COMME DES GARCONS FRAGRANCES
Comme des Garcons has become very known for these unconventional unisex fragrances. Mixing many unusual (although often much loved) notes, they have created fragrances which are unlike anything else.
Eau de Parfum (25ml/$45, 100ml/$85)"Eau de Parfum is the original Comme des Garcons parfum, launched in 1994. A perfume that works like a medicine and behaves like a drug."
Notes: Labdanum, styrax, cedarwood, cardamom, black pepper, honey, rose, cloves, nutmeg, incense, sandalwood.
Odeur 71 (200ml/$110)"The second anti perfume [the first being '53]. A deepening of the research into solid phase micro technology cloning inorganic smells from modern daily life and mixing them with natural ingredients."
Notes: Smell of dust on a hot light-bulb, warm photocopier toner, hot metal, a toaster, freshly welded aluminum, the ink in a fountain pen, fresh pencil shavings, wood and moss, bay leaves and bamboo, white pepper, hyacinth, lettuce juice.
CDG2 (pocket 25ml/$45, 100ml/$85)"Comme des Garcons 2 plays with complements and contrasts... with reflection and opacity... with mirror and brilliance... with light and shadow... with earth and the energy of the sun."
Notes: Ink, incense, amber, labdanum, patchouli, Chinese, cedarwood, new aldehydes, cumin, angelica root, vetiver, cade oil, absolute mate, magnolia, absolute folia.
CDG2 Man (100ml/$94)"A worker, a man who loves his work..."
Notes: Incense, white smoke, saffron slowers, nutmeg, kumquat, fresh crinkly mint, vetiver roots, mahogany wood, leather.
Incense series 3 (50ml/$62 each)"Incense, to make one dream of a spiritual journey across the world's historical centres. An evolution of time and space."
Avignon notes: Roman chamomile, cistus oil, elemi, incense, vanilla, patchouli, palisander.
Jaisalmer notes: Cardamom, incense, cinnamon, amber, benzoin, pimento, berried, gaiac wood, ebony.
Kyoto notes: Incense, cypress oil, coffee, teak wood, vetiver, patchouli, amber, everlasting flower, Virginian cedar.
Ouarzazate notes: Incense, pepper, nutmeg, clary sage, wenge, musk, vanilla, labdanum, absolute, Kashmir wood.
Zagorsk notes: White incense, pine, pimento berries, violet, cedar, iris, hinoki wood, birth wood.
Cologne series 4 (125ml/$40 each)"3 fragrances. 18th Century alchemy back by popular demand."
Anbar notes: Bergamot, orange, lemon, clove, sensual musks.
Citrico notes: Bergamot, rosemary, lemon, orange blossom, neroli.
Vettiveru notes: Italian bergamot, cardamom oil, neroli oil, vetiver of Haiti, cedarwood, musk.
New Series 1 (85ml/$110 each)"First in a new series, based on the world of Comme des Garcons, inspired by its guerilla stores. Strong rebel perfumes with soldier packaging."
Guerilla 1 notes: HEAD: Pear, saffron, cloves HEART: flower of champaca, black pepper BASE: vetiver, cedarwood, musk.
Guerilla 2 notes: HEAD: Bergamot, pink pepper, ginger HEART: red pepper, curcuma, rasberry, tuberose BASE: vetyver, cedarwood, musk
