Odeur 53 Comme des Garcons for women and men

This scent isn't as 'ridiculous' as the notes might suggest.

I find that it has quite a consistent smell, with not much difference between the top notes and its base. Everyone seems to find a different way of describing this smell, but to me it smells mostly like a combination of palm hearts and ozone (the smell you get of newly photocopied paper, after a lightning strike, or put your nose right in front of a regular CRT television).

For the most part though, it doesn't really smell like a composition of scents as its 53 notes might imply, but once applied takes on a rather singular scent all its own. After wearing it for a month, I would recognize this scent in an instant. It's one that really must by tried to know if you like it or not. And like I said, although it definitely isn't like other perfumes, it's not such an unusual fragrance, and many perfume aficionados might very well enjoy it.

It's quite likeable, and to tell the truth I actually love it.

This is the best of the synthetic genre, as far as I'm concerned.

Abstraction is what modern perfume has been trying to reach all through the 20th century, trying to escape the conventionalism of the period.

Odeur 53 is like a cubist piece of art. Abstraction is the main word here.

It contains 53 different inert or inorganic notes as : freshness of oxygen, flash of metal, fire energy, washing drying in the wind, the mineral intensity of carbon, sand Dunes, nail polish, cellulosic smell, pure air of the high mountains, ultimate fusion, burnt rubber, flaming rock, and much more...

My own nose could guess that more than 60% of the formula is comprised of hedione, a chemical molecule that represents a radiant jasmine odour in a dusty way. The rest is an absolutely amazing recreation of an electric feeling in the air, heavy and charged like just after a thunderstorm. I can even smell the electricity on it.

The IFF describes it as “a perfume that evokes images, creating your own air around you,” and "a memory of a smell'", a olfatory deja vú.
I couldn't agree more with this synopsis. There is no air freshener here, nor detergents or laundry cleaning powder.
It's the capture of natural ozone odour. Hard to explain without the bottle in front of you; impossible, in fact.

Odeur 53 starts ozonic but grey, but not heavy, light and airy, and there's not enough complexity yet to bring reminiscences of anything like a real flower, but something like the hint of jasmine floats through the airy, as a transparent blend.
About the rest of the notes, I cannot detect even a hint of the cellulosic or fire energy, but there's a definite metallic accord, light one, and also a touch of linen drying in the sun.
The nail polish is, maybe, evident in the alcohol-heavy opening but it doesn't last more than 2 seconds.
Later, there is a vague hint of something such as lemon tang.The fragance turns more dusty now, even electric. I can visualize now, images of thunderstorms and heated pavement of cities, drying off after the heavy rain; maybe carbon accord here is getting obvious, but still heady remains the clean, transparent ozone dominating note.

It is so incredibly easy to wear, at any occasion.
The silage and projection are the best I've been experienced.
A highly recommended scent.

Gives me the worst headache. When applied in extremely small quantities, it is at first rather reminiscent of fresh laundry, but still has a very unpleasant opening.

Smells as ice-cream, an old refrigerator and cold mineral water:-) Not long lasting.

This is my favourite perfume
makes me feel I am driving in a Mustang with smells of dust, cigarettes and burned rubber, I love it

It smells like...the male body. Kind of hard to explain this one...like sweat with a definitive trace of male pheromones, dirt under nails, and something about it faintly reminds me of cigarettes. Musk. I guess wear it if you want to feel like you're being held by a man 24/7(or if you are a man)

My first thought was "ooooooh spring air" but I changed that pretty quickly-at first I got clean, air dryed wash then something liek melted snow-then it just smelled synthetic and WEIRD-sort of made me nauseous-very disagreeable vibe to this.

Goes on like a pack of chemistry, which it’s supposed to, I guess. Reminds powerfully of the bindery: Ink, paper, chemicals and car exhaust. Then clean, like laundry detergent, but still chemistry. Not bad. Ends as a faint perfume scent, like the cheap synthetics smell like. Still not bad, and slightly floral, but again, much like the artificial scent you get from laundry detergent

What the hell were they shooting for here. Epic fail.

I used to love it when reading reviews. But after trying Odeur 53, I wanted to vomit because of its over strong in a disgusting way. It is not something special or daring. It's just disgusting. At least, CdG parfume has one thing that I can't stand :P

My first experience with CdG Odeur 53 was when I was in sensory overload from my one-on-one session with Laurice Rhame of Bond No.9. I had spend 30 minutes smelling different Bond No.9 Fragrances so, my olfactory was still trying to normalize when I came across Odeur 53.

My impression was it was too floral. It could have been the Odeur 53 or it could have been some of the Bond No.9 Union Square on my clothing(this was the fragrances that was perminating throughout Saks Fifth Ave).

I always believed one must give a scent three different tries before coming to a conclusion. I will make sure I have not tested any other fragrance before re-trying Odeur 53.