Muscs Koublai Khan

9 reseñas

Mostrando las más recientes primero.

• El poder del aroma

  June 25, 2016

  

  The hardest fragrance to assimilate I’ve ever tried, not just from Serge Lutens but from any other house. It has a very animal scent. As expected, the musk has huge weight here. There are many fragrances with this note, especially in men’s, but the one used in Muscs Koublai Khan is the most ‘realistic’. When I applied the sample I ordered a few weeks ago, I literally smelled like ‘cow’; I’m being honest. Plus, I let a relative smell it, and they had the same reaction as me. As it evolved, it became more subtle, and I noticed something sweeter and floral. My advice is don’t buy it blindly; you need a somewhat trained nose to assimilate it. I don’t know what occasions to use it for. For me, it leans more towards the masculine side.

• Selene

  September 14, 2017

  

  Thousands of crazy things have been said about this fragrance; there are haters and lovers. It’s one of the most controversial from the house, and almost 20 years later, it still divides. Critics label it as stable, excrement, or rotten animal glands. In short, everyone talks about it. Serge Lutens is a born provocateur, always a step ahead, especially in the 90s. Muscs Koublai Khan is a journey into the instinctive, diving into the animalistic with a musk and ambergris of incredible quality and refinement. I don’t recommend it to those starting in the perfume world, but yes to those who love civet, musk, and ambergris. Upon application, the first seconds are animalistic and can be a challenge, but if you open your mind, after a minute, the fragrance surprises you. The animal side is there, but it calms down over time. The musk and ambergris take the spotlight with a fine execution. This is just one face; the other is a sweet, powdery vanilla background that adds delicacy when fusing with the animal side. It accentuates when it settles, with a subtle touch of rice powder and rose that doesn’t smell like typical vanilla or rose, but something more complex. All wrapped in a warm, suggestive amber. Over time, it shows its sensitive side: powdery vanilla, amber, and rose stand out. Graphically, it smells like that handsome guy at the disco, sweaty from dancing but with a clean body, the one you snuggle up to sensually. Its sweat scent is clean and tenacious, mixed with vanilla soap. There’s something erotic and addictive, not surprising since amber musk was used as an aphrodisiac. It’s a complex and interesting fragrance, not for everyone, but its originality and beauty deserve a house as brilliant as Serge Lutens.

• charlotinable

  January 4, 2018

  

  Orgasmic and provocative, that’s how its notes sound. Even though I haven’t tried it, I know I’d love it. I’m into strong scents that are noticeable from blocks away or that smell until the walls of the opposite house. Definitely, just imagining its animal and oriental notes already made me fall in love.

• uhm

  February 6, 2018

  

  I liked it, though in its mid-life it has a slightly tiring tone, maybe due to the animal notes, which remind me of playdough, something lumpy. It’s like a more refined Kouros: it starts with a soft, dry rose on a sweet balsamic and vanilla base. The animal notes are strong, but they don’t smell like urine or sweat; I tolerate them well. Kouros is fresher, this one is warmer and projects less, but you can smell yourself on it for hours. It has quality, evolves, and lasts, but the price makes it exclusive only for fans of the scent or the brand.

• uhm

  February 28, 2018

  

  I liked this fragrance, though in its mid-life it has a slightly tiring tone, probably due to the animal notes. It gives me a playdough sensation, something lumpy. If we compare it, it’s like a more refined Kouros: it starts with a soft rose and ends sweet and balsamic with a vanilla amber. The animal notes, which I thought would be strong and wild, I tolerate well. It doesn’t smell like urine or sweat. Kouros is fresher and this one is warmer; it projects less but you can smell yourself on it for hours. It conveys quality, evolves, and has nuances, but the price makes it exclusive only for fans of the scent or the brand, lol.

• Metaleroenésimo

  May 13, 2019

  

  At first, Muscs Koublai Khan gave me a scare, and I thought it smelled like a stable. I wondered how something like that could be a fragrance. But over time, my nose got used to it, and the experience changed completely. Yes, there are animal notes, but also more exciting nuances. It smells like a girl licked my nose and left that sweet-and-sour saliva scent. For me, being ‘nasophilic’, it’s very exciting; I like it when they kiss my nose. Maybe it’s not rare; they say saliva has pheromones. In summary, although it’s a musk, it’s not dense, but subtle and present. It’s not for everyone; if you like aquatic and citrus, it will shock you. I think it’s good for all seasons because it’s not intrusive. I’m not sure what occasions are best.

• Metaleroenésimo

  June 1, 2019

  

  First try, it scared me; it smelled like a stable, and I thought, ‘Is this a fragrance?’. But then I trained my olfactory bulb, and the result changed. The animal notes were there, but they added other ‘exciting’ nuances. It smelled like a girl licked my nose and left that sweet-and-sour saliva scent, something that sexually excites me because I’m ‘nasophilic’. It’s not dense; it’s subtle but present. It’s not for everyone; if you like aquatic and citrus, it will shock you. I think it’s ideal for all seasons because it’s not intrusive, though I’m not sure about specific occasions.

• Mr. Baskerville

  December 6, 2024

  

  Ideal for Kouros lovers. I remember my friend’s grandfather, a seventy-year-old field man, sturdy and weathered, who used a Nokia to talk to his kids. Comparing him to gym bros or bikers who go with supplements, shouts, tattoos, and sporty fragrances is like comparing a hoplite to the guy in the Scandal commercial. Muscs Koublai Khan is the same: a musk close to what you read in magazines, nuanced with flowers and a touch of vanilla that softens the whole. It’s an animal scent without being offensive, experimental, sexual, and sensual, but not romantic, rather lustful. It’s not a love embrace in a tropical suite, but something more real: any boy or girl, dead with desire, smelling and tasting a sweaty body in a committed place, like at the parents’ house or behind a bush. Worth trying, except if you fainted at Kouros and sweat seems unnatural to you.

• Mr. Baskerville

  December 16, 2024

  

  For Kouros fans: it reminds me of my friend’s grandfather, a seventy-something field worker who still hits the fields before dawn with a keypad Nokia, no internet nonsense. He was a wall of muscle and leathered skin, nothing like the gym bros or bikers who order cortado with soy milk and ask for mom’s kisses. It’s like comparing a hoplite to the guy in the Scandal commercial. Muscs Koublai Khan is the same: a musk close to what you read in magazines, softened by flowers and a hint of vanilla, but ultimately an animal, experimental, and lustful scent, not romantic. It’s not a suite in the South Pacific with emerald waves; it’s desire in the parents’ house, behind a bush, for complicit people. Worth it if you don’t faint at Kouros and don’t hate sweat.