The smell of rain, petrichor, calm and fresh – but not citrus fresh. Think earthy, herbaceous, out by the river.
Oud has notes of petrichor, and certain Papuan ouds especially capture those notes beautifully – but also add to it.
Mitti is just that.
It’s topsoil that’s been baked inside an earthen kiln sealed with earth, which is then hydro-distilled, usually into an oil that forms the base of the attar.
What looks like flatbread rolled from topsoil harvested in India (preferably outside of monsoon season), these clay disks are distilled to literally capture the scent of earth and rain.
Cost depends on the carrier – traditionally, the carrier of choice is sandalwood. Sandalwood’s inherently calming properties mimic, even enhance mitti’s own soothing aroma, acting like an exalting carrier instead of a mute one like you’d get from plain alcohol tinctures.
But there’s something you can do to make mitti even more primal…
Add musk to the attar, and it’s like you made the earthy profile even more so – plus, musk glazes the rainy soil scent with a sweetened aroma that makes wearing the infusion more addictive.
But we didn’t just add musk to mitti.
To make Musk Mitti meant I painstakingly boiled raw Tibetan musk pods inside the mitti itself – non-stop – for months. So, you’re not getting a whiff of musk from the mitti, like you’d expect had you just added some grains. Musk Mitti is a total infusion. As if those ancient musk grains had been crushed into the soil and baked together, the mitti and musk have become one.
Musk Mitti is a minimalist attar par excellence. A fragrance that’s beautiful, musky sweet and rainy-day fresh, it’s not about what’s inside or how it was made but about the soothing, transporative aroma you get to experience with each swipe and the breezes of petrichor that tease you for hours after.
Customer Reviews:
Musk Mitti is truly a gem. Very beautiful! 🌧️ … It’s sweet-musky and like the smell of rain after it had made the dry-earth moist and fertile. I wouldn’t say it’s very, very earthy. But there certainly is a beautifully earthiness that is finely balanced with the sweet-musk … a very beautiful sweet-musk with the smell of rainfall in the forest.
To me this has a very nice wet earth smell balanced with a sweet musk. Very pleasant, I could see this being something you’d wear on a cozy day inside.
It’s for sure earthy. Very strong red clay note, and beautiful petrichor note. I don’t feel a ton of musk but you can tell it’s there and carrying the scent in the background. Other get more musk. It’s a very particular scent, but since owning it, there are times where that is what I want and it’s something only Musk Miti can satisfy.
Musk mitti is beautifully cooling and calming 👌.
I get nice roasted peanuts from this lol, and yea … I like it.
The first time I tried it I was like “Wow, it’s cooling after rain … and the musk here is not gamey.”
So here is my experience with Musk Mitti. This oil is one of the most incredible product Ensar Oud has to offer. The Musk is there but its different than the two other musks I have tried before, this one is Tibetan musk.
My impression about Tibetan Musk, having tried 3 different products that contain Tibetan Musk from Ensar Oud (Tibetan Musk PP, Musk Motia and Musc Gardenia Ghalia) prior to this is that Tibetan Musk has somewhat the nuance of being in high mountain, with its cooling air vibes. I also felt that it doesn’t have that musky “oompf” like the Mongolian or Siberian musk.
However, I might be wrong since i haven’t tried the Tibetan musk Oil neat. And hopefully will get to try the Tibetan Musk Oil neat and the Kashmiri Musk Oil.
Nonetheless this Mitti really great! The Mitti really compliment the musk, tibetan air, with smooth sandalwood and the rain scent the petrichor is to die for!!! It is the scent of the land and mountain!
The combination of Musk and Mitti is very gorgeous. It’s, by itself, already a perfume: after 1 hour post-application the scent is very “perfumey” (if that even a word…). The scent it exudes is almost like wearing a full fledge perfume. Not to mention the amazing longevity it has, its been 9 hours and it still there!