マレーシアのジュスク

I have known this Tibetan musk for more than four years.

Over that time, the grains have become completely dry, and their character has developed into something very different from younger deer musk.

There is almost no animalic character left.

What remains is an incredibly clean, smooth and powdery musk, exactly the kind of character I look for in beautifully aged deer musk.

This is also the musk I keep returning to whenever I am working on an important composition.

Whether I need to prepare a tincture, create a maceration, work it into rose, or use it inside a Ghalia, I find myself going back to the same reserve of vintage Tibetan grains.

One of the things that fascinates me most is how quickly they work.

With younger musk, a tincture normally needs considerable time before the animalic edges begin to soften. With these Tibetan grains, the transformation happens remarkably quickly. Even after only a couple of weeks, I can already experience a beautifully rounded, clean musk with almost none of the animalic character I would normally expect from a young tincture.

In my experience, it reaches that beautiful stage several times faster than many of the other musk tinctures I prepare.

And this is actually a musk I never really wanted to sell.

Every time I take some from my reserve for one of my own compositions, part of me wants to keep every last grain.

But then I smell what it does.

And every time, I have the same thought.

More people should experience this.

I want someone to discover real deer musk through NUHOUD and perhaps one day say, “This was where I experienced the best musk.”

That feeling is ultimately why I decided to share a small amount from my own reserve.

Not because I have an unlimited quantity.

Quite the opposite.

Because something this beautiful deserves to be experienced.

Vintage Tibetan deer musk, completely dry, beautifully aged, exceptionally smooth and almost entirely free from the animalic character of younger musk.

For me, this is not simply another musk grain.

This is what time can turn musk into.