12/22/2014
Rickbr
190 Reviews
Rickbr
Conceptual Narcisse
Well, i don't know exactly how a narcissus flower smell or should smell, but if it's something closer to it i'll fall in love with it. Prada Narciso seems like an essence of a summer afternoon bottled. It's an air dominated by a smell which is sweet as the orange flower but has something spicy, waxy, and slightly animalic. It's very sensual and clean at the same time, a beautiful perfume.
16/03/2015 Update:
Almost an year after i wore it and wrote a short review about it, today i can be certain that this creation in the prada exclusive line is not exactly an Narciso soliflore. Indeed, the fragrance seems more to use its smell in an abstract way and i suspect is there is narcisse absolute in this creation it's volume is low due to european resctrictions on its use, the price of the absolute and supply variabilities of this flower. Besides that, i still think that its smell captures very well a blissful summer aroma, since it uses in a quite abundant way a flower that gives me this impression, the orange flower. It's an interesting choice, considering that Narciso has aromachemicals in common not with the orange flower but with the jasmine. This way, i believe that the orange flower here is used to compose the white floral part of the idea, extending the honey nuances with the waxy side of beeswax. The opening tries to convey the fresher aspect of the absolute combining the citrus and slightly bitter bergamot aroma with the citrus floral nuances of the orange flower. When it gets into the base, the fragrance goes into a musky, velvelty impression, with a bit of woody vetiver aroma and an olibanum giving a discreet minty incense fresh aroma. It's a beautiful and lavish recriation of the Narcisse dynamics of evolution, but still it could have been extended in some points (spicy touches and a greener tone on the aroma, for instance) to give a a greater resemblance with the flower.
16/03/2015 Update:
Almost an year after i wore it and wrote a short review about it, today i can be certain that this creation in the prada exclusive line is not exactly an Narciso soliflore. Indeed, the fragrance seems more to use its smell in an abstract way and i suspect is there is narcisse absolute in this creation it's volume is low due to european resctrictions on its use, the price of the absolute and supply variabilities of this flower. Besides that, i still think that its smell captures very well a blissful summer aroma, since it uses in a quite abundant way a flower that gives me this impression, the orange flower. It's an interesting choice, considering that Narciso has aromachemicals in common not with the orange flower but with the jasmine. This way, i believe that the orange flower here is used to compose the white floral part of the idea, extending the honey nuances with the waxy side of beeswax. The opening tries to convey the fresher aspect of the absolute combining the citrus and slightly bitter bergamot aroma with the citrus floral nuances of the orange flower. When it gets into the base, the fragrance goes into a musky, velvelty impression, with a bit of woody vetiver aroma and an olibanum giving a discreet minty incense fresh aroma. It's a beautiful and lavish recriation of the Narcisse dynamics of evolution, but still it could have been extended in some points (spicy touches and a greener tone on the aroma, for instance) to give a a greater resemblance with the flower.
