Matière Première · Aurélien Guichard

Parisian Musc

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Matière Première asks about $280 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $191
100 mlabout $280

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Soft, powdery ambrette musk with a green fig-leaf note, over dry cedar and salty ambergris-like woods.

The drawn Parisian Musc bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Parisian Musc’s scent picture, a draft: ambrette, cedar, musk, ambroxan (ambergris), fig, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Parisian Musc, top notes: Limonene (orange peel)

Heartas it settles

Parisian Musc, heart: Fig, Geraniol (rose), Eugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Parisian Musc, dry-down: Ambrette, Cedar, Musk, Ambroxan (ambergris), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

6 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For about the same

For Her Pure MuscNarciso Rodriguez · Some of its own wearers say it smells like Parisian Musc

“For Musks - Matiere Premiere Parisian Musc. It's a little green but very chic and unisex.”

Reddit comment, r/Perfumes, 2023 · 2 votes

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Love-O-MaticRoom 1015 · shares ambrette, cedar (Atlas cedar) and clean linen
Dylan PurpleVersace · shares cedar (Atlas cedar), clean linen and ambergris$158 for 100 ml · about half of Parisian Musc’s about $280
Radio BombayD.S. & Durga · shares ambrette, cedar (Atlas cedar) and ambergris$300 for 100 ml · about the same as Parisian Musc’s about $280
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.