If musks range from the pure and white to the animal, Silver Musk from Nasomatto squarely exists on the side of white … or silver. There is no mistaking its muskiness, laminating clean, floral, dry wood impressions together. Indeed, white musk fragrances like this become an exercise in layering and overdosing. If it were a painting, it scumbles and smudges its material into one. Its dominant musk is a huge and powerful macrocyclic molecule known as habanolide, which offers both clean aromatic elegance and heft, as its creamy-powdery muskiness moves into woodiness. Its longevity is indubitable. This is reinforced with an equally heavy dose of ethylene brassylate, which adds complexity along floral, woody, and vanillic lines. The final substantive component of this musky cocktail is ambrettolide, which shades the composition with an overall fruitiness that has a slightly unctuous feel, reminiscent of ambrette. These notes work on the skin, spreading and saturating with a veneer that is glossy, effervescent, and even metallic. Silver Musk iterates this quality with touches of sparkly citrus up top, the natural sheen of lemon and bergamot oil miraculously apparent yet invisible, coated in the sheer transparent freshness of blossomy and ozonic hedione, lilial, helional - creating an atmosphere gorgeously redolent of the sweet and electrical air during a thunderstorm.
In the same vein as Escentric Molecules's Molecule 01, Silver Musk is great for layering.
