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Comme 3 Comme des Garçons 2002

7.5 / 10 85 Ratings

A popular perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 2002. The scent is green-spicy. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Green

Spicy

Woody

Fresh

Floral

Fragrance Notes

Cardamom

Java vetiver

Lebanon cedar

Mandarin orange

Red pepper

Rose oxide

Angelica

Basil

Birch

Black rose leaf

Blackcurrant blossom

Frankincense

Gaiac wood Gingko

Gingko

Guinea pepper

Jasmine sambac Mace

Mace

Magnolia leaf

Sandalwood

Ambergris

Patchouli

Perfumer

Mark Buxton

Ratings

Scent

7.585 Ratings

Longevity

7.056 Ratings

Sillage

6.157 Ratings

Bottle

7.569 Ratings

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/01/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review

An ode to pencil sharpeners

An ode to the “pencil sharpener” accord, synthetic cedar notes with vetiver, dry and “brownish” spices (cardamom above all, I also get something like nutmeg though), incense and zesty head notes of citrus with a herbal-floral breeze refreshing and sweetening the blend. Underneath all of this, a subtle sort of aqueous-creamy substance (sandalwood?) - with, as other reviewers noted, a “glueish” feel in fact (guess it’s the vetiver?). The notes may smell conventional, but the hyper-modern Comme des Garçons treatment once again manages to use them creatively to compose a really thin, unique, “contemporary” scent. A sort of more “milky”, more avantgarde, more futuristic and austere Gucci pour Homme I with distant echoes of Cacharel pour l’homme and Kenzo Jungle Homme (both sharing with CdG 3 the “spices-woods-citrus-lactonic texture” axe). Dry yet somehow creamy, exotic but transfigured onto a “grey” postmodern realm, much creative yet totally safe and wearable. Not much evolution though, it even stays quite fresh and citrusy for hours. It may smell a tad boring today, or however not that unique as back then, but still good and solid.

7-7,5/10

01/16/2011

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Turandot
841 Reviews

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Turandot

Top Review 20

Just Missed the Wish List

This scent would be something for me only on very stubborn, almost angry days. But thankfully (and unfortunately) those days are not so frequent as one gets older and becomes more composed, patient, and forgiving.

The opening of Comme de Garcon 3 is like a trumpet blast, but not the bright Bach trumpet, rather the one that comes with drums. It hits you with a strong green herbal note right in the face. I would bet that besides the listed green plants, there are also tomato leaves in there. Anyone who has ever had a tomato plant on their balcony and properly removed the side shoots will never forget this scent. Your fingers still smell of it even after washing your hands.

Angelica root and cardamom contribute to the scent initially reminding one of a strong digestive liqueur like Fernet Branca. However, it doesn't take long, and I am surprised that such a hearty top note and the spices do not linger longer, as soon jasmine and rose soon take over, yet they remain dark and slightly dark green underneath. Whether this is a black rose, I cannot judge, but the scent now becomes floral, and I find that very beautiful. Now it is also much more wearable, yes, I would almost say warmer and enveloping.

Yes, this is how I would want to smell, especially since the base is not ordinary. Because now the flowers are replaced by leathery-smoky notes, which remain soft and pleasing due to the woods.

If the top note smelled less like an apothecary garden or kitchen herbs, then this scent would be a wish candidate for me. Certainly not for every day, but now and then I would surely crave it. As it is, I find it interesting, but it does not make it onto my wish list.

10/15/2021

Intersport
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Intersport

Top Review 18

Works like a medicine, behaves like a drug # 3

'Spice' or 'melange' is the term for the consciousness-expanding drug around which everything revolves in Frank Herbert's Dune. When Rei Kawakubo smelled a second attempt by the young Mark Buxton, who was then working at the predecessor of Symrise, sometime before 1994 AD, she reportedly said it smelled like a drug. Although this design, which was apparently hastily dismissed as a chord by many colleagues and did not receive the full score that a perfume presumably needed at that time, was to undergo around 90 modifications, Kawakubo insisted on the design, which was shortly thereafter released as Comme des Garçons Eau de Parfum 1994. An advertising campaign with the headline 'A perfume that works like a medicine and behaves like a drug' featured a moth intensely savoring an orchid in Madagascar. How fitting. Buxton's name will always remain connected to the fragrances he designed for Comme des Garçons, starting from this one. A highlight of the first Eau de Parfum was that it did not overtly rely on 90's Japonisms. Although the ingredients could just as easily be placed elsewhere, Kenzo's pour Homme or Issey Miyake's first L'eaux played with a Western staging of all sorts of projections of what could be Japanese. The perfume is spicy - spice pure. Mark Buxton is said to have designed it shortly after a stay in Morocco, but he skillfully avoids a clear attribution to the Monde Arabe without a distinct amber or labdanum, as Lutens had proposed with a bang the year before. For Buxton, this was to be followed in 2002 with Series 3: Incense - Ouarzazate. Aside from Caron's Poivre (1954) and Cacharel's Pour Homme (1981), Lorenzo Villoresi's Spezie, also from 1994, offers an interesting parallel. For years, I preferred the lighter Eau de Cologne version to the Eau de Parfum, but there is another one by Buxton that impressed me just as much: Comme des Garçons 3.

3 leans the furthest out of the spice, wood, incense framework that has characterized many releases over the years in various intensities; 3 is vegetal, herbal, and ultra-green. Bitter angelica, basil, and blackcurrant dominate; Buxton, who often talks about his preference for scents from his parents' kitchens, has here reached more for fresh leaves than dried spices. 3 was marketed as an imaginary flower, a new type of rose: incandescent, shimmering, electrifying. This is all true; I would see rose here at most as a green, sour, unripe rosebud, at least as abstracted as the recently 'rosy' notes bursting with geranium in Rose et Cuir or the geranium modulation from Jardin du Nil. 3 develops slowly and always remains close to the botanical; vetiver and cedarwood take over later, and there are moments when 3 appears almost as a slightly eccentric vetiver, the dry wood note, which should often follow in Comme des Garçons, is highly delicately crafted. Similar to the first Eau de Parfum, 3 has aged well. Available for almost 20 years, it still appears solitary and unexcited, especially due to the removal of everything that is sometimes described as Comme des Garçons perfume's DNA. In the current discourse on new 'green' fragrances, it is an important, quiet voice.

Updated on 10/15/2021

12/16/2012

8Scent 7.5Longevity

Ergoproxy
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Ergoproxy

Top Review 10

The better Amazingreen!

Number 3 from CdG also has a very high recognition value and is, as expected, quite special.

The top note is wonderfully aromatic and peppery fresh. CdG3 has a pleasant acidity that lingers almost to the base.

The change in the heart is rather minimal. The pepper is replaced by a fine, bright spice accord, and the green, aromatic touch is complemented by a subtle bitterness and a restrained floral facet.

The base notes remain significantly cooler than the pyramid suggests. A beautiful accord of dry wood and clear incense allows number 3 to finish elegantly.

Despite its very good longevity, CdG3 does not unleash a massive intensity but envelops the wearer in a pleasant scent aura.

CdG3 is an unusual business fragrance and, in my opinion, the better Amazingreen.

01/09/2020

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Augusto
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Augusto

Top Review 7

CDG with G-Spot?

In short: The opening resembles grapefruit, wine yeast, mandarin. A light incense wafts, almost sparkling, like myrrh, it becomes herbal, green, and woody. It essentially stays that way. Reminds me of G. by Nasengold, only more complex, but just as cheerful and powerful. Not annoying at all. Definitely a great summer fragrance!

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