White Musk Fragrances
Musky pertains to a whole category of smells that derive from several sources, both from the animal and the plant world. ""White Musk" in particular became a concept and a commercial entity at the end of the 1970s when the ethical concerns for the harvesting of real animal musk from the Tonquin deer musk raised enough controversy to ban the hunt for the Nepalese critter's musk pods. Synthetic musks were used since the beginning of the 20th century in commercial perfumery, in one form or another, but it was the hydrophobic properties of a particular classification of synthesized musks that gave rise to their use in the laundry detergent industry, making the mental leap between cleanliness and that particular radiant sweetish smell of what we call "white musk""""".
