Even if you're an amateur in the world of fragrances, you've probably heard the term "musk" before. Musk is an ingredient secreted from male deer specifically to be used in perfume-making, but more than that, it's become a larger, broader term to describe scents that are quite warm and woody, often with hints of florals or citrus. It also smells fuckin' delicious.

Unlike most other perfume scents—fruity, floral, spicy, earthy—that are essentially made up of the same handful of popular ingredients layered with different notes, musky colognes encompass an expansive breadth of scents. There are musky colognes bottled with lavender and musky colognes bottled with leather; a musky cologne that smells of sweet, summer fruit, and a musky cologne that smells of dark, spicy rum. Really, it's a strong and sweet odor (how else would male deer attract female deer?) that blends perfectly with many other ingredients to make a sophisticated, intoxicatingly delicious scent. Mmm.

So, really, it doesn't quite matter what your taste in fragrances is, as long as you like to smell amazing. If that sounds like you, then there's a whole variety of different types of musky scents to choose from, and 13 of the best ones are right here.