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Tonka Musk
Alyssa Ashley Tonka Musk Eau de Parfum 100ml is a short composition of five materials, and the honest thing to say first is that it is built for comfort rather than for complexity.
Cinnamon opens it, and it is the only sharp thing in the bottle, warm and dry and slightly biting for the first few minutes. After that the scent settles quickly into its real shape. Tonka bean is the centre of it, a material with an almond and hay sweetness that is one of the most comforting smells in perfumery, and black amber sits with it, darker and more resinous than amber usually reads, giving the middle a smoky weight. Vanilla and musk finish the job, the vanilla rounded and soft, the musk clean and close to the skin, and the two of them turn the whole thing into something warm and slightly powdery.
There is no long evolution here and none is intended. A five material scent shows you everything it has within ten minutes and then simply continues, growing closer to the skin as the hours pass. If you enjoy following a fragrance as it changes, this is not that; if you want something soft to live in, it is exactly that. Launched in 2020, and the eau de parfum concentration gives it reasonable staying power while keeping it warm rather than loud. Cold weather suits it best, as do evenings, and 100ml is generous for a scent most people will wear casually. It reads unisex, with a slight lean towards women, and it will please anyone who likes sweet warm scents without wanting a dessert.
Alyssa Ashley arrived in 1969, a House of Houbigant creation from the Italian surrealist painter Enrico Donati, who used his daughter's name for it. Musk has been the house ground ever since. Since 2005 Houbigant Paris has been Perris family property, and Consuelo Perris has directed the brand from 2019.
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