The incomparable indie perfumer Shelley Waddington is a maven of musks. Cloak Musk for Scent Trunk joins her other vintage-inspired beauties, Zoologist Civet and Hummingbird, in its gentle, seductive use of musks, animalic and otherwise. This time spiked with aromatic herbs and seasoned with alpine salt.

From Scent Trunk
Cloak Musk harkens back to a vintage-style animalic musk, primal, but modernized with alpine botanicals and earthtone minerals, yet retaining a wild sensibility.

From Perfumer Shelley Waddington
In making this fragrance, I wanted to create a scene in the mountains of Tibet, in the season when the air is crisp and flakes of snow are beginning to fall. Himalayan forest herbs, rich soil, tundra, and conifer trees are still grey-blue-green but will soon freeze and sparkle. A shy, alert snow leopard is barely noticeable as she slowly prowls, camouflaged by the rosettes on her thick, warm fur, her luxurious cloak of invisibility.

Perfumer
Shelley Waddington

Provenance
Himalaya, Tibet

Notes
rosemary, monastery herbs, snow flowers, tonka, conifer needles, animalic musk, tundra minerals, alpine salt

FYI
Part of Scent Trunk’s ORIGINAL EDITIONS, a collection of fragrances featuring collaborations with perfumers who are given a fragrance brief for their commissions inspired by a Scent Trunk annual theme, seasonal focus ingredients, geographic provenance of the highlighted material, and/or color palette.