Overgrown post-apocalyptic cityscape on a cloudy summer day
It's green. You probably have already guessed that based on /broadly gestures at everything/, but it bears repeating. It's really green!
It's honestly pretty funny. I've wanted to try this fragrance ever since my first encounter with CdG. I've seen the reviews and the promo pictures. And I went "duh, of course it's green" all the while. Like, this wasn't in any way a surprise or a mystery. And yet somehow when I applied it onto my skin – the greenness of it felt like a revelation. "Oh, people were right, it really IS green".
It's hard to pin down and describe in plain terms. There are lots of synthetics in it, but for some reason I don't mind them at all. If anything, I find them strangely agreeable. They're not trying to fake something else I'm familiar with – this time I'm the outsider in an alien landscape watching them nonchalantly do their own thing.
There's plenty of spices involved, but they all feel mellow. Not weak, or distant, or old – on the contrary, perhaps too young? Coriander. Pepper. But the seeds are unripe and delicate.
There's something mineralic to it, though it's hard to say what exactly it is. It never comes to the forefront, but its calm presence adds a lot of depth to the composition. Cold concrete, clean air. I feel like I'm staring at a giant monstera plant sitting on a staircase of a derelict brutalist building. Thriving. It's soft apocalypse aesthetic in perfume form and I'm the last human alive to experience it.
It becomes a skin scent after about an hour, though it never really strays far from it either way. Vibrant, yet gentle – a very intimate experience that seems to be a staple of CdG. Might be disappointing to some, but I'm personally really into it.
It slowly gets softer over the next ~3 hours, after which most of the spices and minerals dissipate. The last ~2 hours are filled with grassy musk aftertaste – still lovable, but very faint.
It's delightful! My only complaint is that I'm afraid my decant will very quickly come to an end.
