Oriental Musk
Ava Luxe

I ordered a decant of Oriental Musk along with a couple of other musks of the white/china bent. This one stands out--and not in a pleasant way, to my nose. First up is a note that initially registers as Mexican vanilla (or coumarin, maybe) and then quickly slides into synthetic butter cookie territory, followed immediately by something that smells most like cheap hairspray. The musk is hiding under this mess, somewhere, but at this point I've been wearing it for three hours and it hasn't dared to come out. Time for a good scrub of the wrists!