Musc Nomade Goutal 2008

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6.9 / 10 194 Ratings

A perfume by Goutal for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is woody-powdery. It is being marketed by Amore Pacific / 아모레퍼시픽.
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Main accords

Woody

Powdery

Animal

Oriental

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Papyrus

Heart Notes

Ambrette

Angelica

Base Notes

Labdanum

Tonka bean

Patchouli

Perfumers

Isabelle Doyen, Camille Goutal

Ratings

Scent

6.9194 Ratings

Longevity

6.1138 Ratings

Sillage

5.0131 Ratings

Bottle

6.7128 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 01.07.2023.

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/17/2012

9
Scent

Greysolon
74 Reviews

Greysolon

Helpful Review 5

Sultry and seductive

Musc Nomade is a sultry and seductive fragrance. As it warms on the skin it blooms and exudes all its alluring qualities. The tonka bean and labdanum really give the fragrance its character. From the labdanum there is a resinous, incense quality with just a slight hint of smokiness, like a snuffed candle. Very slight. Then the tonka bean adds its slightly sweet vanilla and honey notes. Everything is well balanced and blends into a cloud-like sillage that envelopes you with just a spritz or two.

Now, after all that high praise I must confess to something rather odd: Musc Nomade makes me sick.

I have an extreme sensitivity to musk of this variety. My ears ring, I get headachy, dizzy and even slightly nauseous. I’ve had the same reaction to similar smelling musks used in Musc Ravageur and several Serge Lutens fragrances. However, as you can tell from my description in the first paragraph, it’s certainly NOT because of the smell! I strongly suspect it’s a matter of transdermal absorption rather than a respiratory issue. So, while Missk wrote about her anosmia to musk in her review, I’m apparently on the other end of the spectrum and hypersensitive to it. I wish it wasn’t the case because I liked Musc Nomade enough that I wore it a few times. Unfortunately, I’ll never wear it again.

If you’re a lover of musk based fragrances and haven’t yet tried Musc Nomade, don’t let my personal experience put you off. This really is an alluring fragrance. I just wish I could actually wear it.

11/24/2013

2.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Gold
541 Reviews

Gold

Helpful Review 5

Tender lactonic musk

This is a wonderful unisex-musk from Annick Goutal. Very wearable, very pleasant, quite nice in winter, because it wrapps the wearer into a soft, warm cloud of well-being. Tender musc notes are mingled with lactonic chords leading to a sweet dessert-like dry-down. Not cloying or annoying, one of the best musks around.

04/19/2021

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Se1907
3 Reviews

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Se1907

The clean nomad

Musc Nomade from the house of Goutal

It is a blind order, that in front. I let me e weng seduced by the name and asked my better half for advice. The seber musk lover is meant that it could go but clear. So zack ordered and there it is.

After I have the fragrance now, I have made myself e weng about the house smartly.
Founder Annick Goutal was actually supposed to be a pianist. At least that's what her father wanted. She was talented but that wasn't what she wanted to do. During a visit to Grasse she had the desire to create her own fragrance. So she became an apprentice and opened her own house in 1980. After her early death (1999) her daughter Camille Goutal takes over the house with Isabelle Doyen and leads it further.

What makes Annick Goutal's fragrances special is the ability to layer and this is an important part of her fragrance collection.

Musc Nomade is a creation of Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen. On their own site you can read this text about it

"Like a mirage, Musc Nomade is a dreamlike escape into the sumptuous world of Arabian nights. A journey into the past, when caravans transported from town to town the precious material used in the perfume rituals of Oriental princesses, who bathed their bodies and hair in a heavenly mixture of musk powder and precious essences."

The scent is very straightforward. Doesn't develop much, at least on my skin. The scent has a certain warmth to it, powdery-woody hits the spot well. It's not pungent, not sweet. More delicate, creamy, clean and light with no kick. Totally unisex. Suitable for everyone. For me, rather a late spring / summer fragrance

In the end, I can not really say whether I like or dislike the fragrance. Is it a bad fragrance? No. Is it a good fragrance? I do not know. This is the first scent I can't quite place.
I have not yet layered the fragrance. I'm trying to make friends with it first. But since it is a rather light fragrance must wait until summer.

Durability and sillage are mediocre. Is the name yet just. On a paper towel, the fragrance has held 3 days. But overall it is not a very long-lasting fragrance. I can well imagine that you can layer it well. I am curious about that. I will try that out soon

07/15/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 2

Durable and lasting. A 100 ml bottle should last 17 years in daily use.

I always wonder about this one. It’s made with a large serving of muscone, a musk with high molecular weight. Apparently the musks to which people are anosmic are these large ones. What does this smell like to them? To me it’s lovely.

My take on MN is that it has the softness and rounded fruity sweetness of the non-threatening wing of musk fragrances, “white musks, “ but also the complexity over time that the beastier musks have. This is more baby skin than rank armpit. There is a little of the waxy quality common to some musks, but the note that really fixes itself to the sweetness is the booziness. Booze and baby-skin. If that’s not enough complexity, consider therapy.

Once into the basenotes, MN wears close to the skin but also loses some sweetness, becoming a bit woody. MN’s drydown has a long trajectory and traces of woody berry sweetness drift up to your nose 12 hours after applying it. I love that this has the happy-happy angles of the clean musks, but the complexity-without-skank of the heavier musks. I keep wedging MN between the two ends of the musk spectrum that I’m positing, and I shouldn’t. If anything, the center area that MN seems to occupy shows that moderation can be a smart and definitive choice and not just a compromise.

A great scent for SoCal dry summer nights.

01/02/2012

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Louce
6 Reviews

Louce

Tidy veldt

Musc Nomade is another interpretation of „Withe Musk“ which is a collective term for the kinds of musk, that take soft, creamy and clean (but not necessaryly and rather undesirably soapy) effect on the bright side of musk.
For starters it opens however with a quite sharp and brusque musk of the animalistic kind, consanguineous to my favorite musk „Kiehl´s Original Musk Blend“. As irritating as this clear, but very clearly anti-creamy musk is in the beginning, it lasts for only short time and soon takes big steps on the way to the creamy and soft musk-territory.
The name „Musc Nomade“ is well chosen: Ideas of a wide and open country with dry shrubs, sand and stone under a burning sun and in the same time cold wind are answered by a certain naturalness, a kind of brittleness and a somehow straw-like note. Not hay (too grassy), but actually straw; I cannot name the note or accord responsible.
Even the nature of human nomadism is sort of sniffable in MN: Unsettled and moving, but not in the slightest way jittery or fussed is this musk-note. It does not rest too long, but develops and changes constantly, without harsh character alternation or uneasy bustle.
There is lots of creamyness, the typical musk-clearness, a pale and dusty soft-rosa and a super-tiny whiff of something fruity. With the base even more creamyness and a spot of sweetness of tonka bean and a dry and warm woodyness lay under the calming and finally down-settling musk.
The sillage is not very strong, in the same time the longevity is good. You should spray LOTS of it, but then you will rejoice in a high-grade musk fragrance.
Decidedly unisex, suitable through the whole year and all sorts of weather, this fluffy soft musk opens a clear and tidy, far wide, cloudless sky where a bracing wind is coming up.

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