Musky

Skin, warmed. Soft, clean and intimate — the accord that makes a perfume feel like it's coming from you, not from a bottle.

A built impression rather than one ingredient, modern musk is composed almost entirely from synthetics — galaxolide, habanolide, exaltolide and their kin — that read as warm, slightly powdery clean skin. It rarely leads; instead it fills the base, blurs the seams between notes and stretches a fragrance into a long, second-skin trail. The quiet glue of contemporary perfumery.