Musk perfume has not contained musk for decades. The deer pod is banned; the modern accord is built from macrocyclic and polycyclic molecules, Habanolide, Exaltolide, ambrettolide, and from ambrette seed, calibrated to sit close to the skin rather than announce themselves. The best musk perfumes do not smell like perfume at all. They smell like a person who just left the room.

Two Premiere Peau extraits de parfum are written in that register at 20 percent concentration. Doppel Dancers sets a skin accord under twin iris and toasted black sesame. Rose Monotone freezes rose oxide behind pink pepper, cold lychee and Haitian vetiver, with ambrette holding the base.

Both are in the discovery set as 2 ml vials, the honest way to find out which skin musk is yours.