8 88 Comme des Garcons for women and men

This is my favourite winter fragrance. Very heavy, strong and unussual. I can smell incense and smoked woods. I am not sure if it is sexy but it makes me feel very confident. it is more serious fragrance, realy love it.

I adore Comme des Garcons and I adore odd perfumes. But the biggest problem is that I don't know how and when wear them! This one is something supernatural, something that changes with everything, with weather, with your style and etc.
I really don't know how to get into it. It seems to be untouchable. The metal package intensifies its mystic manner. You may be hypnotized as me by the design before you reach the scent.
The great zen lesson is when you smell it! You get, spicy as well as you get floral, you get muddy as well as you get transparent and you get cold just like warm. You will be confused and it never loses the game. I feel I've been a slave who must buy it someday but don't know how to use it. The day I wear it, is the day my taste will be changed completely.

Anyway, the scent is too bizarre as I've told. I get it a bit near to Cartier Pasha when it opens. The rest is just indescribable. Extremely immensely and weirdly sexxxy, tempting, capricious and mysteriously erotic.
Formal and charismatic, rich and powerful.
Overall it can't be a human scent, a beast can wear it.
I rate 10/10 and more and more.

Efectivamente huele a lo que yo imaginaba.
El oro. Lujoso, metálico.

I've been aware of Comme de Garcons for roughly half of my lifetime now. I was always curious about what image the line projected, how their perfumes smelled, etc. Now I know that my instinct led me to this for a good reason. It's everything a unisex fragrance should be. All of the previous reviews contain points I could relate to after the mere initial testing, generating one of the fastest purchases I've ever made. This won't be the last purchase, either...

omg, please keep describing this cologne. I'm curious to know as to what does a $140 cologne smells like.

Love at first sniff!! My favorite NOW !I just LOVE it :X

8 88 is a linear scent: after the sharp opening has passed, it stays the same. Metal (aurum!), coriander and saffron are there, but the rest is a mystery. There's no other smell like it.

I've been sniffing my hand for three hours now. It's not a welcoming fragrance but not dominant either. It has a quiet sillage. I can't imagine who would want to buy a bottle of this. It's useless / very very niche. 8 88 in one word: Introverted. What a shame.

I bought this with my twin for our friend's birthday then later bought it as a gift for our younger brother.

The perfume was amazing, it wasn't spicy but had a hint of soft but clear amber, the turmeric was there for a split second before the rich, smoky scent engulfs you with a spray of noble flowers. They, our friend and younger brother, loved it, and so did we!

A perfect gift for any friend or male sibling, as this perfume takes the red carpet!

Rather feminine but still alright for a brave man.
Odd synthetic dry structures with a hint of metallic ambery floral scent going on...


To my nose, 888, opens light and zesty with pepper note, melting with a fiery , grant slap of playful coriander. I can detect the synthetic saffron straight away, flying around the whole formula, showing off its own presence. The top notes have a funny bubbly, effervescent side.
The initial sniff , to my nose, is kind of feminine, but it doesn't bother me at all. It could be definitely a Guerilla 2 old brother,as they have similar character, but as it's settling down, the perfume get a nice gorgeous soul.
The safraline share path with hints of nice metallic geranium leaves that melts with the curcuma brings a vague hint of metallic sour mustard like odour...
The fragrance keeps heady and confortable while the drydown introduces the amber that add a warm twist to the whole formula.

The drydown is dry and bitter.

I realy like this scent, as much of the other Comme des garçons line.
I probably have to try twice to get used of the arid, acrid aura that float around you when you wear it.
It decants a little to the feminine side, but who cares really?.
The long lasting is acceptable. 4/5 hours in my skin.

Got this as a gift for my younger brother, he loved it! He kept getting compliments and one of his friends offered to trade it for a Tuscan Leather by Tom Ford!

The scent is sweet, dark and game! The gold bottle makes one feel free, charming and daring. A fine scent!

i like this, but it s not unique or something...cdg do very strange scent...hm

A very interesting fragrance. At first it seems warm and slightly peppery, but with a metallic undernote which remains throughout. I think the safron adds a touch of sweetness which seems to come and go. After a while the amber becomes more and more prominent, and adds to the comforting warmness and 'golden' impression. Though the peppery and metallic notes keeps making a reappearance. It seems to keep subtly changing all the time - very strange and quite fascinating.

I think this is definitely unisex - I like it on me but would also love to smell it on a man. Definitely worth a try if you like warm, ambery fragrances

I loved this scent for its unusualness but did not commit to buy it on the day I tried it....but I went back the following day. While I am a traditional and classic connoisseur of good perfumes, I love a challenge. This was the one: very interesting scent full of contradictions and tension. Like metal it can be cold and warm at the same time (depending on how and what time of day/ year you wear it), very modern/ architectural, minimalistic yet floral, really strangely pleasant and most certainly luxurious. I think they really hit the nail on the head on how one would interpret the metal gold to smell. I bought it on the day Mariah Carey did her signing in London, so this scent will always remind me of meeting my long-time idol. A modern classic for me, the ultimate feel good hip-hop blinger for a posh night out....like a MIMI RnB video. Very gold, very lush, very festive, VEEERY SEXY.

At a first sniff, I can't understand why it's such that expensive. But after a few days, I can't get out of thinking of 888. Strong yet sweet, dry yet wet, cold yet hot. Metallical gentle. But, I'd rather call 888 a toilet. It doesn't have a longervity enough to be called a perfume. Anyway, What a strange nice scent!

Testing fragrance Pt.II: This is warming up wonderfully. I am now getting notes of pepper with amber.

Testing this fragrance out: This was described to me as a summer fragrance for men. It is light, sweet, floral with hints of incense.
My first impression: I would recommend this for women before I would for men.