Narciso Eau de Parfum Cristal

it's like the summery version of "Poudree", more floral and less musky, very pleasant.

Very strong. I tested just a bit of this perfume on my wrist in store, at first I liked it: feminine, powdery, floral, elegant, but then it became too strong. Maybe I'm an unexperienced nose but to me it just smells like the typical scent of perfume from when you enter the perfume section at The Bay, and they're all blended together in the air. Heavy. Cloying. Headache inducing. Driving back home I couldn't wait to take it off... Washed my hands and wrists with soap and it still smelled quite strong, washed again, still there. If you love it then I tell you, you don't have to worry about performance for this one! I usually enjoy a powdery perfume, but I much MUCH prefer Mon Guerlain to this. Mon Guerlain has that comforting, classy but seductive feminine vibe, but it's not as overwhelming. - Editing my review, cause I think I've been too harsh on this one. The day I tested it, I left the cardigan I was wearing on a chair in my kitchen. A couple of hours later, walking back to the kitchen, I was so obsessed with the scent in the air. Suddenly, my house smelled like a fancy hotel. I could smell the layers and the sophistication of the notes blended together. Something very addictive in the scent as well. It smelled clean and luxurious. It smelled familiar but also unique. I think I get it now. It may not be for me to wear as I am more into subtle fragrances, but I get the appeal.

Maybe it's just the pale pink bottle, but there's a through-line with this and Parfums de Marly's Delina. Stay with me here before I get slandered for drawing connections to a hypey fragrance! But they both share rose + musk in the heart with cashmeran + cedar in the base. I'd say the main difference is that freesia replaces lychee in the top notes for sweetness. It's like swapping out the fruit for flowers. Speaking to Cristal on it's own, it—like the rest of its Narciso sisters—is forwardly feminine and pretty. I bought a bunch of Narciso samplers since he seems to be the de facto king of musks, but they're all very Girly™️. It's a lovely scent, just a little bit forgettable and not to my tastes.

Very clean soapy smell. The dry down smells very similar like Britney spears circus.

So they discontinued the original masterpiece, but keep milking its cash cow corpse with a flanker every half a year? How the mighty have fallen.