Musc Maori 04 Pierre Guillaume Paris for women and men

The good boy turned bad for the night.

Electro with the newest DJ in the city was never your thing, but your friends somehow convinced you to go party with them. You never go, so why not. You hold your rum and coke close to your mouth, maybe the alcohol will make those dodgy beats pass faster. A drink turns into a number you can't remember, your blue-striped shirt is unbuttoned to your navel, your dance moves have gotten considerably better and people have started noticing you. A hand ruffles your hair, you smile your eyes closed, head falling into the hand. Hands on your body, your hands up in the air, feeling the music. Just tonight you think, just for the night.

This is okay, but not the best thing I've ever smelled. It reminds me of those little orange filled chocolate candies you get for Valentine's Day in the heart shaped variety packs. It's way more orange peel or something, though, than chocolate. Come to think of it, I don't really get much of any chocolate, just a little sweetness of some kind. Somewhere between gourmand and skin scent. It also has really poor longevity and projection - it was gone on me within the hour after I sprayed it.

4/10

I have never smelled anything like this, it smells like chocolate milk and buttered popcorn. Savory gourmands like this are rare! It's so smooth and lactonic.

Ordered a sample of this because I saw multiple reviews that said this smelled like chocolate orange…I am more than disappointed. I can kind of smell it at the initial spray, but immediately after it dries down, it smells like a weird, sour floral. Maybe it’s just my body chemistry, but I just can’t stand it. It also only lasted a few hours which was great for me, but if you like this perfume, I’m sure it would be frustrating. I noticed some people compared this to Eau d’Italie’s Morn to Dusk, but I don’t see it. Morn to Dusk is a soft floral with light vanilla notes while Musc Maori is quite screechy and lacks vanilla.

choco condensed milk tofu good but not wow

To me it's a Terry's Chocolate Orange (UK chocolate) with amber. If you love those things, you'll love this.

Tonka bean is quite harsh in the first couple of minutes but softens right after, completing Musc Maori into a yummy white chocolate scent. The realisticity of it watering my mouth.

Every year for Christmas my dad gives me one of those milk chocolate oranges wrapped in foil. This reminds me of that. Unfortunately I've never really liked them! The chocolate is too synthetic and hollow tasting. Same goes for this perfume. However - I think this would be really sensual on a man.

Smells like sour chocolate. Like if you put cacao in hot water. Not too overwhelming, not cloying. Very fresh chocolate.

A lovely riff on classic powdery (and often floral) musk perfumes, Musc Maori zigs instead of zags--where so many of these perfumes head in the direction of vanilla, or just lightly sweetened lactonic "milk musk," MM goes for a chocolate variant. Some chocolate-scented perfumes are busy and stimulating, especially those that depend on spicy patchouli, but this isn't that kind of a trip--no Gothic depths here, no incense, nothing that would scare the horses. Imagine instead the soothing effects of a pre-bedtime glass of Ovaltine (if you know, you know) or a cup of warm milk with just a little cocoa stirred in. The chocolate accord is plenty well rounded and gives a sense of luxury, but in the relaxed sense of luxe, like high thread-count sheets and quality cushions waiting for a tired head at the end of a long day. At least, that's when I wear Musc Maori--most of the time.

This perfume's other natural habitat is in cooler weather, with a cozy sweater and an afternoon with no particular plans--its linear composition and obvious gourmand qualities would rule it out, at least for me, from occasions where I want to project sophistication. Perversely, I also like to wear Musc Maori in summer, as it also reminds me of high-quality cocoa butter, something that I enjoy with parched skin after a session in the pool or a trip to the beach: just don't overdo it in the heat, as the milkiness can become claggy in high doses at warm temperatures.

This one took me a little while to learn to love; I was given several samples that I passed on to my gourmand-loving friends and swap partners, until one day I realized that it had snuck up on me, and that I not only needed it in my life, but I also needed enough that I wouldn't have to worry about running out any time in the next decade or two. Comfort perfumes occupy a significant part of my wearing life, and a disproportionately small part of my collection, considering that I reach for one pretty much every night. Since it covers several bases for me, MM is a welcome addition to my collection. Since it isn't even straightforwardly foody, Musc Maori transcends the gourmand genre--at least for me. And I'm off to bed now, gently eased towards sleep in its welcoming arms.

Musc Maori really blew me away. However, I do think this is a case of body chemistry-- but on me, it worked very very well. She smells like an original milk chocolate Hershey's bar. I know American chocolate can be controversial for non-Americans, so perhaps it's the nostalgia for me. But this scent profile dancing along with my skin chemistry just WORKS. I found it to be such an intoxicating chocolate musk. This is done very well, the juice is effortlessly smooth. This is absolutely FB worthy for me. I can see myself wearing this a lot come fall/winter.

This is my 4th Pierre Guillaume I tested, and I must say I am impressed by this house so far. I find that their fragrances are very unique and inspiring.

My only advice is to try before buying :)

An intensely sweet and creamy mixture of white and milk chocolate. The exact opposite interpretation of chocolate as Coromandel, which goes for a fresh, woody, yet creamy benzoin amber adding up to an 'illusion' of chocolate, Musc Maori is an overindulgent mixture of lactonic, gourmand and ambery notes, hammering the idea of molten chocolate into your nostrils. That being said it is exactly spot on, meaning if you want to unmistakably smell like some kind of chocolate milk drink (for whatever reason) this is exactly that. Personally I had to wash it off after a few minutes, simply because of how sharp it felt, nothing really in the mix to give it radiance, contrast or balance, but clearly this also wasn't created with me in mind as I never had any intention of finding the most photorealistic Kinder egg fragrance.

Kinder egg and/or cheap foil-wrapped chocolate Christmas tree decorations, but I like it!

Update: the above was based on a recent sample. I now have a bottle of the old Parfumerie Générale Musc Maori... It might be my imagination but it's a bit more potent and realistically chocolate smelling and less plasticky. I liked it before but I like this more.

I'm not usually one for layering, but this layered with Paris Fidji is chocolate orange heaven, so what if I feel a bit ridiculous for doing it, it smells so good!

This smells 80% like Fresh Cream. Try b4 this at ulta. If you like that you will love this also, or vice versa.

Milky coffee mocha instant drink in a can. In Southern Europe during summer you find em in the chilled isle. If you tried them you know. Not for me.

Too rubbery for my taste. I can only smell fruity latex. Maybe my nose is broken but i cannot understand the positive comments 🙁

I get a distinct orange peel note. This reminds me of hot chocolate with a curl of orange rind floating on top. I honestly get the orange peel more than the chocolate.

Chocolate covered gummy bears!! I kept trying to remember what this reminds me of and it finally dawned on me that it’s chocolate covered gummy bears that’s been sitting in one of those bins from candy stores that you scoop out. From the bottle/tester strip I had smelled only chocolate but after a few mins on skin, it takes on a bit of a sugary/gummy bear mix into it. It’s pleasant but a bit artificial. But could grow on me.

It smells like sugary instant cocoa or even more so to cocoa flavored lollipop (vanillic hard-candy base). It’s too sweet for my taste. I prefer Tokyomilk Bittersweet to the vanilla white sugar here.

My other cocoa fav beside Chavaud lait et Chocolate but whilst Chabaud is a photorealistic cocoa milk-drink ( made from coca powder) from the childhood than Musc Maori is a boiled hot chocokate drink with steamed milk and whipped cream on the top. And there are some added spices and some candied citrus peel ( i think the bergamot) The perfect, christmas hot chocolat fragrance!!♡♡♡

Milky chocolate deliciousness. Definitely opens with some green notes that dry down quickly into a warm enveloping chocolate comfort scent. On my full bottle to buy list! For my Fall/Winter list definitely.

Does anyone know where to get a decant of this, that's more than just a 2ml?? DM me if so, please! 🤗

Steamed chocolate milk with whipped cream. I smell yummy. This may be the best chocolate scent I've smelled!

The quality of the fragrance in this line is outstanding. Just an extremely impressive and elevated perfume house to the price. It’s right up there with Fredric Malle IMO. Having said that this is one of his that I was sure I was going to love but it doesn’t work for me. In the beginning there’s a thick delicious chocolate milkshake of vanilla, amber, and musk. But then the green notes come out and fight against it. According to Luckyscent this green facet is coffee tree blossom which I’ve never encountered before. It’s creating some kind of strange funk on me. The two in this line that I’ve fallen in love with: La Musc en La Peau and L’Ombre Fauve.

My original comment was deleted...! I did NOT mean any offense with my comment, in fact, I think I showed reverence more than negativity.

Anyway, the first few moments are/were DIVINE -- dry, dusty chocolate, background floral, a little bit of cedar, and then, BOOM, it morphs into something quite disappointing. Peach or nectarine and just just disappointing...the chocolate is still there, but totally muted, unfortunately...
It ends up smelling like a Japanese brand's scent whose name will come to me when I least expect it.
Anyway, starts off amazing and then deteriorates quite fast. Oh, well...

Such an underrated Chocolate fragrance, i guess a lot of people dont like the longevity on these fragrances. Which is always a negative thing when on this price tag you compete with Montale and Mancera. But im gonna say this, if you like or love Strawberry Milka Chocolate's like i do. This fragrance is exactly that on a bottle, if this lasted 5 to 6 hours i would rate it a 9 or even more. But sadly on me it lasts less then an hour.

8/10

gorgeous photorealistic white chocolate

Smells like a milk chocolate candy bar. The skin scent barely lasted on me.

Vanilla souffle cake!
Delicious gourmand. Perfect for cozy days any time of the year.

Pierre Guillaume perfumes are always interesting to me and this one smelled great in the bottle. It's a really rich, pretty linear, creamy chocolate delight. When I tried to wear it as a perfume it didn't really work - it enveloped me and took over. I ended up giving it to a friend who is able to pull off strong gourmands and it's wonderful on her.

This fragrance instantly transports me to childhood. Every year I would collect Halloween candy like it was a competitive sport, because that was a thing to do. But I didn't have a sweet tooth, and wouldn't actually eat the candy... and invariably, months later, the whole bag would turn melty and rancid, and need to be thrown out.

Musc Maori reminds me of what a giant bag of Halloween candy would smell like past its expiration. Primarily Tootsie Rolls (chewy, rubbery, artificial chocolate flavoring), mixed in with orange Jolly Ranchers (saccharine, flinty, acidic), candy corn (marshmallowy, airy, sugary), and Three Musketeers. All of this, mixed with sour sweat note in a scratchy polyester orange costume.

Altogether, it smells like something made in a lab, artificial flavorings making a chemical gourmand. Yet it strikes a nostalgic chord for me, even if it's not something I care to smell again.

It smells like White Rabbit chewy candy

Something doesn’t jive with me on this one. It’s good on the initial spray, and then it evolves into a tootsie roll scent. Then it takes on the scent of old, smushed, sun-baked chocolate from a kid’s car seat. I wish I could, but… meh.

I know the English word funk can mean an unpleasant smell but I associate it with music. This fragrance smells funky like the funky music. It always changes the vibe, is very playful, profoundly delicious and can surprise anyone with it's chocolate. One of my top5 of my life, want to grab one more bottle for more of everyday use. Just different! Sweet like a hood mamacita's beam for a guy who grew up in a totally white country, you know :)

Musc Maori from Pierre Guillaume Paris is another one that I tried a long while ago and wanted to revisit, and it's just as quietly weird as I remember. It's got milky vanilla notes of cumaru wood, which I had to look up just now, and Google tells me that basically, it's where tonka beans come from. It also features appearances by coffee tree blossom and cacao pod. I typically don't love chocolate scents, but this is like a musky, musty, ghostly packet of Swiss Miss. I say ghostly because it's a very transparent scent, and the musk alternates eerily between something etherous in spirit and warm, sweet human skin. This is not the finished cup of hot chocolate but rather the grains of cocoa trembling in the tablespoon before being stirred into the boiling milk. It's an odd but thoroughly charming fragrance.

Throughout my years of trying Pierre Guillaume Paris, I find some of their perfumes to be like instant, pick-me-up scents rather than a proper perfume that lingers on your person. For Musc Maori, perhaps the 'musc' describes the fleeting nature of it and the 'maori' may allude to the cumaru wood which lends itself this lovely, creamy milkiness to the cocoa and vanilla notes, which makes this a rather simple, literal and linear gourmand done naturally. I find so much of literal gourmands today are heavily synthetic and painfully headache inducing... An example of this is Kyse, a brand that without fail, always gives me a headache whenever I try their sample pack. Kyse hilariously made me realize that not all gourmands, even literal gourmands, are good gourmands and good grief, why /would/ anyone want to smell like it too? I myself do not like literal gourmands; there needs to be some contrast, some juxtaposition or challenge to make it interesting or worth musing about. Musc Maori does come off as a literal gourmand, but there's nothing synthetic about it. I want to bite on my arm whenever I spray this. For me, it goes on like milk chocolate cocoa and dries down to a vanillic, powdered milk phase. It's nice and tasty, but not something I would wear as a perfume...

"Delicately sheer floral chocolate musk"

Musc Maori has been a staple in my collection for years when I'm in the mood for something gourmand and sweet. I'm only recently starting to enjoy really sweet fragrances, and when I first bought this many years ago I was put off by the initial chocolatey beginning. Musc Maori really smells like chocolate pudding at the start. But the reason I love this so much is that it isn't as synthetic and foody as other scents like Montale Chocolate Greedy or any of the Comptoir Sud fragrances. Musc Maori reminds me most of Van Cleef's Orchidee Vanille, which means it also has slightly floral and slightly musky facets to the overall sweet chocolate/vanille vibe. I would describe the musk as a vanilla-musk or a sheer clean white musk (there is nothing deeply musky or dark/skanky about this at all -- it's a very sweet, clean fragrance).

If you like some sweet scents and occasionally crave a chocolate note but don't generally like it when your fragrance accurately resembles something real, then you should give Musc Maori a whirl. I find this to be a beautifully sweet chocolately scent but I don't think it smells juvenile or overboard. The longevity and sillage are moderate if you spray it a bunch of times (and it sticks to clothing).

My two favorite gourmand/chocolate scents at the moment are PG Musc Maori and Profumum Dulcis in Fundo. Both are kind of light and delicate while still very sweet but they aren't cloying or overdone. Musc Maori is a gem! It's delightfully sweet but just right for me.

Fragrance in three words: Triple Chocolate Orange

The fragrance opens with a zesty orange and chocolate. For any confectionery fans what came to mind was Terry's Chocolate Orange. A British milk chocolate bar flavoured with orange oil.

The chocolate notes in this are authentic smelling and I can imagine expensive to boot. Usually when chocolate notes are used in fragrance they end up smelling like burnt sugar or have no potency and get lost in the mix. In Musc Maori it is very close to drinking cocoa.

The orange fades and the drydown is white musks and slightly powdery amber. Longevity was around 6 hours with moderate sillage.

Due to it using bergamot and having a dusky quality I get similarities to Terre d'Hermès (2006). Terre is much earthier, less bright and sexier. Musc Maori is much more fun though.

Price in the UK (March 2021) is £138 for 100ml standard pricing for Pierre Guillaume's Parfumerie Generale line. Given the quality ingredients and uniqueness I think it is ok priced. I enjoyed wearing it, A rock solid thumbs up, but not a must have for me.

7.5 out of 10

On me this smells like a lighter version of Chocolate Greedy. Every now and again while wearing this one I would get whiffs of musk and florals (which I don't get with CG). This sits very close to the skin on me, and performance is not the greatest. I have to dig my nose into my skin to smell it. This is pleasant enough, but rather unremarkable; there are other chocolate fragrances out there that I prefer.

Smells just like warm chocolate pudding. However soon after spraying it starts to go in a more vanilla direction. Dyrdown is similar to Orchidee Vanille by Van Cleef and Arpels. It's not bad, just not what I was looking for.

Wicked Good is where it's at for a true chocolate!

I think the musk in this one does something weird to my skin. For one thing it's incredibly sheer, I can barely smell it unless I press my nose right into my skin. Another thing is that the cacao note is totally missing for me. Instead I get something not unlike an orange cream popsicle. It's actually quite nice, but then I get this hint of something funky underneath. It's gotta be that musk, it lends an unwashed quality of sweat to the fragrance. Like someone with sweaty armpits eating an orange cream popsicle, and you want to enjoy the delectable summer treat, but every once in a while that stench comes out that just keeps ruining the whole experience for you. Even if that wasn't there, I don't think that this is the most unique of niche fragrances, and I've never tried anything from this brand before but it seems to be marketed and described by others as being really unique and more artisanal than this. If someone had attached a name like Britney Spears of Jessica Simpson to this fragrance (at least with how it smells on my skin), you wouldn't even bat an eye.

Watch out! this is really 1/1 Al Rehab Choco musk;
I point it above but it is REMOVED and i can not point it again.

This perfume is an Arabic Choco Musk, with a nice chocolate opening wich fades away in 5 minutes and all you get back is an oily cloying dry down..
It should have been more interesting with some coffee, hazelnut, walnut, popcorn and tolu balm, something greenfresh or interesting sweet..
wait..the coffee is listing..also tonkabeans? NO WAY!

For a nice chocolate opening buy for 3 euro Choco musk from Al Rehab or far better' Demeter chocolate chip

It disappoints me even more because a first liked all the other Pierre Guilliome Paris perfumes but now i doubt about their quality too...( i even doubt honest reviews on Fragrantica right now!)

Maybe it is just that what was mentioned before; you love or you hate this perfume..but also when you love it...try Al Rehab Choco Musk (maybe than you will hate it than; spent 120 euro for something that can be bought much more cheaper)

This fragrance is just delicious.
It reminds me of eating coco pops with milk as a kid. That same chocolateness and milkiness.
Dig it! Going through my second bottle.

Smells like cheap Cadbury bar, no depth or complexity and it barely evoluates.

A huge let down.

Creamy chocolate pudding, but a definite scarf fragrance that I want to keep around to bury my nose in to inhale. Can't really detect the musc but it will ensure longevity on me (my skin holds on to musc rather well). Just got it, looking forward to wearing it when the weather gets really cold.

Agree with others that this perfume is not named correctly: I don't pick up a musk note. Instead this is a dessert gourmand, with chocolate, vanilla and tonka forward. After the very strong opening, this stays linear. For some reason I'm getting an old school hostess cupcake vibe from my childhood.... except I'm eating it while drinking a cappuccino.

I don't think this works in summer heat as it's just too strong, so I'll test it again in cooler temps. I'm liking it but not sure it's going to be a purchase. My sample is from Lucky Scent.

EDIT this works so much better in the Fall and cooler months. My BFF is wearing this as I write and it’s wonderful.

This smells very realistic, it smells like creamy, buttery milk chocolate with vanilla. I cannot detect the coffee note at all. The musk is barely noticeable as well. It starts out creamy and becomes a bit powdery with time and aside from that does not change much.

This slightly feminine, simple composition is perfect for cooler temperatures. Sillage and longevity are moderate. Try this if you're into gourmands or if you are starting to explore that type of perfume.

The moment I have got the sample I tried this one from the vial, I thought "this is IS my chocolate frag".. but no.

It started as a very sweet creamy chocolate vanilla dessert, very cosy one. When I close my eyes I imagine a little boy unwrapping milky chocolate candies, gifted on Christmas.
For a slight second, just second, I heard a citrusy note, but that was gone very quickly, and yet again this sweet chocolate.
In 2 hours - still the same... in 4 hours - still there, and it started to annoy me a lot. It's like "hey? Where is a development? At least Musk?" In 6 hours I still can hear it from my wrist but it is still the same milky chocolate.
It faded completely in 7 hours. Sillage is very moderate, projected for about an hour, and then lingered close to skin.

I will try this one again in more colder day, probably the summer heat is not the best condition for this frag.

Musc Maori opens with the nostalgic scent of chocolate scented erasers (sort of a chocolate plus cherry plus eraser plastic smell). But that's just the first minute or so - soon Musc Maori transforms into the most creamy milk chocolate, cuddly musk and honeysuckle nectar scent. An odd combination of notes but it absolutely works - the result is a fairly simple but utterly cosy gourmand scent. The chocolate smells like a milk chocolate ganache truffle. It's linear through its duration. I absolutely love it. Very sweet but also delicate; somehow despite the creaminess, this is not a heavy scent. The longevity and sillage are lower than some other Pierre Guillame scents, but still average to good. Despite the close sillage, this is a compliment getter. Chocolate lovers should definitely try this one! Love.

I tried a sample of this perfume from Lucky Scent and liked it enough to buy a big bottle. My one complaint is it doesn’t last long on my extremely dry skin but I live in the Arizona desert with temperatures soaring over 120 degrees in summer few perfumes last long on me. I still bought this for layering with other gourmand scents since I love bakery and coffee perfumes together.

Notes on this perfume say coffee but on my skin I never smell any coffee. This smells like bakery chocolate pastries, specifically a Napoleon, with vanilla strong. No amber or other notes listed for this perfume are noticeable on my skin. This is a skin scent I notice on myself for about 2-3 hours if inside house but outside it will burn off within 2 hours . People have to be close to me to notice I am wearing this perfume but I smell ithis yummy scent and it quenches my sweet craving.

I recommend this perfume to gourmand lovers but buy a sample to test hoe it smells on your skin. I notice on reviews others mentioned oranges and plastic scent that never showed up on me. Ironically one reason I buy so many perfume samples is most perfumes - even Creed Aventus for Her - smell like gross plastic dolls on my skin. It is a nightmare searching for a signature scent because few perfumes mix well with my body chemistry. That is why I suggest testing this perfume, it smells great on me but might not on you.

Musc Maori smells so good, but it's really misnamed. The main star of this scent is chocolate, not musk!
It does have some clean musk and white floral notes, but they are only noticeable to me in the opening and quickly move to the background. They just keep the fragrance from being too much of a boring one-note gourmand. Like many others, I smell a strong orange note with the chocolate in this. It reminds me of melted dark chocolate and candied oranges, and of the delicious orange mocha my favorite café sells.
In the drydown, it becomes warmer and warmer, there are even some roasted and some milky notes. It's so delicious, but it's never cloying, there is always a hint of freshness in this. Musc Maori is smooth, soft and creamy, but not weak, I can smell it through my sweater after many hours. Just very nicely blended. One of the best true chocolate perfumes in my opinion.

The opening is very appealing, like dark chocolate. But the drydown... Smells acidic and plasticky. Dislike :(

Nice~I like;-)

This is like rubbing the finest Lindt chocolate on your skin. With vanilla almond filling and a fruity touch. It actually is mouthwatering. Definitely different, a good scent and a very realistic gourmand. I have no idea when to wear it. But hey, no one will object when you smell like Lindt chocolate.
Dear to wear it!

The top cocoa note is so very good, but downhill after that. Just loses momentum and stops dead in its tracks.

Most realistic smell of earl grey tea with milk.

Artificial, almost plasticky cacao + sugared almonds.

Cacao already has a quasi-plastic smell to me; the accentuation of that particular facet is too much for my personal tastes.

Seems like a fun and elegant scent nonetheless. I can see why people like it.

This is not what I expected at all!

For instance, when I sprayed it, I thought it was dark cherry and almond, but once it started warming up, I noticed cacao, vanilla, and a warm orange. There was also a pinch of anise and the some quiet pineapple.

It was like wearing the most delightful pudding, and there was a soft musk and amber in the base.

Smells pretty much like Dutch sinaassnippers, that is orange jelly shaped like orange wedges covered in chocolate. Thus I can't believe there's no orange note listed because to me it's there, clear as day. Delicious.

Some hours into wearing, the orange note has dissipated and I am left with... a nice, sweet scent that I can't quite put my finger on. Chocolatey nougat maybe? Toffee? Still, every bit as lovely as the first phase, just different.

i really don't know why people dislike this fragrance? It's so beautiful. On my skin, it's glowing with cacao adding a little vanille things inside. I'm in love with PG04 in the first time i smell this and buy 100ml immediately.

This starts out exactly like cocoa powder you put in milk. Not cacao. Not blended with milk, just the powder. More specifically, O'boy which we call it in Sweden. You can really feel the dry and powdery texture. However it gets muskier rather soon, and that's what the drydown is like. This is closest to Serendipitous, I find, except this one changes more noticeably and quite fast. Oui Plus and Gourmand Coquin still are my favourite chocolate perfumes.

i thought this was a musk scent and ordered a sample without looking at the notes, because i like musk. this is a gourmand fragrance. smells like cacao or chocolate, in an edible way. opening is very load and realistic-chocolate. it settles later into neutral skin scent that sits closeto the skin. I would recomend to try to all gourmand lovers. i am not into that type of scents.

Quite a perplexing fragrance. Not the scent, which I'm afraid is not interesting enough to be that, but the projection and longevity, or lack thereof. After spaying it on, this fragrance goes straight to skin scent. If that... Right when applying it to skin, I could smell a faint chocolatey aroma for what seemed like 2 seconds and then nothing. If I buried my nose in my arm I could kinda smell it, but there was absolutely no projection. I've never experienced anything this weak call itself a fragrance. It was like the faint memory of something I'd spayed on days ago. As to the scent itself, there's dark cocoa, warm vanilla, and a creamy tonka which may all account for the chocolate impression. But there's something else in there that keeps it from being completely edible. An indefinite fresh flowery note. And that's it. No coffee, no amber, no musk. Not to my nose, anyway. Just a flowery chocolate that's too shy to be anything louder than an impression.

This might be nice but I can't smell it at all. Maybe I'm spoiled by the gourman scents of baruti...but the scent dissapears after about a minute on skin. Not impressive for such an expensive perfume.

*update: I sprayed about 10 more times. It's nice but it's mainly the taste of disappointment that lingers beyond the fading chocolate and tonka bean. Glad I only bought a sample!*

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I've had my sample for over a year now, and got it out today since I'm antsy for something new. I was a young child during the 70's, and my immediate scent association with this is to a scratch n sniff mug of hot chocolate on a kids Christmas book I used to have. If anyone is familiar with these, it also had peppermint and pine smells in it. I was really looking forward to this because I love a good chocolate scent, Cocoon is my favorite, but this one is not really wearable for me. Even as it evolves a little, too much of the unnatural chocolate scent remains. I really like some of his scents...I own Cadjmere and a decant of Coze. I'm gonna pass on reliving the scratch n sniff book though.

I like how this smells, but it's just wayyyy too sweet on me. It's a very sweet milky chocolate. You know after you eat a bowl of chocolate cereal (coco pops, mmm) and there's that leftover milk at the bottom that stole all of the chocolate flavouring? It reminds me of that, except a little more powdery and with the sweetness amped way up. Sort of like somebody took said leftover cereal milk and dumped a cup of chocolate milkshake powder in it.

I love the chocolatey whafts I get when I wearing this, but it just gives me a headache after a while (no matter how sparingly I apply it.) I guess it's just too much for me! If you like chocolate scents and can handle the sweeter stuff better than I can, definitely give this one a go. It lasts around ~12 hours and has average projection IMO.

Update 03/06/16:
I came across a bottle of this at a low price a little while ago and couldn't say no. I have to say that this fragrance works so, so much better when sprayed!! I was originally sampling this from a small dabber vial and I guess it concentrated the sweetness a little too much for me. When sprayed this smells just like the milk leftover from eating Coco Pops (with no milkshake powder overdose!) Much more yummy and wearable.

The leading note is really milky chocolate, even oily in chocolate way.

Sorry, lovers, but it smells too eatable. Like my mom says, perfume should smell perfume.

Even so, I prefer Devil's Food by Demeter, because it's more dark and complex like chocolate tart.

Real, authentic Chocolate...

This is one which to me reminds me of pure chocolate powder, a very dark and aromatic mix here. I find it very authentic in it's cacao note. I think this will appeal to people who love chocolate fragrances. I can't say I detect many of the other notes. I have found this is prominent for the first 2 hours on my skin, then dries down rapidly.

This is the first fragrance I've tried from Parfumerie Generale. A gourmand. I'm impressed, but wish this lasted longer. Not sure if I can recommend but I think it would please fans of chocolate greatly.

Noope. Another chocolate scent, another Terry's Chocolate orange lurker.

This for me fell at the 1st hurdle. Well, sort of 1st, lets say 1.1.

I did get a deep, luscious cacao note right at the start; like a Premium hot chocolate straight up from 1st spray - it was beautiful and heading for a 9/10.

But this is Niche and I'm now almost bumped into immunity from disappointment.

Then; 2nd minute, a milky accord appeared like a bubbling mass of clouds forming.

Oh oh, it all fell downhill from there - milky note swiftly turned burnt-ish, soured, odd and off, then mellowed agin into - the orange.

Sigh. It scores 3 marks, just for that opening 1st minute!!

My rating: 4/10.
Quality: 9/10.

I'm torn between loving and disliking Musc Maori. It's a pretty outrageous fragrance and it's been hard to make up my mind about it.

What I love about it is that sometimes it can smell exactly like real milk chocolate. That's what I get when I sniff the bottle, and at certain times in its development on the skin, and there are whiffs of it all the way through.
Which is wonderful and delicious, even more so because of the other gourmand notes that shine through from time to time, but I do feel very conspicuous wearing it. That's my first gripe with this one: it definitely isn't very wearable. It's pretty strong as well and I couldn't think of a single occasion where it would be fitting to smell conspicuously like milk chocolate out among people.
That usually doesn't stop me, though, I have plenty of perfumes I mostly only wear at home when I'm alone and sometimes I don't care what other people will think and wear them out anyway, though lightly applied.
But there's something else that I dislike about Musc Maori and that is its other face, the musky, murky one. I guess it makes sense for it to be there to break the pure gourmand vibe and make it a bit more perfume-like, but I don't like the combination. It's like some animal got into my hot chocolate, there's something not right and even a bit queasy about it.

Luckily for me, this murky quality doesn't come out too often, but put together with the lack of practicality of such an outrageous scent it does keep me from wearing it very often. I do really like that milk chocolate though, so like I said, I'm torn. Time will have to tell whether I'll be able to live without it once I finish my decant.

Strong, strong liquor chocolatey scent. NO musc! Very potent and true to nature real 70% dark chocolate

Linear to me, smells this way for about two hours, then like anything chocolate, it's gone before you know it.

Wanted to like this one, but theres just something off about it, and it sorta teeter totters between being ok, and not good at all...

I should say first blast is kinda... gross I dunno something was off about it.

But as that goes away basically for the scent I get something that kinda is on the line between being like.. Some old halloween candy.. Maybe something like candy corn. Or just some candy that when youre a kid and you just want some real candy like , kit kats, musketeers, butterfingers or whatever. But the old lady on the street always gives you old people candy lol. And its this kinda candy and its in a sorta dry bag.

And then the other side of it I guess it a sorta, sweetish bath lotion or something.

Its like a weird mix between that.

I dunno I wanted to like this, and when it dries down its not like.. awful or anything. Its just not what I expected and doesnt smell particularly good to me. Somethings just off to my nose about it.

Musc Maori starts off smelling exactly like a bag of Halloween candy.

The opening is warm hot chocolate, fresh in a steamy mug. Really gourmand, almost milky in a way.

Mid-dry down, you're met with some chocolate filled fruit-tarts; bitter & sweet simultaneously. There's a chocolate-coated citric monstrosity lurking somewhere, with a hint of woods. This is where the composition falls a bit flat and sour, at least with my skin chemistry...like a Starbucks planted right in the middle of a foreign farmer's market, next to a Home Depot.

There seems to be a thick, sweet honey note accompanying the chocolate in the dry-down, once the tartness has passed, which I truly do enjoy!

We could've been great together, Musc Maori! You're 60% gourmand-comfort perfection, and 40% hot mess. Thus confirming the "hit or miss" factor that keeps me from truly favoring the house of Parfumerie Generale.

very gourmandish) sweet chocolate pralines. not hot chocolate to my nose but the smell of chocolate candies with some sweet filling. very nice but you should really love to smell sweet)

Beautiful gourmand! A warm, crispy coffee chocolat with a delicios vanille musk note.
On my skin very long lasting not too overwerwelming but quiet chique and warm! Great for christmas.

I wish Musc Maori and I had fallen in love. Unfortunately it didn't even get off the back burner. It started off as sour milk on me, I swear I checked the sample label and it was the right name. Thankfully the sourness exited double quick and left the creamy milk behind. Full cream. Accompanied by bittersweet chocolate powder, the kind you use for baking. Just as I thought we were getting along just fine, something citrus like shows up! So now I get chocolate powder+milk+citrus rind. Where is the musk? I get neither soapy clean nor wild animal musk. It's a Chocolate powdered Maori on me. The sillage is ok, not quite a skin scent but not loud either. Longevity is still pending a report but it's made it over two hours at least. I envy those who had amazing experiences with Musc Maori, but my purse stays snugly in my pocket in this case. I definitely suggest to sample first and not get caught up by the delicious looking notes.

Opens up with a rich smell of hot chocolate and quickly settles to flat, white musk and cacao smell. It gives an illusion of cacao & milk mix.

I love cacao fragrances. I like that this composition is not too sweet. But, is it interesting enough for me to buy it? No

This fragrance is very milky, creamy with a potent cocoa note. There's also some coffee, vanilla and tonka in here. It's a delight. I've never smelt such a true chocolate-like perfume before. Very gourmand of course, without being overly sweet or tacky. It has class.

Gourmand. Sweet. Smells like hot chocolate, warm milk. Very reminiscent of Bond 9 I Love New York For All ( black bottle). I personally didnt like it, milky notes in any perfume smell weird to me

Smells like malted milk balls + fruit loops to me: a soft powdery sweet milk chocolate and bergamot?? Odd.

2nd time: same sugary milk chocolate + bergamot aroma overlapping, intriguingly playful and weird. Then I started getting a milky orange, like a creamsicle? So strange, fun though!

smells like orange chocolate dessert or latte or something to do with chocolate and oranges

I'll keep this extremely simple because this dessert is so gourmand I might easily get my dress stained!

..Your very, very rich and cacao-filled chocolate tart, s'il vous plaît!

I am wearing it right now. I didn't get musk but definitely this is cacao. Yummy? Not too sweet and just a simple linear chocolate scent that isn't strong nor complimenting. It is just chocolate with a hint of coffee and some green. I would rather use my Demeter Hershey's Kisses not than this Maori. Pretty boring and bland as it stays on my skin. Forget it guys, go for Aquolina Chocolovers or Chocolate Greedy for quality cacao perfume.

I consider myself a lover of the “gourmand” category in the strictest sense. I like smelling like cotton candy, lemons, a cup of hot chocolate or a spice pantry or even a coconut cream pie. (I might draw the line at smelling like beef stew.) Musc Maori is gourmand, but in a weird sort of way. I feel that PG walks the line between genius and madness with his many gourmand-like scents. He has a way of mixing incongruous notes to create something magical, yet often odd. While a prominent note in this one is cacao, the mix with coffee/wood/musk results in a smell identical to milk chocolate and thick, swirling butter melting in a bain-marie. It’s not chocolate, it’s not coffee…it’s…Musc Maori. I love PG’s Aomassi – woody caramel – but the verdict is still out on MM.

Too flat for me, far too sweet , I like gourmand perfumes but maybe I'm falling out of love with chocolate. Don't like it.

38) Fatty Maori
Oulala, it was the too much one! I had always imagined Maori as impressive tattooed warriors but here they're unfortunately obese singing to welcome Russian tourists (who like sugar). It's not perfume anymore it's a food enhancer.
Gourmand notes in a well made perfume it is interesting but summarize a perfume to that does not give anything good.
Musk + Milk + Sugar + Cacao=Latex....Secrètion Magnifique is more breathable than that.

This smells like homemade hot chocolate (made from shaving cacao root into a boiling pot and draining the contents) with too much water added in. I find this to be dry rather than sweet. It's faint, flat, and forgettable.

Hot chocolate, hot chocolate, boiling milk chocolate on the stove, scenting the whole house. And that is all there is, so eventually one gets bored with the scent of melting milk chocolate as it becomes sickly and makes one feel quite queasy. The end is death by drowning in the cauldron of boiling milk chocolate.

It's my first encounter with a vile gourmand. I like the concept behind many of PG perfumes and this review is not meant to be agressive... but I simply can't stand this perfume... I feel instantly sick and wonder why... so let's try to break down my explanation (this horror show):

I smell overly sweetened hot chocolate with burning plastic, all of which turns decadent, true, but in a scene where there is arson at the toy shop and the plastic dolls are losing their shapes and kids are crying with chocolate buns and marshmallows melting... I feel so appaled!!!

But that's only the beginning... What truly makes me want to move to another planet is my dad, aunty and acquaintances saying: "ohhh this is delicious!" Too much. So there you go: sample and choose what group you're in: with or against me lol!

I try to make a point of not looking on here to see what the initial hits are (its very difficult not to "cheat" cos I am still such a noob!) ... but this had a very strong opening of what seemed to me to be chocolate liqueur, I was free-associating, saying "rum? rum and raisin? ..." (both of which which I hate) but I could not place the smell until I finally settled on "... rum-balls" - because of course, the chocolate component. After five minutes I could smell butter, huge gouts of buttery deliciousness, it rather reminded me of a Leonidas chocolate. I am now smelling vanilla maybe, but no sign of musk after over half an hour. And the chocolate is still there, subtly flattened out to a lovely sweet cacao rather than the rum-ball punch in the face you first get. The name Musc Maori kind of appealed to my NZ sense of humour, but I can't find any hint of Maori: (no crayfish, no whitebait fritters, no Tui lager, no Hangi ... <3 )... BUT I am pleased to discover that Musc Maori is a very very nice introduction to cacao scents, indeed. Sadly, there is not much left after 40 minutes other than a faint scent of cocoa.

The name "Musc Maori" may seem somewhat misleading: when I saw this, I expected a sweet skin-scent musc fragrance. Instead, it smells like a box of chocolate covered candies. It is not a refined dark chocolate scent, either; more like that of generic cocoa sweets; just like the bag of assorted chocolate treats I received on New Years during childhood - the smell of this chocolatey-sweet mixture and the plastic bag. I have waited patiently for the musk to reveal itself in full grace, but it seems that musk is a bit too shy in here and prefers to hide behind Hershey's bar. Musc Maori is not bad overall, but it's also a bit flat.
The longevity of Musc Maori is okay, but projection is minimal in my case. If you're looking for yummy vanilla from PG, I suggest going for Felanilla instead.

Update: it does become more like "sweet skin scent type" later and I seem to like this stage, but it is still more candy-ish than skin scent.

A very milky chocolate; I actually smell frothy milk in it, much like Jo Malone's sweet milk. I like cocoa, but chocolate -and especially milky one- is way too foody for my taste to be worn as a perfume. Calming and relaxing it is, but I can't see myself wearing something so sweet except in the coldest weather. Plus, I really disliked the opening, as there was something almost lemony on top of the cocoa for the first half hour than luckily went away completely later. Decent lasting power but it stays close to skin. I'll just pass.

Im so whit you Solvita . this is a milky chocolate , not in the means that it is light chocolate , it is more off the dry dark type . but there is an almost milky powdr feal to it. sweet yes , but not in a cloying way . A very well blended perfume , Hard to describe . not like anythinge i have smelled before . unik in so many ways. Not shure i could pull off a whole bottle off this . but nice and dry, powdery and sweet. almost cooki like , buttery in away

Hmm,I couldn't smell anything dark in this perfume,just a tasty milk chocolate with condensed milk,very sweet.

I love this scent! Especially the milk chocolate smell which isstrong when you spray it. It just lasts for the first few minutes..
Does anyone know a fragrance where is the same chocolate smell but lasts longer??

I wouldn't know what to think about it, but then i look at the name and makes sense!:) love it, true maori spirit in a bottle.

One of the very few compositions by Parfumerie Generale that I strongly dislike. An extremely realistic dark cacao note, some coffee and a strong creamy/milky vibe. I know it may sound blasphemous of me but it smells like Starbucks minus the cinnamon. As a friend used to say, this is not simply a gourmand, it's more like something you could spray directly inside your mouth. Not for me...

Rating: 4/10

Luscious, drizzling, milk chocolate on skin. Seriously, what's not to love? This is the Queen of the chocolate scents imho. A chocolate scent for grown ups.

The trail that she leaves is unmistakably edible, unmistakably chocolate, and unmistakably sexy. She's a complete surprise. Usually when I think chocolate I think light hearted fun. Musc Maori changes that whole equation. She's still fun, but she has the promise of something more....private. Like a rich dessert fondue for you and your special love. She may be frivolous, but she's also intimate.

I don't get the orange pieces like some others do and I have to agree that she prety much is what she is~ a straight up chocolate perfume. And yet....that's not entirely true either. On me at least and according to my husband~she simmers w/possibilities......and therein lies the key. She smells like WARM chocolate. Not melted in the sun, but by the flame of a fire. Delicious......

A fine composition. Monotonous and a great work of art in itself.

Chocolate tart.
That's all that is need to be said.

I agree with the other reviewers in that this smells like real dark cacao. I imagine a 50's lady wearing a white musc perfume making chocolate chip cookies from scratch. I feel the smell of freshly buttery chocolate cakebatter with nuts, vanilla, and her white musc perfume mixed with that. After a while this smells like those first 5minutes you set the cookies in the oven,just before the cookies start "cooking". Yum!

it tried this scent today and i have to say that it smells great! one of the best chocolate scents i have ever smelled. it opens with a beautiful authentic Kakao-note and does NOT smell cheap or too sweet. Simply wonderful for noses, that like gourmet-scents.

I must say this is the first PG pefume I have tried. And I did so because of so many reviews claiming it to be a very dark chocolate fragrance, which nevertheless is not too... girly, of fun (for a luck of a better world). As a chocolate fan, I could not have missed out on the opportinity of trying out for myself.

Musc Maori is exactly what I have expected. A dark chocolate with orange skin bits in it. While sniffing my wrist I can just imagine the rich, moist chocolate cake with plenty of orange in it. Very aromatic. And until the very end it remains very, very sweet.

What I found a bit disappointing is the fact that it does not change at all. What you smell in first five minutes is what you will get in an hour.

It actually made me think that, despite being beautifully composed, it it a bit too 'edible', I love the smell of cakes and chocolate, but I dont want to smell like one. It is impossible to say whether a person sprayed some Musc Maori on themselves, or just stuffed themselves with chocolate behind everyone's back.

On my skin Musc Maori opens with an edible strong and creamy dark chocolate smell. First it smells like dark bitter chocolate sweets with coffee liquer inside, then it turns into the coffee liquer with a little drop of dark chocolate and chilli pepper in it. I really enjoy this play of coffee-chocolate notes. The fragrance is not too sweet, it is rather a bit bitter.
The staying power on my skin is ok, could be a little better(I wish it was as good as on rebella), but in general I really like this fragrance and want to have it in my collection:)

Musc Maori is worth trying just to get the opening burst of very creamy, very rich and very, very dark chocolate. It seems difficult to pull of real dark chocolat in perfumes, but this one manage. The opening is delicate and strong.

But then... the promising opening quickly fades to something almost unpleasant. Something mushy, flat and even annoying. After about ten minutes I feel almost nauseas and just want to wash it off.

It is overly sweet, cloying and smells kind of weird in a very bad way.

This one would definitly have need some fresh, tangy and lively notes. I guess I think it smells kind of "dead" on me... Maybe a good choise for a cute zombiegirl?

Advise, stay as far away as possible after the initial lovely chovolate. No, but at least, try first... (longlasting and difficult to get rid of to!)