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L'Eau Pour Homme Woody Musk
Two perfumers worked on Armand Basi L'Eau Pour Homme Woody Musk Eau de Toilette, Aurélien Guichard and Jérôme di Marino, and the result is a clean skin scent with a surprisingly spicy opening.
That opening does not sound like a musk at all. Cardamom and black pepper give it a dry, dusty heat, ginger adds a fizzing warmth on top, and bergamot with lemon supplies the bitter citrus lift underneath. For the first ten minutes it is sharp and spiced, and anyone expecting softness from the name will be briefly surprised.
The middle is where it turns. Aldehydes give it that fizzing, slightly soapy, clean-laundry brightness that smells like a freshly ironed shirt, clary sage adds a dry herbal tone, orange blossom brings a honeyed warmth, and ambroxan sits underneath with a mineral, faintly salty polish. It is a transition rather than a destination, and it moves through quickly, which is probably the point of putting it there.
Musk is the subject of the base, soft and warm and close to the skin, with cashmeran adding a fuzzy musky heat beside it and cedarwood supplying the dry structure underneath. Twelve materials in total, and the last two thirds of the wear are spent in this quiet, comfortable register without much happening.
As an eau de toilette it is easy to overapply and easy to live with, projecting lightly and lasting reasonably rather than impressively. It suits daily wear, offices and warm weather, and it is aimed at men. The label belongs to Armand Basi of Barcelona, which grew out of the Basi family's knitwear trade and has sold fragrance, watches and eyewear under licence since the end of the nineties.
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