Le Labo · 2008 · Frank Voelkl

Musc 25

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Le Labo asks $555 for 100 ml
50 ml$398
100 ml$555

VersionEau de Parfum

A clean, soapy sparkle over warm skin-like musk, with earthy vetiver, salty ambergris and a faint animal edge.

Le Labo says

You’ll smell aldehydic notes, vetiver, ambergris, musk and civet.

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The drawn Musc 25 bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Musc 25’s scent picture, a draft: aldehydes, vetiver, ambergris, musk, civet, rose drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Musc 25, top notes: Aldehydes

Heartas it settles

Musc 25, heart: Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Musc 25, dry-down: Vetiver, Ambergris, Musk, Civet, Patchouli, Coumarin (new-mown hay), Vanillin (vanilla), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What the label names

18 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 citrus2 herbs & lavender7 florals2 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

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

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholPhenoxyethanol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Club de Nuit MilestoneArmaf · shares vetiver, ambergris and cashmere knit$50 for 105 ml · about a tenth of Musc 25’s $555
Summer MinkBetter World Fragrance House · shares vetiver, ambergris and cashmere knit$152 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Musc 25’s $555
Future MemoriesByredo · shares aldehydes, ambergris and cashmere knit
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.