Comme des Garçons 2 by Comme des Garçons

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Kawakubo Rei (川久保玲), Marc Atlan

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Comme des Garçons 2 Comme des Garçons 1999

7.4 / 10 676 Ratings

A perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 1999. The scent is spicy-woody. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Floral

Fresh

Synthetic

Fragrance Notes

Aldehydes

Cade juniper

Frankincense

Magnolia absolute

Chinese toon Ink

Ink

Maté absolute Amber

Amber

Angelica root

Labdanum

Vetiver

Cumin

Patchouli

Perfumer

Mark Buxton

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Ratings

Scent

7.4676 Ratings

Longevity

7.3521 Ratings

Sillage

6.7491 Ratings

Bottle

7.7462 Ratings

Value for money

7.3148 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 11/06/2025.

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Reviews

44 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/30/2012

8Scent

Ysbrand
84 Reviews

Ysbrand

Very helpful Review 5

Flower rain, wet letters

I was sampling today for first time a Comme des GarÇons at my local Sephora and i went back home so happy and reassured , thinking my nose starts to be trained, since i could identify easily several notes... but then i log in, i check the components and no major matches, i realize my nose still has a lot to be improved... I was not even going to write the review, what for? i seem not to recognize anything... but well, that is the point of reviewing: give others an impression of a fragance that they might have not smelled yet. So this is as Comme des GaÇons 2 smells to me:

First i get is a very fresh carnation,spicy and green tinged. I smell random leaves and grass . The carnation is lively,herbacous, botanical and very intense it doesnt have a retro feeling as other carnations. I hestitate for a second that the just cut wild carnation could be also sometimes a wallflower and sometimes a dark rose. This carnation note is very peppery and spicy. I notice a deep tanic smell, but also a bit tarty. Could it be a pomegranate accord?

The deceiving patchouli is the most noticeable element in the drydown, but it had been there since the beggining, in the shadows, making me see (smell) what was not there. It is a very rosey patchouly. Like rose infused raindrops, and thats heavenly.

So, how was the experience, apart of being a realization that i am a lousy nose... i liked a lot Comme des GarÇons. It feels daring, intense, but heaviless, sheer and clean. Romantic and transgressor. It has a hard to describe inorganic feeling, glassy, and as i read here, yes, reminds to ink, running ink from tears, rain or dew. Spicy Flowers, Flowery woods, Woody chemicals.

07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 4

Suggestive

CdG 2 has been called abstract. It’s been called a transparent rose, but the read I get, as others have mentioned, is the ink. Combining what seems like aldehydes, and mandarin or orange with something floral that I can’t get my nose around creates a shadowy smell that resembles ink. I associate the smell of ink with a blunt sweetness. That same feel is the first smell of dDG 2.

The start is expansive, likely an aldehydic effect, but the heart hangs quite a bit closer to the skin and feels actually a bit richer. A muffled herbal quality, almost like juniper, makes the scent feel cool, a facet of CDG 2 that I love. We talk about fragrances getting warmer or becoming ‘skin scents.’ CdG2 refuses to succumb to the warmth. It’s not that it wears you, but it feels like an exotic substance that you carry out to the world on your wrists.

The incense, woods and some dry amber remind me in feel, but not in scent, of Andy Tauer’s l’Air du Désert Marocain. Both emphasize an amber, that doesn’t go the classic ‘oriental’ route of warm, creaminess. CdG 2’s drydown has a clipped, slightly tarry incense quality and feels like smoke through cool air and iced black tea.

As a perfume note, ink could be marketed as masculine or feminine and CDG 2 Woman and CDG 2 Man, by conventional fragrance standards each read as fully unisex. Do you suppose they flipped a coin to decide which to call Woman and which Man?

07/29/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

GothicHeart
133 Reviews

GothicHeart

Helpful Review 4

Can I write with my tea and drink my ink?

Its 1864. Colonel Lyle Oldershaw-Plaskitt is sitting in his dimly lighted small office, in his colonnial mansion, in the outskirts of Bangalore. He's about to start writing a letter, to inform the newly appointed Viceroy of India, Sir John Lawrence, Bt, that Bangalore's rail connection to Madras is finally completed and ready to operate. He realises, with a slight annoyance, that what is left in his inkwell is not going to suffice for more than a few words, and he silently curses himself for having failed to notice that his ink supply was that low. Unwilling to wait till morning, he decides to mix what ink is left with a dram of the strong tea he's drinking, hoping that the Viceroy will excuse this slight inappropriateness. Before being able to write down even a single word, he's utterly surprised (an extremely rare situation for a stiff upper lip British senior officer) by a heavenly smell that seems to arise from his inkwell. As close to mesmerised as a soldier of his stature could be, he slowly puts his Gillott's nib down, and reaches for the inkwell.
Next afternoon, with his skin a little darker than usual, he enters the country club, to be greeted by Brigadier Eugene Boulstridge-Smythe, who turns from glad to amazed within five seconds of standing next to him.

"Goodness gracious me Lyle, you smell divine! Any good old Atkinsons new stuff? And how on earth did you get a tan since yesterday?"

Colonel Lyle Oldershaw-Plaskitt smiles complacently and drinks a sip of his whisky.

"You shall see old friend, you shall see..."

Colonel Lyle Oldershaw-Plaskitt perished during a storm four days later en route to Ceylon, where he was heading for purchasing an unusual for an individual quantity of tea. His order of three firkins of Indian ink was already on its way, but he failed to receive them due to his untimely demise. His comrades mourned and honoured their distinguished fellow countryman with all respect, and in his memoirs, then General Eugene Boulstridge-Smythe didn't forget to mention, besides all other attributes, that Colonel Lyle Oldershaw-Plaskitt was the best-smelling man he had ever met, and what a pity it was that this magnificent and absolutely unique scent of his was sadly lost for ever under the waves surrounding Adam's Bridge.
Until one year before the new millennium, when a France-based Japanese lady, obviously not giving a damn about what people would think of such a concoction, reinvented it...

P.S.: Call me a madman if you please, but to my nose (which I'm the first to admit that it's not to be taken very seriously), and despite the fact that they barely share a couple of notes, this has a very strong resemblance to Azzaro's Acteur...

05/06/2025

8Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Ursaw
166 Reviews

Ursaw

6

A handmade pastel kaleidoscope

Took five pages of my notebook to document all of the flavor changes while most perfumes barely take up one. I can barely believe that this is a scent from 1999. My mind would probably still be blown even if it came out yesterday. And yet here it is. Scintillating.

Sharp, somewhat spicy, slightly sweet at first – like a flowery gin. Resinous, mineralic. Mixed together with magnolia – almost metallic, like a faint taste of blood in your mouth.

Pungent flowers persevering and growing through wet concrete. A large floral cloud. All-encompassing. Overwhelming. But then the next moment – it's gone. Just like that. And it's barely been 10 minutes.

Now it's herbal. Warm. Humid. Wet hay and juniper. 20 minutes. And now it's resinous. Like a memory of a cozy esoteric shop on a foggy weekday – clinging meekly to your clothes as you're traveling back home. Quiet.

30 minutes.

And then magnolia is there again, back in the spotlight. Like running into your ex while on a smoke break on a gloomy autumnal evening. The forecast said it would rain – but there's barely an annoying drizzle. Exchanging awkward smiles and struggling to finish your cigarette quickly, suddenly eager to get back to work. 40 minutes.

And then there's something else – half-edible and half-medicinal. Warm and inviting. And then humid again. Wilting grasses on a long summer eve. You've barely been there an hour.

And then it's like laundry hung out to dry on a misty morning in spring, still a bit damp, but so fresh and so clean. And it leaves a gentle yet lasting trail – soft, the kind you wouldn't notice if you didn't know what to look for; but once you know what it is – everything clicks.

Soft and airy, like a handmade kaleidoscope made out of translucent pastel beads. Faint and floral, like a fading memory. It's been ~3 hours.

Sit back, breathe out and relax after a long day. Maybe light up another cig. To fade away completely, glimmering and shifting between flowers and woods all the while, this thing will take at least another ~3.

07/03/2023

Kanyezzy
11 Reviews

Kanyezzy

Helpful Review 2

Comme des Garcons 2

Now this was if i’m not mistaken one of the first niche perfumes i tried back in 2014-2015. Being used all my life with smells from sephora , douglas and other stores , this was entirely different and i must admit i was a bit struck by the little weirdness in the opening. Created in 1999 it must have been really weird for the people smelling in the 2000s. Don’t get me wrong, in 2023 this is no scary stuff, on the contrary, you are greeted with the most beautiful floral , airy, aldehydic smell coupled with a nice inky accord and the typical woods and subtile incense from the brand. The ink accord may be a gimmick or not, it is fleeting some days, some days you can’t smell it , but it is one of the few fragrances that uses this ingredient. The perfect unisex scent.

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