French niche line Parfum d’Empire has launched Musc Tonkin, a new limited edition fragrance:
The perfume of the realm of the senses
A powerful, addictive, erotic aura… The scent of heated flesh, solar, feline, subtly leathery. This elixir reinvents in a novel, contemporary style, the most suave note in perfumery, worshipped for millennia: Tonkin musk.
More than a fragrance: an imprint…
The Chinese have prized it since Antiquity for its aphrodisiac virtues. Its smell was considered so heavenly by Islam it was blended into the mortar of some mosques so that they would exhale it in the sun. It was so penetrating that ships loaded with tea would refuse to carry it for fear it would impregnate their cargo…
Tonkin musk, produced by a species of Himalayan deer, was one of the most precious ingredients of the perfumers’ palette: it suffused their blends with a sensual aura that fixed and magnified every other essence.
No longer used for ethical reasons, natural musk still haunts perfumers since it has never been perfectly replaced. It is to capture this fascinating ghost that Musc Tonkin reinvents it by blending the most opulent raw materials to conjure its myriad facets. Their names don’t matter: like the mysterious charisma of certain people who draw us into their wake, Musc Tonkin should be experienced rather than described. Vibrant, facetted, surprising, at once nocturnal and solar, this aphrodisiac potion changes on each skin, the better to enhance it. A lick of salt for the taste of skin. A heady floral whiff to remind us that perfume links our bodies to the erotic spells of nature. A liquorous, mulled-fruit burn contrasting with a light, shimmering veil of powder…
Parfum d'Empire Musc Tonkin is available in 50 ml Extrait de Parfum, €120.
(via parfumdempire.fr)
Update: see a review of Parfum d'Empire Musc Tonkin.
How limited? I was dying to try this one based on Denyse’s review and a few other mentions, but thought it was only available in France.
So sorry but no idea.
1000 bottles, Alyssa
It sounds divine.
I need to go read some reviews & find out how powdery it is.
It’s more balmy than powdery, in my opinion.
Thanks.
My friend ordered it one or two weeks ago. We’re gonna share it.
Be sure to report back, Lukas!
Will be very interested to hear your take on this, Lucas – it sounds VERY tempting!
Alltough it’s mentioned there are only a 1000 bottles made, it is going to be available outside of France.
Several places in Belgium allready told me they are going to sell it near the end of november.(Soon!!)
Don’t know about US or other European countries, sorry.
Very curious to smell it myself.
I must have this. I’ve read about this musk recently and love/seek out sultry sensuous frags. That’s what I want to smell like. Keeps my husband happy. I don’t understand people who want to smell like the ocean, that’s just me. I want to smell GOOD!