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For Her Musc Nude
Where Musc Noir goes dark, Narciso Rodriguez For Her Musc Nude Eau de Parfum goes the other way, and it is the most transparent thing in the Musc Collection. Pink pepper and jasmine open it, the pepper dry and faintly rosy, the jasmine kept clean and polite rather than heady. The middle is where the composition actually lives: musk, damascus rose and orange blossom held in play at once, the rose deep and a little jammy, the orange blossom bright and very slightly soapy, with the musk blurring the seam between the two so that neither one leads. Tonka bean, patchouli and cedarwood close it out, the tonka reading like the sweet dust in the bottom of a biscuit tin, the patchouli adding a damp earthiness, the cedarwood keeping everything dry and sharpened at the edges.
The composition is Sonia Constant's and it dates from 2024. Eight materials is generous by the standards of this line and it shows in the wear, because there is a genuine arc to follow here, from the peppery first minutes through the floral middle to a soft, powdery finish that sits very close to the skin. Nude is the one to try if you have found the rest of the house's musks either too clean or too heavy. It works at a desk, in warm weather and under a jumper in February, which is not true of all of its siblings, and it reads feminine without insisting on it. Two sprays are plenty; the eau de parfum strength here goes into persistence rather than volume.
The house itself is American and dates from 1997. The designer behind it grew up in Newark, the son of Cuban immigrants, and studied at Parsons before working his way through Anne Klein and Calvin Klein, and Beaute Prestige International makes the fragrances under licence.
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