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Icons & legends

Eight bottles and noses that still define Musk.

Icons for Musk are bottles and people — Nahéma, Chanel, Guerlain stay as names.

Scores below are editorial marks inside this atlas, not lab assays.

People

Musc Ravageur

2000– · France

Roucel’s cinnamon-vanilla animal musk.

Musc Ravageur (2000–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Musc Ravageur as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Narciso Rodriguez For Her — United States
File:Narciso Rodriguez crop.jpg : CHRISTOPHER MACSURAK from Chicago, USA derivative work: Innisfree987 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Narciso Rodriguez For Her

2003– · United States

Musk-orange blossom as a 2000s default.

Narciso Rodriguez For Her (2003–, United States) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Narciso Rodriguez For Her as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

White Musk — United Kingdom
Edwardx · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

White Musk

1981– · United Kingdom

Named clean musk as an ethics-retail product.

White Musk (1981–, United Kingdom) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read White Musk as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Kiehl’s Original Musk — United States
Kiehl's · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Kiehl’s Original Musk

1963– · United States

Oil-musk counter-culture skin.

Kiehl’s Original Musk (1963–, United States) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Kiehl’s Original Musk as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Musk by Coty — United States
Coty, Inc. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Musk by Coty

1970s · United States

Mass musk oil of the 1970s.

Musk by Coty (1970s, United States) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Musk by Coty as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Maurice Roucel — France
Guillaume Luisetti · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Maurice Roucel

1945– · France

Ravageur’s nose; musk as appetite.

Maurice Roucel (1945–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Maurice Roucel as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Alberto Morillas

1950– · Spain

Narciso-era musks and CK One freshness; musk as air.

Alberto Morillas (1950–, Spain) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Alberto Morillas as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Ambrette — Tropical
Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Ambrette

— · Tropical

Plant musk: the ethical ancestor story in a seed.

Ambrette (—, Tropical) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.

Read Ambrette as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Musk is argued.

Debate

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