New York Musk Bond No 9 for women and men

I love this scent. Smells great on me, and I love the sparkling notes that pop in the beginning.

I avoided testing this scent for a few reasons. I thought it would be another ho hum of a scent, where BNo9 was reaching again, or rather they were trying to put out a new and improved version of Amber, New York Oud, Signature, Andy Warhol, and Manhattan.

I think they have arrived at the right combination for me. The first spray recalls the beginning notes of their Signature parfum, and oud is already present, but it is not loud and screechy. What happens in their prior oud offerings was that it gets louder and louder and very annoying. What happens with NY Musk is that is softens because of the musk itself, which intensifies, but not in a bad way as how some people describe here. To me, the musk is very mild, or I could be anosmic and not smelling all of it.

Happily oud is not the final note in this scent. In the final drydown the oud is light and you smell more the warmth of musk and ambery woods and patchouli. If Amber and Signature had a little romp on a sheepskin rug, that's exactly what it would smell like, and I love it! Oh-meegosh I can't believe I need to add another to my Bond wishlist. But at its crazy price, I dunno, I think I need to pick up a bottle from a non-retail source.

New York Musk, to me, is basically a greatest hit of Scent of Peace, Bond Signature, New York Amber, and Bond's signature MUSKY accord. Quality stuff as always. Blackcurrant at the top is nice but the musk is a tad too potent for my taste. I cannot see it as a versatile scent that could be worn all the time. Not sure what Bond is thinking, but they should have ended this concept at The New York Amber.

Gorgeous pure perfume composition of patchouli, musk and amber.

Give it a few wearings before making up your mind.

I have finally fallen in love with it.

Superb longevity and sillage.

Big Thumbs up!

Deppaholic is absolutely correct. The musk turns the stomach, wayyyyy to strong and overbearing. My own fault for getting hooked by the top note and not waiting 15 minutes for the stench to come through. One expensive mistake. Get a sample and go home. This scent by Bond is a downer.
If anyone wants a full bottle (sorry I threw out the box) ill send it pronto.

This smell caught me off guard. It was highly sweet and masculine. I could smell a dark fruityness about it with perhaps a little tart but it was addicting. Very nice smell and then the drydown happens and it continues as it did with more of an Oud as someone mentioned. It wasnt at all unbearable and I think its what keeps the notes from smelling feminine. Either way, Im surprised to see so many dislikes but the scent is not bad at all. Its a matter of taste. It is sweet and different and you maayyy not decide to wear this everywhere but you definitley could. I like it. I smelled this at Saks, apparently it is their special product and it is actually much more expensive. Id say try it.

Damn, almost had a good, all-purpose cologne here. Perhaps we still do, only it's just distasteful to me.

Let me just start off with this: the fragrance goes on easy, initially it's a pleasant, ambery, woodsy wiff of heaven. It's almost generic, but not in a bad way, but just not worth that much for something so easily accessible.

But here's the downside, there's that alarmingly, unpleasant, almost metallic scent that I'm assuming is Oud (it predominates the New York Oud!) and really ruins the drydown. Kinda sucks.

Maybe that scent makes it expensive, or complex to merit it's cost. For me, it's just not worth it.

Fragrance smells very nice. Gripe: pricing. This one is a head scratcher even for a Bond. It's priced like Bond's parfum/pure perfume concentrations but formulated at EDP. What gives?

smells like burberry men to me

No musk?! What? To me, this is a skanky, dirty, animalic musk. (Granted, I don't have that much experience with musk bombs like this, but still, that's how it smells to me.) This is not a soft, ethereal, feminine, light musk. This is full on animal gland. I do like the top notes, but the drydown is just too much for me. I almost couldn't handle the muskiness. I just don't see how anyone can want to smell this musky. I'm not sure who this would be best on, but it's not me. Sorry Bond! I do love you, but not on this one.

First blast on my upper arm was all fruity and light and nice, then came the musk....OH SKANK SKANK....I cannot bear it. It actually turns my stomach. I can handle a tiny bit of musk at dry down, but this is sooooooo over bearing. Please try a sample of this before you buy it. I adore New Haarlem and Chinatown, so I can appreciate Bonds elixirs. This is awful on me :(

Strangely, I'm not smelling any of these notes! Are they being blocked somehow? I wonder... To my nose, Bond no 9 NEW YORK MUSK smells like a milder version of NEW YORK AMBER or HARRODS AMBER (which is itself a milder version of NEW YORK AMBER). So perhaps I should say that NEW YORK MUSK smells to me like a milder version of the already milder HARRODS AMBER?

It smells very nice (I happen to love the Bond no 9 AMBERS), but I was really looking forward to a brand new fragrance from this house, especially given the conspicuous absence from their line-up of any musk-centric perfumes. I have yet to encounter a single one.

I myself dislike dirty, sweaty musk (and I could never have been the concubine of Napoléon...), but a clean musk is always welcome to my nose. In the Bond no 9 line-up, musk seems only to appear as a very low-key basenote, and it is *never* dirty. Which makes a lot of sense, actually. The people of New York city do not need to contribute any stinkiness to the fumes wafting off garbage in the streets, and the general layer of dinge covering all of the permanent structures, including the subways, where rats the size of raccoons have been known to take shelter. Yes, these smells are virtually ubiquitous, everywhere to be sniffed, hanging in the air as they are as all hope of fresh breezes is dashed by the imposing buildings which simultaneously block out the sun in the city of shadows. The very last thing that New Yorkers need to be doing is inviting prurient leers from strangers. It's a big, densely populated city, so there are bound to be lechers here and there... "Come hither" dirty sweaty musk in the Big Apple? Not a good idea.

Given the low-musk profile of even this, a perfume with the word 'musk' in its name, what I am surmising is that the folks at Bond no 9, like me, do not really dig dirty musk. I suspect that those who do will be disappointed by this launch.

I tried this at saks and its light-n-fresh and the musk lingers close to your skin.This is so different than all the other bonds out there.It has nice sparkling fruity notes that pop inside your nose along with dancing floral notes its outta control! :-)Everything comes at you at once its immediate.Yes if you are a musk lover and you like a light earthy woodsy musk thats clean,fruity,delicate and mysterious its a great buy.I cant wait to buy this in november!