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This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic, discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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Officially credited to Olivier Creed, Virgin Island Water opens on lime and coconut, moves through a heart built around a rum accord and bay leaf, and closes on white musk and sandalwood. Its bright, tropical rum-and-lime structure evokes a Caribbean cocktail, and it became one of Creed's most popular unisex summer fragrances, frequently cited by enthusiasts as an exemplar of the house's lighter, more playful register.
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