Musk is notorious for having two faces: the pure and the wicked. Accentuating its binary character produces a perfume both innocent and irresistible, split between a clean cologne accord of lemon, bergamot and orange blossom, and a seductive white musk accord. A show of innocence is not the perfume’s only source of trickery: its staggering concentration of musk overcomes the transient nature of an eau de cologne and renders the perfume indestructible.
Frédéric Malle’s body wash is a thick, cleansing gel whose lather foams explosively between your palms into a thousand bubbles, leaving your skin feeling soft and replenished.