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.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

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