Black Comme des Garçons 2013

Black Comme des Garçons by Comme des Garçons
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7.9 / 10 305 Ratings
A popular perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is smoky-spicy. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Smoky
Spicy
Woody
Resinous
Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Somalian frankincenseSomalian frankincense Madagascar pepperMadagascar pepper
Heart Notes Heart Notes
LiquoriceLiquorice Pepperwood™Pepperwood™ Birch tarBirch tar LeatherLeather
Base Notes Base Notes
CedarwoodCedarwood VetiverVetiver

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.9305 Ratings
Longevity
7.9222 Ratings
Sillage
7.2222 Ratings
Bottle
7.2203 Ratings
Value for money
7.968 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 07/12/2025.

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Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions
MasterLi

375 Reviews
MasterLi
MasterLi
Top Review 6  
Something really special...
This is a fragrance I love because it challenges me. Whenever I find a fragrance like that I am always pleased. The house of Comme des Garçons is one which always pushes the limits and is able to challenge people's noses. I really admire them for that.

So the fragrance... to me this has spices and leather, liquorice & incense, and a heavy dose of birch tar. Personally, what comes to my mind when I smell this is the smell of a spice market full of busy people. In a busy street. I used to live in Cairo and at different times I used to remember the exact smell of a market full of all kinds of spices... cumin, caraway, black pepper, cinnamon, aniseed, paprika, cardamom, all sitting in sacks by each store. Sometimes because of the busy street you would find a man on a motorcycle pass by you, bringing the smell of the street with him (petrol, black engine smoke, engine oil ) and I would smell the black tar on the road which had melted in the hot sun. So many smells which rush in my imagination from all directions when I wear this one.

Personally, I don't agree when people say this is "unwearable". There is no such thing. I agree that this could smell challenging to some people, but to me I feel right at home! I would happily wear this. It's not too strong, it stays on the skin for a long time but it doesn't project to people in an offensive way. I think people who smell this on you would be intrigued and interested to find out this smell. I think that if you are a person who likes "interesting" or challenging fragrances, and who wears a fragrance for yourself, and not to "please" others, then you will enjoy this one. Personally I enjoy it very much, and it fires my imagination. Well done CdG!
0 Comments
2.5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
8
Scent
Flavorite

240 Reviews
Flavorite
Flavorite
Helpful Review 4  
Sensual Gamelan for Ghouls and Goblins
Black by Comme des Garçons is a woody licorice treat. My first thoughts are of Halloween candy and just as I wait for the sweetness- I realize, I have been tricked! Good Show! Dry, sugarfree, earthbound, fairly-traded (?) and masculine-leaning. Black gently takes my hand as offers to show me the city- I get a reality check dose of hot-tar-on-the- sidewalk note blended with a piquant fresh cracked black pepper on a base of smoky vetiver incense, just as promised by the name. This is in the same olfactory family for me as a scent-memory of shopping/walking in a heat-induced trance, in the galleries and kiosks of Ubud, Indonesia in the sedate radiant warmth of September, listening to the chime of Gamelan music. This is a passionate high energy scent for the evening on both men and women. Yet there is something dry ancient and artifact like about the wood note that is soothing and wise. Personally, I want my closets and house to smell like this in the Summer heat, instead of like Great Pyrenees. If you like fragrances like "Wonderwood" and "Hinoki", you should try this one. I would call this unique within that tight genre- and I would feel compelled to turn around and ask a gentlemen what he was wearing...but have to expect a sly wink and a silent kiss blown to me instead of an answer. Be sure to leave an appropriate offering of dragon-fruit for the guardians of the Monkey Forest before your evening dip in the cool lotus pond pool.
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5
Scent
Silverfire

130 Reviews
Silverfire
Silverfire
Helpful Review 2  
Wispy Burning Woods
Black smells fruity in the pipette, but goes on smoky. It's a nice quality smoke, not artificial, but faintly acrid burning woods. About two hours in, the smoke has burned away to reveal a deep, sweet wood -- is this elmi? It smells like Azzaro Onyx (not the peppermint aspect). A little while later, the smoke returns and dies down gently, fading away completely by hour eight. This is not a bad scent, but it's certainly nothing groundbreaking, and I definitely don't get the impressions that others have received. (I feel cheated, honestly.)
0 Comments
9
Pricing
9
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
BobbyGee

229 Reviews
BobbyGee
BobbyGee
5  
Comme des Garçons / Black
One of my unique discoveries ...
A beautiful SMOKE FOREST-BIRCH INCENSE, where you can feel the smell of burnt aromatic birch branches, needles and forest. The smell is additionally woody, with the scent of leather and vetiveria. Unique in its extension, narcotic, deep, strongly felt by the wearer and very long-lasting.
I can feel it on my skin for 12 hours so that I don't have to stick my nose (with 4-5 puffs). From the fragrances that affected my brain after the first application and I had to smell my wrist every now and then - even the next day or after 2 days - my brain reproduced the smell by itself (as if I was wearing it) - this is one of 6 such exceptions : BLACK; ENCRE NOIRE, BLACK AFGANO, LAUDANO NERO, MONTALE AOUD MUSK (DURO), BLACK TOURMALINE.
I RECOMMEND, and the price for 100 ml is really very good. You just have to search.
0 Comments
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Chiyogami

11 Reviews
Chiyogami
Chiyogami
2  
A spooky delight
This is one of those scents where you can clearly smell every single note if you close your eyes. The first spritz is heavily liquoricey, grounded by a beautiful vetiver that leans more smoky than earthy. The incense and woods are a somehow airy anchor, and the pepper adds a crunchy spice to the whole mixture that really pulls it together. This perfume is simple but not basic, and absolutely hits the deep, dark, impenetrable woods brief that I'm always after.

The longevity is so-so, but the sillage is perfect-fairly intimate but big enough that I get to keep smelling myself for the lifespan of the scent. Didn't expect to be so taken by this, but my sample is rapidly draining!
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LillibetLillibet 7 years ago
8
Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
8
Scent
The aromatic warmth of freshly crushed black peppercorns morphs gradually into resinous woodsmoke and ashes. Bracing, warm and unusual.
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PostMortemPostMortem 2 years ago
A curry sausage thrown with a light hand into the barbecue embers, small cardboard bowl inclusive.
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RessikanRessikan 2 years ago
Salty licorice burned on a grill. Horrid!
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KuraiKurai 7 months ago
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
6
Scent
Long-lasting black pepper on vetiver with balsamic notes and something tobacco-ish. Fierce and friendly at the same time
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HermeshHermesh 10 years ago
6
Bottle
6
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Starts peppery-resinous, then ranges between a black leather jacket and polished shoes, becomes finally cold-smoky and muted (gray).
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WolfHunterWolfHunter 1 month ago
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
5
Scent
Dark ghost stories by a camp fire type fragrance. Unapologetically peppery and smokey with no hint of sweetness to balance the charred wood.
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FrancisFFrancisF 4 months ago
9
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Avant-garde and uniquely mystical. Falls a bit flat at the base, but I can’t deny the artistry. A spicy standout for sure.
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lfdlfd 6 months ago
10
Scent
This is my 'what are you wearing it smells so good' perfume- a little smoky, sweet and deep
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