Comme des Garcons Series 6 Synthetic: Soda Comme des Garcons for women and men

Among the countless reasons why I love Comme Des Garcons (both for their fragrances and their clothes), is that they've been able during the years to bring a strong dose of (smart) irony to two of the most "serious" an "pompous" sectors of the fashion industry. Where other brands focused on stereotyped luxury and made-up heritage, CDG has based most of their innovative power on irony and a funny mash-up bewteen the japanese comics culture, avant-garde and slight fetishist aspects (see many of their military-inspired collections of clothes).

If you're fine with their "vision" and, sometimes, you feel like wearing a fragrance just for fun, Soda it's just up your alley. Wha it smells like? Ginger and citruses galore with a remarkable effervescent aspect given by the aldehydes. A true to life rendition of the soda with the usual slight pvc twist of most of the fragrances in their Synthetic Series. Not a wower, nothing particularly weird, revolutionary or groundbreaking...just plain fun.

Rating: 7/10

Now that I'm learning that this series has been discontinued, I'm wondering if the sample I smelled hadn't turned by the time I got to it.

I found this scent. . . revolting. Sharp, abrasive, nostril-flaringly bad. . . To me, it smells like that first burst of carbonation from a soda can - so in that way, it's a total non-smell, just a feeling, and for me, not a terribly good one at that. . .

This will take some time to get comfortable with. For now it just smells like all kinds of cheap yellow synthetic citrus floor cleaners.. Sharp soapy and none of the Sprite/7Up note I had heard of and was so hoping for.. I agree with batabidd that the sillage is monster. I`m hoping to negotiate a truce with this one, some day..
For now I`ll stick with Pacifica Malibu Lemon Blossom, another one that was difficult for me in the beginning, but which came somewhat closer to what I had expected from this one. Though without the spritzy note of Soda.
I must add that I have yet to find any one citrusy scent that goes well with my chemistry.

It has been my top one of citric fragances, and still. I'm very dissapointed that this serie, the synthetic has been discontinnued. There's, in my opinion, the best one of the Comme des garçons synthetic range.

Soda is quite linear, uplifting, refreshing, electric, effervescent, slightly aquatic.

Smells just limonade with clean far away flower notes and vinylic notes on the background.

It's beyond synthetic, for sure, but the quality of the ingredients is so high, that I found it the most natural of the synthetic I own and know.

The fragrance is based in lime accord. It starts as it finish, zesty and refreshing.

You can detect the aldehydes, and the lily of the valley, a fresh version here, nice and captivating. The vinylic note starts to blossom after 30 mt application.
This note just has a nostalgic impact on me, as reminds me of my childhood, when I was a child, and I used to play in the pool with those plastic lilos on the surface of the water.
Well that is waht smell like, clean wet vinyl.
Citral and pimenal are molecules that represent acid citric and pimento. Lilial is a molecule that represent lily of the valley but softer, and has a electric twist.

Iso eugenol smell fake flowery and the galaxolide is a well known representation of sot musk scent...
Bla, bla, bla...

Whatever!. The final: jut a heaven perfume.

The sillage is monster, specially being a citric fragrance, as the projection too.

It's one of the favs of the crowd. Ive been stop several times on the street for people asking me what I was wearing, and the current impression of "I smelled that but I can't get what is It".

The formal memory of this synthetic series : A constant intriguing Deja-vú. Fab!.