NARCISSUS POETICUS
Updated Version 2026
HEAD
Bergamot*, Greek Clementine*, Tunisian Neroli*, Angelica Root*, Galbanum*, Rosewood
HEART
French Narcissus Absolute**, Moroccan Orange Flower Absolute**, Iris Pallida**, Indian Tuberose, Egyptian Jasmine, Rosa Alba, Persian Rose Otto*
BASE
Bourbon Vanilla Absolute*, Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood**, Cocoa, Tonka Bean, Honey Absolute Superieur, Vegetal Musk
*certified organic, organically grown
**an extremely cost prohibitive material created for making even a grown bookkeeper weep...
From the Godmother of perfume blogs, Elena Vosnaki on Perfumeshrine:
"Because you see, all-naturals Narcissus Poeticus is heady, bedazzling, bacchic, mind-blowing and beautiful, there's no other way to describe it!
The fragrance by Annette blends luscious, vibrant, natural essences, weaved into a dynamic composition; I have had it evolve on my skin, and each day there is a new nuance to be revealed, one day it's the jasmine, another what I perceive as orange blossom absolute (the genius pairing first conceived for Narcisse Noir by Caron) and another yet I get lots of yummy tonka bean.
There is an intimate, unsettling (deeply sexual) vibe about it, like a warm pillow where a beloved head had slept on the night before and you're clutching it in the morning, the memory of the scent even more precious than the reality lived, to paraphrase Henry Miller and his sexy Tropic of Cancer.
ELENA VOSNAKI, PERFUMESHRINE
Read the full review here.
Raw Material Info
Please consider that many of the raw materials in this perfume are way more expensive than pure gold, because they require an insane amount of labour and sometimes also time to produce.
Plus obtaining them is often blood, sweat and tears.
For quality naturals can only be bought with quality producers and these have minimum orders that can very easily break a bank account!
And no, if you've spotted the cheap Oud or Orris etc on Ebay or Etsy, please always have in mind that these are FAKE OILS.
Narcissus Poeticus contains:
White Rose Attar, Vintage 2012, neither affordable nor available anymore!
The very little of Rosa Alba Oil being produced mostly goes to Royals for sacred ceremonies.
The highest possible grade of Orris Root oil which does retail for about 100 € per gram.
It takes 3 years to dry the rhizomes of the plant and to develop the heavenly violet bouquet.
Organic Bourbon Vanilla is luckily not in the 80 € per gram stratosphere anymore, but still at 30, just like the organic Sandalwood from Sri Lanka too.
Their synthetic counterparts can be bought for as little as about 10 € / KILOgram!