Frédéric Malle

Musc Ravageur

2000 OrientalEDPFrance

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Editorial notes

01
A warm musky vanilla amber Maurice Roucel had carried as a personal formula for years. Frédéric Malle insisted on releasing it as part of the Editions de Parfums launch.
02
The name, French for 'ravishing musk', deliberately frames the composition as carnal, breaking with the era's clean-musk minimalism.
03
Editions de Parfums was founded in 2000 with a 'perfumer as author' model, each fragrance bearing its perfumer's name on the bottle alongside the composition's.
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Composed by Maurice Roucel in 2000 around lavender and bergamot over a cinnamon-clove heart with a sandalwood-musk-amber-vanilla base.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Niche reference.

A warm musky vanilla amber.

Composed by: Maurice Roucel
Founder: Frédéric Malle
Country: France

The pyramid

Top: lavenderbergamottangerine
Heart: cinnamoncloveguaiac wood
Base: sandalwoodmuskambertonkavanillacedar

The brief

Maurice Roucel returned to a personal formula he had drafted years earlier; Malle insisted on releasing it as part of the Editions de Parfums launch.

Name'Musc Ravageur' — French for 'ravishing musk', a deliberately seductive name framing the composition as carnal.

Footnotes

Frédéric Malle's Editions de Parfums was founded in 2000 with a 'perfumer as author' model — each fragrance bears its perfumer's name on the bottle alongside the composition's.

The Curator's Note

Roucel kept this formula in a drawer for years. Malle made him release it.

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