Perfume: Narciso Rodriquez "Essence"

I have yet to make a post about all the shopping I did during my séjour in Marseille. Not to mention a post about wonderful Marseille itself! Until then, here's a little something I got at the Fiumicino Airport in Rome:


Please forgive me for my unpolished fingers, I'm keeping them away from nail polish for a couple of days.

I'm in love with this. Seriously.
I haven't loved a perfume like this since... well, I'd say Issey Miyake's L'Eau d'Issey, but that would not be true because I love it EVEN MORE!

Here's what the people at Narciso Rodriquez have to say about this:

Irresistible and addictive.

As the designer's olfactive signature, musk is at the heart of Essence with a renewed perception, a new vitality.

This modern heart of musk is complemented and enhanced by radiant notes of rose petals, powder notes of iris and hints of amber resulting in a floral, powdery musk fragrance.

A pure, sensual and luminous essence.

And here's what Narciso Rodriguez told ELLE about Essence:

"I wanted to capture sunlight."

It does. From the moment you get your hands on the beautiful flacon (maybe the most beautful perfume bottle over) which reflects your image in a distorted, playful way, to the moment you smell its clean, musky, radiating notes.

That's what this perfume really feels like. A ray of sun captured in a bottle.

Poetic much?

I'm seriously enamored with this. I simply adore it.