Comme des Garcons 2 Comme des Garcons for women and men

I admit, I don't like Comme des Garcons. Everything I smelled so far by this house feels like they are.. well.. just trying too hard.
This one is no exception. Actually, this one's the worst for me and testing it was quite an experience; smells exactly like my late grandpa's shirt, taken out of his dampy closet, worn all day by him - feeding chickens, doing the garden, etc.- while smoking two packs of his favourite and most poisonous cigarette brand there is... I won't go into further details.

Love you, grandpa!
(Still) don't love you, Comme des Garcons!

2/10

Has a brand new bottle of this in 50ml.
I got it as a gift... but it does't suit me :(

If anyone wants to swap please contact me.

Starts out with a unique opening that’s dry, citrusy, woody, and slightly green. Then I start to smell cumin and coriander along with something sweet and almost candy-like. As it dries down the citrus and spices bcome a little more prominent, along with the strong, slightly salty vetiver base.

It’s a comfortable, well-blended citrus-herbal-spicy scent in which no one component stands out. That’s quite a feat given that it’s supposed to contain cade and West Indian Bay, two attention whore materials that will take over if used in more than miniscule amounts. There’s considerable sillage, but it’s not in any way overpowering. It reminds me a little of TDC Sel de Vetiver, but I think I like it even better.

This was one of those pleasant surprises that make perfume sampling so much fun. If you like non-sweet, non-floral vetiver scents, CDG2 is a must-try. It could easily become the staple vetiver scent in my rotation.

Nice, but a bit too feminine for me

Demasiado extraño!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pero agradable
<3

It is a great fragrance.Sweet,something different and sexy...CDG 2 is masculen perfume,not unisex
Scent : 8,5
Longevity : 9
Projection: 9
Sillage : 10

It's a high class!A very interesting old perfume.It's like sex and smoke all together.

CDG 2 has been called abstract. It’s been called a transparent rose (one of the first), but the read I get, as others have mentioned, is the ink. Combining what seems like aldehydes, and mandarin or orange with something floral that I can’t get my nose around creates a shadowy smell that resembles ink. I associate the smell of ink with a very cool, blunt sweetness. That same feel is the first smell of CDG 2.

The transitions are tough for me to identify, because the feel of ink stays from top to bottom. The start is expansive, likely an aldehydic effect, but the heart hangs quite a bit closer to the skin and feels actually a bit richer. This is the spicy ink phase. I’ve read others talk about the nutmeg and cinnamon, but I get more of a juniper and bay vibe. These two, especially the juniper, make the scent get even cooler, a facet of CDG 2 that I simply love. Most perfumes, by nature of becoming a part of your skin, get warmer or at least start to become skin scents (a phrase I overuse and am working at defining more clearly.) Maybe this will help me, because CDG 2 just refuses to become a skin scent. It’s not that it wears you. I feel like it’s an exotic fragrance on my wrists that I’m carrying with me out into the world.

That gorgeous feel of coolness is perhaps strongest in the drydown. The incense, woods and some dry amber remind me in feel, but not in scent, of Andy Tauer’s l’Air du Désert Marocain. Amber, without all the expected elements like vanilla and balsams, matches a dry, slightly tarry incense and feels like smoke through cool air and iced black tea.

So three stages: 1) cool ink with flower and fruit, 2) cool ink with spice, and, 3) cool ink with smoke. See the common thread? I suppose that ink, as a note, could be marketed as masculine or feminine. I find it funny that CDG 2 Woman and CDG 2 Man, by conventional fragrance standards each read as fully unisex. Do you suppose they flipped a coin to decide which to call Woman and which Man?

One of the most beautiful fragrances that I own .. Simply enchanting perfume, captivating and unique.
Sexy fragrance for romantic evenings.
Simply .. can't go wrong when you wear this perfume!

Longevity: 8 10
Sillage: 8 10
scent: 9 10

Overall: 8.5 10

Was transfixed by the beautiful and captivating simplicity of the flacon design. Sadly, the fragrance itself didn't evince anywhere near such reverence in me. Surely one of the best designed flacons all the same.

I purchased a big bottle of this on fragrancenet.com. i have to say, it is my new favorite perfume! Great for the unisex scent lover, and woodsy lover. I found my masterpiece!

I know it`s a unisex and bla,bla,bla...But realy,can a guy wear this,or is it rather feminine?

Mark Buxton is my new hero! EVERYTHING I have smelled by this man is utterly innovative and astounding. Comme de Garcons "2" is no different. Judging from my reactions to each and every one of the CdG perfumes I have smelled (and adored) thus far, I can see a VERY bleak bankbook balance ahead for many months to come...

A bright opening of aldehydes and tea is at once refreshing and sparkling, added to this "green breeze" is sweet, yet tart, mandarin orange and one of my favorite herbs: angelica. What a scent! Even if it never changed from it's opening prelude, I would still want a bottle of this! A soft, airy Caribbean magnolia floats in adding a rich flowery sweetness that is bolstered by bay leaves and other sharp greens blended with smooth spices. Nutmeg and cinnamon make it warmer and sexy, but never quite overpower it. A delightful interplay of the spices and flowers that remains "unisex", but honors both cool passive and warm projecting energies. The drydown of chinese cedar and patchouli with oriental notes (labdanum & amber) and warm greens like juniper and vetiver (listed, but not pictured) give it a feeling of a warm mountain forest, right down to the rich fertile soil, with ancient trees dripping precious resins under a setting sun. I like how CdG say their fragrances are "horizontal", but NOT linear. This is like a spiritual pilgrim's journey that begins brightly at dawn (sun shining on dewy greens with fresh winds blowing), and continues throughout the warmth of the day (where flowers bloom under a warm and glowing sun) and ends in the cool evening of a woodland clearing at the steps of a mountain temple where enlightenment, peace and tranquility can be found. A "scented" journey every parfumista should try...at least once.

Sillage: moderate
Longevity: above average
Overall: 4.5/5

Inspired by the contrast of Japanese calligraphy (curving, flowing dark lines on a stark white background), Mr. Buxton has made a work of art, using accords and notes instead of ink, a brush and paper. Without smelling like every other "shared" fragrance out there, 2 is perfect for guys who like their woods, greens and spices (with some citrus) and also great for the girls who love their floral scents with chypre endings, and a little "kick". I am somewhere in the middle of both groups, struck dumb by the amazing beauty of this scent...

A real jewel which is developing and changing over the time - "fresh" notes allowng "sweet and spicy" to develop and vice versa.... Very special, elegant and above all sofisticate fragrance. It seems like this scent is telling a story about the neverending change.... I like it. It is a fragrance for daring men and even more fearless women... Very nice and inspirational fragrance!

This fragrance is sultry, salty, smoky, and super sensual! It smells like fire. Nothing sweet about it. Nothing floral, nothing over the top. Very resticted, chic and sophisticated, woodsy and mysterious...has a presence, but not too strong of a presence as it is surprisingly smooth. it even works well in the summer (believe it or not). This scent has charisma!

OEF! I was in the shop and the tester was almost empty and I just got a liiiiiitle splash out of it. Curious as I was, I sniffed the paper if I could smell anything. AND BOY I DID! And it was a CHURCH! I smelled a big gothic cathedral from the inside with the cool bricks and stones and wooden seats and incence and everything. My mom always used to say Arpege by Lanvin smells like church, but now I can't wait to let her smell this one. Now it's a few hours later and I'm smelling the test-paper again and it seems to have sat down a bit into a very spicey, but more wearable fragrance. I'm curious to smell this fragrance on a living person, on someone else, because it seems like a scent quite hard to pull of. But still very interesting!!! (Therefore I can't really say whether I love, like or dislike it... It´s just a impressive scent an sich)

OMG.This is fantastic! A great chypre with all the ingredients to be a winner. I can picture a sexy woman in a black suit and high heels wearing it while smoking a cigar. She looks like Ava Gadner staring at you with those big eyes through the smoke with an inviting smile. Daring and sensuous.

Purifying filthy metropolises!
This one opens so perfect chypre in modern style.
2 is the best indication for linking classic and modern chypre.
Opens with graceful waxy and mossy herbal-floral scent with bold tea leaf and in a cool atmosphere. Second phase, gradually its floral pattern expands and tropical leafy scents emerge. Extremely aromatic dry down makes it deep and mystic. Dry down provides a semi-resinous and muddy floral/chemical aroma.
Generally, it's high level unisex and casual but not everyday. It can be worn in ceremonies but only for young; plays better on 25 years old. It smells orientally and seductive, so attractive but not so sexy, more bizarre and strange.
It's the smell of a city which you can't stop it, hyper-urban.

longevity 10/10
sillage 8/10
scent 7/10 a little bit odd for my taste

This is very easy for me as CDG2 has been my signature fragrance for more than 5 years back in 1999. It was a groundbreaking release and a landmark in the Comme Des Garcons collection. I won't describe this perfume in the usual way as I think, wether you'll like it or not, it deserves a try if you want to completely understand CDG's path. In this fragrance Mark Buxton reached the perfection he was looking for in both CDG Original and White adding an extra touch to the maison's already distinctive hallmarks (translucency and minimalistic-incense). Everything is perfect and the classic "rough-caress" feeling of almost every CDG perfume is pushed to the limit. Absolutely distinctive, unique, unusual but at the same time very versatile and not aggressive. It's just up to you where and when, and it will surely follow. A complex-minimalistic masterpiece and another all time favourite.


One more thing: If you approach CDG2 today for the first time it may not result so unconventional and groundbreaking, but try to put it in its context as in 1999 things were much different.

Rating: 8/10

Too fresh/sweet. Prefer other two frags.

6/10

I'm wearing it right now and I find it very boring, even for a man.

It's indeed a strange perfume. I bought it last week, and I found I can't apply it every day. Every time I spray it on my neck and weist, some kind of diffent ingredients pop up. When I apply a second time in the afternoon, I found it different from the first application in the morning. It also smells slightly different on paper. As the previous comments, this is a strange perfume not for everyone, not for everyday. Otherwise it loses the speciality if you apply or sniff too much.

bottom line: i didn't like it at all, an overpowering unpleasant old scent to my nose...

Very urban, distinctive and yet inoffensive. Perfect for office and more feminine than unisex imho. I can smell lotus, cinnamon, some other spices, patchouli and a dominant note of elderberry juice.

Had high hopes for this. After trying hard to like it , I had to throw in the towel and say that it just was a "no". I have been attracted to unisex fragrances in the past, and even like scents that have masculine traits, but this just did not do it for me.

It kinda gave me an 80's vibe, and now that I think of it, unisex scents were reeeeallly popular then! Unfortunately has too much of a soapy drydown to be interesting to me, and ultimately it reminded me of hairspray from the 80's/90's!

Overall, too bland to warrant taking the risk of wearing a "manly" fragrance. I do not detect ANY significant floral to this, only the chypre notes - does remind me of juniper, grass and fresh air. It has an aldehydic and herbal feel to it, so in my opinion much more masculine than feminine.

I placed it in my "dislike" category, but I say that I dislike it for ME, as a woman - I think it may actually smell pretty good on my husband, so he will get this sample.

amazing perfume
by the way. its for women but men apply it.

What can you feel in a crowded London street in January wearing Comme 2? Is it the sweat of strangers running fast for the sales, the frenzied commuters eager to get to work, or the buses whizzing past you, and they are always the ones you don't need? You feel all these things, yet a strange calm and warmth pervades you despite the cold and the equally freezing consumeristic drive. A warmth that envelops you like a gigantic hand, implausible but welcoming at the same time.

Trees become woods, then forests, then mountain scents descend into a single flower, then the Mediterranean zest of orange emerges from a different bloom, unexpectedly. Certainly one of the most unusual scents that I have experienced: a horizontal fragrance, in keeping with the Comme philosophy, where each note plays individually and suddenly, to disappear and reappear according to its wearer. I was oblivious to the shoppers and commuters: walking home, a warm embrace talked of a thousand memories...forget the bus, I'll walk home!

This one is interesting and beautiful. It seems perfect for a cold rainy day as it immediately brightened my mood. This is the first CdG fragrance I have tried and I am very impressed. I smelled alot of gorgeous sharp white florals right away which mellowed only slightly over a couple hours. After that, the slightly powdery drydown smelled lightly of tea, cedar and cinnamon. I hardly noticed any patchouli. I think this is one of the prettiest and most uniquely understated, yet powerful florals I've tried so far. It's both modern and romantic. I would feel comfortable wearing it for any occasion.

What a strange fragrance this Comme Des Garcons 2 is! I like it about 70% of the time, because for 70% of the time it is on, it smells pleasant and mostly like a chypre floral. Nice, but nothing special if that was all there was to the scent.

It's the other 30% of the time that bewilders me. Upon initial application, and periodically as the scent evolves, it morphs into bizarre synthetic aromas that don't smell like perfume and don't always smell pleasant. Paint, turpentine, that harsh metallic effect that I get from Kenzo Flower. Strange, strange, strange.

Then whoosh! I can sniff my wrist again in five or ten minutes, and it smells like flowers or grass or something along the more traditional chypre or floral lines.

I'm not sure how wearable this one truly is, given the shape-shifting effects I described up above, but it is certainly an attention-getter. Comme des Garcons 2 might be best appreciated when you have an evening to yourself and can alternately enjoy and be repulsed as the fragrance layers evolve, without fear of offending others. The sillage is decent, which was good or bad depending on where I was in the fragrance's evolution, but the persistence was slightly less than average, at four to five hours.

This is definitely one to be sampled before purchase.

i just discovered this soothing fragrance, and i think it's the only unisex perfume that i can wear

Very weird indeed. You know that kind of ink blot (rorschach) used in psychology? Some may think it is a flower or a dog playing with a stick others are sure they looking at a coupple of perverted siamese twins... This I think is the perfumed answer to rorschach´s blots.

It is wet black, inky, powdery, sweet, metallic, oh so masculin but no, so feminin at the same time. Constantly changing, disturbing, comforting, hiding, shining... Oh, yes I like. Or sometimes... not.

Staring for to long on the blot just make it looks like a blot, a blur, a mess... This is a perfume you shouldn´t chase with your nose, it is at it´s best when you just leave it alone. It has that in common with CdG 3...

Big bottle worthy, oh yes indeed. It´s a tricky little piece of art...

I like it. wonderfull.

To tell the truth I don't understand the idea of this fragrance. It smells like some kind of mess on my skin, as if the notes were not blended together. On me it has the smell of the flowery essential oil which was added into a bottle of ink or paint by accident, where it does not fit at all :/ It is quite a disturbing fragrance, which does not work for me.

This is my 1st try on CDG perfume. and it's a love at first sniff.Very impressive.Modern and unique.The notes is complex and hard to describe,like something in contrast but can be mixed well in one bottle.On my skin,It's open with a sharp-cool blast and then come to sweet mellow flower with hint of green.Staying power is very good too.

Something in CdG2 reminds me of being a child in the 80s...something that makes me think of my friend's mothers, and maybe even of aunts and teachers that i may have had. I'm pretty sure its the aldehydes, as it soon fades and you are left with a pretty chypre floral that manages to be familiar and strange at the same time. As with most CdG frangrances, i find the composition delightful in its intricacies, its not like anything else i have smelled. Like Zoka, i have a hard time describing it! Although i do not wish to purchase this fragrance, the sample was fun to try on my skin.

this is a smooth scent i can wear to bed and hv a sweet nite sleep.... and kinda exotic as well

I love this scent, it like a comfy jumper i put on in the winter. Very long lasting fragrance, so a little does go a very long way.

This starts off with a very aldehydic blast of top notes, (reminds me somewhat of the old Paco Rabanne Metal) but then quickly settles down to much more powdery, sweet, violets or sugared almonds effect - I am still not sure about this overall; I will have to get to the end of the bottle and then decide. Very long lasting on the skin, but also very distinctive - I think some people might find it rather overpowering, like Loulou, which used to prompt requests to open a window!

I love it. My girls love it. Even my boys love it, too :)) It's not everyone's scent type. E can't call it an unisex. It's too stronge and manly for women. Anyway, 2Man is a strange perfume, with a great longervity.

This is a very interesting fragrance, unusual and intense, I just can't describe it, very sensual, with amber, sharp and smooth at the same time ;o)