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Comme des Garcons + Artek Standard ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 19 November 2009 35 Comments

Comme des Garcons + Artek Standard

My first thought on smelling Standard, the latest collaborative effort from Comme des Garçons (it was made with Finnish design firm Artek) was: woodshop! And then: Hinoki!

Hinoki, for those of you who don’t obsessively follow the Comme des Garçons fragrance line, was officially called Scent One: Hinoki, and was a collaborative effort with Monocle magazine. It smelled like raw wood and other woodshop smells (turpentine, camphor). Standard, despite having a different perfumer (Olivier Pescheux), and different notes (Finnish Labrador tea, twinflower, metal, rust, fennel, ginger, lemon, musk, saffron and cedar) smells like a variation on that theme…

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Comme des Garcons + Artek Standard ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 24 September 2009 7 Comments

Comme des Garcons Artkek Standard fragrance

Finnish design firm Artek will launch Standard, a new fragrance created in collaboration with Comme des Garçons:

This project was conceived in the pleasant atmosphere of the first Artek and COMME des GARÇONS collaboration in 2007 at CDG’s Dover Street Market and Aoyama stores. The result is a unique product for Artek…

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