For Her
What makes Narciso Rodriguez For Her Eau de Parfum unusual is how little it tries to do. Five materials, one idea, and no interest in surprising you halfway through.
That idea is musk. Here it is warm and clean with a soft, powdery edge, and it is placed where other houses would put a flower, so the fragrance reads as close and personal from the first minute. Peach softens the opening with ripe fruit rather than sweetness, rose adds a fresh, full petal brightness, and underneath the musk sit patchouli and amber, one earthy and slightly damp, the other resinous and glowing. The effect is quiet, deliberate and very hard to mistake for anything else once you know it. Eau de parfum strength gives it the longevity it needs. One or two sprays last a full day, it leaves a mark on clothing, and heat brings the musk forward rather than burning it off. Cooler months and evenings show it at its best, though it is worn year round by plenty of people, and it is one of the few fragrances of its weight that stays acceptable at a desk.
It reads as feminine and it has held an audience for long enough that it no longer needs introducing. A single spray goes further than you expect, so there is little point in drenching it, and the rest of the day is spent close to the skin. The perfumers on record are Christine Nagel and Francis Kurkdjian. The American house that sells it was founded in 1997 by a designer raised in Newark to Cuban immigrant parents and trained at Parsons. He worked under Donna Karan at Anne Klein, then at Calvin Klein, and was design director of womenswear at Loewe from 1997 until 2001, when he set up his own New York atelier. The licence for the perfumes belongs to Beaute Prestige International.
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