’m too scared to wear it to work people will think I haven’t washed. I don’t understand how everyone gets a beautiful berry/clean scent from this! I’m persevering for the time being!
assonserogyi76660 – :
Strong berry (not specifically blackberry – more generic purple berry) and musk notes. Sweet and clean but not too sweet or too clean for my tastes. Really nice. I’ve had this bottle for a while and haven’t really worn it but now I’ve revisited it and am really enjoying. It doesn’t have that overly “perfumey” headache inducing effect that I don’t like in so many from the L’Artisan line (examples of the headache inducers: Premier Figuier Extreme, Nuit de Tubereuse, and Noir Exquis).
alex371300 – :
I have 12 L’Artisans – Most are plain amazing, some are nothing short of excellent and then there are two that are good. Unfortunately MeM is one of the two. The musk is just too excessively fruity in a way i do not feel comfortable. Of course i will keep it in my collection because it’s still a good fragrance. It’s a matter of taste but my preferable method of eating berries is freshly picked from the bush. I don’t like berry flavoured ice-cream and this is what MeM actually reminds me of.
Overall a nice berry musky fragrance that on one hand is strangely boring for a brand like L’Artisan, and on the other hand illustrates the excellent diversity of the brand’s portfolio.
***(**)
TayVan – :
I had this perfume about 15 years ago and adore it.
I was thinking about get a new bottle and wondered if it was reformulated so I got a sample from luckscent I’m so sad it is so synthetic. I don’t know what they did but is absolutely awfull. I still have a empty bottle and compared with the new sample. I feel like crying.
EVGEN_UA – :
I really think this is not worth the price. Maybe it was something new in the 70s, but nowadays it smells like a typical drugstore musk fragrance, the notes have been done to dead and it’s really nothing special. It doesn’t smell exactly bad, but more like “nice for 5 €” or “nice for a shower gel or lotion” than “nice for a kind of expensive niche fragrance”.
The main notes are lots of white musk, very very sweet red berries and a bit of watery lemon in the topnotes. No oakmoss or basil for me, and even the blackberry is more like an undefined sweet berry scent to my nose.
Maybe this is only for hardcore musk fans.
stafei – :
An all time french IT perfume, I love this the most in solid form. Its a bit too powdery in regular edp.
Bodom2011 – :
I don’t find this especially fruity, and that’s fine, since overtly fruity scents often don’t work for me. The blackberry is there, but it’s natural and mellow, not a loud scratch-and-sniff sticker scent like too many fruity perfumes. Mostly, to me, Mure et Musc is a totally ‘80s drugstore white musk, in the best possible way. It’s cozy and warm, shower-fresh but skin-sexy, and puts me at ease. I find it has slightly better staying power than many of the L’Artisan line (a lot of which are light and short-lived), though still isn’t a heavy fragrance by any means. Just utterly comfortable, and puts me in a good mood. Like a favorite flattering sweater.
bostan – :
goes on a fruity musk then the musk shines up and through but a soft musk not like civet or castorum then it fades and disappears; can’t even smell skin scent 2 hours later
Adamenco – :
That’s a very nice musky fruity scent. I’m usually not a huge fan of fruity notes (with an exception for strawberry), so this is a very lovely version of fruity fragrance for me. Strong like for this ne!
SopLuldemedom – :
Zesty, aromatic, cologne like opening. Zippy and cool on top with a fuzzy softness under lying it (the musk?) The citrus and “red berry” notes are fairly prominent here, reminiscent of some fruity cheapies but it doesn’t smell cheap – this is a tart, juicy fruit, not a sweet, jammy one. There’s also a very subtle lipstick/ soapy quality in there. As it dries down and the citrus calms down and the fruit and musk create a pleasing and a polite balance. Unchallenging, and maybe not particularly imaginative, but an enjoyable and wearable fragrance.
Башка))) – :
realised i ve been getting a bit musky recently (i didn’t think i liked musk) by pulling out the NR for her EDT, agent diamond dust, habanita l’esprit….musc nomade.
so i looked at my 7ml vial of mure et musc and thought “why not?”
last time i enjoyed a berry was TBS Dewberry, which i polished off in 6th form at the end of the 80’s. before i entered the realm of Obsession, Fahrenheit, Cristalle. running alongside my transition from a nice cheap Soave to enjoying an unaffordable Chablis at my parent’s.
so i was more than a little wary of trying this.
this could be viscous and sweet. the image above looks like a desert.
or hot ribena. i had a horrible ex a few years back, who drank nothing but hot ribena.
or royal berryness, a veryberry Guerlain robe couture.
i digress.
M&M was a very pleasant surprise.
a wearable perfume, whose berry is blended far away from the Ribena world of little round purple people. this is the fresh plucked from the bush, with a whisper of background greenery from the said blackberry bush huddled beneath a big oak tree. lifted light and transparent by the musk, but with oakmoss, then a fresh zing of green herb to lightly tether it down.
floral fruity? didn’t get any florals.
a complex fruitful musk, 7mls of which i shall thoroughly enjoy.
kpSx64 – :
I’m a huge fan of musk and if I have to have a signature scent it must be the Mure et Musc.
Opens with sour notes of citrus and to a kind of green notes of berry five minutes later, than dries down with a very clean musky scent.
If I have no ideal about what to wear I’ll pick up this one, it feels like I’ll never go wrong with it in any occasions and any seasons.
In other words, it’s a strong musk scent, if you don’t like musk you probably want to avoid this one.
roma800 – :
Starts off like berry lozenges and then dries down to Body Shop’s White Musk I used to wear 20 years ago.
morph73 – :
Clean, strong blackberry at first, a very nice vibe that to me is licorice, then the musk, at first white, then gradually veering towards a (noble) mushroom aroma. Still on my wrist after 4 hours. Glad to have sampled it because it is a masterclass in musk. Recommended to those wishing to upgrade from more popular musky fragrances.
Update: I am not a musk fan, but I just realized that clothes retain this clean smell for a long time, which is nice, nicer than on skin.
alexwhite30 – :
The musk and moss are bit overpowering to start with – I sprayed before leaving the house and felt a bit self-conscious on the bus! Much more subtle on the drydown, and the berry notes come through… trouble is, I’m not really a berry fan. I got this as a sample, but wouldn’t get it again.
GuillermoW20 – :
Nice and pretty musky scent. Very clean, simple and soft. I don’t dislike Mure et Musc, but I find it quite boring.
undeluxer – :
So odd, but this smells just like Irish Spring soap to me at first. And then it smells just like Irish Spring soap, with added blackberry. Very strange. Since I can get a similar effect by showering, I wouldn’t consider buying this fragrance. It is nice as a tutorial for what Irish Spring actually smells like, which I never considered before – it smells like citrus and basil, plus musk. Who knew?
Hassan2012 – :
woody, musky scent. I have found nothing alluring in it. The trouth is that I like sweet, spicy, gourmand fragrances. It is too simple and too sharp for me. Maybe it suits more for a man..
Sillage and lingevity is poor, like other L’Artisan’s.
Arslan89 – :
A simple musk scent. A well done one, but still just a simple musk. More often than not I’m no good with musks; my skin seems to amplify them to a degree where they become too overpowering to my senses. Mure et Musc is surely a strongly musk oriented fragrance, but as it dries down it mellows, somehow loses that sharp unbearable edge. It’s a comfort scent, something I’d (and probably will) wear for bed or when I’m sick and my nose can’t bear anything else. The opening is very lovely: a gorgeous, yummy, sweet blast of blackberry, but unfortunately that lasts only for a couple of minutes. After that, musk and a hint of citrus peel all the way.
Sillage is soft, but the longevity is great compared to other L’Artisans I’ve tried.
kana_6789 – :
Another sample from the boîte a parfums. Too sweet for my taste, but I’m not a big fan of fruity and musky fragrance. I tried it many times and every time I had to wash my wrist, because it gave me headache, it’s not for me. On my skin blackberries are the dominant note then I can smell musk. Longevity and sillage are poor.
nigolis – :
Musky musky musky. That’s pretty much the only way to describe this scent. Blind buy from Sephora when they first came out because it looked fancy and the idea of a blackberry scent was intriguing.
Not necessarily “disappointing” just not for me. I wore a few times and threw out the mostly full bottle when moving into my new apartment.
chernal – :
Another nice smelling albeit soft scent from L’Artisan. Sillage is very poor on my skin but most from this house are so that is no surprise. The opening is a nice fruity smell which lasts for all of 15 minutes and then you are left with a musky dry down which is not my cup of tea. The berry and basil do not match therefore making it a scrubber for me.
chipas – :
Got this as part of a 3pc L’Artisan travel set from Sephora. My fist introduction to this house and it included three of their most popular “classics”. Let’s start by saying I love blackberry fragrances. When I first sampled it I was IN LOVE. I immediately checked the LOVE icon here and put a FB on my wish list. It reminded me very much of Molinard’s les Fruits Mure with this opening burst of tart blackberries, lemon and musk. A few months later when giving it full wear . . . I got nothing but a soft herbal basil. No opening burst of fruit just a VERY faint whisper of barely there fruit, musk and lots of basil. To say this is a skin scent is a stretch even when layering with the coordinating dry oil and lotion. I’m not sure what happened and why my first spritz was so memorable and now it barely registers. I see others had a similar “barely there” experience with this. Perplexing and disappointing to say the least.
Wsiti – :
I had to try this one a few times to like it, it seemed too masculine the first couple tries I gave it. It’s very soft, definitely a skin scent, but it actually lasts a long time. It’s fruity, but it’s warm and a little woodsy rather than fresh or sugary. The musk gives it an earthy edge that I didn’t expect to like but I do. The musk actually seemed strongest in the opening, it’s not animalic, but it also isn’t the soapy-clean kind. As it dried down, the berries shone through a little more. It feels like something that belongs in fall or winter, but it would probably disappear in the colder weather. It does seem really well balanced and smooth, nothing sharp or annoying.
i.klim2012 – :
4/30/16: A perfume reformulation succubus has sucked the sparkle out of Mure et Musc. It is a pale wan copy of its’ former self. No luscious lemon. The berry has lost its’ gorgeous natural appeal. Instead, musk akin to a crude ’70’s musk perfume, is the only note in evidence. Very linear, no transitions. I got a new HUGE bottle, and I am now heartbroken. What a disappointment.
3/8/15: This is an insanely beautiful perfume! The opening is a sparkling, juicy lemon that shimmers. Then the berries inject it with an infusion of clean mouthwatering natural depth. The musk and oakmoss add dimension, so it stays out of fruity sweetness and enters elegant sophisticated territory. Surprisingly the lemon lasts through the dry down and it all meshes into an accord that smells so fresh. It stays truly lovely for hours.
My big problem with L’Artisan perfumes is the sillage. On my skin their perfumes seem to all be skin scents. I am a lover of smelling the fragrance of the ones I love, and no matter how much I spray, I can’t get theirs to project louder than a whisper. This one is no different. It will take spraying my hair, skin and clothes for me to smell enough of it to be happy. I guess a FB is in order – but it is hard when it is hushed instead of singing! Maybe the parfum concentrate instead!
Masha2007 – :
Hmmmmmm, it smells extremely intimate, like a bathroom after somebody did their morning business followed by a fruity shower and minty toothbrushing. I don’t NOT like the smell but I would not like people to be picturing a well used en suite when they come into my vicinity.
qqqqqq7 – :
I have been wearing Mure et Musc every morning lately. I absolutely love the fresh, clean opening which is quite lemony and aromatic like Clarins Eau Dynamisante. A little while in and this disappears to leave a light, well-balanced blackberry and musk which is delicious and longlasting.
fisi – :
What a wonderful fragrance! I’m not the biggest fan of the opening, it’s a type a green that I never was fond of. Molinard Mure has it too so it must be something to do with the Mure. That opening phase doesn’t last too long so I’m not bothered by it.
It then goes quite musky on me, to me it smells like my favourite part of Bruno Acamporas Musc and that lasts for a couple hours. It’s not a dirty Musc or a clean one, more like an earthy Musc.
The the Mure becomes more prominent and it slowly fades off from there. I love how it changes, it’s like I get to wear 2-3 different perfumes without ever having to spray more than one.
LeahP9 – :
I love this scent on first spraying, and I love smelling it on myself (it lasts several hours on me) but by the end of the afternoon I’m fed up with it. It’s fairly linear and after some hours the radiant musky berryness has become irritating, like bathing in Ribena. Maybe one can have too much of a good thing!
Dizeel23 – :
Contrary of many reviewers, I like the aromatic opening of MeM. It’s a basil that gives this interesting bit sharp, masculine feeling and that’s the best part of this perfume IMO.
After 15 minutes the black and red berries come to dominant position and the smell is not so pleasant anymore, although the musk is always present and helps to soften the acidity of fruits.
For conclusion – the perfume was gone in 45 minutes…absolutely not worth a FB!
spartach01 – :
Mure et Musc has a sharp entrance, very green Amalfi Lemon. I think many people who have posted reviews here have been struck by this, before their noses have had time to adjust to the dry down. I love this bold entrance- it’s very masculine and cuts through the air. What makes this sparkling opening quite special is the many-shaded transition through the dry down which moves initially to more rounded citrus notes. These retreats to a slowly a slowly emerging dark berry creaminess which shyly comes to the fore. For me, this is the lasting final composition- musky soft gourmand berries which sits close to the skin. It is not saccharine. I will wear this frequently during the winter as I am finding it lasts well beneath cashmere and wool layers.
syp094Bessinepome – :
I was not expecting Mure et Musc to be this cloying, and to my nose it’s all musk and no berries. I don’t necessarily feel this scent masculine, rather to me it does have a tart, cold “medicinal” feel. I tried it several times and each time I ended up running to scrub it off after a few minutes past… Certainly try before you buy.
alwolf8 – :
I echo what some others say: men’s shaving foam. I don’t sense blackberries, necessarily; however, it does have a general berry compote “feel”. And a really, really soapy musk. Because of the shave cream reference, I can’t help but think of it as more of a masculine scent. It’s pleasant, but not enough to add to my want list.
frisbyzzmx – :
berry and musk is prevalent here, but the overpowering note is the soapiness. this perfume makes you smell like you’ve over-lathered with the musk-berry soap, which isn’t so much of a bad thing, you know. first you get ‘soap’, then berry then musk…
andreuha10 – :
Clean, bright, fruity with a well balanced musk backdrop, perfect for summer. Extremely wearable and well worth adding to the old perfume wardrobe. It does smell pretty generic in the fruity/musky family probably because it feels familiar to my nose. I like it though, it’s not going to hit my top 20 favourites but I am pleased with it and I am glad I have it.
Bant – :
I received a 15ml sample of MeM as a extra gift form L’Artisan when i ordered a bottle of Timbuktu. I have a friend who is out of work and having a bit of a hard time, so I decided to give it to her as a small present. But I decided to try it out before hand.
On my skin the dry blackberries are quite dominant followed a sour animalic musk. It was ok but not a pleased experience. The dry down was quite disturbing so i decided to scrub it off.
Even thou I did not really like it, I decided to give it to my friend. After all, that was what I had decided, and if she didn’t like it. no problem.
Today we met and I presented it to her. She sprayed it on her wrist and we talked and had coffee. I asked her if I could smell it on her and WOW. It smelled amazing!! Gone was the sour musky smell I had experienced on my own skin and instead this gorgeous, scrumptious smell of blackberries, warm female skin and sexy musk filled my nose. I really had to stop myself from biting her wrist.
Even though my friend is a beautiful woman, I never felt any strong attraction to her. That all changed in that second, with my nose pressed against her wrist. What a rush, what a perfume…
vampirchik – :
This one is interesting, because it is described as fruity and I mostly get the moss and green notes and the musk. I barely smelled any of the blackberry when I sprayed it on–a real shame, because I love fruit perfumes.
Right now (about two hours in) it has turned into an entirely musky scent with no other notes that I can smell. It’s not bad, and there’s definitely a sexy, mysterious quality to it, but I don’t think I would wear it with any regularity. Too intense. I am glad I got to try it, though!
effitorow – :
One of the most repelling perfumes I have ever tried. I usually try to wear the perfume for more than a day to really experience its middle notes and drydown. But in case of this perfume, I had to wash it after 2 hours. It is really hard to describe but smells boggy and heavy with a somewhat cringing note that I don’t know about.
Burik1502 – :
Upon initial sniff, this fragrance had me really confused. It smelled precise, expensive and rigid, like a hug from a classy businesswoman. I’m no perfume expert, but I had great difficulty discerning the notes in this fragrance. All I was getting was a sharp musk. After reading the notes on the website, I immediately understood the basil and began to pick up on the berry and faint citrus notes as well. It’s by no means a “fruity” scent in my opinion, but I’m not sure what else you would call it. Elegance, strength, and maturity in a bottle, if you ask me.
gif189elipseskism – :
Luca Turin refers to this as a “fruity barbershop” fragrance, and I think I have to agree with him. This is old school 70’s musk under a layer of smooth, rich (but not sweet) blackberry. Too masculine for my tastes, but I think it would smell divine on a man.
evg8208 – :
Smells like men’s old fashioned shaving cream.
igary85 – :
All I really get is musk and a hint of green in the opening. It sweetens up a wee little bit after an hour or so but it’s still primarily musk. It doesn’t change much at all. It’s a bit more green and less sweet then the extreme version.
It lasts about three or four hours before it’s totally gone and it’s a skin scent that entire time.
Grillewenlano – :
Once again I wonder if there is a quality control problem at the manufacturer so we are actually smelling something different, because like the poster below I have spent years picking wild blackberries to eat fresh (have to make sure they are super ripe or you’ll be sorry!), and to turn into jam. The smell of a patch of blackberries is August to me. Blackberry plants are cruel things that tear at your skin and clothing. People pick only the ones they can get around the periphery, which leaves most of the berries in the middle to swell and ripen in the sun. They cling to the plant until they ferment, then drop to the ground and burst, soaking the ground with purple blackberry wine. The fragrance is sharp, sweet, flowery, and alcoholic, and not quite like any other berry.
I bought a decant of this from Surrender to Chance. There is the possibility that they sent me the wrong thing. But what I’m smelling is not remotely like blackberries.
It’s my habit to blind test these decants to try to determine on my own what I pick up before I see what they are meant to be. My first reaction was to gasp. I loved it. It was comprised of familiar notes in an unexpected way. The musk is definitely the base. If you grew up in the 70’s like I did you know musk when you smell it. Anybody remember all the strawberry musk vials girls would buy in head shops? This is nothing like those sweet things at all. Next I picked up something green that I had trouble identifying. I briefly wondered if it was juniper but when I saw it was basil I thought, of course it is. Silly me. The citrus did what citrus does and waved its hand and caught a cab.
But despite what all the rest of you have said, I smell no blackberry whatsoever. I gave it to my blackberry picking partner, my husband, and he couldn’t detect blackberry either. I have no explanation for this. We both really, really like this though. The musk + basil alone is an amazing combination.
baron2009 – :
The combination of spicy green basil and musk lend a masculine “cologne” element to this perfume. It isn’t dominant, though, and the perfume has a light feel.
The opening bursts with a tantalizing citrus that fades on me after about 20 minutes. Then the berries begin to prevail. Mure et Musc is long lasting for a perfume this airy, even the opening is much longer than usual. Other fragrances this light lose their top notes within the first minute on me!
Mure et Musc reminds me a little bit of Musc Blanc by Laurence Dumont in it’s gentleness, simplicity and uplifting mood. In my review of Musc Blanc I say that it’s a fragrance to wear to Grandma’s house and I certainly feel the same here about M et M.
I never noticed any obvious soapiness, the texture seems very perfume-y overall. The quality of this perfume is absolutely impeccable.
It has been a lovely companion over my little winter vacation spent in a warm cabin in the country. I’ve been impressed with how well the innocent Mure et Musc is standing up to the snowstorms and cold winds. I believe it’s the spiciness of the basil combining with the animalic musc that warms me. The spice is so strong on me and it combines with the sweetness to create a pine or fir-like impression.
There is almost a glassy quality to Mure et Musc…. maybe in the realm of icicles and frost… or the glint of the sun on the sea in summer…
I picture a woman with ash blond hair, dark blue eyes, pale pink skin, and easy smile wearing this. She is artistic and feels free. It doesn’t surprise me that this perfume was born in 1978… seems to capture a spirit of the time, I think.
This is a “love” for me, I find it very comforting; warm but bright and clear, protective and natural, and it will be hard not to grab a full bottle asap.
sanches1488 – :
This is a fantastic and charmingly simple fragrance. Not simple in a droll, muted or boring sense, but that it is characterised by, in my interpretation, only two scents, but they distinguish this perfume into a fine fragrance.
On me, I get an almost grassy note with the blackberry, and the musk itself is almost herbal. But, in true L’Artisan style, it is a classic smell, elegant, not your run of the mill scent. It is warm and summer-tinged, enveloping yet not overwhelming – it embraces, but does not coddle.
I definitely see this being a go-to summer scent. The longevity is good, and it sweetens on the skin which means that the sillage will carry. It is intimate, but not a total skin-scent, in that it does linger around me.
The ambre scent has been my favourite, and one I cherish, but I will rotate with this one. I think even in winter it would prove to be warm, as it both hugs the wearer and exudes a lovely, cosy feeling.
This is the kind of fragrance that could easily be worn by a very chic girl, as well as someone more earthy and bohemian.
As for the negatives, to weigh this review? Yes, it is a little soapy, but I personally like a clean, and simple smell. And I think the blackberry is just tart enough that with the musk it goes beyond, say, your Narciso, your Jovan, and into something far more refined. I feel gorgeous and light when I wear this. It’s natural and gentle. A quiet confidence. A coy sexiness.
Addition:
The lasting power, I have found personally, to be more than standard. What I have found to enjoy a lot about this fragrance, is that it has a rustic innocence, something almost pastoral, idyllic, sunny, and brambly. The mystery to this pairing is how it is both fresh (blackberry tartness) but yet warm (the musk) – it definitely is a sensual, luxurious scent. But it is without pretensions, because it is so well crafted, it comes off as almost foxy (in a vine and leaf sense..) and organic. It always makes me think of sun-dried cotton over warm skin, straight from drying on the line. It is my darling scent. Wholesome, distinct, but not cloying in the least.
deman_59 – :
This is amazing! I don’t like overly sweet fruit because that’s not how it tastes in real life. I shy away from “berries” in any scent because it’s usually artificially sweet, but this is just right. This has a lovely true black berry — not too sweet for once! The lemon/citrus might have a bit of sugar with it though, but it’s not overwhelming. Really tasty and not too sugary! Perfect little fruity zip. And the musk is wonderful. I am a big fan of musk though, so if you don’t like musk I would definitely pass on this one. Even people who dislike fruity scents might like this one, it has a velvety smooth quality that isn’t jarring or sticky. I would try it first though.
tupikin-oleg – :
When I was in Europe in my twenties, I met a gorgeous man walking in a church who wore this. I think I noticed his scent before I saw him, and neither disappointed. Clean, fresh, blackberries, musc…just a scent that draws you in. So when I came back to the states I found it at a small boutique and bought it. It still reminds me of him, but it doesn’t smell good on me. Too much blackberry I think. So I spray it on the back of my handsome Shelti dog named Romeo :). he smells divine..everyone says so! And when I hold him close and breathe in that cologne, I am brought back to that church and a man named Etienne and wonderful memories of chance connections.
ARSHAK – :
Mure et Musc by L`Artisan Parfumeur opens with aldehydes, clean musk, and a bright, beautiful lemon. Once the lemon calms down, the blackberry starts to shine and serves to lift the musk. Next, a green spicy note, maybe basil or tomato leaf, wedges itself between the aldehydes and musk. I really love this fragrance for the summer; for some reason it reminds me of girl scout camp during the 1980s. Maybe it’s the combination of blackberry bushes and late 70s sexy-clean musk/aldehydes. Fresh moustache.
4/5 I want a full bottle.
Olymp123456789 – :
Ok , let’s have a serious talk here.
This fragrance is not even far from being niche , it’s even far from being in the good designers brands.
A very very cheap shampoo smell , well yes there is berries and musc, and they give a cheap shampoo smell.
That’s why i hate niche and designers thing , it’s all about marketing , the important criteria is the quality , not the presentation neither the ” concept ” of the brand.
Last 5+ hours ,but with this kind of smell , i hoped to last 5 min.
kirik1980 – :
My hopes to find a blackberry scent in this fragrance are failed. It rather smells something like red berries than blackberry. I’m not impressed.
Martyn84 – :
Do not laugh, but I had terrible trouble trying to distinguish between this fragrance and L’Artisan’s Dzing. They both share a dominant white musk accord, so when I sprayed one on either wrist, (forgetting of course which one I sprayed where), it created a great deal of confusion determining what was what.
I revisited the L’Artisan fragrance counter feeling rather embarrassed, and carefully planned what was to be sprayed and reviewed that day. Mure et Musc was the first to receive a proper testing.
I approached this fragrance expecting to be met with a blast of fruity, syrupy blackberries. However what I got was a musky, almost soapy blend of frozen blackberries, amalfi lemon and creamy white musk. In fact, Mure et Musc is not a fruity fragrance at all.
I can imagine that those fruity floral fans out there would have been bitterly disappointed by Mure et Musc, however I sighed with relief. I usually dislike anything of a fruity nature, even if it has been composed using quality ingredients. This clean musk fragrance is quite delectable to my nose.
The only disappointing factor was Mure et Musc’s tendency to be linear. Once the white musk note kicks in, the composition stays pretty much the same through to the drydown. After some time, Mure et Musc comes to remind me of laundry powder and old bathroom toiletries.
It’s somewhat of a mature fragrance, so I’m not surprised that this perfume’s release date goes right back to 1978. Mure et Musc does have a slightly old-fashioned feel, but I mean