12/13/2019
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Not a lightweight - a white-flowering force
The original of this fragrance was developed by Ernest Daltroff in 1923, twelve years after his other daffodil fragrance, "Narcisse Noir". I don't know how it used to smell. Since Caron has reissued the fragrance in its 2017 Collection Privèe series, it may be similar to the old fragrance.
With the new editions of the Caron classics, the perfume house is continuing its traditions and paying tribute to its three house perfumers Ernest Daltroff, Michel Morsetti and Richard Fraysse (source: ALzD).
I've been testing one or two fragrances from this line lately. My impression is: Lightweights are not all these things. I also don't think they have much to do with the caron scents that Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez have torn away in their A-Z guide as pale shadows of the once great perfumes.
"Narcisse Noir" was the first fragrance I tested and found to be austere, of old-fashioned seriousness and complexity, tart, dense, animalistic.
If a fragrance is then called "Narcisse Blanc", one would expect a lighter, friendlier, more sweet fragrance as opposed to the darker one. A look into the pyramid also makes the expectation of a happy spring perfume possible.
Instead, "Narcisse Blanc" reveals itself to me as an Indian white-flowered humming hum. The start of an overflowing sultry fleshy orange blossom is too much of an edge for me for about three quarters of an hour - not to say: it stinks a bit in my nose.
It then changes into a bitter, serious, for me completely unsweet scent, in which orange blossom continues to dominate, accompanied by jasmine and very late I think I also perceive rose. The sandalwood in the pyramid is written in capital letters and I consider it to be the indolent reverberation of the white bloomers. I don't smell any lilacs. Traces of iris perhaps in the base.
Just a few months ago I couldn't do anything with such scents. After the extensive testing of ever sweeter biscuit and vanilla fragrances, however, a certain oversaturation has set in with me and the pendulum now strikes in another direction.
Anyway, I think "Narcisse Blanc" is wonderful at this stage, after the start is over. The fragrance lasts for more than 14 hours, in the first six hours with a clearly perceptible sillage, but not too much
I'm still not gonna draw in the scent. First, because of the first 45 minutes. And on the other hand because I like "Narcisse Noir" better with the greater variety of flowers, the citric sprinkles, its complexity and light animalism.
I thank you for the gift of this little sample and am glad that I could get to know this fragrance.
With the new editions of the Caron classics, the perfume house is continuing its traditions and paying tribute to its three house perfumers Ernest Daltroff, Michel Morsetti and Richard Fraysse (source: ALzD).
I've been testing one or two fragrances from this line lately. My impression is: Lightweights are not all these things. I also don't think they have much to do with the caron scents that Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez have torn away in their A-Z guide as pale shadows of the once great perfumes.
"Narcisse Noir" was the first fragrance I tested and found to be austere, of old-fashioned seriousness and complexity, tart, dense, animalistic.
If a fragrance is then called "Narcisse Blanc", one would expect a lighter, friendlier, more sweet fragrance as opposed to the darker one. A look into the pyramid also makes the expectation of a happy spring perfume possible.
Instead, "Narcisse Blanc" reveals itself to me as an Indian white-flowered humming hum. The start of an overflowing sultry fleshy orange blossom is too much of an edge for me for about three quarters of an hour - not to say: it stinks a bit in my nose.
It then changes into a bitter, serious, for me completely unsweet scent, in which orange blossom continues to dominate, accompanied by jasmine and very late I think I also perceive rose. The sandalwood in the pyramid is written in capital letters and I consider it to be the indolent reverberation of the white bloomers. I don't smell any lilacs. Traces of iris perhaps in the base.
Just a few months ago I couldn't do anything with such scents. After the extensive testing of ever sweeter biscuit and vanilla fragrances, however, a certain oversaturation has set in with me and the pendulum now strikes in another direction.
Anyway, I think "Narcisse Blanc" is wonderful at this stage, after the start is over. The fragrance lasts for more than 14 hours, in the first six hours with a clearly perceptible sillage, but not too much
I'm still not gonna draw in the scent. First, because of the first 45 minutes. And on the other hand because I like "Narcisse Noir" better with the greater variety of flowers, the citric sprinkles, its complexity and light animalism.
I thank you for the gift of this little sample and am glad that I could get to know this fragrance.
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