Amazingreen Comme des Garcons for women and men

At first smell it reminded me of Kenzo Homme. Green and aquatic. I've smelt this somewhere else...

It's far from being the best CdG scent I have to say. A good scent nonetheless.

For me it has 3 phases but very straight. It "develops" very fast. First, a herbal tang. Second, a few minutes, the smell of men's cologne generic, and third, an intense smell of church incense.
With all that, like my husband did not put anything hard, I like to use low gourmand perfume and incense gives them depth.

Truly horrible. The first Comme des Garcons that I have tried that I haven't liked.
Its starts well with a blast of herby greeness.
Unfortunately that fades to an overwhelming smell of over -ripe melons.
Its that's what you want to smell of..feel free.

I'd be impressed if someone's car smelled like this. Not really a great skin scent for either men or women, in my opinion. The top notes are promising - I do feel I'm in a dark forest with lush trails of ivy, unfortunately after that it fades down to a kind of nasty Appletise air freshener note that doesn't convince me at all.

If you want green and like the idea of lemony green roots, leaves and the feel of sun warmed earth under the fig trees I'd say try Ninfeo Mio by Goutal

This is a fine juice, well-blended, a summer crowd-pleaser. It is as green as it gets.
Yet, I expected more, as this can easily be labeled as 'too safe' or 'characterless' fragrance - not something that bodes well with Comme Des Garçons.
Firstly there is a somewhat aquatic opening with some, to me, unfamiliar leaves and herbs. With the time the scent becomes more green, adding green pepper and ivy leaves, and losing that aquatic note it had at first. The base is still greenish with loads of vetiver and metallic vibe - I guess that's the gunpowder note - and, while i love vetiver most of the times, this one just doesn't cut it.
With solid sillage and longevity(especially for a summer fragrance I believe this one is), I cannot say anything bad about the quality of perfume itself. Still, the scent is nothing more than decent, and, certainly, not CdG-worthy. Given that, I'd give it 6.5/10

Well, fairly I regret for the time I was waiting for it to launch. The only distinction I got is the pale smell of green pepper for only few moments and then we have a random smell of aquatic vetiver in a very pale way. The presentation is awfully weak. Lasts enough close to skin but you barely can smell it more than 50cm.
And gun powder; one of the smells I'm really used to; was not there at all.

tried it at my local retailer. an enjoyable and unoffensive scent. the bottle reminded me a bottle of remy martin.

think it was pretty linear but didn't agree with my skin and disappeared after 3 hours or so.

what was interesting was the opening smelled exactly like ck crave (my first bottle, you never forget your first), but definetly a little metalic. The gunpowder, which is what males this frag.

My friend at the time said agreed but she said 'i think there is tomato vine'. Take from that what you will.

i personally wouldn't buy it, but as with all cdg definitely worth a try.

Funny I really like this.. And on me I am getting great longevity..

I sampled it on one part of my hand, l'air du desert morocain on the other hand, Penhaligon's satorial on my arm, and Clive Christians C for Women on another part and it is hanging in after 4 hours with the other high powered juices..

I am going to seriously consider this and Sartorial in the near future.. Good clean, unique fragrab=-nces that once you smell it you could pick it out of a crowd.

The Clive Christian C for Women sample is a gift for a friend but I had to try it.. Its so beautiful that you feel like you are walking through a flower garden.. Worth a try for sure..

really really ..
its too green
its just green note ..

No-o-o, it is only for men, a lot of vetiver.

CDG have successfully demonstrated that with creativity and thought, a scent with a strong aquatic accord can smell great and refrain from resembling every other aquatic.
Amazingreen starts with an intense aquatic opening. This is followed by a very intense presence of ivy. Imagine the scent you get when you are trimming your garden bushes. The dry down is musky and there are notes of gunpowder. It is better suited to spring and summer but could go also go down very well on a sunny autumn day. A safe and pleasant offering from CDG.

Cucumber, green sharp grass, herbal notes. This goes on lovely. Fresh, sharp, green green green. Unfortunately it dries down so sharply alcoholic on me that it becomes a scrubber.

Well as a fan of CDG , i must say i was a bit more loose when it came to read all the reviews here...

It is true that this is not the best of CDG, in terms of peculiarity , but it is ok.

Amzingreen does open with kind of watery herby fruity mangoish opening and it does not change much, u can smell the dark aspect of gunpowder maybe in the first few minutes, but to me it smell like stones and fruits, and does get a dusty kind of undertone and some stages.

the final dry down goes between the level of a generic commercialized perfumes to reminding me of Hermes Un Jardin En Mediterranee , just weaker and darker and dusty.

But the fragrance it does remind me the most is "Gucci Pour Homme II Gucci for men " and of course again in a very weak way...

I"ll stick to Wonderwood and Palisander .

A nice one, reminds me of CK's "Truth," although this one appears to be more natural. Could have been a more exclusive and modernised alternative to Truth. Sadly, it doesn't even last for 60min, what makes you wonder what the point of it is at all.

another disappointing release from cdg after the black/green/red fiasco earlier this year (black being the most 'interesting'). when i read 'flint/gunpowder accord' i was so excited! and then i was so let down!
couldn't agree more with elve and alfarom, it's a watery calone mess. cdg has created a very safe and mainstream fragrance for the masses out there that like 1 million, burberry brit, hugo boss, etc. it's not bad but it's not good either. what does that tell you about cdg? only one thing, they are dropping their standards and playing safe.

Total disapointment from CdG. Neither amazing, nor green - just slightly woody, watery, fruity vetiver concoction with all-but-natural spine. Wouldn't wear it even if I was given a bottle.

Like everybody else, I was waiting for this for so long! Finally I received my sample from luckyscent yesterday.

On my skin it is a scent composed of sweet greenish notes over an earthy smoky base (should be vetiver and flint).

I'm disappointed like other reviewers but honestly it doesn't necessarily mean its bad...it's just far below our expectations from CdG...and maybe our expectations from CdG were too high! Of course most of their creations are better than average, but the only noteworthy scent they produced in recent years is Wonderwoods IMHO.

It has good longevity and moderate projection. Overall: 6.5 out of 10.

On a skin Amazingreen immediately reminded of a fruitier version of Cartier Declaration. On a paper the resemblance is not so bright, though still noticeable.

Fresh, shampoo gel, calone- style thing with a flinty drydown. Reminds me of Joop Splash a bit. It's pleasant, wearable and inoffensive and is obviously an attempt at a mainstream fragrance for CDG. Lasts about 20-30 minutes or so.

Good grief, I see 'dew mist' as well as 'gunpowder' is listed as a note in this fragrance.

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Well folks, as Kermit the Frog famously said: ‘It’s not easy being Green’ and I have to agree with the writers below as ‘Amazingreen’ has left me somewhat unconvinced given CDG’s pedigree and the seductive, gorgeous bottle.

Yes, this one has all the excitement of a flat, docile stage of the Tour de France on a non descript day with all the riders in the peloton strategically huddled closely together waiting for something to happen and just playing safe to protect individual team interests. In other words: it’s good but rather uneventful.

In itself, ‘Amazingreen’ works well and is rather jolly to wear - as we Brits with our special Monarchy are wont to say. But it needs the equivalent of a break-away group of riders to try something brave and audacious as they sprint towards the finish to claim the ‘maillot vert’ - the hungry peloton closing-in on them with unnerving power whilst the crowd roar with enthusiasm.

At first I hoped that, not dissimilar to the genius of YSL’s ‘Rive Gauche Pour Homme’, ‘Amazingreen’ might unfold as an edgy, green, post-Drakkar Noir creation as initially I was reminded of the sharp, rasping, herbaceous opening of the underrated, aromatic fougere, ‘Joseph Aboud’ from the early 90s. Moreover, given ‘Amazingreen’s’ olfactory synopsis, I expected something self-fulfilling as crazy, radical chords exploded from out of its inner ‘gunpowder plot’.

Alas, however, no such surprises appeared and it was as if ‘Amazingreen’, avoiding risk, had instead morphed in to something expensive that a modern Creed might unleash, the former noteworthy only for the absence of any pompous long French title complete with the signature ‘millesime’ tag denoting its stronger concentration. (Indeed, to award credit where it is due: Creed’s ‘Original Vetiver’ is a far superior and interesting ‘green’ perfume).

Hey Ho! I am now left wondering what would happen if either the talented James Heeley or those wacky frog-eaters at Etat Libre d’Orange weaved a spell around this concept, as then we would receive a well-organised composition deftly avoiding any olfactory musak by their adroit ignition of an unusual touch paper to this ‘green’ theme!

(Thanks to the late, great Robert White as I took the liberty to quote his reference to Etat Libre d’Orange in his wonderful, must-read review of ‘Nombril Immense’.)

For T x

Weak, simple bad...a misunderstanding, not Comme des Gasrcons

This is so not Comme des Garcons.. I'm trying here to avoid the word generic, it is not, it's better than all the average summer releases, but still there is not a single CDG element in it. I was hoping that the gunpowder note might save the whole thing but it just doesn't.. Do they really trying mainstream? Do they need to?

It seems like CDG is traying to desperately go mainstream which, to me, means everything but good news...

I'm an hardcore CDG fan but Amazingreen is probably the most disappointing delivery in their "ovaloid bottles series" since 8.88. The fragrance strikes as incredibly safe and modern (in the uninspiring and uninteresting meaning of the words), green and kinda watery with loads of woody amber. It opens peppery and fizzy with a huge dose of calone, just vile. The drydown is slightly better. Some vetiver, woods and a slightly pungent undertone which I guess being what they call gunpowder. Nice yet incredibly far from being groundbreaking or even attention worthy...

Personally I wasn't expecting something weird or even avant-garde but just a solid mainstream release a-la CDG2Man. It was about time to get a new blockbuster from Comme Des Garcons but, IMO, Amazingreen is very far from being a valid candidate.

An epic fail.

Rating: 4/10

Im dying to get a sample. I am an avid CdG fan and living in a country where they have never heard of this brand, I see no way of getting my hands on one.

I gave this a second spin today hoping to get a little deeper into the jungle. I have to say, this is a disappointing release from CDG.

It's not a terrible scent but it's not the sort of avant garde scent it could have been. It smells more like a retrospective on turn of the century green scents or something from the Hermes Un Jardin range.

It opens with a ripe fruity green note, tropical like mango. The green becomes more aromatic with the ivy leaf and spices tickle the nostrils. Around here it reminds me perhaps of Sander for Men with it's spicy green fruitiness.

The base doesn't carry much punch just a little wood, musk and a hint of smoke. They could have pushed the gundpowder more.

It'll be a crowd pleaser for late summer days as it's extremely refreshing and not overpowering. The bottle is stunning.

I have never been waiting for a fragrance this way in my life. Stunning bottle, interesting pyramid.
No matter how it is, I'll definitely buy it.