[NaturalPerfumey]Mystery of Musk - Musk Nouveau - Charna Ethier of Providence Perfumes

[Guest guest]

Musk Nouveau transported me right back to the Jazz Age. This perfume

seems to contain the spirit of a young urban flapper trapped in a

flacon, or perhaps a pomaded dandy wearing brushed platinum sleeve

garters on his crisp sleeves.

Ethier skilfully invites us to a swanky lounge where we can hear the

rustle of camel-colored silk crepe and the clink of the ice in a

silver cocktail shaker. She bewitches us with a narcotic corsage of

champaca braced with the surprise of coffee, and divine night-blooming

jasmine, all laced through with a rich, ambery note of sherry , which

Ethier herself charmingly describes as 'boozy'. Playing in the

background sleekly in a band we have the clarinet of black pepper

playing in perfect ensemble with the saxophone of patchouli and the

bass trombone of oud.

The musk here is the musk of another age, as if one has somehow come

upon the sillage of phine Baker who just passed by, both

yesterday, and today. It might have been a fragrant ghost, but if it

was, it is nonetheless a warm, vibrant one.

And the final musky base note will continue, becoming more and more

quietly powdery, long after you've left the club.

Alfred Eberle