Narciso Rodriguez For Her Iridescent

I’m ruined. I was last Thursday years old when I decided to grab this off eBay. New in box and sealed. A good 15 years old. Discolored pee-pee yellow, from its former shimmering swirly pink. I never knew of it in its hey day, so I didn’t care about the color. Immediately i pull off cap and spray carefully- whoah. Lacquer? I dunno, very strong smell. Yuck. Then, it dissipates quickly into possibly my favorite smell ever. Everything I wanted. BUT then it’s gone. It lingers for maybe 20 minutes. Then gone gone. I actually already have Cleopatra by tocca, which is the closest “reminds me of” scent. They are similar but cleopatra is much sharper, louder and more patchouli heavy. However, it is eternal. I’ve never smelled NR for her original. Iridescent is much smoother than Cleo ( after initial spray) and softer, and like a perfect soft Egyptian musk with a teeny tiny sweet note- but it is all so fleeting. You’re not getting even an hour out of this. I bought 2 more so I can spray every where every time I pass the bottle, but I can’t keep up these shenanigans. Way too expensive, long discontinued and way too fleeting. I am not sure if it is because the perfume is so old now, or it was always this way. I will never know. Sometimes I wish I never knew. I love her so so much, in a way I just need to smell it on myself. Couldn’t care less if it was a compliment getter. If it’s modern, if it’s old. It just hits that spot in my brain that is scent perfection for me.

It's taken me awhile to warm up to Iridescent and now I'm head over heals for this little gem. It still has the slight edginess of the original but it's been toned downed and softened in all the right places. Nezzabel wrote w/such accurate detail about the notes that you don't really need that part from me. I just had to speak to the softness of this beauty. This is what I had hoped every other offering from this house would be. So~if like me the harshness of the originals has been an issue for your skin~run to give this version a try. I feel like I finally have a glimpse into what everyone has been raving about for years!It is a beautiful cloud of floral musk w/ some golden basenotes that make you feel as if you're wearing the glorious aura of a sunset. You can still smell the flowers in the air from the heat of the day and the fragrance of Iridescent coming off of your skin signals that everything is a possibility. Dinner, dancing, snuggling,having a group of friends over, on a cruise or vacation,a motorcycle ride, a day in the city or a day in the country, a boat excursion, your son's or daughter's school play , a Broadway play~any occasion that you can think of~this fragrance will be your best friend.

All Narcizo Rodriguez's flankers are siblings and yet rivals, indeed.They resemble each other more or less. This Iridescent is very much alike with NR Delicate EDT( purple bottle).Both of them are silky-milky, tutti-frutti, but I find this one nuttier and more animalic, because of the higher concentration either of osmanthus or musk here, I guess.It's rather skin scent with soft sillage and even more delicate persistence than in Delicate EDT itself. But what a beauty! Sensuous, sexy, seductive and celestial at the same time. Effortlessly chic summer smell- your skin but better, indeed. Pearl ! Mesmerising!!

I had been agonizing over whether to get the original NR For Her EDT or EDP and bought this on a whim insead. I'm glad I did. I don't have the EDP, but I have a smaple of the EDT and doing a side-by-side, Iridescent is much smoother. Whatever it was that was shrill or 'screechy' in the EDT has been softened. BUT it never gets sweetly floral flat the way I sometimes felt the EDP did.

If you already had NR EDP, you don't have to buy this version. Except your EDP has empty and you still want it also want a sharper, brighter, less powdery from the EDP you should take this ! The drydown is less roses than NR EDP. I will offer my cousins or my friends to buy my lovely NR Iridescent, because I don't want to have 2 similar perfumes at the same time.