Gissah / قصة
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Gardenia and frangipani emerge with creamy, almost buttery immediacy, their indolic sweetness hitting first before you register anything mineral or fresh. Within seconds, that powdery accord activates, creating a soft, talc-like bloom that frames the white flowers rather than obscuring them, whilst the fresh accord (52%) provides just enough brightness to prevent cloyingness.
Jasmine pierces through with its green-tinged character, whilst tuberose brings honeyed density and osmanthus adds something quietly apricot-like beneath. Here the fragrance reveals its creamy backbone fully—that almond-paste sweetness becomes unavoidable—and the composition settles into a heady, almost narcotic state where each floral trades prominence every few minutes.
The patchouli and musk emerge without grace, that noted harshness becoming apparent as the florals fade; what remains is a murky, slightly dusty skin-scent that feels less like a traditional base and more like the lingering memory of the fragrance's central act, powdery and vaguely sweet but increasingly abstract.
Gissah's Endless Love is a study in white floral excess—not in the sense of restraint abandoned, but rather of amplification taken to its logical extreme. Sonia Constant has constructed a fragrance that functions almost as a floral quintet, with gardenia and frangipani establishing creamy, slightly indolic foundations before the heart floods in with jasmine, tuberose, and osmanthus in what amounts to a three-way tussle for dominance.
What's most compelling here is how the powdery accord (88%) doesn't soften these blooms into romance-novel abstraction; instead, it acts as a translucent veil that lets you register each flower's particular character. The tuberose brings its characteristic rubber-meets-honeyed-cream character, whilst osmanthus adds something slightly apricot-tinged and delicate beneath the jasmine's green-tinged intensity. There's a creamy sweetness threading through—that 76% creamy accord—which suggests an almond-paste or coconut-milk base underlying everything, preventing the composition from becoming austere.
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