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brat5 – :
Killer scent..headshop??? So what it’s very fun scent!
francua – :
I have the clear bottle with rounded shoulders and a brown sticker on the front. Yes, it’s “head shop,” but I was expecting a bit of a sandalwood/incense to be present and I didn’t get that. Also, it’s not musky, so the projection isn’t great though the longevity is at least very good. It’s just a touch sweet, and it’s not syrupy/ambery in texture. At first I’d call it “head shop gourmand” but after perhaps an hour it mostly loses the gourmand element. I really like the scent, and I hope my sensitivity is just low now, rather than the scent being weaker than I’d like it to be. Still, for what I paid it’s definitely in niche territory and it’s not super weak, so I intend to keep it, at least until I have a chance to try it out several times over a period of months or years.
UPDATE: Second wearing, the incense quality does arise after a few hours,, though it’s not strong.
stamolo – :
I usually do pretty in depth reviews but there is really only one thing to say about this wonderful fragrance…”HEAD SHOP”. This smells just like a store that I love to shop at when I go up to Eureka Springs Arkansas called “Romancing The Stone”. It also reminds me of an all natural earthy shop there that I bought my hemp rope sandals from too. Love those sandals by the way!
I also mixed a tiny bit of patchouli oil and some MM in a decant vial and BAAAM…on point! The perfect head shop fragrance from the 60’s
ninanezabudka – :
My bottle I received through a glorious swap is the clear glass eau de toilette with the brown tombstone shaped label. Musc is really and truly (as you have probably already read in the reviews before) straight head shop in a bottle. I don’t know how Molinard bottled this nostalgic wonderful scent. I am not sure the notes are right because there is more floral going on then they would lead you to believe. (Nag Champa for sure)
Combined with the coumarin, musk and sandal you get this mystical magic potion. The silage isn’t great and that’s the only sad fact that keeps this from being my perfect scent. At some point I will get the EDP version (purple bottle) to see if it performs any better.
katski – :
I’m not sure why I’m feeling disappointed in this (maybe I’m having a crap day – maybe I’m disappointed because the Fragrancenet photo shows the blue bottle and I got sent the ugly brown one). It is everything everyone said it is – that Nag Champa smell I was after but I find myself wishing I’d bought Joop Femme instead because they are similar to me (and I could’ve bought Joop for half the price).
Overall though, if Nag Champa is what you want, this is definitely it.
dyamiter – :
EDIT———— I changed my opinion on this. March 2017.
It really smells like a “room spray” as opposed to a wearable cologne.
Very synthetic. Sorry fans.
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Thrilled to have bought this during a “frag slump” — needed something “new” and “different”.
Here is is! Got this in the mail 10 minutes ago……
Glorious purple hippie incense frag! Kooky and uplifting!
Smells slightly like LUSH’s Karma–just a tiny bit.
The longevity and projection are weak however 🙁
No problem as this was not expensive.
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Not sure why the photos are showing a TAN package & bottle. Mine is the classic “cobalt” color with the antique label.
Ruwshun – :
Molinard really does things .
This is my third fragrance from this house and I see more in my future . They make affordable niche fragrances and each one so far is a statement piece.
Molinard Musc (purple bottle) is everything I hoped it would be . It is patchouli , it is nag champa incense , it is the purple butterfly dress purchased in a new age store . First spray can be a bit overwhelming so beware. After that,you get smooth linear nag champa in full bloom . Be prepared to float away to Terrapin Station .
yuriii – :
I have the Les Senteurs version of this. I am thinking there are three different bottle styles but they all smell the same? If someone can expand on that I would appreciate it. I have only smelled the blue bottle version. If so what I am getting is that head shop nag champa smell. What a fun fragrance. As a child of the 70’s this is very nostalgic. It certainly reminds me of Spencer gift shop that was popular in the malls in the 70/80’s era. To me the blue bottle reminds me more of the look of room spray. I decided to give it a go on my wrist and for me there is no way this is wearable as a fragrance. It just does not feel right. It takes on a strange vibe on the skin. If someone has experience with all three bottles, the blue Les Senteurs one, the one photographed on Fragrantica and the bottle that is clear glass a flatter design with the flat bottom I’d love to know if they all smell the same.
nesterenko_1996 – :
May i ask what is the difference betweem the orange glass bottle shown above ,the glass bottle which we all associate with molinard also shown above ,the blue glass musc edp and the les senteurs blue metal canister of edt.is there a reformulation and which one smells of nag champa.many thanks.
Svetoch56 – :
I have been coveting this scent for a while after reading reviews about it smelling like a head shop. Finally I nabbed a small sample on ebay. Oh wow. Just what I expected, but better. Straight up head shop. I instantly was transported to my teen years in the late 90’s. Nag champa incense. I love it. Unfortunately my husbands response was not very enthusiastic.
Aerohoplenerijbk – :
Blind-bought this because the consensus in the reviews was that this was straight-up Nag Champa incense, and I’ve been looking for a non-frankincense incense scent (former Catholic school kid, so frankincense makes me feel like I’m about to get in trouble). The reviews were right. This is the headshop, the New Age shop where you bought Tarot cards and dresses with elephants on them in your teens, the ill-advised college boyfriend you had if you were doing it right. It’s not heavy in cold weather- sweet smoke on cold air. Warm and comforting.
Edit: upon subsequent wearings, this seemed a little dirtier and more animalic to me than when I first tried it…not sure if this is because of warmer weather or an increased ability to smell musks on my part.
Vladislav50 – :
I’m getting 100% nag champa too. I don’t have much more to add except that I think this is a great summer incense fragrance since it is so much lighter than the ones I usually reserve for colder weather.
chack_norris – :
I’m going to have to echo those before me. Musc smells like a headshop, nag champa incense to be specific. I trusted my fellow fragranticians and blind bought, as I always thought that my new age mother’s nag champa smelled divine. I’m not the least bit disappointed. This is namaste in a bottle.
wwwvega – :
This smells precisely and exactly like a head shop. I’m obsessed with it.
Don’t even bother to order a sample, just go smell your local headshop.
LoonnaFen – :
I just received mine after looking at all of the Molinard Patch perfumes forever, and after being directed towards the Musc by my request for a nag champa scent. I love it!! It’s a very sweet incense, heavy on the musk to me but JUST the hippie head shop scent I was looking for! The bottle is heavy and beautiful too. This will be a “go to” on the days when not intje mood for a heavier oriental or incense. Full bottle worthy and such a good price. I’m going to order more ftom this house for sure. I really want something darker such as Avignon, but this will fine until my purse allows.
tot223speagoessenda – :
Forget about the notes pyramid… this is just like walking into a hippy shop. Wood carvings, incense sticks and tie dye clothing impregnated with some exotic patchouli oil. An Asian import shop, “Chinaladen” in Germany, or a stall in Camden market in London… that sort of thing. I love it. Incense, patchouli and perhaps some musk and sandalwood. Nag champa incense sticks. I have Al Haramain MAkkah which I used to think smells like Nag Champa, but boy this Molinard Musc here is an even closer match.
Патологоанатом – :
I agree with Jillmcshaw1. Smells just like Nag Champa incense. Moderate sillage and moderate longevity, however it is not expensive, so spray away. I do not sense any patchouli, but if you layer it with patchouli, it takes you straight back to the 60’s and early 70’s. head shop, tye-dye T-shirt, Birkenstocks and peace signs. I love it.
Zarazo – :
Molinard Musc smells a little like a cross between Tauer’s Maroc Pour Elle, and Nassomato’s China White, with maybe a little bit of L’Air de Rien by Lyn Harris thrown in for good measure. I get a captivating animalic musk which is softtly sweet and salty almost like clean yet unwashed scalp and hair, combined with a woody jasmine incense and some other gentle yet almost earthy-metallic nuances.
I think that fans of any of the three scents I mentioned will enjoy this one too. It’s not a “safe” fragrance, as in, not for everyone, but the gentle sillage and overall enveloping whispery quality of this animalic musk make it substantially LESS risky than it would have been otherwise.
I agree with jillmcshaw1 who said Nag Champa. It also smells a little foody, but not in a gourmand way. Must be the nuts.
Molinard Musc reminds me of dim lighting, as in a 20 watt naked lightbulb in my Nag Champa-burning ex-boyfriend’s dorm room. Very familiar and intimate, but not a place I want to stay in for long.
Thanks very much to 2746cstreet for the opportunity to try this out.
resedr2010 – :
This perfume smells nothing like musk to me. It isn’t listed but mine smells like pure incense to me. I love that smell and love the exotic flavor of this.
It’s almost like a completely different perfume than what is described.
King_big – :
This is an animalic musk. It has that fatty quality.
For me, it brings to mind someone’s skin if they’d been sunbathing for a few hours, then came inside and applied sandalwood oil.
There is something about the drydown of Musc that is reminiscent of a sex act. I like it.
My friend says it smells like “a wild animal”.
iliakaty – :
Not for me. But I love perfumes and collect them. I enjoy having a variety of scents to feel when the mood strikes. I can only use this one as room ambiance. It lacks notes variety, but it is fine to play with scents from time to time.
codename47 – :
A powdery and slightly animalic musk from one of the most famous Grasse fragrance houses. I’ve not tried the repackaged version, only the one that came from the blue flacon with the “Les Senteurs” label affixed.
As a rather jaded musk fan, I actually like it. It has a fruity, somewhat grape-like start (this would proabaly be muscone), but is quickly followed by the familiar fatty/powdery accord of a good musk – something many folks have not experienced. The general public thinks of musk as a penetrating, sweet, woody and rather generic accord found in the base of most of today’s boring and generic fragrances.
This one has a difference – it’s meant to be layered. Remember this. It has a touch of unwashed hair and skin and some patchouli – similar to what’s found in Bal a Versailles, but not nearly as raunchy. Layered underneath other scents that are deemed compatible, it adds a lovely depth and presence that’s not found in many of today’s popular scents.
Again, this is for the version in the blue bottle – I know nothing of the one in the current one or know if there’s been any form of reformulation.
Meyzu379bedyWelty – :
I am actually wearing Molinard MUSC ET FRUITS, which I could not locate in the database, so I’ll leave my review here.
MUSC ET FRUITS is a friendly fruity floral like a dozen others but with a naturalness which I really like. The composition opens with a red-jammy character, but it swiftly improves, drying down to an only slightly sweet woody musk which comes close to being a skin scent. Well, if your skin happens to taste yummy! (-:
A quick google landed me at the house of Molinard, where I discovered that these natural creations are quite modestly priced. So here’s a clear, tangible benefit of more attention to production and less to marketing hype. (N’est-ce pas?) I’ll probably be buying some of these soon…