Mystique Musk
Al Haramain

Mystique Musk is a fruity white musk with a topnote of candied violets. Adding to the scent’s preppy demeanor is an undercurrent of eraser rubber that smells slightly – just slightly – like the inside of a My Little Pony. I have noticed this sweet, doll’s head rubber in other osmanthus-focused scents that loop in sweet vanilla or heliotrope (for example, Vahina by Sylvaine Delacourt), so it must be a natural feature of osmanthus that a perfumer chooses to emphasize by way of other materials. Though the notes for Mystique Musk specify leather, take my word for it – it is the softer, doughier suede side of osmanthus that has entered the chat here.