Red Musk: Pusat

Imagine Private Blend, the muskiest musk perfume you can wish for, injected with Pusat – and a shot of Ensar’s Rose (our in-house rose mélange featuring Rose 1978).

Pusat is the highest level Cambodian oud you can wish for. No other Cambodi ever released matches it. And I mean that objectively – from the caliber wood, the complexity, the profile, everything, Pusat has more in common with Nha Trang and Kynam than any Cambodi you can think of. Pure medicinal madness.

When we talk about these perfumes being in the league of Bugattis and Patek Philippes, it means it must actually be in the equivalent olfactory league. And for that, you can’t settle. This needs to be extreme.

That’s why a full 3 gram bottle of Pusat works like magic with the spice-bomb musk mania every spritz gives you. Pusat is so layered, you could tincture it and have a ready perfume. The way it oozes into and out of the spicy musk oud of Private Blend on steroids, makes your nose spin.

You can find out more about how Private Blend was born, but what matters here is that you get what was already an exercise in olfactory indulgence – done so purely for myself – to create a perfume that went overboard; to create a scent that wasn’t defined, regulated or judged by ‘marketability’, growth scaling, and your department’s quarterly fincancial report. What mattered was the smell.

This edition is where the quintessential EO musk meets the finest Indochinese oud. And it’s a banger, if I may say so myself!