Customer Reviews

This is an extraordinary formula that captures the heart & soul of this spectacular scent- kudos, Filipe!

Amazing formula and study tool. Perhaps I am very new to this and am amazed more by the structure that you see in these formulations than anything else at the moment. I always thought it was strange to read on some manufacturers website that you diluted the material and added drop by drop until you achieved the desired scent. Now it's making sense....but only if you can get the structure built. Once the structure is built and many times that 95% of the formula you can start painting so to speak using different naturals and synthetics to get the desired result...here is where I can see "add drop by drop" beause after each addition I swirled and smelled and even the most minute additions say .2 or .1 ppt was enough to change the scent even slightly...This formulation smells almost identical to the original...I sprayed the original on one hand and sprayed some of the newly made blend (I diluted 1.000g of it to 15% today and I blended it today 1/19/2026 ) and they are so close and if there were noticable differences at least today I am attributing them to the lack of maturation and the lack of maceration. I'm maturing this for 21 days at least maybe 28 and then diluting to 12% (15% was perhaps a bit not bright enough for my taste) and macerating for another 21-28 days and if today is any indication of what will happen over these phases....all I can say is amazing work, incredible opportunity to learn how to make the structures....it kind of reminds me of a Ramon Monegal interview I saw where he says he begins with the woody musk structure and compares it to the roots and the trunk of a tree, and once that is set, the brush strokes are what give each perfume it's scultped scent. Thanks again for doing this work...it's amazing to experience and even more amazing to learn.

Correction:
After waiting four weeks for the fragrance to mature, I unfortunately have to change my review. I have to say it fell short of my expectations. I'll say it's still a good fragrance, but the similarity is reduced by 70%.

Made this and am surprised by result , floral , iris and very well balanced

really lovely synthetic musk. definitely recommend!

Have been loving this fragrance for ages, and it is more interesting and closer to the original compared to other formulas I purchased. Great fun to build it.

Smells great. Pretty darn close to the new formula. I can barely tell a difference between this formula and a bottle recently purchased from the store.
It’s definitely not the original formula (the bottle with red letters) from the 2000’s, but it’s good for what it is.

Edit – Oct. 13th, 2025: Thanks for the response! But the GCMS from Christophe used bottles from 2018 and 2020. Not an original bottle/formula from 2002.

Very delicious and yummy floral accord, it's gourmand but fresh and airy at the same time, it's quite long lasting as well. I already added it to some of my formulas, what a lovely addition. Thank you, I really enjoy these original accords and hope to see more coming up!

Very floral and Powdery using orris butter and carrot oil, Nice perfume

Yup--this is absolutely MKK. I have been dying to figure out the exact musk combo of this for ages, knowing that there were at least a few ingredients in overdose and then it was shaped by trace amounts of other stuff. While of course my mock up of this formula needs to mature, the initial impression is that it's spot on. More Lutens rarities (Iris Silver Mist? Fumerie Turque?) would be amazing. Thanks for providing this formula.