White Musk by The Body Shop

CherryLou

I have the perfumed oil. It smells wonderful, sexy, sensual, soft and clean. I like mixing the oil with a body lotion and wear it all over. Along with some floral perfume the combination is beautiful and you really smell good all day long!

Marisa36

Not for everyone but I like it. Smells like clean and fresh laundry. Also love wearing it to bed. Cosy smell.

JOAN

Very sensual smell!I just buy a new version of this, called white must shimmer and spray some glitter on your body!

DiBonD

It's a lovely one, but many people wear it. I don't wanna smell like others. I liked it back in junior high school, though.

Filiccia

A "little black dress" easy to wear.Classic but still elegant.

eilismaireg

wore this since 1985 when it was my first perfume at age 14! Fantastic memories on application along with a nice sexy musk which is ONLY worth buying in the oil formulation, the EDT is crap, quite frankly. I wear it to bed sometimes to wrap myself in some nostalgia!

luxlover

It's fresh musk fragrance, although it's quite similar to Avon's Sweet Honesty. Light and an everyday scent.

Jadetive

Lightly floral and musky, everybody should try this. This scent even fades away nicely, and it doesn't leave any weird smells on my skin as it fades. Unfortunately, this scent doesn't last that long, despite it being a perfume oil. Maybe because I'm living in a tropical climate. The lasting power of most perfumes (other than super strong orientals) tend to be poor. This is a scent I would wear to bed on a cold day. It's comforting and relaxing.

rainydaze

One of my favorite perfume oils (others are woody sandalwood, neroli jasmine and oceanus). This is a classic, my mom wore it and my dad is very sensitive to strong smells, so the only scents he can actually tolerate is this one and CK One (poor mom lol).

Anyways, it is now a favorite of mine too, and I find it to be a very unique scent....it's innocent, but sexy, not too floral or too fruity or anything, so the musk in this really 'glows', even then it's still a very subtle, feminine, and 'velvety' (like a reviewer mentioned below) scent. Oh ya...this review is for the perfume oil. The EDT of this is utter crap. I do like the body lotion though. White Musk oil and body lotion is also great layered with other scents, it goes well with almost anything.

PS. I actually love using this as a bedtime fragrance after a nice hot bath more than I do wearing it outside...it is so soothing and comforting....like a soft cashmere blanket.... :)

sniffles

White Musk is the cheapest, most complimented of all the perfumes I've worn. I love it, it's a very pure, warm and romantic style of musk. The perfume oil is the best as it lasts all day, a little bit goes a long way and it has a much deeper fragrance. It is a common fragrance though, and people will instantly say "I can smell The Body Shop White Musk" when you walk into a room - so it's not so good if you want a unique signature scent, or a scent that isn't continually being commented on ;)

Pandemonium

Clean and pure, smells a bit soapy. It's delicate and non-offensive. I love hanging out at TBS, just smelling everything, so I came across this. It's good for spring and summer. Rather an everyday fragrance.

KellyChrisp

I got the original Body Shop White Musk perfume oil on Christmas day when I was 10, it was such a dream, so special and now, the EDP spray does not do the iconic White Musk any justice. I may go and buy the perfume oil I have many fond memories with this perfume. Classic musk, just musk. not fussy at all.

chivis22juan

omg, thanks to the lady that said it was amazing and now it sucks. i have been researching forever what happened to the original fragrance and couldnt find any info about it. i thought i was crazy cause everybody keeps telling me it has never changed, even SA at body shop. what a pity, it was my favorite fragrance and made boys drive crazy. do any of you know where to find the old version?

Gosha

I agree with all the possitive comments. :-) I have always loved White Musk. It does smell more expensive than it is, it's very clean and pure, comforting and innocent.

truffles

This is really lovely. Unfortunately for me it has too many associations with the 80's because that's when I was at school and everyone was wearing it. It's just very innocent and pretty, warm but fresh and clean. If you're ever thinking of buying perfume for a young lady of perfume wearing age and you're not sure what to get I'd say this is a pretty safe bet. (Hey sod the 80's I might have talked myself into buying it again!). I personally think the oil version is the nicest. I did think it was rather a shame when the body shop changed the bottle some years ago too.
22 October 2008

milena

I love musk and this scent is feminine and inoffensive, soft and sensual.

deeper_shallow

While both the perfume oil and the EdP can get seriously overpowering, I have a long-time affair going on with the EdT. Very soft, light, sweet and powdery. I use it as a "comfort scent" when I feel like I want to curl up under a fluffy blanket instead of going to work. And yes, it actually does mix very well with other fragrances, such as bright flowery scents.
Come to think of it, I've actually never paid for this one; I keep getting little sample bottles in different TBS bonus packages.

Guerlain

Can`t find any faults in this light loveable fragrance. It`s ultra-feminine, sweet. And also sexy & innocent at the same time!! And so cheap too, great!

guest_VeronicaMGH

ORIGINALLY The Body Shop's White Musk Oil was AMAZING. It lasted forever and it smelled sensual. THEN L'oreal bought out the company and changed the formula. Now IT SUCKS!! This was the signature scent of my mother, my sister and myself. I received COUNTLESS compliments on the scent by both males & females EVERY time I wore it. Now, I can barely smell it as it does not last and it smells COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. This was once The Body Shop's #1 seller but then L'oreal decided to cut corners. This crap is the result!

Wristsniffer

I discovered this scent several years ago and swore off all other scents at the time, determined to make it my signature. The problem was this: it was way too boring after a few weeks.

It's light, clean, polite, sweet, and romantic, yet it's so linear it's really not a whole lot of fun to wear. If you're looking for a very basic feminine musk, this one's hard to beat; if you want a little complexity with your musk and something that says more than just, "I'm clean" - keep looking.

krishka

I like the scent especially the bath gell it is long lasting on the skin and layers well with all the other perfumes without overpowering them....

Mellyhelly

Sorry, I don't like it. It's not a bad stink, but it's annoying, artificial, headache inducing. I doubt it's such a complex scent as the listed notes say.
I smelt WM many years ago for the first time and I sort of like it. It was trendy and I bought a small oil bottle and matching bathgel and lotion. I got bored soon. I much prefered the vanilla oil, something I wouldn't wear today.
WM was all the hype as sexy scent. I think that over the years I've been so bombarded by this ubiquitous note both iN WM and imitations that I just grew fed of it! I don't like to stand close to people who wear White Musk and there are a lot. What strikes most is that people perceives this as warm and delicate and they often overdo it. I smell this like a punch or fast moving cloud that invades spaces of my brain and makes me dizzy. No good for me. I much prefer other kinds of musk.

ariadna

I guess this perfume works with each persons chemistry.
It reminds me of a clean laundery aroma.It's classic and cheap.

guest_

Oh, the memories...this was totally what I wore in grade 10 and I still like the smell but couldn't wear it because it just seems too much like a teenager's perfume to me now.

anky

Out of all the ingredients I smell only musk. Not that it's a bad thing though ;)
I didn't like it much as a perfume and started to use it as a deodorant, and it did a great job :)
The 30 ml bottle is empty now, think I'm going to get something else from The Body Shop.

alicektn

I had this in high school. Very lovely smell, I adored it. All I could smell was musk too. I still have some (in oil form) and use it whenever I feel nostalgic..

perfumes_addict

nice... but doesn't last. plus, i don't know why there are listed so many ingredients... to me it smells like musk; nothing more.

marie08

This is a nice musk that mixes well with other perfumes.

Cherub573

This is a fine white musk. I can't really complain about it except that it's ubiquitous and I tried to give it as a gift to a friend who promptly claimed it smelled like glue. I wore it myself when I was 14-15 years old. To me, it's soft and inoffensive, sexy in a quiet way.

WardrobeMistress

Kind of cheap-smelling, but not offensively so. Best described as a bit flat and monotone. Reminds me of school...

essija

Nothing great, but nice. Very musky good office scent. Probably wouldn't buy this one again..

flugeltje013

Okay so I tested it... It doesn't start to stink, it just smells like musk & amorito. But not strong, and the vanilla really comes out. So nothing special, I wish bodyshop would make more 'invent your scents'.

flugeltje013

Why did they change the bottle? My feeling about this perfume is that it's clean, reminds me (not in a bad way) of a design hospital... And this new bottle doesn't give the clean feeling. As simple, good perfume, and I was wondering, could it be possible to mix this with Rougeberry or something? Would give a nice touch. I will try this & let you know ;-)

bugsy_b

Very sensual and classy.
But not one of my favorites.

jordin

My all time favourite evening perfume! Deep and very sensual fragrance!! The Body Shop also does this in eau de toilette but that one is quite strong, and you can feel the alcohol yaaak! :))

Allegra

Soirdelune, so did every girl in Scandinavia too :) Simple, classic and nice fragrance but way too 80's for me nowadays.

soirdelune

Every single girl in the UK in the 1980s wore this fragrance. It was light, feminine and easy to buy with pocket money (ie cheap!). Can't believe they still make it. It's stuck in a timewarp! Fond memories, though.

coco76

soft, powdery feminine scent. very simple and beautiful and not too hard on the pocketbook either. smells more expensive than it is. My favourite musk and not too sickly sweet and 'kiddy' like the vanilla.

Bellatrix

Not so good like Japanese Musk, but still very nice oil perfume.