The weather here continues to be wretched. If this keeps up, tomorrow I’ll be wearing Carthusia Mediterraneo and having an out-of-body experience on a Greek island, but for now, I’m reaching for warm spices & woods again. Today’s scent: Comme des Garçons Eau de Parfum, the avant garde fashion line’s first fragrance, launched in 1994 with the tag line “works like a medicine and behaves like a drug”. The notes include cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, black pepper, clove, nutmeg, honey, floral notes, amber, labdanum, cedar and sandalwood.

Perfumer Mark Buxton, who developed the scent, noted that the creative freedom accorded him by the Comme des Garçons label was unusual, to say the least…

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