Narciso Poudrée
Narciso Rodriguez (2016)

Ahhh man!!! This is similar to the white cube, but a little more wearable, soft, rounded, less crisply "white". None of the hard cedar, you can still smell a little woodiness, but it's way less scratchy. I have undying love for the white cube *because* of it's character, but I can absolutely see why people often prefer this.

It's very, very plush. I didn't check the notes before sniffing, but this had me convinced it contained peony. Apparently I'm wrong, but the rose&jasmine totally smells like soft peony to me. This is more youthful, less serious, and more coquettish. That being said, it's still classy and safe enough to wear to church on a Sunday morning if you want. A contradiction? Maybe, but as I smell this...it all makes sense to me. *shrug*

I really enjoy this, it isn't too much to process and it's comforting on hard days. Soothing. Youthful. Plush, but classy.

This is sweet, powdery, musky heaven. Powder is not usually my favorite aspect of fragrances, but it just works so well here. It’s like a fluffy, sweet, powdery cloud. It’s definitely not so sweet as to be cloying, it’s just the right amount of sweetness to compliment the scent perfectly. Very addictive, I keep smelling my wrists throughout the day. I can smell a hint of rose, and although it’s not listed, also a tiny hint of vanilla. This is very pleasant and comforting to wear. I love it! Good longevity, lasts a good 5 hours or so before softening to a skin scent for another 3-4 hrs on me.

A yummy/candied (poudree/talky-like) balmy heavenly cloud of musky vanilla and bulgarian rose (with a fresh spacious vetiver-laced floral background), like combining together Narciso Rodriguez for Woman, Dior Addict, Cacharel Loulou, Etro Heliotrope, Amber at Vanille E.Coudray and some Xerjoff Join the Club Collection (Kind of Blue?), overall amalgamated by this landmark NR's synth pop-chic "cosmetical" musk. Jasmine jumps up gradually on the stage. Impossible to resist. Yeeeeesss.

I really shouldn't like this and here's why: the vision this brings to mind is of a Disney prom-bound older sister, all straightened teeth smile, brushed and conditioned hair, pinky lip gloss, perfectly manicured nails lacquered in Fairy Kiss, cutesy charm bracelet, and whispery of voice in a push-back-puberty style. The kind of being one imagines spends their entire life worshipping at the altars of Wouldn't Hurt a Fly and Missy Perfect and probably suffers from mannequin pudendum syndrome.
But, arggh and bother, I actually like this rather a lot. It has a kind of fabric softener addictiveness that makes one want to lie back and dream. So, sure, it is a pinky haze of powderpuff musks but it's so fatally well-engineered, I have to succumb. The trick is in the florals enclosed within the feathery musks – if one puts one's nose close to one's skin there's a gorgeous trickle of nectarous rose, sparkling almost, not cloying, complemented and shaded in by an almost suede-like jasmine note. There's also something woody that's been milled to a cosmetics grade fineness. Knowing these elements nestle within Narciso Poudreé's enveloping, sweet musks, helps one appreciate why it is just that bit different to the many other perfumes doing the fantasy princess via soft musks thing. But ultimately it's just a question of wearing the thing and feeling like being carried away by a gently ascending series of lalalas.

Flower powder! And quite powerful as well. The jasmine is crisp, the powder comfy. The best Narciso I smelled so far.

I love Narciso EDP, which I think is one of the best perfumes put out in recent years, and I also really like the EDT, so I had high hopes for Poudree.

This is very sweet to my nose, with a Coca-Cola, maybe even bubble-gummy, aspect that reminds me a bit of Tabu or Vivienne Westwood's Boudoir, with a bunch of sugar thrown in. I don't get any musk (I suspect I'm anosmic to most), no cedar, no vetiver. Just that pervasive, slightly skanky, sweetness.

It was fun, tho–I kept sniffing my nose for much of the afternoon after I sprayed this and enjoyed its progression, such as it is—but whereas I don't mind trailing a heavy dose of the original EDP, this would strike me as a bit immature at full blast.