Animals' musk, Ambergris, Oudh... Oils and Aphrodisiacs forum

[Ildergreier]

Now there is a challenge for you. <3

[NuTrix]

BWAHAHAAA! I've cut back and STILL have 3 storage boxes for all of them...then there's the medicine cabinet for overflow...I'm not sure I could get it all in 1 pic!

[Ildergreier]

NuTrix would you be willing to post a picture of all your scents and all your pheromones in one picture?

I am convinced you have the fragrance equivalent of a fully stocked liquor cabinet in your home.

Don't we all?

[eternitys_child]

NuTrix would you be willing to post a picture of all your scents and all your pheromones in one picture?

I am convinced you have the fragrance equivalent of a fully stocked liquor cabinet in your home.

[Ildergreier]

For me it is one of the most delicious musks that I have ever tried.

[NuTrix]

Musc Tonkin recommend from Iidergreier:
In the many reviews I read on this, people either loved it, or loved to hate it!
Some of the reviews mention notes of civit, cat pee, manure and out right stank. Others were talking of floral notes and general loveliness
So to be safe, I sampled first to make sure it liked me.
I think it's lovely and even verified with Mr Right that it's floral and earthy, no cat pee to be found Strange how so many people register things so differently in their reviews... This is a unisex fragrance. First on, it's very floral on me, but I could see in the dry down how it would compliment a man as it becomes more earthy and there's a note in there that is reminiscent of dried hay, but not manure, lol! It sits very close to the skin for me and lasts for hours, very nice

[Ildergreier]

Is it lovely, isn't it?

[NuTrix]

WOW! received Ambre Russe today and ZOMYWOW! My chemistry LUUUURVS it. I was concerned at 100mls, that's a lot of perfume to hate, lol, but no worries there! Thanks for the recommendation!

[Ildergreier]

Understand, they are quite expensive.

[NuTrix]

Pulled the trigger on Amber Russe. I'm holding off on the musk only because I already have several musk scents with the deer musk, though I read their simulation is quite convincing

[Ildergreier]

Oh my! They both sound amazing! Do you have these? What is your opinion of the company?

Yes, I do, they are wonderful, albeit both are vinter scents. It is volume on them. One spray of them is enough. Wonderful company and they became so moved when I wrote to them in french.

[NuTrix]

You need Musk Tonkin and Russian Amber.

Oh my! They both sound amazing! Do you have these? What is your opinion of the company?

[Ildergreier]

Bumping this thread!

I've always liked ambergris but never thought of it as an aphrodisiac. I've just begun exploring musks and am waiting on a fragrance that has both oud and Indian deer musk. I'm also waiting on 3 variants of ambergris, 2 white - one with oud and the other that looks to have other notes along with the ambergris - and one black purported to be from the Connemara coast, supposedly it is to be unlike the average low grade black. We'll see...I AM curious to see if any of them illicit primal responses. I have always gotten compliments on my current blend so this adds a new layer of interest for me.

It's been a while since the last post. Anyone have anything to report or share on this topic?

You need Musk Tonkin and Russian Amber.

[NuTrix]

Bumping this thread!

I've always liked ambergris but never thought of it as an aphrodisiac. I've just begun exploring musks and am waiting on a fragrance that has both oud and Indian deer musk. I'm also waiting on 3 variants of ambergris, 2 white - one with oud and the other that looks to have other notes along with the ambergris - and one black purported to be from the Connemara coast, supposedly it is to be unlike the average low grade black. We'll see...I AM curious to see if any of them illicit primal responses. I have always gotten compliments on my current blend so this adds a new layer of interest for me.

It's been a while since the last post. Anyone have anything to report or share on this topic?

[dorfmeister]

hi everybody, I was not posting but was experimenting over the last year. I can say now that the cheap $ 0-30 musks are all probably not natural but synthetic musks. Not good scents for me. The real natural animalic musks costs $ 50-150 and more per 3 ml bottle. very nice self effects. Civet ones hits girls and men too, also without pheromones. Ambergris ones are very good too, fresh warm and oceanic, it generates peacefull feeling and healthy conversation. Hyraceum is interesting stony earthy smell. Castoreum is leathery, deer musk is more animalic. Of course these scents are much more complex, not easy to describe all the complexicity of its scent. Oudhs are usually barnyard smelling, little difficult for caucasians people. But I can say all these are much more magic than commercial parfumes. I use the oils on the skin spots first as cover scent and pheromones directly over it, with no diffusion problems.

I have pretty much given up on getting legit deer musk. The others add something that nothing else can bring to a mix, complexity, 3 dimensionality, who knows the right way to express it, and, like you are saying, they have definite pheromonal effects. They also have a longevity suspended in alcohol like nothing else I have tried.

I find them to have a synergistic effect with synthetic pheromones and I also have been applying some oil based fragrances over them

[dorfmeister]

While I can appreciate wanting to play with various animal musks from purely aesthetic/fragrance perspective, why would you need to boost a phero product? If it's a good product it doesn't need any boosting.

This, to me, and no offense meant, is the sort of question that I find completely uninteresting. Why not try it? Why not see what it could do? Or don't try it. It doesn't matter.

How is doing this any different than experimenting with other pheromone molecules?

[Scottie2Hottie]

While I can appreciate wanting to play with various animal musks from purely aesthetic/fragrance perspective, why would you need to boost a phero product? If it's a good product it doesn't need any boosting.

[Pheronaut]

hi everybody, I was not posting but was experimenting over the last year. I can say now that the cheap $ 0-30 musks are all probably not natural but synthetic musks. Not good scents for me. The real natural animalic musks costs $ 50-150 and more per 3 ml bottle. very nice self effects. Civet ones hits girls and men too, also without pheromones. Ambergris ones are very good too, fresh warm and oceanic, it generates peacefull feeling and healthy conversation. Hyraceum is interesting stony earthy smell. Castoreum is leathery, deer musk is more animalic. Of course these scents are much more complex, not easy to describe all the complexicity of its scent. Oudhs are usually barnyard smelling, little difficult for caucasians people. But I can say all these are much more magic than commercial parfumes. I use the oils on the skin spots first as cover scent and pheromones directly over it, with no diffusion problems.

[dorfmeister]

I've generally been using a 2.5 mg per spray bottle and pouring it into a 30 ml bottle with perf alcohol, ies, civet, castoreum, and hyraceum. All in small but definitely noticeable amounts. The animalics stick around on the skin for a very long time.

[dorfmeister]

I am finding myself using extremely dilute quantities of the civet and castoreum as the tinctures from Apothecaries Garden are extremely strong. I have most been working using my nose and starting with very minute amounts of the tinctures to relatively greater quantities of ies and perfumer's alcohol. You'll see what I mean when you get them. It takes very little tincture to create a very strong barnyard smell with the civet or an extremely strong sort of leathery aroma with castoreum.

I bought a bunch of ies in EDP strength in 60 ml bottles from Save on Scents. Very cheap.