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tdhtqxbr – :
Creamy chocolate pudding, but a definite scarf fragrance that I want to keep around to bury my nose in to inhale. Can’t really detect the musc but it will ensure longevity on me (my skin holds on to musc rather well). Just got it, looking forward to wearing it when the weather gets really cold.
carpinteyroymo – :
Agree with others that this perfume is not named correctly: I don’t pick up a musk note. Instead this is a dessert gourmand, with chocolate, vanilla and tonka forward. After the very strong opening, this stays linear. For some reason I’m getting an old school hostess cupcake vibe from my childhood…. except I’m eating it while drinking a cappuccino.
I don’t think this works in summer heat as it’s just too strong, so I’ll test it again in cooler temps. I’m liking it but not sure it’s going to be a purchase. My sample is from Lucky Scent.
EDIT this works so much better in the Fall and cooler months. My BFF is wearing this as I write and it’s wonderful.
predatorwww – :
This smells very realistic, it smells like creamy, buttery milk chocolate with vanilla. I cannot detect the coffee note at all. The musk is barely noticeable as well. It starts out creamy and becomes a bit powdery with time and aside from that does not change much.
This slightly feminine, simple composition is perfect for cooler temperatures. Sillage and longevity are moderate. Try this if you’re into gourmands or if you are starting to explore that type of perfume.
bykina.jana – :
The moment I have got the sample I tried this one from the vial, I thought “this is IS my chocolate frag”.. but no.
It started as a very sweet creamy chocolate vanilla dessert, very cosy one. When I close my eyes I imagine a little boy unwrapping milky chocolate candies, gifted on Christmas.
For a slight second, just second, I heard a citrusy note, but that was gone very quickly, and yet again this sweet chocolate.
In 2 hours – still the same… in 4 hours – still there, and it started to annoy me a lot. It’s like “hey? Where is a development? At least Musk?” In 6 hours I still can hear it from my wrist but it is still the same milky chocolate.
It faded completely in 7 hours. Sillage is very moderate, projected for about an hour, and then lingered close to skin.
I will try this one again in more colder day, probably the summer heat is not the best condition for this frag.
toxep – :
Musc Maori opens with the nostalgic scent of chocolate scented erasers (sort of a chocolate plus cherry plus eraser plastic smell). But that’s just the first minute or so – soon Musc Maori transforms into the most creamy milk chocolate, cuddly musk and honeysuckle nectar scent. An odd combination of notes but it absolutely works – the result is a fairly simple but utterly cosy gourmand scent. The chocolate smells like a milk chocolate ganache truffle. It’s linear through its duration. I absolutely love it. Very sweet but also delicate; somehow despite the creaminess, this is not a heavy scent. The longevity and sillage are lower than some other Pierre Guillame scents, but still average to good. Despite the close sillage, this is a compliment getter. Chocolate lovers should definitely try this one! Love.
Swosmongosy – :
I tried a sample of this perfume from Lucky Scent and liked it enough to buy a big bottle. My one complaint is it doesn’t last long on my extremely dry skin but I live in the Arizona desert with temperatures soaring over 120 degrees in summer few perfumes last long on me. I still bought this for layering with other gourmand scents since I love bakery and coffee perfumes together.
Notes on this perfume say coffee but on my skin I never smell any coffee. This smells like bakery chocolate pastries, specifically a Napoleon, with vanilla strong. No amber or other notes listed for this perfume are noticeable on my skin. This is a skin scent I notice on myself for about 2-3 hours if inside house but outside it will burn off within 2 hours . People have to be close to me to notice I am wearing this perfume but I smell ithis yummy scent and it quenches my sweet craving.
I recommend this perfume to gourmand lovers but buy a sample to test hoe it smells on your skin. I notice on reviews others mentioned oranges and plastic scent that never showed up on me. Ironically one reason I buy so many perfume samples is most perfumes – even Creed Aventus for Her – smell like gross plastic dolls on my skin. It is a nightmare searching for a signature scent because few perfumes mix well with my body chemistry. That is why I suggest testing this perfume, it smells great on me but might not on you.
NicArcarius – :
Musc Maori smells so good, but it’s really misnamed. The main star of this scent is chocolate, not musk!
It does have some clean musk and white floral notes, but they are only noticeable to me in the opening and quickly move to the background. They just keep the fragrance from being too much of a boring one-note gourmand. Like many others, I smell a strong orange note with the chocolate in this. It reminds me of melted dark chocolate and candied oranges, and of the delicious orange mocha my favorite café sells.
In the drydown, it becomes warmer and warmer, there are even some roasted and some milky notes. It’s so delicious, but it’s never cloying, there is always a hint of freshness in this. Musc Maori is smooth, softand creamy, but not weak, I can smell it through my sweater after many hours. Just very nicely blended. One of the best true chocolate perfumes in my opinion.
ulubka – :
The opening is very appealing, like dark chocolate. But the drydown… Smells acidic and plasticky. Dislike 🙁
Tatsy16997 – :
Nice~I like;-)
4aber – :
This is like rubbing the finest Lindt chocolate on your skin. With vanilla almond filling and a fruity touch. It actually is mouthwatering. Definitely different, a good scent and a very realistic gourmand. I have no idea when to wear it. But hey, no one will object when you smell like Lindt chocolate.
Dear to wear it!
sasha_1008 – :
The top cocoa note is so very good, but downhill after that. Just loses momentum and stops dead in its tracks.
smz046speagoessenda – :
Most realistic smell of earl grey tea with milk.
пуся – :
Artificial, almost plasticky cacao + sugared almonds.
Cacao already has a quasi-plastic smell to me; the accentuation of that particular facet is too much for my personal tastes.
Seems like a fun and elegant scent nonetheless. I can see why people like it.
Fearless – :
This is not what I expected at all!
For instance, when I sprayed it, I thought it was dark cherry and almond, but once it started warming up, I noticed cacao, vanilla, and a warm orange. There was also a pinch of anise and the some quiet pineapple.
It was like wearing the most delightful pudding, and there was a soft musk and amber in the base.
PoownSank – :
Smells pretty much like Dutch sinaassnippers, that is orange jelly shaped like orange wedges covered in chocolate. Thus I can’t believe there’s no orange note listed because to me it’s there, clear as day. Delicious.
Some hours into wearing, the orange note has dissipated and I am left with… a nice, sweet scent that I can’t quite put my finger on. Chocolatey nougat maybe? Toffee? Still, every bit as lovely as the first phase, just different.
rus-12101980 – :
i really don’t know why people dislike this fragrance? It’s so beautiful. On my skin, it’s glowing with cacao adding a little vanille things inside. I’m in love with PG04 in the first time i smell this and buy 100ml immediately.
selivanoff – :
Here’s a fragrance that delves into the gourmand aspect of cacao in an utterly repulsive way. A hint of tropical booziness evocative of cheap Lidl praline box nightmares is evident making this bloody awkward to wear. Forever associated with Dogi’s aimless wandering in Altago City.
кувалда – :
This starts out exactly like cocoa powder you put in milk. Not cacao. Not blended with milk, just the powder. More specifically, O’boy which we call it in Sweden. You can really feel the dry and powdery texture. However it gets muskier rather soon, and that’s what the drydown is like. This is closest to Serendipitous, I find, except this one changes more noticeably and quite fast. Oui Plus and Gourmand Coquin still are my favourite chocolate perfumes.
atstt – :
i thought this was a musk scent and ordered a sample without looking at the notes, because i like musk. this is a gourmand fragrance. smells like cacao or chocolate, in an edible way. opening is very load and realistic-chocolate. it settles later into neutral skin scent that sits closeto the skin. I would recomend to try to all gourmand lovers. i am not into that type of scents.
sergeus07 – :
Quite a perplexing fragrance. Not the scent, which I’m afraid is not interesting enough to be that, but the projection and longevity, or lack thereof. After spaying it on, this fragrance goes straight to skin scent. If that… Right when applying it to skin, I could smell a faint chocolatey aroma for what seemed like 2 seconds and then nothing. If I buried my nose in my arm I could kinda smell it, but there was absolutely no projection. I’ve never experienced anything this weak call itself a fragrance. It was like the faint memory of something I’d spayed on days ago. As to the scent itself, there’s dark cocoa, warm vanilla, and a creamy tonka which may all account for the chocolate impression. But there’s something else in there that keeps it from being completely edible. An indefinite fresh flowery note. And that’s it. No coffee, no amber, no musk. Not to my nose, anyway. Just a flowery chocolate that’s too shy to be anything louder than an impression.
ansam1 – :
This might be nice but I can’t smell it at all. Maybe I’m spoiled by the gourman scents of baruti…but the scent dissapears after about a minute on skin. Not impressive for such an expensive perfume.
*update: I sprayed about 10 more times. It’s nice but it’s mainly the taste of disappointment that lingers beyond the fading chocolate and tonka bean. Glad I only bought a sample!*
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Sokyarrorkege – :
I’ve had my sample for over a year now, and got it out today since I’m antsy for something new. I was a young child during the 70’s, and my immediate scent association with this is to a scratch n sniff mug of hot chocolate on a kids Christmas book I used to have. If anyone is familiar with these, it also had peppermint and pine smells in it. I was really looking forward to this because I love a good chocolate scent, Cocoon is my favorite, but this one is not really wearable for me. Even as it evolves a little, too much of the unnatural chocolate scent remains. I really like some of his scents…I own Cadjmere and a decant of Coze. I’m gonna pass on reliving the scratch n sniff book though.
Natalia WebMedia – :
I like how this smells, but it’s just wayyyy too sweet on me. It’s a very sweet milky chocolate. You know after you eat a bowl of chocolate cereal (coco pops, mmm) and there’s that leftover milk at the bottom that stole all of the chocolate flavouring? It reminds me of that, except a little more powdery and with the sweetness amped way up. Sort of like somebody took said leftover cereal milk and dumped a cup of chocolate milkshake powder in it.
I love the chocolatey whafts I get when I wearing this, but it just gives me a headache after a while (no matter how sparingly I apply it.) I guess it’s just too much for me! If you like chocolate scents and can handle the sweeter stuff better than I can, definitely give this one a go. It lasts around ~12 hours and has average projection IMO.
Update 03/06/16:
I came across a bottle of this at a low price a little while ago and couldn’t say no. I have to say that this fragrance works so, so much better when sprayed!! I was originally sampling this from a small dabber vial and I guess it concentrated the sweetness a little too much for me. When sprayed this smells just like the milk leftover from eating Coco Pops (with no milkshake powder overdose!) Much more yummy and wearable.
OSS1987 – :
The leading note is really milky chocolate, even oily in chocolate way.
Sorry, lovers, but it smells too eatable. Like my mom says, perfume should smell perfume.
Even so, I prefer Devil’s Food by Demeter, because it’s more dark and complex like chocolate tart.
yuliya.koval – :
Real, authentic Chocolate…
This is one which to me reminds me of pure chocolate powder, a very dark and aromatic mix here. I find it very authentic in it’s cacao note. I think this will appeal to people who love chocolate fragrances. I can’t say I detect many of the other notes. I have found this is prominent for the first 2 hours on my skin, then dries down rapidly.
This is the first fragrance I’ve tried from Parfumerie Generale. A gourmand. I’m impressed, but wish this lasted longer. Not sure if I can recommend but I think it would please fans of chocolate greatly.
Lena89 – :
Noope. Another chocolate scent, another Terry’s Chocolate orange lurker.
This for me fell at the 1st hurdle. Well, sort of 1st, lets say 1.1.
I did get a deep, luscious cacao note right at the start; like a Premium hot chocolate straight up from 1st spray – it was beautiful and heading for a 9/10.
But this is Niche and I’m now almost bumped into immunity from disappointment.
Then; 2nd minute, a milky accord appeared like a bubbling mass of clouds forming.
Oh oh, it all fell downhill from there – milky note swiftly turned burnt-ish, soured, odd and off, then mellowed agin into – the orange.
Sigh. It scores 3 marks, just for that opening 1st minute!!
My rating: 4/10.
Quality: 9/10.
Igoryann – :
I’m torn between loving and disliking Musc Maori. It’s a pretty outrageous fragrance and it’s been hard to make up my mind about it.
What I love about it is that sometimes it can smell exactly like real milk chocolate. That’s what I get when I sniff the bottle, and at certain times in its development on the skin, and there are whiffs of it all the way through.
Which is wonderful and delicious, even more so because of the other gourmand notes that shine through from time to time, but I do feel very conspicuous wearing it. That’s my first gripe with this one: it definitely isn’t very wearable. It’s pretty strong as well and I couldn’t think of a single occasion where it would be fitting to smell conspicuously like milk chocolate out among people.
That usually doesn’t stop me, though, I have plenty of perfumes I mostly only wear at home when I’m alone and sometimes I don’t care what other people will think and wear them out anyway, though lightly applied.
But there’s something else that I dislike about Musc Maori and that is its other face, the musky, murky one. I guess it makes sense for it to be there to break the pure gourmand vibe and make it a bit more perfume-like, but I don’t like the combination. It’s like some animal got into my hot chocolate, there’s something not right and even a bit queasy about it.
Luckily for me, this murky quality doesn’t come out too often, but put together with the lack of practicality of such an outrageous scent it does keep me from wearing it very often. I do really like that milk chocolate though, so like I said, I’m torn. Time will have to tell whether I’ll be able to live without it once I finish my decant.
adolfh – :
Strong, strong liquor chocolatey scent. NO musc! Very potent and true to nature real 70% dark chocolate
Linear to me, smells this way for about two hours, then like anything chocolate, it’s gone before you know it.
Turik3000 – :
Wanted to like this one, but theres just something off about it, and it sorta teeter totters between being ok, and not good at all…
I should say first blast is kinda… gross I dunno something was off about it.
But as that goes away basically for the scent I get something that kinda is on the line between being like.. Some old halloween candy.. Maybe something like candy corn. Or just some candy that when youre a kid and you just want some real candy like , kit kats, musketeers, butterfingers or whatever. But the old lady on the street always gives you old people candy lol. And its this kinda candy and its in a sorta dry bag.
And then the other side of it I guess it a sorta, sweetish bath lotion or something.
Its like a weird mix between that.
I dunno I wanted to like this, and when it dries down its not like.. awful or anything. Its just not what I expected and doesnt smell particularly good to me. Somethings just off to my nose about it.
gcw133elipseskism – :
Musc Maori starts off smelling exactly like a bag of Halloween candy.
The opening is warm hot chocolate, fresh in a steamy mug. Really gourmand, almost milky in a way.
Mid-dry down, you’re met with some chocolate filled fruit-tarts; bitter & sweet simultaneously. There’s a chocolate-coated citric monstrosity lurking somewhere, with a hint of woods. This is where the composition falls a bit flat and sour, at least with my skin chemistry…like a Starbucks planted right in the middle of a foreign farmer’s market, next to a Home Depot.
There seems to be a thick, sweet honey note accompanying the chocolate in the dry-down, once the tartness has passed, which I truly do enjoy!
We could’ve been great together, Musc Maori! You’re 60% gourmand-comfort perfection, and 40% hot mess. Thus confirming the “hit or miss” factor that keeps me from truly favoring the house of Parfumerie Generale.
cim196Bessinepome – :
very gourmandish) sweet chocolate pralines. not hot chocolate to my nose but the smell of chocolate candies with some sweet filling. very nice but you should really love to smell sweet)
boss7777 – :
Beautiful gourmand! A warm, crispy coffee chocolat with a delicios vanille musk note.
On my skin very long lasting not too overwerwelming but quiet chique and warm! Great for christmas.
Lex_rus – :
I wish Musc Maori and I had fallen in love. Unfortunately it didn’t even get off the back burner. It started off as sour milk on me, I swear I checked the sample label and it was the right name. Thankfully the sourness exited double quick and left the creamy milk behind. Full cream. Accompanied by bittersweet chocolate powder, the kind you use for baking. Just as I thought we were getting along just fine, something citrus like shows up! So now I get chocolate powder+milk+citrus rind. Where is the musk? I get neither soapy clean nor wild animal musk. It’s a Chocolate powdered Maori on me. The sillage is ok, not quite a skin scent but not loud either. Longevity is still pending a report but it’s made it over two hours at least. I envy those who had amazing experiences with Musc Maori, but my purse stays snugly in my pocket in this case. I definitely suggest to sample first and not get caught up by the delicious looking notes.
GonnupDourI – :
Opens up with a rich smell of hot chocolate and quickly settles to flat, white musk and cacao smell. It gives an illusion of cacao & milk mix.
I love cacao fragrances. I like that this composition is not too sweet. But, is it interesting enough for me to buy it? No
vlad17 – :
This fragrance is very milky, creamy with a potent cocoa note. There’s also some coffee, vanilla and tonka in here. It’s a delight. I’ve never smelt such a true chocolate-like perfume before. Very gourmand of course, without being overly sweet or tacky. It has class.
mouzze – :
Gourmand. Sweet. Smells like hot chocolate, warm milk. Very reminiscent of Bond 9 I Love New York For All ( black bottle). I personally didnt like it, milky notes in any perfume smell weird to me
mister.overdose – :
Smells like malted milk balls + fruit loops to me: a soft powdery sweet milk chocolate and bergamot?? Odd.
2nd time: same sugary milk chocolate + bergamot aroma overlapping, intriguingly playful and weird. Then I started getting a milky orange, like a creamsicle? So strange, fun though!
Andrei-g111 – :
smells like orange chocolate dessert or latte or something to do with chocolate and oranges
korolleonid – :
I’ll keep this extremely simple because this dessert is so gourmand I might easily get my dress stained!
..Your very, very rich and cacao-filled chocolate tart, s’il vous plaît!
Lutovigor – :
I am wearing it right now. I didn’t get musk but definitely this is cacao. Yummy? Not too sweet and just a simple linear chocolate scent that isn’t strong nor complimenting. It is just chocolate with a hint of coffee and some green. I would rather use my Demeter Hershey’s Kisses not than this Maori. Pretty boring and bland as it stays on my skin. Forget it guys, go for Aquolina Chocolovers or Chocolate Greedy for quality cacao perfume.
SASHULY – :
I consider myself a lover of the “gourmand” category in the strictest sense. I like smelling like cotton candy, lemons, a cup of hot chocolate or a spice pantry or even a coconut cream pie. (I might draw the line at smelling like beef stew.) Musc Maori is gourmand, but in a weird sort of way. I feel that PG walks the line between genius and madness with his many gourmand-like scents. He has a way of mixing incongruous notes to create something magical, yet often odd. While a prominent note in this one is cacao, the mix with coffee/wood/musk results in a smell identical to milk chocolate and thick, swirling butter melting in a bain-marie. It’s not chocolate, it’s not coffee…it’s…Musc Maori. I love PG’s Aomassi – woody caramel – but the verdict is still out on MM.
WayZe – :
Too flat for me, far too sweet , I like gourmand perfumes but maybe I’m falling out of love with chocolate. Don’t like it.
ksu781 – :
38) Fatty Maori
Oulala, it was the too much one! I had always imagined Maori as impressive tattooed warriors but here they’re unfortunately obese singing to welcome Russian tourists (who like sugar). It’s not perfume anymore it’s a food enhancer. It’s worse than La Vie est Belle.
Gourmand notes in a well made perfume it is interesting but summarize a perfume to that does not give anything good.
Musk + Milk + Sugar + Cacao=Latex….Secrètion Magnifique is more breathable than that.
oula, celui la était de trop! J’avais toujours imaginé les Maoris comme des guerriers impressionants et tatoués mais ici c’est malheureusement des obèses qui chantent pour accueillir les touristes russes (qui aiment le sucre). Ce n’est pas du parfum c’est un exhausteur alimentaire. C’est pire que La Vie est Belle.
Les notes gourmandes dans un parfum bien composé c’est intéressant mais résumer un parfum à ça ne donne rien de bon. Musk + Milk + Sugar + Cacao=Latex, Sécrétion magnifique est plus facile à sentir que ça.
Dearartyerype – :
This smells like homemade hot chocolate (made from shaving cacao root into a boiling pot and draining the contents) with too much water added in. I find this to be dry rather than sweet. It’s faint, flat, and forgettable.
sve1972 – :
Hot chocolate, hot chocolate, boiling milk chocolate on the stove, scenting the whole house. And that is all there is, so eventually one gets bored with the scent of melting milk chocolate as it becomes sickly and makes one feel quite queasy. The end is death by drowning in the cauldron of boiling milk chocolate.
yasenko – :
It’s my first encounter with a vile gourmand. I like the concept behind many of PG perfumes and this review is not meant to be agressive… but I simply can’t stand this perfume… I feel instantly sick and wonder why… so let’s try to break down my explanation (this horror show):
I smell overly sweetened hot chocolate with burning plastic, all of which turns decadent, true, but in a scene where there is arson at the toy shop and the plastic dolls are losing their shapes and kids are crying with chocolate buns and marshmallows melting… I feel so appaled!!!
But that’s only the beginning… What truly makes me want to move to another planet is my dad, aunty and acquaintances saying: “ohhh this is delicious!” Too much. So there you go: sample and choose what group you’re in: with or against me lol!
Sergey(PS) – :
I try to make a point of not looking on here to see what the initial hits are (its very difficult not to “cheat” cos I am still such a noob!) … but this had a very strong opening of what seemed to me to be chocolate liqueur, I was free-associating, saying “rum? rum and raisin? …” (both of which which I hate) but I could not place the smell until I finally settled on “… rum-balls” – because of course, the chocolate component. After five minutes I could smell butter, huge gouts of buttery deliciousness, it rather reminded me of a Leonidas chocolate. I am now smelling vanilla maybe, but no sign of musk after over half an hour. And the chocolate is still there, subtly flattened out to a lovely sweet cacao rather than the rum-ball punch in the face you first get. The name Musc Maori kind of appealed to my NZ sense of humour, but I can’t find any hint of Maori: (no crayfish, no whitebait fritters, no Tui lager, no Hangi … <3 )… BUT I am pleased to discover that Musc Maori is a very very nice introduction to cacao scents, indeed. Sadly, there is not much left after 40 minutes other than a faint scent of cocoa.
tar140InsuffBooni – :
It’s a Musc Orientalise Gourmand smell. Smells like cacao with 5 spoons of sugar. Very very sweet. I like that cacao smell remains the same and doesn’t change during some hours BUT when it fades away or as I say “dies” on my skin leaving its final notes I barely can stand it.
dvk700bedyWelty – :
The name “Musc Maori” may seem somewhat misleading: when I saw this, I expected a sweet skin-scent musc fragrance. Instead, it smells like a box of chocolate covered candies. It is not a refined dark chocolate scent, either; more like that of generic cocoa sweets; just like the bag of assorted chocolate treats I received on New Years during childhood – the smell of this chocolatey-sweet mixture and the plastic bag. I have waited patiently for the musk to reveal itself in full grace, but it seems that musk is a bit too shy in here and prefers to hide behind Hershey’s bar. Musc Maori is not bad overall, but it’s also a bit flat.
The longevity of Musc Maori is okay, but projection is minimal in my case. If you’re looking for yummy vanilla from PG, I suggest going for Felanilla instead.
Update: it does become more like “sweet skin scent type” later and I seem to like this stage, but it is still more candy-ish than skin scent.
Tathymact – :
A very milky chocolate; I actually smell frothy milk in it, much like Jo Malone’s sweet milk. I like cocoa, but chocolate -and especially milky one- is way too foody for my taste to be worn as a perfume. Calming and relaxing it is, but I can’t see myself wearing something so sweet except in the coldest weather. Plus, I really disliked the opening, as there was something almost lemony on top of the cocoa for the first half hour than luckily went away completely later. Decent lasting power but it stays close to skin. I’ll just pass.
gela12345 – :
Im so whit you Solvita . this is a milky chocolate , not in the means that it is light chocolate , it is more off the dry dark type . but there is an almost milky powdr feal to it. sweet yes , but not in a cloying way . A very well blended perfume , Hard to describe . not like anythinge i have smelled before . unik in so many ways. Not shure i could pull off a whole bottle off this . but nice and dry, powdery and sweet. almost cooki like , buttery in away
boa – :
Hmm,I couldn’t smell anything dark in this perfume,just a tasty milk chocolate with condensed milk,very sweet.
jfromcandp – :
I love this scent! Especially the milk chocolate smell which isstrong when you spray it. It just lasts for the first few minutes..
Does anyone know a fragrance where is the same chocolate smell but lasts longer??
торнадо – :
I wouldn’t know what to think about it, but then i look at the name and makes sense!:) love it, true maori spirit in a bottle.
kostiuha – :
One of the very few compositions by Parfumerie Generale that I strongly dislike. An extremely realistic dark cacao note, some coffee and a strong creamy/milky vibe. I know it may sound blasphemous of me but it smells like Starbucks minus the cinnamon. As a friend used to say, this is not simply a gourmand, it’s more like something you could spray directly inside your mouth. Not for me…
Rating: 4/10
gela12345 – :
Luscious, drizzling, milk chocolate on skin. Seriously, what’s not to love? This is the Queen of the chocolate scents imho. A chocolate scent for grown ups.
The trail that she leaves is unmistakably edible, unmistakably chocolate, and unmistakably sexy. She’s a complete surprise. Usually when I think chocolate I think light hearted fun. Musc Maori changes that whole equation. She’s still fun, but she has the promise of something more….private. Like a rich dessert fondue for you and your special love. She may be frivolous, but she’s also intimate.
I don’t get the orange pieces like some others do and I have to agree that she prety much is what she is~ a straight up chocolate perfume. And yet….that’s not entirely true either. On me at least and according to my husband~she simmers w/possibilities……and therein lies the key. She smells like WARM chocolate. Not melted in the sun, but by the flame of a fire. Delicious……
cuzma.slav – :
A fine composition. Monotonous and a great work of art in itself.
Chocolate tart.
That’s all that is need to be said.
Diablo Lero – :
I agree with the other reviewers in that this smells like real dark cacao. I imagine a 50’s lady wearing a white musc perfume making chocolate chip cookies from scratch. I feel the smell of freshly buttery chocolate cakebatter with nuts, vanilla, and her white musc perfume mixed with that. After a while this smells like those first 5minutes you set the cookies in the oven,just before the cookies start “cooking”. Yum!
peg926Diobtetty – :
it tried this scent today and i have to say that it smells great! one of the best chocolate scents i have ever smelled. it opens with a beautiful authentic Kakao-note and does NOT smell cheap or too sweet. Simply wonderful for noses, that like gourmet-scents.
vada_05 – :
I must say this is the first PG pefume I have tried. And I did so because of so many reviews claiming it to be a very dark chocolate fragrance, which nevertheless is not too… girly, of fun (for a luck of a better world). As a chocolate fan, I could not have missed out on the opportinity of trying out for myself.
Musc Maori is exactly what I have expected. A dark chocolate with orange skin bits in it. While sniffing my wrist I can just imagine the rich, moist chocolate cake with plenty of orange in it. Very aromatic. And until the very end it remains very, very sweet.
What I found a bit disappointing is the fact that it does not change at all. What you smell in first five minutes is what you will get in an hour.
It actually made me think that, despite being beautifully composed, it it a bit too ‘edible’, I love the smell of cakes and chocolate, but I dont want to smell like one. It is impossible to say whether a person sprayed some Musc Maori on themselves, or just stuffed themselves with chocolate behind everyone’s back.
Emillalgaxiff – :
On my skin Musc Maori opens with an edible strong and creamy dark chocolate smell. First it smells like dark bitter chocolate sweets with coffee liquer inside, then it turns into the coffee liquer with a little drop of dark chocolate and chilli pepper in it. I really enjoy this play of coffee-chocolate notes. The fragrance is not too sweet, it is rather a bit bitter.
The staying power on my skin is ok, could be a little better(I wish it was as good as on rebella), but in general I really like this fragrance and want to have it in my collection:)
kupiviptkkkk – :
Musc Maori is worth trying just to get the opening burst of very creamy, very rich and very, very dark chocolate. It seems difficult to pull of real dark chocolat in perfumes, but this one manage. The opening is delicate and strong.
But then… the promising opening quickly fades to something almost unpleasant. Something mushy, flat and even annoying. After about ten minutes I feel almost nauseas and just want to wash it off.
It is overly sweet, cloying and smells kind of weird in a very bad way.
This one would definitly have need some fresh, tangy and lively notes. I guess I think it smell