Aoud Musk Montale for women and men

I Love it!!! I just frikken love this! It's STRONG Medicinally sweet, Aoud, White Musk, and especially SAFFRON, like a whiff of fresh red saffron pistils you put in Yellow Rice. Saffron contains Iodine compounds which gives it that Band-Aid Medicinal Antiseptic vibe. But it is quite delicious. Some kinds of Rice also contains it, as well as Iodomethane. This is a sweet Woody Musk that's penetrating and, very unrelenting. Complex, and well rouneded like any Montale.
I'm not too familiar with Ebony wood, but i think that's what it turns into as it dries in. A strange and VERY dry wood, something about it so... quintessentially "African".
The dry down begins to resemble the dry down of Nasomatto "Black Afgano" in it's dusty earthy almost play-doh like Woodiness. But this is FAR more medicinal and "Iodic". People will say it's "Hospital" but i like it. The distant dry down... Becomes extremely EARTHY and like freshly disturbed soil, just digging your hands in black soil. This is DIRTY.. well, good "clean" Dirt :3
Yet further... it sweetens so richly as it finishes.

Sillage: Tremendous
Projection: room filling
Longevity: 24hr+

Hey Marcos, I think your nose might be burnt out, perhaps even broken. This stuff is unrelentingly strong.

This perfume is very weak,i can´t believe some people say it´s loud,it´s a good smell,but simple and nothing sophisticated,stays a long time on the skin,i prefer aoud flowers and dark aoud.

I've been wearing this a few hours now, so I'll try to describe this. Imagine gardening in springtime. You smell the fresh and moist earth beneath you as you dig your hands to transplant. That's your vibe. This would be your fragrance.

It's VERY earthy, a moist ground type of earthy musk scent that is pervasive throughout. Oud is in there, but in this case it feels subordinate to the very heavy and musky animalic notes. It really takes some time for that muskiness to diminish, and then you start picking up the ebony woods and amber and a more subtle dry-down.

The key is that you either need to tolerate the earthiness, or be able to get beyond the first 2-3 hours to enjoy this. Otherwise, this is probably not a scent you'll enjoy.

wearing this today. about two hours into it and i'm not enjoying it. concerned now that it will have incredible lasting power ;-) . the word that popped to mind when i put it on was "cloying". not sure that's fair though. it's quite distinctive. very aggressive. nothing "pretty" about it. all that said, i think i can grok why some folks would like it. it's got a "dark and stormy" feel to it; perhaps you could think of it as a nighttime scent you wear to a dark, low-key club when you want people to be able to pick you out from the crowd with their nose. they'll pay attention if they get a whiff IMHO. not for me though. i'm not against oud or musk, but i like a lot more lightness in my scents as well.

This one is mystical, hypnotizing Perfume! It's some metaphysical in it!

Very loud, sharp, resinous -woody- vetivery stem of deep blue-dark colour, suddenly becomes alive, like a mysterious infernal creature, under the touch of the Sun....

It spreads it's waves in a distance from where you can smell the shining of it's Aura, satiated with Saffron and Amber set in deep Aoud. What is the magnificent scene!

Definitely, this Aroma is not for those who prefer light and close-to skin odour. You should have a bold to wear it!

Just try to put it on...
Perhaps, Aoud Musk will be surrendered by you, or you will find in his Power.

It is similar on Duro but Aoud Musk is richer and it scatter as the heated sand. Montale added in Vetiver Des Sables impudent oud and musk. All very sternly.

It is mega powerful for the first three hours, but then disappears. I find it best applied with a roll on and reapplied every three hours. The oud and musk combination is strong and not exactly pretty or sophisticated. It is a smell of brute strength and tremendous presence. Wearing it feels like being in a company of stylish but dangerous males - stressful, but the image draws you in.

Update: Turns out that it lasts for way longer than three hours. It just kills my nose so that I can't smell it after a few hours, but everyone around me can. And when I wake up the next morning, I can always smell it on me from the day before.

Ok, this is a very loud fragrance but I love it. The opening is quite typical if you're already familiar with Montale's ouds. A strong medicinal/synthetic vibe and botloads of saffron joined by the distinctive Montale's hallmark: a prominent and harsh oud note! It gets even darker and warmer in the drydown with the addition of dark woods, vetiver and some musky-amber. Bold but never claustrophobic, tremendously woody and intense, it always claims your attention and everybody else's by surrounding everything with its dark warmness. Someone says it's similar to Nasomatto Duro, and for a few aspects I agree, but Aoud Musk results much more balanced and definitely not vulgar! Outstanding sillage and extraordinary lasting power. One spray on the neck and you're set for the whole day, night, late night and early moring after: be aware! Surely not for laidback type of guys!

Rating: 8.5/10

Smells very much like Nasomatto Duro. Not that it's a bad thing, only it's much more affordable for the quantity you receive.

Thumbs up!