Civet Musk

Warm & primal; rooibos and spice with an animalic bite defines the Tripura oud you have in here. But there’s a way to provoke wild Tripura oud to make it bite even harder.

The way the spicy agallocha warmth gets cranked up by steeping vintage Tonkin musk pods right inside of it is off the hook. Its sweet leather-suede aroma morphed by the finest musk makes the perfect anchor for the wildflower sweetness.

But there’s a way to let such a musked-up oud then also grow a thick mane.

Civet. 

Nothing beats what happens to the tangy, zesty, wildflower spices of a good Hindi once civet is done with it. Especially when that Hindi is already drunk on musk!

Civet Musk is old-school. The late Sultan is the only reason you have the musk that’s in this attar – he stowed away pods that are now extinct – and this was a man who applied raw civet paste directly under his arms before layering himself in massive swipes of his signature oud-rose melanges. 

When you think of Indian oud and animalics and dense, rich flowers like tuberose, you’d expect a certain kind of scent profile. But this isn’t a heavy fragrance. Full-bodied, exuberant, complex, yes. But it was designed not to be dark or heavy.

The civet-enhanced spices and mandarin and neroli dart around the florals and punctuate the core notes of quality agallocha oud most never talk about – it’s always barnyard, barnyard, barnyard, isn’t it? And the oud component makes up ~25% of the composition!

To intensify the attar’s feral pull, there’s a rare combo of wild Nepalese spikenard and costus root (two of the closest plant alternatives to musk, and both regulated), tempered with juniper berries.

All of that said, let not the name mislead you. Civet Musk is anything but harsh, blunt, or overly animalic. It showcases what civet does to the aromatics you pair it with…

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