Narcissus07/01/2025
ClaireV
731 Reviews
ClaireV
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A true narcissus
I think Narcissus is the clear standout in the Dame Perfumery soliflores I have thus far tested, although they are all very true to their source materials. Narcissus smells extremely dirty when first sprayed, like a men's bathroom that had been hastily (badly) cleaned with cheap disinfectant, a nuance that runs very true to the flower's fetid, inky barnyardy smell in nature.
But given a few minutes to settle, the sillage blooms with all the nicer aspects of narcissus itself the yellow, oily pollen, the stemmy green aroma, the pale sweet powder, honey, grass - a heart-warming mixture of green and yellow hues, a ripped-from-nature smell both rudely animalic and elegant.
Wearing Narcissus allows me to recognize just how important a role narcissus plays in the grander compositions of Chamade and Le Temps d'Un Fete. It also confirmed that Romanza by Masque is stuffed to bursting with the stuff. Excellent work, and it makes me want to explore even more of Dame Perfumery's soliflores. A strange fact about this fragrance, though - it smells much nicer in one's sillage than close up, on the skin, where it retains that dirty bathroom facet.
But given a few minutes to settle, the sillage blooms with all the nicer aspects of narcissus itself the yellow, oily pollen, the stemmy green aroma, the pale sweet powder, honey, grass - a heart-warming mixture of green and yellow hues, a ripped-from-nature smell both rudely animalic and elegant.
Wearing Narcissus allows me to recognize just how important a role narcissus plays in the grander compositions of Chamade and Le Temps d'Un Fete. It also confirmed that Romanza by Masque is stuffed to bursting with the stuff. Excellent work, and it makes me want to explore even more of Dame Perfumery's soliflores. A strange fact about this fragrance, though - it smells much nicer in one's sillage than close up, on the skin, where it retains that dirty bathroom facet.
