Narkissos Νάρκισσος Angelos Créations Olfactives 2025
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Orange-Blossom Ostinato
Narkissos is an enormous white floral: I mostly get a huge, fruity orange blossom, some tuberose, a salty musk, with a big, fruity grape note. As it dries down, leather, a metallic honey and a pinch of tobacco morph it in an oddly sweet-savory direction, while remaining quite syrupy and almost bubblegum-y in places.
An immensely powerful fragrance, it's the drydown where it starts to lose me. The fruity orange blossom and metallic honey feel like a throbbing drumbeat on my nose, and I find myself tiring of it rapidly.
I am sure narcissus is in here, but this just doesn’t smell like any narcissus I know. The Herculean orange blossom, however, reminds me a lot of Fils de Joie, another big white floral I had similar issues with.
As a big fan of both Angelos’ work and narcissus blossoms, I wanted to love this, but alas, it is not for me.
An immensely powerful fragrance, it's the drydown where it starts to lose me. The fruity orange blossom and metallic honey feel like a throbbing drumbeat on my nose, and I find myself tiring of it rapidly.
I am sure narcissus is in here, but this just doesn’t smell like any narcissus I know. The Herculean orange blossom, however, reminds me a lot of Fils de Joie, another big white floral I had similar issues with.
As a big fan of both Angelos’ work and narcissus blossoms, I wanted to love this, but alas, it is not for me.