Top Notes 
Bitter orange
Lime
Pepper
Saffron
Heart Notes 
Caraway
Sage
Base Notes 
Musk
Oakmoss
Patchouli
CdG
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4
The Pure Boredom to Spray On
After my initial comment on this perfume left more questions than answers, I decided to completely revise it. One statement, however, remains unchanged: "Play" is by far the most inconsequential perfume from the otherwise highly regarded house of Comme des Garçons.
For me, this scent is a bit like Comme des Garçons has violated its own principles, namely never wanting to be pleasing or mainstream. Yet this is exactly the approach that "Play" embodies.
What one can still sniff behind a powerful olfactory tsunami wave of marine Calone follows, in my opinion, a rather classic masculine fragrance concept, even if the officially listed notes might suggest something different. But after all, we know that the official notes do not necessarily have to correspond to what is actually contained.
Taken on its own, "Play" is not a really bad scent. It is thoroughly pleasing and lasts incredibly long. Moreover, it should be extremely difficult to offend anyone with it. But that is exactly what bothers me about it! We are dealing with an avant-garde fashion house that wraps its models in torn rags and sends them down the runway. A fashion house that caused a scandal at its first fashion show in Paris and co-founded a new fragrance direction (transparent-floral) with its first scent.
What on earth is a trivial little water like "Play" doing in a lineup of more than 60 perfumes that includes some crazy, consistently unconventional, and sometimes overly ambitious-creative scents?!
"Play" is too much aquatic blah blah ... and that too much too late. In the nineties, I might have judged it differently.
For me, this scent is a bit like Comme des Garçons has violated its own principles, namely never wanting to be pleasing or mainstream. Yet this is exactly the approach that "Play" embodies.
What one can still sniff behind a powerful olfactory tsunami wave of marine Calone follows, in my opinion, a rather classic masculine fragrance concept, even if the officially listed notes might suggest something different. But after all, we know that the official notes do not necessarily have to correspond to what is actually contained.
Taken on its own, "Play" is not a really bad scent. It is thoroughly pleasing and lasts incredibly long. Moreover, it should be extremely difficult to offend anyone with it. But that is exactly what bothers me about it! We are dealing with an avant-garde fashion house that wraps its models in torn rags and sends them down the runway. A fashion house that caused a scandal at its first fashion show in Paris and co-founded a new fragrance direction (transparent-floral) with its first scent.
What on earth is a trivial little water like "Play" doing in a lineup of more than 60 perfumes that includes some crazy, consistently unconventional, and sometimes overly ambitious-creative scents?!
"Play" is too much aquatic blah blah ... and that too much too late. In the nineties, I might have judged it differently.
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