Series 3 Incense: Avignon
Comme des Garçons · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2002
≈ $100 · 50ml · approx. retail
The Catholicism entry in the five-scent Series 3 Incense collection, Avignon was named for the seat of the medieval papacy and built by Bertrand Duchaufour around a warm, resinous church-incense accord of myrrh and olibanum. Its soft aldehydic opening gives way to a sweet, mossy amber base meant to evoke candlelit cathedral air.
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