OakMoss

12 reviews for OakMoss

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   Brunomario – August 13, 2019

   Dear Mr. Attar;
   Thanks for this fragrance. I have my own interpretation of what 3 Dimensional Scent means, but one thing I know;
   this triggers feelings of deepest childhood in me and memories that are very far back. So what can the industry never do. This oak moss is so pure with the vetiver, much better than Guerlain’s vetiver. Thanks also for these two samples.

2. Rated 5 out of 5

   ThePerfumeChronicles – December 24, 2018

   I have always known oakmoss to be animalic, leathery and boozy. Here it is clear, of a crystalline green shining like young lichens in the woods. Clear like a source of spring water running under the boughs and roots of elder trees.
   A peppery start opens the song. It is a splinter of oak bark, the pine needle canopy covering your march from the sun and rains. Muschio starts fresh like a mist of clear water covering your footsteps, like the bells of blue flowers sprouting from the mud but the woods quickly take over.
   A dance of patchouli and vetiver; the falling of leaves on winter’s eve. Far from being dark and muddy, Muscho di Quercia bears the unmistakable touch of light and hope dear to Abdessalaam. It reminds me of a time in Lickeen Wood, in the heart of Ireland. There we walked amongst trees and springs and leaves of red and ochre and green. Poetic and grounding, Muschio di Quercia is, like most of Salaam’s work, a masterpiece to behold.
   See https://www.instagram.com/p/Brp_dxZh1sz/

3. Rated 5 out of 5

   Can / JC look – October 22, 2018

   Oaks tears
   For a long time I am on the way through the old forest. Stride paths that often entered, but never came to an end. Lose me bit by bit in the deep undergrowth that is as ramified as the brown-green veins of Mother Nature.
   Deeper and deeper, I go my way on damp earth and deceased foliage. Climb over weathered roots and rambling oases of meter-high, dense ferns to find them. She, lonely and abandoned, standing on an island in the middle of the deepest and darkest forest. She who was probably the first one to grow here. She, the age-old, majestic mother of this forest. The awesome, old oak!
   Deep-rooted, she stands there. Lush overgrown with lichen and moss that has settled on it over time. Like a second thick-soft skin, they enclose the old bark like a fine garment of greenish-brown velvet. She calls me with her earthy warm smell of smoky-green vetyver and moss. It is the fragrance of strength and confidence she exudes when I put my cheek on her.
   Everyone will be well in their vicinity, everything will be healed, everything will stand still when I feel it, feel it, smell it. Tears sink into the oakmoss.
   Salty and creamy like sandalwood they seep away like worries in the light of the hope of the tree.
   Sadness gives way like the smoke of an extinguished candle in the dusk. She has so often comforted me in my short life compared to hers. Green would have to be my lips from all the kisses on her mossy-soft skin after all those years. She always gave me hope, confidence and strength.
   Even if I often cry only in oakmoss!

   Conclusion
   Oakmoss … the essence of the ancient fragrance dynasties. The essence that has already lured the generation with the pheromones of moss. A fragrance that unconsciously throws us deep back in time when we were still forest dwellers.
   Oakmoss has the power to deeply and psychologically influence and manipulate us in a very pleasant way. It suggests stability, self-confidence, protection and Power.
   Dominique Dubrana and Abdes Saalam Attar of La Via del Profumo have captured this essence in Oak Moss (Muschio di Quercia). A natural fragrance that captivates and enchants with its simple but effective design.
   Smoky vetyver in combination with dark green-earthy gentle oak moss and light chords of soft-salty sandalwood are the secret of Muschio di Quercia. No scent that grabs attention with tons of fragrance notes and a meter-long sillage, but captivates the instinctively influenced plant-animal pheromones.
   Silent, subtle and touching. Personally, I catch myself again and again that I reach for Muschio di Quercia and like to wear. It is like a centenarian oak that protects you and strengthens you at the same time. The fragrance has something that is hard to describe, but definitely there. It is the magic of oak sauce that has fascinated me and generations.
   A fragrance that is deeply rooted in the bearer’s memory and spreads like a delicate patch of oakmoss on the soul. Beautiful!

4. Rated 5 out of 5

   Darvant on Basenotes – November 23, 2016

   Muschio di Quercia is another great favorite of mine among the AbdesSalaam Attar Profumo’s natural oily creations.
   A virile traditional fresh-aromatic mossy chypre.
   Muschio di Quercia is an exceptional vetiver/sandalwood accord (over an obscure dark-mossy base–real animal moss beyond the IFRA inhibitions) and probably one of my two-three favorite vetivers of the worldwide olfactory panorama.
   All is natural, incensey, realistic, marvelously boise (but extremely wearable and finally subtle).
   The note of vetiver is (especially along the first stage) really earthy, wild and mossy/incensey in a dark boise way conjuring me immediately the first Etro Vetiver’s formulation (also Etro Sandalo comes in mind at once).
   I feel in the air the aroma of deep dark forest, it seems to catch dry leaves, oakmoss, musk, tree trunks, barks, dry woodsy berries, woods, earth, hints of resins and misty dust overall combined in to a marvelously realistic olfactory concert of forests fruits.
   The perfume itself is well crafted for sure, extremely measured and balanced yet elegant and comforting.
   The aroma is never too much heavy or oppressing, the vetiver is woody for sure although I would not define Muschio di Quercia as a properly “fresh”-woody vetiver.
   Not so much to add to describe this marvelous composition.
   Buy it guys.

5. Rated 5 out of 5

   Alfarom on Basenotes – November 23, 2016

   My reading of Muschio Di Quercia (Oak Moss) is that it is mainly a vetiver centered composition.
   After the initialy mossy-dark green opening, the fragrance evolves into a simple, old fashioned yet extremely satisfying fresh-woody vetiver base that would make the happiness of any vetiver freak out there.

   Well crafted with high quality natural ingredients. Totally endorsed.

6. Rated 5 out of 5

   Flathorn on Basenotes – November 23, 2016

   I can’t add to Quarry’s review, as it is spot on. I love chypres, so I love this, but to be honest, I don’t know this is to me an oak moss fragrance. I have the essential oil and it is more the dark, dry ashy moss of vintage chypres.
   This one is much warmer, woodier and grassier. And wonderful. As Quarry said it is a walk outside in sun-warmed earth, fields and woods. I love naturalistic fragrances, and this one, with it’s warm earth vibe, feels very easy-going and relaxing in the same way an actual walk might.
   Other reviews mentioned green, but it has little green ambiance to me.
   It’s more an early spring or autumn walk, more about the other notes of the outdoors.
   A warm grassy vetiver is the biggest player in this to me, but what brings this alive is the feeling of sunshine warming all the notes, making them mid-tone, even that darkest and densest of wood inhabitants, oak moss. It is a companionable fragrance made more attractive by the fact of it’s mostly natural ingredients.
   It’s a linear fragrance, but as is usually said, when you love the note it is, you welcome the fact it doesn’t change. Bottle worthy!

7. Rated 5 out of 5

   Zizanie on Basenotes – November 23, 2016

   I love the dark damp forest floor smell of oakmoss.
   I deplore the vast majority of wimpy perfurme manufacturers that have allowed the IFRA to run roughshod over them by restricting ingredients like oakmoss that supposedly cause allergic reations in a distinct minority of people.
   This has ruined some great classic fragrances. Well, if you want to experience real oakmoss in a concetration that probably would send the IFRA bureacrats into a sneezing frenzy, then get this fragrance.
   I admire this house and its perfumer for the magical creations they offer and for their willingess to offer animal scents and others (like oakmoss) that can’t be found elsewhere.
   As for this particular fragrance, it’s simply great! There’s a bit of vetiver lurking in here and maybe some sandalwood, but the oakmoss dominates, and my how glorious that is!
   This scent works well in all settings. Unlike some of the fragrances from this perfumer, this scent has excellent longevity. For fun, I sprayed one spritz of this fragrance on my arm, a spritz of this house’s civet tincture and followed it up with a spritz of the reformulated (castrated) Mitsouko and the result was Mitsouko coming back to life with the civet and oakmoss that have been surgically removed over the years.
   But buy this scent for its own value.

8. Rated 5 out of 5

   Crdb on Basenotes – November 9, 2016

   Oak Moss is the Patek Philippe Calatrava of the Via del Profumo range: very high quality as with the others, but the most formal, minimalist, clean and understated. It’s a bespoke navy suit with a midnight blue tie and a white shirt. There is a stark beauty about this simplicity.

   First, a woody start – tree sap, rather than dry wood chips – with some green citrus. A hint of undergrowth in autumn. Fresh sliced orange, only the sharp side, none of the sweetness, except by association.

   It retains this profile throughout, with good longevity and projection, turning woodier after an hour, losing the hesperides, gaining nuttier vetiver aspects, whilst remaining stark and serious.

   I think this has become my go-to scent if I need to wear a tie, preferably in temperate climate.

   In the same family of woody-vetiver, Persona is warmer and friendlier, like a perpetual calendar, still dressy whilst attracting a bit more of attention to itself. Both are worth owning.

   Review from Basenotes

9. Rated 4 out of 5

   Colin Maillard on Basenotes – October 23, 2016

   A deceptive name for a beautiful silent symphony built around vetiver.
   The opening is already centered on this great wood note, a superb, realistic, dense and honest rendition of all nuances of vetiver, from humid hay to its green, zesty, hearty sides. I’d say it’s the quintessence of wood, without boundaries, restrictions, artificial shapes and without synthetic tricks, just pure vetiver woody greatness – as usual with Dubrana, one of the most honest and sincere perfumers in nowadays’ perfumery when it comes to enhancing the voice of nature.
   I also detect a sharp cedar/oak note, and perhaps sandalwood too, which gives a sweet-syrupy woody note on the very base that perfectly blends with the sweet/wet side of vetiver.
   Despite being so natural and “free” to express all facets of wood, it’s a really elegant and noble cologne, with a superbly aromatic but discrete presence on skin. In its early stages, the drydown is still boldly woody, aromatic and rich, evocative and utterly refined in its compelling simplicity and naturality.
   The oak moss note is there, although quite light, to support and enhance the earthy-mossy and “rural” side of vetiver more than acting as a “separate” note itself.
   The very final drydown is a pleasant, silky, aromatic, super cozy and elegant earthy-woody accord with a hint of talcum and a subtle ambery warmth. Worth a try, a purchase and a gift!

   8,5/10

10. Rated 5 out of 5

    L.H. Long – October 14, 2016

    I have a few bottles of your perfume and honestly, they are amazing. I’ve never smell anything like them before.
    Definitely, Oak Moss is ranked the top position in my collection. It feels like I am vetyver in the furry and velvety forest floor. After trying many vetyver perfumes, I don’t think there is one vetyver that is not sharp and erect yet very soft and effortless like one in Oak Moss.
    With the Arabian soul in their chests, Sharif and Tartar Leather always stand at my favorite list. All the notes are dancing together. I smell the wind inviting the spices to join the party. What stands out of your perfumes is that they are alive. The aroma doesn’t smell flat, instead it is 3-D, harmonized and have a beating heart.
    Your knowledge and your perfumes are always my source of reference. Besides, authentic natural perfume brands like La Via Del Profumo, Aftelier, I feel like few people utilized the term “natural” for their own benefits. In my country, for example, some small business run many workshops to teach people to make perfume by mixing essential oils then diluting with alcohol in a couple of hours basis. It led me to a question that: Is it possible to make perfume by essential oils only ? I think that to make perfume needs absolutes in its heart and some animal tincture or resinoids as a fixative.
    I’m wearing Mecca Balsam to seek a peaceful moment and I’d love to hearing and learning from you.
    Warmest regards

11. Rated 5 out of 5

    Johnie – July 30, 2015

    Full of salient pnotis. Don’t stop believing or writing!

12. Rated 5 out of 5

    Alex W. in Atlanta – July 29, 2015

    How gratifying it is to smell a fragrance with an abundance of real oakmoss.
    This is a fragrance of transcedental beauty, evoking the smells of a deep forest (the oakmoss) with dappled rays of sunlight (the veitver) shining down from a canopy of 200 foot tall redwood giants (the sandalwood).
    Nothing I have compares to this masterpiece. Interestingly, Terre d’Hermes is like a weak, pale version of Oak Moss but with synthetic ingredients and nowhere near the impact. Longevity is quite good on me, perhaps due to the fixative qualities of the sandalwood.
    Exceptional!