Narciso Rodriguez for Him

BURNED RUBBER AND WET TARMAC SCENT, NOT ONLY FOR MOTOR RACING FANS Hot rubber and burnt oil are the smells of a race track. The smell of fuel that burns the pipes and exhaust heads at more than 200 mph, mixes with the burning aroma of the tires when they hit the asphalt violently. That smell reminds me of my childhood on several race tracks. It was a unique scent that floated through the tented workshops behind the pits. I used to sit in the stands with my sisters and my father, to watch the races and the dynamics of the assistance teams. The smell could be felt a mile away. The race cars were lined up for the start and started heating the engine with the forced fuel supply. That yellowish smoke filled the air, and the lungs and burned everyone's eyes. This perfume was also the portrait of the team's mechanics, with their dirty overalls after a long day of effort rebuilding an engine after each training round. It was the smell of tire friction on the tar when the rubber scraped at over 300 K / h. The horns announced the approaching start of the race. The cars heated the tires on the launch lap and made the car squeal. The smoke was spreading with the touches of the accelerator pedal. That smell filled the cockpits, the runway and the benches. That acre of CO2 and rubber grew with each lap of the race. The cars got darker, dirty with sprayed rubber, and full of dust from the clutch. I also remember the smell of a victory after a long day of struggle and the celebration on the winners' podium in front of the whole team. When I was a child, I smelled all this for the first time and never forgot that intoxicating sensation. For Him EdT by Narciso Rodriguez... This is a strange and unique fragrance. The opening is odd. It smells like a motor racing track with heavy traffic under shallow rain. It has a vibe of rubber-burned tires on the wet tarmac. It's deep, mysterious, a bit smoky, a bit dark and very sexy. It's like reviving the first Ayrton Senna F1 victory, driving a JPS Lotus in the Estoril wet tarmac. This perfume attracts a lot of the opposite sex's attention due to its uniqueness. It may be the violet note, together with the lavender and the musk, to provoke the opening accord. It's just very alluring. The musky drydown is one of the best I have ever experienced. It's a very very manly perfume. Racing drivers, lumberjacks and firefighters must use this fragrance all the time. Let us see what the maths tell us about this intense manly EdT: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Opening: 8.5 (smell of a wet racing track; It's probably due to a floral violet note; it's not so different from the Fahrenheit gasoline vibe, with some burnt rubber and wet concrete added) Scent drydown: 9.0 (divine musk) Longevity: 8.5 (above average for the existing notes but not bestial; up to 8 hours with 2 sprays) Sillage: 8.5 (up to 7 feet with 2.5 hours projection) Uniqueness: 10.0 (due to the burned rubber scent, it remembers me of Encre Noir but without being similar to it) Wearability: 7.5 (Winter, Autumn, Night) Versatility: 7.5 (yes to socializing, events, formal encounters, night out, restaurants...) Compliments: 8.5 (quite high for such a unique fragrance) Quality: 10.0 (faultless) Presentation: 9.0 (simple but elegant and effective; very good sprayer) Price: 7.5 (100 ml tester for 36 Euros on sale + VAT) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ The overall rating for this fragrance: 8.60/10.00 - between 7 and 8 = above average; - between 8 and 9 = recommended; - greater than 9 = do not miss; Recommendation: This is a unique scent and I do recommend it. I love it. But it's quite an example of a love-hate relationship with a fragrance. Many people hate it! Blind buy? No way. Try it first. You may hate its particular and unique scent. Music: George Harrison - "Faster"

After Using it for more that 30 times in different occasions I think these few words can describe this fragrance: 1- Classic 2- Unique 3- Green 4- Dirty 5- Dark 6- Complex I heard a lot about this perfume and I was intrigued to try it. From the first minute I fell in live with this one. It reminds you the old fragrances but it doesn't smell old. It's better to say that it smells classic and at the same time it's modern. Few minute after applying you will smell the mixture of heavy scents of patchouli and violet leaf. After that these two will go down and the musk and amber will appear. First half to one hour can be pungent for some people but after that the mixture of green smell of violet leaf; earthy, creamy scent of patchouli; warmth and sweetness of amber and a little powdery, woodsy musk will make a very strange scent which is so beautiful. It reminds me of humid jungle after a rain. Pay attention to three things: 1- It’s suitable for cold days. In warm days you will get green notes in the first 15 minute and after that the scent will shift to middle notes and you will have heavy amber scent for 5 hours. In summer it doesn't stay on the skin and after 4 to 5 hours it will fade away (at least from my skin) but in autumn and winter it is so beautiful especially in rainy days and it will stay on your skin for more than 10 hours. 2- It’s sillage monster. When you apply it people will notice you. 3- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BUT DO NOT BLIND BUY IT. It’s that kind of fragrance that divide people to two group. You are going to like it or hate it. بعد از بیش از 30 نوبت استفاده از این عطر در شرایط مختلف فکر میکنم با کلمات کمی بهتر بتونم وصفش کنم: 1- کلاسیک 2- خاص 3- سبز 4- کثیف و خاک آلود 5- تاریک 6- پیچیده در موردش خیلی شنیده بودم و وسوسه شدم امتحانش کنم. از اولین لحظه ای که تستش کردم شیفته اش شدم. یادمه برای تست یه سری عطر رفته بودم فروشگاه میثم تو خیابون میرداماد و این رو روی کاغذ تست دریافت کردم. یادمه تا دو روز کاغذ تسترش دم دستم بود و مدام بوش می کردم تا بعد از دو روز رفتم خریدمش. بوش شبیه به بوی عطرهای قدیمی هست ولی بوی قدیمی نمیده و در عین حال که کلاسیک هست بوی جدید و به روزی داره. بعد از اینکه به خودتون اسپری کنید تا چند دقیقه اول بوی نعنای هندی و برگ گل بنفشه میده که هر دوشون بوی خیلی سبزی دارند. بعد از اون بوی این دو ضعیف تر میشه و بوی مشک و کهربا مشخص میشه. شاید نیم ساعت تا یک ساعت اول برای بعضی ها آزار دهنده باشه اما بعد از اون مخلوط بوی سبز برگ گل بنفشه، بوی کرمی و خاکی نعنای هندی، گرما و شیرینی کهربا و بوی پودری و چوبی که گاها توی مشک هست یک بوی خاص و عجیب رو ایجاد میکنه که خیلی هم قشنگه. منو یاد یه جنگل مرطوب بعد از بارون می ندازه. فقط به سه تا مسئله توجه داشته باشید: 1- این عطر برای روزهای سرد مناسبه. تو روزهای گرم تو پانزده دقیقه اول بو های سبز رو استشمام می کند و بعد از اون بوی عطر به سرعت وارد نت های میانی میشه و برای حدود 5 ساعت فقط بوی کهربا و مشک هست که استشمام میشه. در ضمن تو تابستون بیشتر از 4 تا 5 ساعت روی پوست نمی مونه (حداقل روی پوست من که اینطوره) اما در پاییز و زمستون بوی خیلی قشنگی داره مخصوصا اگر تو روزهای بارونی ازش استفاده کنید. تو روزهای سرد حدود 10 ساعت روی پوست باقی می مونه. 2- این عطر پخش بوی خیلی بالایی داره. وقتی استفاده کنید همه متوجه میشن یکی عطر زده پس زیاد اسپری نکنید 3- به شدت پیشنهاد میشه ولی تست نکرده نخرید. این از اون جمله عطرهایی هست که آدم ها رو به دو دسته تقسیم می کنه. یا ازش خوشتون میاد یا بدتون میاد

Holy shinola! This is....HEAVY! I received my 5ml sample today...and...this is the first scent that has ever imparted a feeling of... Claustrophobia? Smotheredness? It smells good...don't get me wrong...but it smells like...dead? Like...flowers that smelled great at one point...but died...and are decomposing. This cologne reminds me of...beauty and purity...lost. Where Delirium was once Delight...before the fall...now she is lost...vestiges of the floral happiness she once was linger under the waves of sour bitterness. Again, I absolutely LOVE this scent...but holy shinola...this is kinda throwin off my balance. I was afraid, at first, that it would smell like "Girl" by Pharrell Williams. And while it does have kinda that scent-dna...it doesn't get to the point of being nauseating like "Girl" does. No no....It smells like someone threw the entire Amazon Rain Forest into one of those wood-choppers and then caught it all in a bottle...some kinda mixture of freshly chopped green plants, freshly killed animals and rain-soaked dirt. What the heck is this stuff? I would love to know how someone came up with this fragrance...this is simply...A_M_A_Z_I_N_G!!!! 09SEP21 First "Rainy Day" wear, just getting to the lab from picking up breakfast. This scent definitely turns heads...good and bad. While I had 2 young women chat me up...a third, older woman, was very visibly turned-off (to put it nicely) by the scent. She didn't say anything...but her face said it all. Overall, this scent performs MUCH better outside for me. I think that indoors, it was just too confined and couldn't develop. Now that I've been outside and now in the lab, it smells completely less harsh...but still just as powerful. I put one shot on each forearm because I wasn't sure if I would need to wash it off. I think I'm gonna be okay... I already blind-bid on a full bottle yesterday and that will be on it's way to me on Saturday if I win. This scent is definitely a KEEPER! (In small doses...don't overspray!) (4 hours later...) Hmmm...slight problem. After the abundant florals wear off...it leaves this super-heavy bitter and choking musk scent on the skin. I guess that's the mixture of the musk and patchouli, but it burns like furniture polish in my nose. Reminds me of a perfume my mom wore back in the late 80's...But I can fix that by re-applying...at least for today. Next time I'll wear more sprays and this won't be an issue until well after I return home. Again, I did spray this on my inner forearms and if it were on my chest I'm sure this wouldn't be an issue as I would not be able to get my nose right up on it to smell it.

I ordered a bunch of random samples from Surrender to Chance and put this one on without looking. I wanted interesting fall perfumes, and I was drawn to the descriptions of Narciso for Him as rainy and moody. What I put onto my skin was so immediately sweet and lighthearted that I was genuinely surprised when I looked at the tube I'd used. I've seen a few people describe this as off-putting, cold, and objectively manly, but the vibe I'm getting from this is pretty, femme, and extremely wearable. For a bit, I wondered if I'd actually gotten the wrong sample, but violet and musk are in so many feminine perfumes that it makes sense. There's a vague fruitiness to the whole thing that, on first sniff, reminded me of one of my all-time favorite perfumes, DS & Durga's Debaser. That's marketed as a hot summer day perfume though, so with that in the back of my mind as I smell Narciso for Him, I'm not at all thinking, "cold, moody night." So while I'm scratching my head a little, and still kind of wondering if I got the wrong perfume, I chalk it up to the subjectivity of scent memory. In any case, it's beautiful, and I absolutely see myself wearing it often. EDIT 1/7/22: My relationship to scent has evolved quite a bit in just the few months since I wrote this! There's so much chaos in the outside world that it's been really easy to get swept up in perfume. I devoured my tiny sample of Narciso for Him so fast, and it didn't take me very long to understand how this reads as moody and masculine. I was so repeatedly enticed by its thick, but subtly sweet atmosphere that I knew I had to get a full bottle, especially since it was discontinued. I just opened my new bottle, and this scent is immediately deeper, greener, and eventually a little funkier coming out of a spray applicator. It felt like watching a beloved movie on a big screen for the first time, bigger and louder. I couldn't really pick up the patchouli or amber when I applied from my sample vial, but I totally get it now. I don't feel like the violet leaf dominates it quite as long in a higher dose, and it's easily my favorite note in this, so that's kind of a bummer. But I can absolutely envision a cold, grimy, film noir landscape when I wear this. I don't think it's all too much for daytime or warm weather though. I'm impressed by how much this conveys with just four notes, and I'm thrilled to own a bottle of this one-of-a-kind scent.

Previously reviewed this based on a sample which I loved & ended up purchasing a bottle discounted. Now after wearing this consistently from November to April, I'm back to write a more in-depth review. To clear things up once and for all to those reviewers below - Yes, this has been discountinued and was removed from the Narciso website awhile ago. I was able to grab a bottle not long after the discontinuation and it was on sale too. Now it seems too much time has passed and people are jacking up the prices on eBay & other sites. After sampling this, I knew I had to buy a bottle. This scent is incredibly unique and unlike other mens offerings I have tried. The musk definitely takes the center stage but it's the violet leaf that actively gives this the airy & damp quality that people have described. The patchouli definitely plays a part in the 'wet leaf' and earthy feel as well. The projection & longevity are both moderate to strong/long lasting. One thing I often noticed after spraying this on clothes is that the patchouli is very prominent the next day. The amber I don't pick up on, but that could be because I have a hard time isolating amber as a note. I am really having a hard time understanding why this was discontinued, but I think it has something to do with its versatility - this is not a year-round, every occasion type of fragrance and it's certainly an acquired taste. I can understand the references to this having a 'somber' feel, but to me this is a perfect rainy day scent when you just want to embrace the gloom. As I said before, the true testament to this fragrance is the vivid evocations this inspires among people - the visions of industrial grit, to strolling in damp woods, or simply curled up at a fireplace on a crisp day. The beauty of a fragrance speaks for itself when it evokes such thoughts and that is effective perfumery to me. I have tried Bleu Noir and every flanker up until the new Parfum and not one of them has left a signficant impression on me. The entire BN line is simply uninspired and I was left extremely disappointed after falling in love with this one. I am not sure what the plans are for the house of Narciso but now that they released the Parfum I am hoping that will be the bookend to the BN line & they will introduce a new mens line that is actually creative and unique.