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hgf633Negeltzex – :
Very pretty. Not the wild animal I was expecting. I understand the thoughts, but to me it smells nice. The drydown seems to be very powdery. To me it actually reads as very clean. Really well blended. Beautiful.
terko – :
I absolutely LOVE this. It’s well worn cowboy boots and vintage fur coats and puddles of mud on the sprawling lawn of an estate in the Pacific Northwest and a bucolic horse stable on an unseasonably warm autumn afternoon. Fresh and animalic all at once.
My father is American Indian, and when I was a child he built a sweat lodge that he draped with a buffalo hide. This scent transports me back to the ceremonies we’d have in the winter: pouring buckets of water over burning hot stones, the steam sizzling and rising and creating droplets of condensation that would gather on that dusty hide. We’d step out of the lodge into the crisp dark night, the scent of hot skin and cold air and wet fur all around us.
*If anyone has a bottle for sale or swap, please message me!*
Prelandez – :
I tried this one in 2009, in Paris. I wonder if it has changed?
Back then, It was bad… It started with a realistic Tonkin musk tincture note, but turned very quickly into a big synthetic mess of white musks, sharp artificial animal notes, and a huge punch of cumin. No sensuousness, no finesse, no artistry, no thank you…
I understand that composing an animalic perfume nowadays can be a monumental challenge. First: because is a theme not mastered by most modern perfumers (Olivia Giacobetti would have come up with something magnificent), second: because the artificial substitutes for deer musk, castoreum, civet, and even ambergris don’t smell that good: fairly chemical and sharp, and lacking most of the erotic sensuality and suaveness the natural ones have.
Study the dry-down of modern Shalimar, Chanel No.5, and Eau d’Hermes. Not on paper, but on skin, and you’ll find some chemically stinky animal nuances, that actually ruin the perfume!
Animal notes are supposed to make the formula smell voluptuous, not make it stink.
A big company like Firmenich should seriously reinvent all these super important animal ingredients, in a way that they smell as true to nature as possible.
I know they can do it! 🙂
ekulikov – :
Musk and florals. The musk has a definite, stankey, unwashed armpit, body odor vibe. There’s a bit of a fecal quality to it as others have mentioned. It chills out a little in the drydown. I’m reminded of Kouros, Papillon’s Salome or even Jovan Musk but MKK is way out in it’s own league. Very deserving of it’s reputation and I’m glad to finally try it.
I applied this from a sample vial so I may not have the best sense for it’s performance. Sillage and projection thankfully were light and it only stuck around for a few hours before becoming soft. Your coworkers aren’t going to like it. Your special someone will make you take a shower. I’ve smelled a lot of weird perfumes; this is one of the weirdest so far and not in a good way. I guess it’s interesting but I can’t deal with the body odor smell. It feels high quality and the bell jar looks cool but I can’t imagine why someone would want to smell like MKK.
virka33 – :
People are calling this alpha male but yet women wear it and it’s marketed as unisex. I can’t imagine my wife wearing this. It smells like pissy sweat. I just prefer my wife to smell sweet, feminine and fresh. Thankfully that’s the kind d of perfumes she loves wearing.
gsjyth – :
Young human alpha-male mingled with soft beeswax candles and mute rose.
My nose reads the animalic component of this scene as: hunky 17-year-old suntanned auto mechanic, having worked all day under a car, hands you his used cotton t-shirt and briefs, with all they’ve absorbed. Not repellent exactly, but very human and very vital.
Even those who are initially repelled by the funk of MKK have told me… they literally cannot stop sniffing their hand where they’ve applied it. MKK short-circuits our polite reasoning modern social self… and settles down to directly talk to the part of us that remembers we are warm-blooded mammals.
It’s a beautiful, compelling animal scent, and great for layering with more complex scents (containing animalic notes) like SHALIMAR, MY SIN or Rochas FEMME.
Wish MKK weren’t so rare, expensive and tricky to obtain.
sadaev – :
A bottle of sexual harassment.
foto-riviera – :
I bought this sample (decant, I guess) in a big mixed lot on ebay. I dabbed its “wand” onto the back of my hand, dipping my proverbial toe into this infamous perfume. If it’s horrible, I can wash it off easily.
The name MUSCS KOUBLAI KHAN is printed in manufacturer ink on the side of the vial. It obviously came from perfume court or scentbird, or some other reputable source of perfume samples. If it weren’t for that, I’d be convinced my sample is mislabeled.
It is NOT filthy. It doesn’t smell like bodies. It doesn’t really smell like leather, though it does a little bit. It is powdery and floral. It smells like my mental image of real musk. (Not nausea inducing modern white musk, which I’m super wary of.)
This definitely reminds me of a vintage perfume. I smell a hint of rose and other flowers, as well as something like oakmoss and aldehydes. It is very feminine in the “old Hollywood glamour” sort of way. Vivien Leigh or Maureen O’Hara, or some other true symbol of womanliness could have worn this.
Granted, I only applied a tiny bit, but if anything, it smells delicate, demure, and of women who were naturally beautiful and did not advertise their sexuality.
As a definite non-musk-lover, I am very surprised by this perfume. I’m unlikely to buy a full bottle, especially at the prices it currently fetches. But if you have opportunity to sample it, please do so.
Edited to add: another, cheaper perfime that this is reminiscent of is Dame Perfumery’s New Musk. Dame has a bothersome note in it, so I don’t care for that offering, but there is a common fruit and floral aspect to both New Musk and MKK.
Also, MKK on my hand smells good with a “walk through” spray of Imaginary Authors’ A City On Fire. MKK seems to lend some wearability to the beautiful but not perfume-like ACOF.
Medzxcvr – :
update to clarify: i wrote this in real time from putting it on until it had been on for a few minutes,so you see the change in my experience, it was really like going for a ride. original: oh my god, the reviews on this had me crying i was laughing so hard. well i found this perfume bc i love kiehl’s original musk so much i looked for similar ones on fragrantica. after reading the reviews, i was soo curious. i got a decant from surrendertochance and am glad i just got a decant and not the whole bottle. at first whiff, i thought “cigarette ash.” as a teenager i had the occasional cigarette and my fingers would reek like an ashtray after smoking. then i thought “homeless man” and “poop”, and then “sexy homeless man” (i guess as the rose started to come out.) kind of reminded me of sex, just those raw human smells. after just a few minutes i smell the rose. now it smells like roses mixed with ashtray. i have to laugh. i am so glad i finally got to try it and am reminded that scents smell different on different people. so i don’t like the scent, but in the future whenever i hear its name i am going to crack up, thinking of these reviews. the rose really is coming out, but that poop/incense/ashtray really is hitting my nose hard. it’s like sweet smelling garbage (garbage filled with very overripe to the point of rotten fruit) is kind of sexy. i don’t know much about perfume yet but somehow that nasty funk hits some sort of sexual spot, but in a very kinky way, hence the “sexy homeless” thought. like imagine a hot looking homeless dude walking down the street; he’s covered in poop and your body becomes aroused despite logic. crazy!! very, very interesting and provcative scent. now as im writing this, it’s been more than 10 minutes since i’ve put it on and the ashtray scent is still there but way more faint. i’ve never smelled a perfume like this before. arousing. this took me for a ride. i just reread the reviews and saw, “If you don’t like the smell of human odors then back away because this is literally designed to smell like diving your face in an unwashed crotch (so sorry that my wording isn’t as ladylike as usual, but it’s the intent of the fragrance).” and that writing totally explains it. i can’t believe such a stinky, dirty smell is super arousing, but there you have it, out of any scent i’ve ever tried, this makes me feel like i’m having sex. (it kicked in as i was writing the review.) really powerful stuff. my husband just walked in and smelled me and said “this smells sweet.” no reaction from him, it just happened intenrally within me. i guess that’s what so great about perfume, the ability to bring out different parts of yourself.
katyouha – :
Dirty and fecal-tinged? Nope. Lovely and lightly musky? You bet.
MKK isn’t the wild beast many claim–at least not to me. It’s an excellent scent, a lighter version of pre-reformulation Original Musk Kiehl’s. Soapy and almost clean. Could easily be a Chanel scent in a parallel world.
1scorpion2 – :
I started wearing this again in recent cold weather and realized a couple of things. MKK is mostly a rose/patchouli/musk with masculine sweetness from amber/labdanum/vanilla (assuming the notes listed are accurate). The sweetness is just the background and doesn’t show individual notes like vanilla, it’s seamlessly blended. The dirty facets in MKK come from cumin and civet and really don’t become apparent unless you load too much of the perfume on your skin (which is really not advised since it is a pretty opulent, dense rose musk and a little goes a long way) OR you wear it in hot weather. Nonetheless, like YSL Kouros, even when the skank isn’t apparent, you can still sense something sweaty layered in there with the sometimes soapy facets of musk. Kouros, in fact, is like the more aggressive, mainstream 80s powerhouse half brother of MKK. They share the same juxtaposition of ivory soap and barnyard musk. The Lutens feels more niche and precious with its’ glorious red rose in full bloom against old fashioned shaving cream and other vintage barbershop elixirs. If you are seeking a skanky animalic you will have to enjoy the opposite extreme of cleanliness in MKK to get a hint of what you are after. Papillion Salome is a better option if you want something that pushes the envelope. Although, with that too, you will have to endure a French potpourri of roses and other earthly delights to experience the warm-blooded mammal aromas, fetid and curious. The only scents that I have tried that heavily feature civet and skank upfront and center without an ultra-clean contrast are Nishane Afrika Olifant (which blends animalics so deeply into western oud and other synthetic woods that it purrs softly, never gets outrageous) and Dior Leather Oud (which is really more about the namesake leather and oud ). I’m sure someone out there has tried something animalic that better deserves MKK’s exaggerated reputation as a skank-fest.
sharov sany – :
Les premières secondes rien ne se passe et d’un coup, j’ai eu l’impression d’être nez à nez avec un lion… puis dans un lit avec une femme 😀
Un peu dérangeant pour un parfum… mais attirant en même temps !
Le parfum se calme assez rapidement pour devenir comme une seconde peau (ou comme une couche de poils de chats). Un chat doux remplace le lion et au fil des heures le parfum bascule dans un fond ambré.
vov992 – :
Side by side with Dzing! and MKK is sweeter. Ha! There! I love both and love the dirty, fecality. It is more a personal fragrance (I rarely wear it outside). I have worn it and when I greeted my sister she asked if it was musk. She didn’t say it stunk which is saying something.
feridmessi – :
Stage I: [3:03 p.m.] – Dirty underwear [complete with a racing stripe, if ya catch my drift], stuffed into a brand new plastic wrapper. For some reason, the plasticky smell reminds me of the jasmine note in Idyll…
Stage II: [4:30 p.m.] – Fragrance almost gone– I sprayed a good amount on my left wrist and dabbed some of it onto my right one — I can still smell the plasticky note, but the indolic part is gone…
No cumin, patch, rose or vanilla…I mainly bought a sample of this because of the cumin note…All that’s left is just a faint whiff of amber & musk…Gonna have to gift this $15.00 sample out…
*sigh*
Esorsskicky – :
I’m just gonna throw this out there. Anyone who’s completely repulsed or not perversely intrigued by MKK probably has a mediocre sex life.
terpilgopr – :
a kouros even sweeter and spicy. a scent of class. but I prefer kouros or furyo.
Secure – :
This is a strange and totally realistic scent that imitates the scent of leather and a man’s musk. So dirty, so sexy… instantly arousing.
sbt015intitytek – :
I had a sample vial from a while ago. I just tried it a few months back( when nobody was home). I admit I do not like musk, civet or anything ” skanky” buy I figured it would give it a try just for amusement.
It smelled my my Uncle Chucks house when I was a kid, he was a Vietnam vet who looked like Willie Nelsons brother, shopped exclusively at Goodwill and had about 15 cats. Had a hand drawn well and an outhouse. And he grew marijuana in his backyard. It smells like an old farm house + tom cats + dust or mildew. There’s a tiny hint of vaguely floral or herbal perfume but it gets lost in the mix. If Uncle Chuck wore cologne to get ” gussied up” he’d smell like this. It smells like an eccentric old man who may not bathe frequently but smokes pot regularly.
But of course I think Jovan musk is too musky. Lol.
buyanchik – :
Clean standard musk.
Since it was made in the 90s, the era of clean and fresh fragrances, this fragrance was the beginning of the comeback of animalic revolution, so you can sense the clean bubbles and the civit all around. Even today the musk labeled fragrances (aka musk, musk intense, pure musk, etc) smells like “Muscs Koublai Khan” in away or another, so it’s the typical civit musk animalic fragrance.
Civit, musk, amber, and caraway.
posterfile – :
Forget all the silly over bloated negative comments out there. This is the most beautiful natural musk fragrance ever created and a true classic of modern perfumery. Yes it is not doused with heavy florals like most other musks out there. It is resinous, unfiltered musk (musk mallow or ambrette in this case) with additional notes of civet, castoreum, labdanum, ambergris, rose, and cumin. To truly enjoy this perfume, it is important that you not douse yourself with it. It has a lovely lingering presence with slight animalic overtones and sweetens with each passing minute. The composition is unisex, blended amazingly well and has moderate sillage/projection and excellent longevity . Now available only as an exclusive online purchase directly from Serge Lutens. A real masterpiece!
natdem – :
Let’s make this very clear. Every single ingredient other than rose in this fragrance is a note that is meant to be used as accents in perfumes to make them smell intentionally like a human body. Each and every ingredient other than rose is what defines any composition that they’re in as skanky. This makes fragrances smell lived in and to many perceived as sexual as its raw and animal. If you don’t like the smell of human odors then back away because this is literally designed to smell like diving your face in an unwashed crotch (so sorry that my wording isn’t as ladylike as usual, but it’s the intent of the fragrance). With that said if you love raw animalics, this is for you. There’s no dilution, hand honlding, complexities, or anything to mask, be enhanced by, dance with, or smother the musk. All you have is patchouli to enhance it’s dirty feeling and for some completely unknown reason a rose, which I feel is incredibly misplaced. If you like this, find the qualities charming, or have it and are afraid or know it’s too much dilute it and use it for layering to make your perfume seam more lived in. I haven’t encountered anything like it and am very happy that it’s available for those of us who don’t want our musks to hide.
vectorkim – :
This is Keihls Original Musk in 3D. When I tried it on, it was like the unwashed crotch jumps out at you and I jerked back. Keihls has the same note but more blended into the background. Here it was nipping at my nose to the point where I couldn’t bear to bring my wrist to my nose any longer. Its amazing how the fragrance has these layers that feel as though they are separate from one another as though they each have a life of their own. And each facet will make its appearance in due course. And in my case they jump out at you when you least expect them to.
Its just too dirty for me. It smells like an over ripe old man. Specifically over ripe in the nether regions. Keihls is much more wearable and enjoyable overall.
vburcev – :
This is probably the best musk fragrance that I’ve smelled/worn so far – the dry down on it is really stellar. It has that true animal musk scent that you buy a musk to smell. It takes a few minutes to “air out” before that really starts to come through, though.
I blind-bought this with some trepidation after reading the reviews: I’d say that if you want a solid, refined “true” musk then this is a great purchase, though. It doesn’t smell like wild animals or hay bales – to me, it smells decidedly like perfume, and in fact I’d like it a bit MORE animalic than this, but it’s pretty good as is. It also smells a bit on the feminine side when you first put it on, I think from the rose.
maxim19920603 – :
when you are testing this perfume, you can sense an animal , Sweet and Creamy and bitter scent .
Muscs Koublai Khan is Deep , very masculine and strong.
According to perfume names , We should expect musk scent in Muscs Koublai Khan Lifetimes.
امکان تهیه سمپل در رویال عطر
عطر کوبلای خان یکی از خاص ترین های این برند محسوب میشه که رایحه بسیار غنی ، مردانه و خاصی داره
یه رایحه خامه ای ، تلخ و شیرین که حس انیمالیک جذابی حمایتش میکنه
حس اسپایسی عطر خیلی خیلی متعادل هست و بوی عطر رو جذاب تر نشون میده
رایحه مشک همان طور که در نام عطر ذکر شده یکی از ارکان های اصلی عطر هست و شما از ابتدا تا انتها حسش خواهید کرد. کیفیت این ادوکلن واقعا بالاست و از پخش و ماندگاری مطلوبی هم بهره مند هست
رایحه انیمالیک عطر رو یه حس دودی مانند با کلاسی پشتیبانی میکنه
طبع عطر کاملا گرم و جذابه و فقط برای فصل زمستان و در روزهای سرد پائیز پیشنهاد میشه . قیمت این عطر فکر کنم حدود 800 الی 1 میلیون تومان باشه که به نظرم ارزش هزینه کردن رو داره به شرطی که چند بار تستش کنید و با قاطعیت پسندش کنید.
spaxorspoumma – :
This isn’t scary, it’s amazing! It’s perfect, it’s the musk I’ve been looking for and omg WHY does it have to be so expensive! Damn the expense, I’m getting a bigger decant immediately. This is all the civet and musk from Bal A Versailles, condensed and boiled down into a magical elixr. It’s comforting as it dries down, I see this as a cozy, but yes, very animalic scent. This is beautiful dried down on fabric. I want to spray my pillow with it. I want my husband to wear this, because on a man, this has got to be just beyond sex. On me, it’s cozy, and it’s a skin scent, although I don’t have a spray decant so I’m probably getting that from dabbing. This is everything I’ve ever wanted in a musk and if you love musk, you can’t die without trying this.
Orexialedlirl – :
wonderful and powerful, the elixir start with combo of castoréum-civet notes, after 1 hour we detect so charming rose , and finally the realy and rare musk appear on his
throne. giving this fragrance a very attractive aphrodisiac animalic touch. A Masterpieces signed by Mr LUTENS
tmc518InsuffBooni – :
Oh, MY. This is one great, big, gigantic, in your face, balls to the wall, unapologetically sexy, take no prisoners, fragrance! If there is a fragrance that is sex and power in a bottle, this it IT.
Exotically delightful musky amber with wildcat civet snarling in the wings. All the ingredients in this fragrance were quite popular in perfumes of the ancient world, so it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Koublai Khan himself (or Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, or Ramses the Great) could have worn just such a fragrance.
Considering it contains civet, castoreum and ambergris, I am not a bit surprised some see it as too animalic. Throw in some ambrette seeds for the musk note, plus costus root and cistus labdanum (the ancient unguent used to scent the false beards of the Pharohs). Add a touch of Moroccan rose, and away we go on the wild ride that is Muscs Kublai Khan. Tumultuous, passionate, and powerful. Probably not for the shy or the faint of heart. Aptly named after a mighty ruler and conqueror. Wear this and conquer the world (or at least feel like you could). Yowzah!!!
west1000 – :
After reading the umpteenth review of this scent, I decided to finally determine for myself. OMG, what a putrid, fetid fecal mess! Smells exactly like livestock trampled straw–if you’ve grown up on a farm, you know exactly what I mean. I would be strongly repulsed by any human wearing this scent.
bodya3103 – :
کوبلای خان یکی از عطر های مفهومی از برند سرژ لوتنس هست همون طور که از اسمش مشخصه یه عطر مشکی هست ولی مشکی که شباهتی به مشک سفید نداره و شبیه به مشک ختن هست وهمراه با مشک دانه حالت گیاهی هم پیدا کرده رز در ابتدای این عطر به خوبی قابل تشخیص هست ولی بعد از مدتی در وجوه دیگه عطر متعادل میشه به طوری که رایحه رز قالب نیست. سازنده عطر سعی کرده نت های کثیف گیاهی رو هم مثل پچولی و لادن هم به عطر اضافه کنه که فضای چند وجهی و کثیف به عطر میده که کنار کهربایی که آنچنان وانیلی نیست و از شیرینی کمی برخورداره تبدیل به هارمونی زیبا و جذابی شده . خانه عطر سرژ لوتنس بیشتر سعی بر پیاده سازی ایده و مفهوم داره تا همه پسند بودن بخاطر همین سعی داشته فضای عطر رو شبیه به شخصیت عطر که کوبلای خان هست نزدیک کنه پادشاهان مغول بعد از حمله به کشورهای مختلف و چپاول آنها بعد از مدتی در فرهنگ های کشورهایی که به اون حمله کرده بودند حل میشدند بخاطر همین شما رو وارد یه دنیای چند فرهنگی شرقی میکنه که تداعی کننده جاده ابریشم هست جایی که کاروانهای مختلف اجناس خودشون رو در این جاده تجارت میکردند و یه حس شرقی چند وجهی داره.در کل میتونه یه عطر مشکی و کثیف و شرقی باشه که از لحاظ هنری یه شاهکار هست ولی از لحاظ همه پسند بودن مرتبه بالایی نداره. و بیشتر مورد علاقه مجموعه دارن عطر دوست هست تا یه عطر همه گیر
balon30 – :
Whoa! LOL! Whooooo-hooooooo!! This ain’t your Grandpa’s cologne. 😉
Настя – :
I just love this perfume. Like many people here, I don’t find MKK shocking, but rather warm and nicely intriguing. To me it has a definitely powdery smell, which gives it an older lady-ish ness, but in a challenging and interesting way. Something like a stylish and fierce and active octogenarian woman’s wardrobe full of fur coats… or maybe like Belle from Beauty and the Beast when she is in her 80s and the Beast has died, but his smell lingers on in the huge old house, and Belle’s room is full of well cared-for powders and perfumes…
kilot.xva – :
Wow.
The opening is sitting on a bus in Eastern Europe next to an old lady trying to cover her BO with rose perfume. Ten mins in and the BO and roses hate each other. Thirty minutes later there’s a truce. Both have shut up but haven’t left the ring.
That said, I found that this fragrance works well (VERY) as a base for layering another fragrance. Do that and you’ve made any fragrance very, well, very, LUSTFUL.
Add to a base of MKK CDG Avignon and it’s just awesome. Smells like the best sex ever.
In the back of a church. With a hot sweaty priest. It’ll make you throw a chair thru a stained glass window and not feel bad about it.
Can’t wait to see what happens the next time it’s layered with something else.
Yrus – :
Finally trying this infamous one! On me, I’d say its infamy is only deserved for the first fifteen minutes or so. I did get a fecal note right off the bat, but I rode it out, since I liked the sweet spice and musk underneath. And actually it ends up a subtle, close-to-skin scent that isn’t going to knock anyone over. The fecal note fades, giving way to a slight cumin sweatiness on a leathery sweet musk. There’s a little bit of rose in there too. It has a lot of layers and will take more sniffing for me to suss them all out, but I basically like it and feel no desire to scrub it, and I suspect it might even continue to grow on me. But then, I like Kouros and Dzing and other crazy-animalistic fragrances, so I WOULD say that.
Ninka_emizebraabito – :
Serge Lutens – Muscs Koublaï Khän
Ah yes, the famous polarizing fragrance from Serge Lutens.
First of all, do not be afraid of MKK! It’s not some animalic beast that’s scary or super challenging. No no no. Its polarizing effect is blown out of proportion, or perhaps it’s just not as daring compared to other scents that have come out after it.
A big part of people’s perception of fragrances can be what you think while going into it. If someone hands you a sample of MKK without telling you anything about it, or what it even is.. you may or may not find it challenging. If someone tells you that it’s a polarizing/challenging/animalic fragrance… well, then you’re going to purposely search for those attributes! Confirmation bias.
To me, this is like a… warm, sweet, maybe a little spicy, fragrance – with a bit of halitosis (bad breath smell), but don’t let that scare you! It’s calming; lovely. A comfort scent. Sure, I can see this being challenging(ish?), but nowhere near Dior Leather Oud!
If a warm, perhaps musky, lightly sweet & spicy, calming, comforting perfume sounds up your alley.. then check out MKK! This could be a good cuddle scent during the Winter time. :).
Also of note: it feels ‘rich’ somehow, but not necessarily ‘thick’. I can see this being too much for someone, yet, it doesn’t seem thick to where it’d suffocate you. Interesting.
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If you don’t want to read all of the above, then here’s a summary in one word for MKK: Lovely.
freellurn – :
I was super worried to test it. Just cause I was biased by reading the reviews even before testing the scent. Sweaty bodies? Unwashed Mongol horsemen?? Give me a break! Super settled, soft and close-to-body musk fragrance. It is cosy and comforting. It is by no means aggressive nor it is stinky. Considering buying a bottle now. It is by far the nicest musk I have tried, it even beats my faves- Reminiscence Musk and the older edition of Musk by The body Shop
Medvejatnick – :
I was worried when I got this 2ml sample that it would be primarily a fecal ballsac scent but I was soooo pleasantly relieved. I tried to do two dabs of this on my wrist but I accidentally spilled more like 20 dabs. It ran down my arm and started collecting in my sleeve. EXXXTREME!
This is such a strange animalistic concoction. It reminds me of white musk by bodyshop but much much much dirtier, carnal, visceral, raw, stanky, sexy, sensual, triple x rated for infinity.
I am getting: musk, fur, sweat, barnyard, hay, amber, mothballs, floral arrangement, sweaty male in particular, patchouli. It changes every-time I smell my wrist or wave my arm in front of my nose. Sometimes I get a whiff of flowery sweat, other times a clean, patchouli, amber musk and now… sharp, urinal cakes and hay. But I like it. I can’t help it.
A scent for perverts!
It’s actually a quite pleasant musk once all the stank dries down. Very soapy, fresh, floral with a hint of patchouli. Animal shank seems to be fading but I know it’s still there because occasionally I sure as hell can smell it. Thankfully it’s subtle. I think this may be a work of art when it comes to musky fragrances and needs to be tried. I am going to test this out in public and see what happens…
SEVERAL HOURS LATER
I now LOVE this. The drydown is SO good. Soft, powdery musk with a hint of patchouli and subdued civet. I layered this with oud ispahan and it smells beyond incredible. One spray of oud ispahan over top and I know this will last for the next 24 hours AT LEAST. I have to get me some of this fume as a base for some of my fragrances. It still smells slightly sweaty but it’s a good kind of sweat, a sexual one… pheromones…
NEXT DAY
Yup, still there. A fading musk that has a chalkboard smell to it (very dusty). It has been absorbed by my skin and now sits comfortably. A fantastic experience!
belosheikin – :
amazing when sweat, its you and only you yourself its a selfscent .. sweat and dirt and a hint of cumin that bring the body odor and a huge touch of stinky civet along with original musk .. this is realy a human being
pochik – :
I’ve never even smelled this stuff but if you’ve just arrived here, do yourself a favor and read all the reviews below. I just dare you to try to avoid laughing your ass off. Epic work folks!
kibaev – :
So I know I’m a little late to party but I just received a sample of MKK.
I was so excited to get this in the mail, Yay! I read so many interesting reviews I couldn’t wait to get this on my skin. I was expecting a nose bomb. It opens with some whiffs of body odor then….. Nothing! Well barely anything, just a hint of 70’s style Musk oil, maybe a hint of something powdery. This is so sad. I’m off to visit a friend; it will be interesting to see if she gets more than I from this one.
adressat – :
Architecturally this resembles Fumerie Turque. Or, by the order chronological vice versa.
In this case, the florals are pushed forward to run aside the incense. The Musk, like the FT is cast behind, shaded. Also in this case, it is Halitosis and Napthalene rich and is the very, “Ambergris” concoction that I have obtained from Al Haramain. This is masterfully constructed Feminine. FT is masterfully constructed Masculine. These are the only two Lutens I have tasted thus far. They are exceptional.
Synesthetic. Billowing Clouds,Warm, Rose hued Purple.
(is in my brain)
OlegS75 – :
Big, heavy, sexy perfume in the retro style; musk out front and center over an old school floral background. I didn’t get the “unshowered-post-sex” thing in the beginning; just sexy, buxom, but sophisticated and well structured. It smelled exactly what like what you’d wear to get coital with someone. As it dries down you get that post-coital sexy funk – still well structured though. Wears surprisingly close to the skin – this is something you either wear for yourself or someone you’re going to get pretty close to. I could see a sexy, confident man wearing MKK with a suit, or a sexy, confident woman (think Angelina Jolie) with jeans and cowboy boots. Sensual, opulent, and decadent.
ampek – :
I used to wonder why people would gravitate toward animalic fragrances. Why would anyone want to smell like a civet, hyrax or a beaver?
Then I tried Roja Dove’s Diaghilev and suddenly understood and was out to try all the animalics I could.
This smells like you just made love and your girl’s perfume, along with other odors, lay heavy in the air. As the base appears, its like you and your girl have gone your separate ways, and hours later you can still smell her perfume on your skin.
Based on the reviews, I expected this to project strongly and smell mostly fecal. What I got was something different; this has elements of both Diaghilev (lighter on the florals) and Amouage’s Gold Man (minus the baby powder) but maintains the civet (I get no Castoreum) note that is strong in both.
A reference for the genre. Beautiful.
Sakseanda – :
Muscs Koublai Khan is another fragrance I approached with apprehension due to its reputation. In fact in my very first TPC order I hesitantly bought a sample and was half relieved when they let me know it was out of stock. After not only surviving but loving my run-in with Montale’s Aoud Cuir d’Arabie, though, I knew that I needed to trust my gut on MKK. And I’m so glad I did.
On my first application of MKK my wife sniffed, then gripped my arm a little tighter, inhaleded deeply, and said “Mmmm, this might be the best thing you’ve ever worn.” I’m tempted to end the review here, because what the hell else matters?
MKK is fur, flesh, cumin, candlelight, exertion. Impossibly good BO mixed with burning wax and exotic spices. Khal Drogo in a bottle.