DogiCoco

Sweet scents are my favorite. Nostalgic scents are great. Fruits and vanilla are wonderful notes. People who hate on this because it's sweet and has childhood vibes are weird and illogical, that's exactly what was promised and might not be to everyone's taste, but definitely isn't a bad thing. Perfume doesn't have age limits, especially not on the upper side. You can't really be too old to love sweet and joyful things.

Now that I got that out of the way, here is my own criticism: This whole scent is just too soft and harmless. It smells nice, like fruity candy on a bed of clean white musk. A bit like a more refined Pink Sugar without the polarizing parts. The berry cough syrup and sticky cotton candy associations are still there, but diluted with the airiest musk you've ever smelled, so it's not cloying.
Of course that also means it isn't a strong scent at all. I don't think performance equals quality, but at this price point, it could have a little more oomph. And also, even more importantly, personality. If Kurky really was a child, it would be one that always says please and thank you, has neat hair and perfect handwriting, but never does anything mischievous that makes you laugh.

It's cute, I can't hate or even dislike it, I prefer it over some other boring scents and appreciate that it's sweet without being cloying. I just don't think it's anything special.

Miami Shake doesn't smell like a realistic milkshake, but still reminds me of a milkshake. One for Barbie and the my little pony gang, with retro plastic toy vibes!

I clearly get the strawberry note right from the start, but it smells more like artificial strawberry flavor than woodland strawberries.
After the scent has dried down, the main notes are clearly milk and vanilla anyways. At this point It's lactonic with a touch of fruity syrup on top, not the other way round. And everything has a rubbery overlay that makes me think of old toys.
In the final drydown many hours later, when the scent is almost gone, traces of a sharp, synthetic base emerge, similar to some other JHAG scents like Lili Fantasy. I'm glad I don't notice it sooner.

Now I don't mind synthetic scents that play on childhood nostalgia. Okay, to be clear, I absolutely love some of them!
But Miami Shake is so-so to me. Even though it's not unpleasant, smells like the listed notes and matches the bottle colors, it's missing something. The strawberry could be done nicer, it kind of smells like a scented ballpoint pen or marker and not so much like something I would like to smell on myself. The whole perfume just doesn't give me the comforting or uplifting feelings I want from a scent like this.
I hoped for something like the striped Campino hard candy in perfume form, but this is not it.

Maybe this is a case of oversensitivity to certain ingredients and I'm smelling something I'm not supposed to smell, but this is an extremely sharp, rubbery and synthetic fragrance to my nose.
It's mainly poisonous amounts of bitter almond with a dry, medicinal note that I thought was supposed to be saffron or maybe leather. Nothing like that is listed, so I don't know. The rest of the scent consists of white floral notes, which I perceive at the same time as sterile and weirdly fleshy. Like someone tried to emulate human skin with plastic.
Interesting, but definitely not what I'd want to smell like.

I find the name High Frequency very fitting, even though it might not be intentional - this feels very high pitched to me.
It's bearable in extremely small doses (like half a drop, dabbed), I can see how it could be intriguing that way, but even one full spray out of a 2 ml atomizer feels overwhelming to me.

Some say that this is similar to Hypnotic Poison EDT. I remember I immensely disliked HP when I was a teenager, it smelled like a rubber glove to me. Nowadays I like it, even though it's not my favorite scent ever. And now I'm wondering... Has my taste changed like I assumed, or did older versions of HP smell more rubbery, just like High Frequency?

This starts out like a big, sugary strawberry bubblegum, or maybe those foam strawberry gummy candies. Intensely sweet with a dense, almost creamy texture. The opening is cool, but it overstays its welcome and becomes cloying and unpleasantly synthetic, as if the gummy candys were sweetened with aspartame instead of sugar.

I can't say that it reminds me of the vastness of the cosmos in any way. According to the brand, a regolith note is meant to accomplish that. If you are as clueless as I was: Regolith is a blanket of loose material, including dust and broken rocks, formed on rocky planets in the solar system over an underlying parent material. Parfumo just lists it as "mineral notes" as I'm writing this review.
At first I thought I didn't smell any mineral notes at all, but now I think I get it. Mineral notes and sweet strawberry bubblegum just don't go together. They add a metallic coldness that makes the strawberry too artificial to be appetizing. Vanilla and salted caramel can't save it.

To me, this fragrance is neither here or there. I would have liked it more if it was warmer, with more vanilla, and the minerals maybe emphasizing the saltiness of the caramel note, but fully leaning into the space theme and making something innovative would also have been a great idea. They way it is, it's just another strawberry flavor scent that starts out nice and gets on my nerves after a while.

I got a small bottle of this for Christmas 2015. There were times when I wore it a lot, but now my bottle is low and I have gotten a bit stingy with it. There is nothing quite like this on the market. Narciso Poudrée and Narciso Rouge are lovely and have the same base, but both are a tad sweeter and girlier. Bvlgari Patchouli Tentation has that base, too, but like the name says - it also has lots of patchouli. Otherwise, I don't know any fragrance that even has a similar musk note. This one is completely different from the musk in For Her its flankers. I wish Narciso Rodriguez would bring it back one day.

Narciso EDP starts with toasty woody notes on top of the musk and gardenia. The opening is rather unisex and non-sweet, but as it dries down, the scent becomes sweeter and more feminine, though not extremely so. It's just very very creamy, clean and also warm at the same time, with just a hint of powder. This musk never smells soapy, sharp, sweaty or otherwise unpleasant, it's extremely smooth. The rose gives a hint of feminine floral freshness, but this is not a rosy fragrance.
The white opaque bottle matches the scent, if that makes sense to you.
This lasts all day on me. In the last hours it becomes very warm and the musk has a sweet, almost vanillic touch on my skin.

There was a time when I wore this to work any time I went to the gym later that day. Unlike sweeter or spicier scents, the remainds of the fragrance never bothered me while working out. Funnily I can't stand to wear it in summer though, maybe it's just too cozy for warm weather. But for spring, winter and autumn... Perfection.
I'm usually more of a gourmand girl and I love to wear Narciso when I want something with more serious vibes that still has a softness to it.