Odeur 71 Comme des Garcons for women and men

I dont own a ton of colognes....Ive always believed 'less is more', and I try to stick with what I know. Usually, I dont mess around with a second, third or 4th version of an original scent, but in this case, I didnt mind doing so.

I like colognes that are wayyyy retro, or incredibly progressive/erotic. And this scent was just weird and freakish enuf for me to fuck with. I LOVE IT.

My "bar" that I use to measure any scent, is Minotaure by P. Picasso...it is the epitome of 'erotic', but "Odeur 71" sits very close to Paloma's 'man scent'.

Synthtically perfumey on my skin, but in a nice, clean way, like sheets in the dryer. Crisp enough for summer and clean enough for office wear. Nice and not as strange as it's notes suggest.

When this came out back in 2000 it was totally revolutionary and I'm not talking about the provocative marketing concept behind the fragrance notes, but the scent itself. It was incredibly recognizable, unique and absolutely stunning. I always try to avoid hypes but couldn't resist Odeur 71. In the end, we can spend a lot of words and time talking about really well crafted fragrances, filled with top quality ingredients, and super professionaly balanced aromas but we should never forget that first of all, a perfume has to give you sensations and feelings and whether you'll like CDG's Odeur 71 or not, it won't leave you indifferent. My suggestion would be, just for one time, to try to avoid any description, comment, notes pyramid and and just smell.

A very distinctive mix of clean incense with a minty vibe and a strong xerox-toner note. Abstract and airy. An all time favourite.

Also, this is one of those scent that really needs to be collocated in its historical period to be properly appreciated. It surely belongs to the chemicals fragrances family, modern in a "contrapposition mode" to the classic, provocative and avanguardist, unconventional, but you can appreciate Odeur 71 and at the same time go mad for a Santa Maria Novella's original scent from the early 700. It was one of the first "barrier-braking" scent to (almost) make the cross-over from niche perfumery to the mass market as it became an huge cult for a whole generation.


Rating: 8.5/10

j'aime cette odeur71
c'est revolutionnaire

Oh, my this is weird. It smells like ink, like someone mentioned before, but good kind of ink, actually I feel burnt rubber as well. Weirdly it's not unpleasant. It's rather addictive. I can feel incense and fir very good and then other notes I can't actually understand. Is it bamboo? Bay? There is a slight touch of flowers.

Actually I kinda dig this. It's strange, but good.

comme de garcone is amazing.its gets better as it sits on the skin. whenever i wear this i have women all over me asking me what im wearing. i think theirs some kind of pharamone in it that stimulates women sexually, they can't get enough of it.their legs quiver and they won't leave u alone.the best part is its hard to find, its in almost no department stores, and 99% of people haven't heard of it so you will be the only one wearing it.if your on the prowl looking for women this is an ace up your sleave.

Smells of... nothing! I"m absolutely, positively aware of no notes whatsoever! How is this possible? Finally, so many notes in play that they...cancel out one another completely? Where I sprayed it my skin smells just like... My Skin. Correct me if I'm deranged here, but I'm pretty darn sure that my skin smelled like my skin BEFORE I sprayed this.

I'm wearing Odeur 71 now... I think...

Countains: electricity, metal, office, mineral, dust on a hot light bulb, photocopier toner, hot metal, toaster, pen ink, pencil shavings,, the salty taste of a battery, freshly mowed grass, incense, wood, moss, willow, elm, birch, bamboo, hyacinth, lettuce juice and many more...

It's like an experience of walking through an industrial frosty landscape or being in a sterile white and green room.

Basically, it is a reformulated version of the previous "Odeur 53", bringing the aseptic clean and cold notes of it, and, simply blending them with more "down to earth notes", more physical and less ethereal, but never natural.

Odeur 71 is the sweetness we all smell when we smell things we feel silly about smelling and liking in our everyday existence: the funny sweet smell of cellotape or a hot computer or tv.

The opening is very similar to "53 " but this time, the same present fake lemony note in the previous, is much more prevalent, rounded off with the same grey yet clean aura.

There are too, hints of ink and hot dust accords. The composition is much more variable in this version, getting more natural, with green light notes (lettuce juice and bamboo) , ghostly woody notes, and a nice soft touch of sterile hyacinth. It’s even has little vague hints of sperm too, ( I didn’t recalled it, my partner did eventually),

I don't even dare to keep striping it anymore. A lot of things that aren't typically fragrant have a smell now and we know those smells are here.

We just want to sit down and enjoy them.

Very natural!
Smells of salty lake and flowers garden. On my skin the hyacinth dominates.

Tin, tyres, toasters.

IFF have achieved something interesting here; if I was setting the scene for a cyberfuturistic drama based somewhere between Mad Max and Grand Theft Auto I might spray this in the air to get people in the mood. To me it really does smell of burnt out electrics and rubber tyres; a weird arid scent, warm without being welcoming. Yes, this could be earth 3000 but I really hope not, cos it's a world moving between the dustbowl and the garbage heap, where all the biodegradables have run out and perfume creators blowtorch retrotechnology in the hope of finding an interesting smell.

Strange how flowers and greens have been used to evoke a world defined by the lack of their presence. Odeur 71 isn't beautiful or alluring, and eventually isn't even that interesting. I expect more for my money. Not for me.