Daphne Comme des Garcons for women

It's a tuberose centric perfume with strong tuberose and some insence at the openning. When it dries down, amber and vanilla come and sweeten and soften the tuberose.
Whoever loves tuberose and ask for a sillage monster, this is definitely the one.
After 3 hours, it becomes vanilla and tuberose dominant and still loud.
It's a nice scent and quite smooth, but I am a fan of neither tuberose nor vanilla.
To tuberose and vanilla fans, this is a must try scent.

A total 80's mess. I think plush dresses, shoulderpads, and all the makings of a Danielle Steel novel. Headache inducing, much like the woman who created it (when I first sniffed it, I didn't know it was her fragrance).

Daphne Guinness is probably 1 ingredient away from being a total soup, but as it stands, it’s about as full a perfume as you can make. Citrus/resinous, hugely floral, incense/oud. And that’s just the starting place.

It seems to start as a sort of oud floriental with an enormous bitter, resinous orange note and saffron and I’d swear some bay or some other green culinary herb. From there it kaleidoscopes through densly floral combinations as well as classic amber, vanilla, patchouli accords. This is not so much a perfume with a classic three-tiered progression as one built of mostly basenotes. In this sense, it’s probably categorically closest to an oriental. Although they have different tones, the elements all seem to share roughly the same density. From the topnotes through the heartnotes they just bounce off each other and you’re constantly smelling some new accord take flight.

By the drydown, DG feels like an incense chypre, with a three-part patchouli/oud/labdanum combo in lieu of a classic moss/labdanum base. Oud is the overused, overstated perfume element of the last few years and due to its potent nature, it is usually at the heart of an accord. But using a moderate dose of oud along with patchouli and labdanum to resemble a chypre base seems like one of the more inventive uses of the material.

This is really lovely, really classic, really refined and very beautiful.

I had a major hankering after it when I first got my sample in mid-spring, but my skin in the torrid heat of midsummer has gobbled every sweet note, every fruit and every flower, and left a sharp, uncomfortable but amazingly persistent incense/patchouli desert, dry as a bone.

I'll come back to it in the winter, since I remember such a madly glorious scent from the first time we met - perhaps this too, is a seasonal lovely.

Highly recommended to those who eschew the sweeter perfumes, or who, like myself, love incense and any intimation of the big, bold classics of yore.

I'm a man, but I think I would really admire a woman who wore this. It is retro, but at the same time not old-fashioned. It seems to majestically scorn all the modern trends in fragrances for the past 35 years; it is almost an homage to the French houses of the early 1970s. Floral without a trace of soapiness or the lady's boudoir. I can imagine someone like Christine Legarde (french finance minister) wearing this.

This is glorious! I mean really truly glorious. This is to me a unique and haunting creation. It brings together notes that don't always work for me and makes them sing.

I would also call this a shape shifter. Daphne starts out w/tuberose and oud on me. Somehow, someway these two comingle to make the perfect compliment. They don't stay in the forefront for too long before things start to change. Maybe...15 min.? Then all of a sudden~shift. Then different shape and shift. These notes dance together and truly bring out both the floral and woods, incense and amber,then wait......oh~ there's vanille. None of this is jarring but oh so smooth and fabulous.

Daphne's a wild ride. I'm gonna buy a ticket and buckle up.....mmmmmmmmmm