Tag: Comme des Garçons

Monday 6 August 2012     Leave A Comment

Gunpowder, dew mist and ivy – a far cry from the sweet budding floral

For those who love Comme des Garçons’ unique take on scent, here is Amazingreen.   Ooh, it is surely a symphony in glistening, metallic green with rumblings of a plot.

It bounces in with fresh, green peppery zip with flashes of green leaves (ivy, and a forest leaf accord).  Dry, powdery orris or iris root slips through with the subtlest whiff of coriander.   A flinty note achieved by a synthetic scent molecule called silex, is somewhere in there.   And as the scent develops on the skin, it becomes steeped in the dry, green, rasping scent of vetiver, fuzzed with a smoky note (‘gunpowder’).  And moving by stealth into a soft, underlying muskiness.  Terrifically green, spicy and flinty on men.  Terrific too on the woman who likes her scent as dry as her Martini and her dinner party jokes.  But softened with dashes of powdery-but-not-sickly orris and an almost cashmere-y musk.

Clever work by the perfumer, Jean-Christophe Herault.

Amazingreen moves from its exclusive spot at Selfridges to nationwide, today.  £57 for 50ml.

 

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Monday 30 November 2009     Leave A Comment

Vogue: Daphne, the new British scent by Daphne Guinness

Vogue Nippon, December 2009

And here are a few words about the scent in English:

‘If it were a painting it would be The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. If it were an outfit it would be a vintage sequined jacket; something classic, well worn, timeless… If it were a piece of music it would be The Ring Cycle by Wagner,’ says the heiress and fashionista, Daphne Guinness of her first scent, Daphne, which launched at Dover Street Market in London in September.

Daphne is a rich, sensual scent, which incorporates smells associated with her past. There is tuberose for example, which she used to gather as a child from the family garden in Cadaques and frankincense, which is associated with her memories of church rituals. It also contains Florentine iris, bitter orange from Sicily, rose, jasmine and patchouli.

It was surely only a matter of time before Guinness should try perfumery. The socialite, known for her idiosyncratic style had already turned her hand to designing (a collection of white shirts for Dover Street Market in London), writing, styling and filmmaking (her second film coincided with the launch of Daphne). She created the scent in collaboration with Comme des Garçons following a suggestion from the company’s president, Adrian Joffe. Considering their often unconventional, approach to perfumery this was an apt partnering – Guinness is by no means ordinary. This might account for her aligning the scent with one of the most extraordinary paintings ever made and the longest piece of music ever written. To the woman who likes her scent opulent and exotic, this is fantastic.

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