Comme des Garçons will launch Amazingreen, a new unisex fragrance, in July…
Comme des Garcons Red Play, Black Play & Green Play ~ new fragrances
Comme des Garçons will launch a new trio of fragrances under their Play label next month: Red Play, Black Play and Green Play. The new fragrances follow 2007’s Comme des Garçons Play…
Comme des Garcons A New Perfume ~ fragrance review
A New Perfume,1 the latest from Comme des Garçons, is a welcome thing: I miss Comme des Garçons. They haven’t done anything under their own brand since 2010’s Wonderwood,2 and they haven’t done anything that I loved since their 2009 collaborative effort with Monocle, Monocle Scent Two: Laurel.3 A New Perfume is something of a return to form — it’s old-school, weird Comme des Garçons, although perhaps not quite in the way I expected. It features the usual ad copy mumbo jumbo in the Comme des Garçons style (“A rejected bottle survives to hold an imaginary flower constructed linearly”), and a description that pretty much sums up what it smells like:
The fragrance opens with the man made organic composites of aldehydes and safraleine, opening up slowly to hawthorns and derivations of lilac, before exploding in a riot of flower oxides, then finally succumbing to notes of industrial glue and brown scotch tape with hints of musk and styrax.
That’s just right. The opening is in-your-face synthetic…
Mad as a hatter
A short film made by artist Katerina Jebb in support of the New Perfume by Comme des Garçons. Below the jump, a bit of an explanation, if it helps you any.
Comme des Garcons A New Perfume ~ new perfume
Comme des Garçons will launch A New Perfume (as near as I can tell, that’s the official name) later this month:
we can find beautiful things, without consciousness…