Comme des Garçons (Original)
Comme des Garçons · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 1994
≈ $125 · 50ml · approx. retail
The house's debut fragrance and the first Comme des Garçons scent ever released, built as a bold spice-and-incense chypre that a Fragrantica review famously said 'works like a medicine, behaves like a drug.' Its blast of clove and cinnamon over a honeyed, incense-laced base set the abstract, uncompromising template the brand's perfumery would follow for decades.
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