Mure et Musc Extreme L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

My hopes to find a blackberry scent in this fragrance are failed. It rather smells something like red berries than blackberry. Almost the same as an original one. I even don't want to compare. Disappointment.

i have been wearing this fragrance for 2 years. i like the simplicity of the notes, 'mure et musc'. i mix the the Extreme edp with original edt as i found original edt is slightly musky (suitable for men, or girls like uni-sex scent) and the Extreme edp is slightly fruity. Once both mixed up, the balance is there. highly recommend if you have both. i got compliments from men and women.
besides that, i can truly feel all the ingredients produced from l'artisan parfumer are natural, rather than generic, appreciate that!

I like this perfume. It is lovely scent. I think it is a spring time fragrance. I have not tried the original one as it was Eau de Toilette., may be I would like that one better.

I wanted to love this, like I did with the original Mure et Musc. However, there is too much sweet blackberry (and it really DOES smell like ripe blackberries btw), and not enough musk now. The blackberries dominate too much, drowning out the musk even after 6.5 hours on me. Can they make the musk more extreme please?

I'm surprised that nobody mentions pepper as a note - when I'm spraying it onto my skin, pepper appears immediatly, together with the mouthwatering berries. Musk enters only after hours into the picture.
Longevity is - considered that is a L'Artisan - is very good, it last the whole day on my skin (second best from the same designer - no. 1 in this area is Tea for Two).
It is a very nice scent, I can wear it both in summer and winter time.

This perfume has two faces:
A menthol, camphor, benzoin like scent makes a big 30 minute entrance. It stays in the spotlight for about 4 hours, slowly fading away, allowing the berries who have been accompanying the performance to take over.
Musk finally steps up on stage with the berries and together they sing the audience to sleep. (By that I mean it's a berry & musk skin scent. For about another 4 hours.)

Sexy allegory:
Nerdy nurse with analgesic muscle and joint pain cream turns into discrete sweet minx.

Personally:
I use Tea Tree shampoo twice a week or so, it smells like medicated back rub too. Mure et Musc Extreme is a perfect pairing in this instance!
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EDIT: Nov-2-2012

I've had the chance to really get to know this scent over the months since my original review. In the benzoin opening I mentioned (after the first 30 minutes), there is what seems to be a green white flower, I assume it's the petit grain, kinda smells like a lily. It's there for the whole life of this fragrance.

It's a little menthol/minty in the beginning, however that note doesn't last that long. Then it's basically berries and musk. Later, through the day the scent warms up. I like it! :-)

It made me think to something very familiar to me, but I didn't remember it, until, suddenly... Does anyone Know about Roger&Gallet soaps? To me, it's exactly to the Bouquet Imperial Soap. Amazing this discovering, anyway, in any case I DON'T considere it as a serious fragance.

I dont know if i have a crazy nose or something but this scent literally made me want to vomit - i got a strong aroma of sweaty, dirty bum (seriously, i kid you not. Does no-one else get this?) laced with sickly sweetness. Literally like someone had poured some sweet, syrupy gloop down a sweaty, dirty bum-crack. Thats the mental picture i got with every sniff, and couldnt shake off (no wonder i wanted to vomit, right?). I think the musk notes in this must be the animaly, dirty type musk? (rather than the soapy, clean white musks im used to). And the sweet notes.. i have no idea what they are, but for someone who loves vanilla, pink sugar etc theyre just way too synthetically nausiatingly sweet even for me. So yeah, for a scent i was dying to sample and thought i would LOVE this turned out to be a wholly unpleasant experience. I NEVER want to have to smell this odour again. Actually, i tell you what else it reminded me of: when someone has been in the bathroom and, erm, stunk it out, and then sprayed a load of cheap sickly dewberry airfreshener to cover it up, but it just mingles into a sweet, poopy, dirty, gag-reflexing stench. Yup, thats Mure et Musc in a nutshell for me. :(

What's extreme about what essentially smells like the body shops pleasant teeney Dewberry is beyond me. The price, however, could be considered so!

You really can smell the blackberry and the musk in this one. It's fresh and not too sweet but after a while I started to find the blackberry a little too persistent and prominent for my liking.

Fot something with extreme in the name, I find this rather light, simple, and sedate. I had to empy my entire sample vial to smell much of anything and when I did all I could smell were slightly soured fruits and very light musk. Indeed, I agree with sherapop's fermented fruit description, this is almost like (extremely) diluted sangria. Still, it's refreshing to find a floral fruity that doesn't rot the teeth with sweetness, I just think the Extreme wording is misused here.

Mure et Musc Extreme is a scent you'd better to test at least twice before drawing any finite conclution. I love it when it behaves nicely. I'm surprised that it smells so different now.

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The odd bad first time: After I put one drop of it on me, I smelt a blast of weird, unnaturally twisted fruity scents oddly singing off-tune to me. It was like an night mare, 'bugspray?'! it gave me a much worse headache than some really cheap sugary-plastic-out-on-your-face-synthetic 'pink' commercial perfume can do.

Then it went through an odd sweet stage, which makes me uncomfortable. It's a vague sweetness, kinda floral, and nauseas to me.

However, the dry down is to die for, it's the type of clean musk I love, something really similar to Lanvin Jeanne Lanvin's dry down. Clean, slightly ink-y smelling musk.

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The good times:
(It's about 12C this time, 3-4C colder than the other 'bad' testing day)
Loving the dry down,so I've put on Mure et Musc Extreame again today.

The opening is totally different! There's at most 5 seconds of lovely juicy genuine blueberry smell(not sweetened, just natural blueberry smell you can smell from a punet of real blueberries), and then it transformed to something cirtrusy with a little bit spicy hint, something reminds me a lot of dry orange-peel/old fashioned good cologne kinda spicy(eg. Dior Eau Sauvage).

Then it smells creamier(as in vanilla creamy) and sweeter, all in a pleasant way.

Later on, there's a Bang!,the pseudo-vanilla scent and the cirtrusy residual have transformed into the ink-y musk, smells clean, innocent, and at the same time really addictive and sensual.

Highly recommended if you love clean musk, the dry down is to tie for.
If it disappointed you by its opening, maybe give it another chance, it might bloom on you at a slightly different temperature.

Somewhat oddly, L'Artisan Parfumeur MURE ET MUSC EXTREME is a much simpler composition than the original MURE ET MUSC. Here the opening has a sweet fermented fruity aspect which reminds me a bit of palm wine. EXTREME features dark fruits with a decidedly boozy demeanor, but not in a complex or interesting way.

I really have no interest in smelling like anything even vaguely reminiscent of low-grade sweet wine. Although the edp does have somewhat better staying power, EXTREME is definitely not for me.

The first moments are beautiful. Pure and airy (but on me definitely not too light, a few gentle dabs is all I need), refreshing and even energizing. Gorgeous, slightly sweet musk and a bit sharp/sour fruity notes - what a lovely combination.
On me this is pretty well lasting (as musk often does), but unfortunately the blackberries (and this should be clarified, really, because while the list of notes here states "blueberries", Luckyscent.com says "blackberries". Myself - I would be inclined to believe Luckyscent, for blackberries are the fruit with slightly wild, dark, sour zing, while blueberries tend to be quite quietly :-)sweet)...anyway...the fruit in this scent continues to stretch out and expand until the invigorating effect on my skin becomes quite irritating in later stages.
I do like this fragrance. I would wear it if given a bottle, but if I was to pay for a good musk, I would choose one that I can adore from the beginning till the end (update: after wearing it a whole day, this one is actually starting to annoy me)

I love blueberries and musk, but for some reason this fragrance is not working for me. It is not juicy or sweet, nor is it earthy and musky. There is a sharp "bug spray" note that comes across on my skin, and I am wondering if it is the black currant.

At first this is a lolly-sweet sugary blackberry scent, cannot smell musk or anything else. Disgusting.

I used to think I didn't like fragrances containing or -even worse- built around a berry note. Thanks to this scent, now I know better.
It's simply gorgeous. It's the simple, sunny, mouthwatering smell of ripe blueberries against a light musk base. No unnecessary additions here to steal the show or make it smell cheap or girlie. It's pretty potent, sillage and longevity are both remarkable. Just lovely!

I tried the Mure et Musc Extreme fragrance today and I definitely smell the sweet fruits in it, it is lightly gourmand. Slightly spicy. The Musk is not too strong, it's not as musky as I thought it would be... and that's a good thing. The fruit dominates throughout.

As it dries down any sharpness in the fragrance settles down, and it becomes more berry-sweet, but not a cloying sweet. It's like natural blackberry/blueberry pie filling with spices. Good for playful or casual relaxed days and weekends.

All my talk about sweet berries makes this sound very sweet, but it is really only medium sweet, the berry notes used are not sugary... more naturally sweet.

I need a naturally sweet nectar scent, and this one is a top contender, for it's niche, in my consideration to buy one. Naturally refreshing. I like it.

There is a lot of blackberry in this one, more than the Mure et Musc original. In the original the citrus notes dominate, in this one the blackberry dominates. It's a very nice summer fragrance, juicy but not sweet, refreshing and cooling. Although, I thought since this is the extreme it would be more complex, but it really isn't. I find this scent unique, anyway, because I haven't known of too many perfumes that feature a blackberry note, or at least a prominent and well done blackberry note.