Musk
Set beside the eau de parfum, Alyssa Ashley Musk Eau de Toilette is the lighter and more casual way to wear the same 1969 composition, and for a lot of people it is the better one. The materials are identical. Bergamot starts it with a brief bitter citrus brightness. Jasmine, rose, geranium and ylang ylang form the middle, a soft old fashioned bouquet in which jasmine supplies richness, rose powder, geranium a green sharpness and ylang ylang a creamy sweetness. Then come iris with its cool dryness, vanilla and tonka bean with their rounded almond sweetness, and musk itself, clean, soft and skin like, which is where the whole thing is heading from the first spray.
What changes with the concentration is the manner. A toilette strength carries less oil, so the citrus and flowers read clearer and brighter at the start and the base arrives sooner and sits lighter. It lasts a few hours rather than most of a day, which makes it an easy thing to spray generously at breakfast and again after lunch without ever feeling overdressed.
That makes this the version for warm weather, for the office, for anyone who finds the eau de parfum too persistent, and for people who like to reapply through the day as a matter of habit. It is also the gentler introduction if you have never tried the scent at all. Soft, clean and unthreatening, it suits every age. It is bought mostly by women, though nothing in it belongs to one gender more than the other.
Founded in 1969 as part of the House of Houbigant, Alyssa Ashley was the creation of Italian surrealist painter Enrico Donati and took its name from his daughter, and the musk family it introduced is still its calling card. The Perris family has owned Houbigant Paris since 2005, with Consuelo Perris taking the brand over in 2019.
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