oooh... excited to try your mix of taif rose and musk Mandeel
I have 3 different musk attars from JK - all three from the same batch, but in different concentrations.
1 - 30% musk (2+g)
1 - 50 % (1,5g)
1 - Pure (1.5g)
He macerated the musk grains (Siberian I believe?) For 5+ years and then further diluted with vintage sandalwood. They are not cheap, but definitely an interesting element in my collection. I was really out to experience musk as it has been used in sacred ceremonies and traditions around the world for awakening, stimulating the glands, opening the channels, arousing and entrancing. It has definitely not been a disappointment.
Each of these oils are so different in character. Each like a mature perfume in itself, though only 2 ingredients - musk soaked sandalwood oil and then additional sandalwood to dilute the base. The 30% is light and fluffy, almost fruity. It is really accessible and I like combining with Oud.
The 50% I wear for meditation and it is richer and deeper. Almost chocolatey,
The Pure is like a torpedo blast. It is a pheremonal explosion of moist woodsy ambrosia, a sticky, dirty, mind numbing mysteriousness. with excessive sniffing it can easily becoming nauseating... perhaps because of the concentration
I just recently purchased a few grams of Tibetan musk grains from JK and have them soaking in 18g of JK Special Reserve Sandalwood.
He set it up for me in a nice 30 mL jar. I will post a picture later.
It has been just over 2 months and the smell is already very animal, urine like, overpowering. The musk is defintely very powerful and I don't know how anyone could ever not pick up the raw musk note (previous conversations on BN about some that are unable to smell musk). I shake it up every day and keep it on my altar. It should probably last me for the rest of my life as I dilute it and use it over. I like to apply between my eyebrows before meditation along with sacred ash.