But Narcissus was super full of himself. He thought he was just the best and no one could compare. One day, Narcissus was walking in the forest. There was a girl named Echo who saw him and immediately fell in love. Echo followed him and tried to talk to him, but Narcissus was just...
Despite the very particular beauty of this perfume, it not difficult to understand why it would have faded from favour. Narcisse Noir simply smells of another age and time; of boudoirs, dressing rooms, heavy velvet drapes and black lace and crinoline; of dark colonial exploits and influence –...
That summer, she and I also went to Rome, Tuscany and Umbria, arguing quite a bit and irritating each other (in later years we have failed to meet up, one of the reasons being that she once chose to say to me ‘I prefer to remember you as you were’, something I will never forgi...