Narkiss

Narkiss opens with the electric prickle of Sichuan pepper and bright bergamot—a tingling green snap that feels almost medicinal. The heart blooms into creamy styrax and true narcissus with orange blossom and iris threading through, rounded by coffee blossom's bitter-sweet warmth. A dusky animalic base of hyrax and amber grounds it all, while pine and liatris add a mineral, slightly soapy finish that cools the musk underneath. There's an ornate, slightly indolic beauty here—heady florals kept honest by pepper's bite and wood's austerity.