Friday always arrives eventually! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance by Comme des Garçons, if you have one.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate. If you just don’t have time for a five minute meditation, it’s the next best thing…
I have wanted one of these for ages (along with a bottle of the fragrance): the Comme des Garçons + Monocle Scented Candle One: Hinoki. "The inspiration for the fragrance comes from a perfectly still, slightly chilly spring morning spent soaking in an indoor/outdoor tub in Kyoto. It is reminiscent of the moss and trees outside and the sharp notes of the boxy hinoki tub." $80 at Brooklyn Tailors.
Artist Katerina Jebb's film for Comme des Garçons Blackpepper.
Russian fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy will launch his debut fragrance in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. The eponymous scent was inspired by skate and street culture in Moscow, and follows the recent introduction of the designer’s Paccbet skatewear label at Dover Street Market…
Coming off a heat wave, it’s hard to believe that Labor Day is this weekend. To me, Labor Day signals autumn, and autumn means sweaters, falling leaves and warmer fragrance. Comme des Garçons Blackpepper should come with “autumn” stamped on its label.
Perfumer Antoine Maisondieu developed Blackpepper. Its notes include Madagascan pepper, cedar wood, akigalawood (a spicy-woody material by Givaudan derived from patchouli), tonka bean and “musky accord.”
Say “black pepper” to me, and I think “biting, bracing, sneezy.” Fortunately, after its initial hit, Blackpepper is none of that…