Family Musk

"Musk" is a magical word in the perfume industry. Its name is often confused with the term moss with which it has nothing to do!
What is musk perfume made of?
Musk is in fact an element of animal origin whose penetrating and unmistakable scent has bewitched, and still does, the noses of the first perfumers. The extract was initially used in the form of perfumed oil and its persistence was immediately appreciated. Its animal and fleshy notes gave sensuality to the perfumes used by men and women. Giuseppina, Napoleon's wife, used this fashionable fragrance so much that, with a group of her followers, they called themselves the "muscadines", for their love of musk. The fragrance initially came from an animal, but the industrial revolution made it possible to chemically produce the molecule, so it has only been used in synthetic form for many years. Thus in 1888 the first musk was synthesized,