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Comme des Garcons + Undercover Holygrace, Holygrapie ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 11 May 2010 118 Comments

Jun Takahashi Graces

So designer Jun Takahashi of the ‘cult’ fashion house Undercover makes dolls. They’re called Graces, and he makes them out of metal and teddy bears and light bulbs and other things. According to Takahashi,

The Graces spontaneously come out of me, genuinely, while making clothes is something more calculated, an entire process that requires teamwork. But doing both allows me to keep a balance in my creativity. Therefore, it makes sense to me to have everything linked.1

You can find detailed articles about the Graces here and here, and you can watch a video made in conjunction with the launch of the new Undercover fragrances, Holygrace and Holygrapie, here.

The fragrances, made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons, are conceptually linked to the dolls, and there are reportedly limited edition bottles (you can see them here if you scroll down) decorated with similar fabric elements. Holygrace (shown below right) is for the mother doll, and is supposed to be “a perfume of elegance, soap freshness and poison”. It starts with citrus and hot peppery spices (the notes: bergamot, ginger, pink pepper, cardamom, jasmine, frankincense, pimento, ambergris, vetiver, vanilla and styrax), and dries down to a softly spicy, somewhat clean incense with amber and light hints of vanilla. It’s quite wearable and perfectly unisex…

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Comme des Garcons + Undercover Holygrace, Holygrapie ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 2 March 2010 36 Comments

CdG Undercover Holygrace

Undercover, the “cult label” of designer Jun Takahashi, has launched a debut duo of fragrances with Comme des Garçons:

Holygrace (shown above) ~ “a perfume of elegance, soap freshness…”

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