Musk for Women Eau de Cologne Gift Set

Jovan Musk for Women Eau de Cologne Gift Set carries a scent where musk does the talking. It is warm, skin-like and faintly animalic, with jasmine laid over the top to add a soft white floral sweetness and bergamot lifting the whole thing in the first minutes.

Jasmine, musk, bergamot and neroli make up the composition. The bergamot and neroli keep the upper half bright and a little green, the jasmine blooms heavier through the middle, and the musk runs underneath all of it, powdery and close. A faint spiced warmth at the base keeps the florals from reading too fresh.

Musk for Women arrived in 1972, and its appeal has always been that it smells less like a perfume worn over the skin than like the skin itself, warmed and softened. The florals are there to round the musk rather than to lead it.

It comes boxed as a gift set.