Series 7: Sweet - Sticky Cake by Comme des Garçons

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Series 7: Sweet - Sticky Cake Comme des Garçons 2005

6.9 / 10 61 Ratings

A perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 2005. The scent is sweet-gourmand. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Powdery

Creamy

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Almond

Honey

Pistachio

Date

Heart Notes

Milk

Iris

Brown sugar

Base Notes

Grain

Ambrette seed Myrrh

Myrrh

Perfumer

Nathalie Feisthauer

Ratings

Scent

6.961 Ratings

Longevity

7.147 Ratings

Sillage

6.644 Ratings

Bottle

6.351 Ratings

Value for money

6.810 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

In 2017, the scent was re-released as part of the series Olfactory Library.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/04/2023

7.5Scent

DogiCoco
637 Reviews

DogiCoco

2

The least cakey cake ever

What a misleading name! I read reviews before I tried this, so I knew that this wouldn't be extremely cakey, but I'm still surprised how different it is from what the name implies.

First of all, Sticky Cake is not sticky to my nose. It's powdery and a little milky. You can smell the caramel somewhere in the background, but it isn't as gooey and sweet as usual. I don't get honey here at all. Instead there is a lot of cool, dry, floral iris. It's the most prominent note to me. I definitely get a grainy note, too, but like crops on a field, not like baked goods. On the other hand I can also sense cold milk and sugar here, so it's still a gourmand, just one of the more subtle takes on the genre. It feels very blended and abstract.
I hoped for a bit more pistachio, but that note is barely there for me. It blends in with the almond, which in turn is quite powdery and can't be singled out from the other notes.

I see why some say this is plasticy, I get a hint of that, too, but only for some fleeting moments.
Far in the drydown the scent starts too feel a little more cakey, but it also has a clean, somewhat musky note too it, so it's still more of a general warm and cozy scent than a realistic gourmand.
I like it, but it didn't blow me away.

09/27/2024

RoseAmbrette
19 Reviews

RoseAmbrette

1

Misleading name but delicious nevertheless

I understand way so many were disappointed when they got their noses on Sticky Cake. One would expect a syrupy, dense and moist vanilla with a cake accord.
Instead you get the dry ingredients of a cake- it’s all very powdery. Almond, wheat flour, milk. I get hints of brown sugar, dates and honey but mostly this is a delicate gourmand.
I still adore it and want to upgrade my sample decant to a full bottle.
If you enjoy nutty powdery fragrances, you’ll enjoy Sticky Cake

10/08/2023

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

Too cloyingly sweet

Sticky Cake is exactly what it implies; a sweet and gourmand fragrance. The opening is surprisingly not nauseating, but it is very sweet and in my opinion too sweet. Though I love vanilla, gourmand fragrances and do not shy away from sweet fragrances, Sticky Cake 'takes the cake' when it comes to reaching my limit. It is overpoweringly sweet, it lacks a contrasting hint of freshness from either citrus or green notes (at least in the top notes), but in all fairness, it is pleasant for what it is.

After some oxidation, I keep trying to identify a note, but I fail to do so. Is it burnt caramel, is it amber? It is in fact myrrh, but the fragrance is a mixture of all things sweet and it becomes difficult to identify any specific notes.

Sticky Cake is dripping honey into a warm glass of milk. It is sweet and lactonic.

On paper, Sticky Cake is much lighter, but do not be fooled, it is still very sweet. I imagine that this would be the perfect gourmand base for layering fragrances. I do not imagine wearing this on its own.

04/13/2020

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Pollita
385 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 33

Spring Iris with Almond and Grain

Sometimes you get something completely different than what you expect. This is also true for Sticky Cake. I had been aware of this fragrance for a while. When it disappeared from the market at some point, I forgot about it and didn't think of it again until I found it in the collection of a dear Parfumo friend. A little research on the WWW revealed that it is available again, so I requested a small sample.

Looking at the listed notes, I thought of a very sweet fragrance. I do enjoy sweet scents from time to time. With honey, dates, and brown sugar, I was mentally in the realm of a winter scent for cuddling, very intense and perhaps a bit sticky, as the name suggests. So this morning, I cautiously tested it and was already expecting an extremely sweet cloud. But wait. What is this? It comes across as slightly sweet at first, but it’s not really sweet. I like that! And how I like it. It has a gentle cream note right from the start. Although synthetic, it’s a type of synthetic that I really enjoy. This is primarily an almond scent, but not the kind of almond scent like Mandorlo from AdP or Heliotrope from Etro, which can quickly become annoying. No, this is an almond that comes across as rather unsweetened. Unsweetened, even though we have brown sugar at its heart, just the way I like to enjoy almonds. Either in my muesli for breakfast or as a little snack in between. Not a bakery scent, but simply an authentic almond. Beautiful! SchatzSucher spoke of healthy scent notes. That resonates with me too. Although a health food store doesn’t smell like this, you can believe me. And I often buy a lot from organic farms :)))

I can only guess that there is a pistachio in there. It doesn’t come through here. I don’t perceive milk either; rather, it smells to me like a lightly sweetened plant drink, maybe oat or spelt? Millet? And there we are again with healthy eating and foods that I really enjoy. Okay, we have grain in the base, so that’s probably where the association comes from.

After the fragrance has been on the skin for 1-2 hours, the iris emerges and cuddles with the almonds and grain, and then the scent becomes an absolute dream. You feel as if you’ve smeared yourself with a gently floral-scented almond luxury body lotion, and that has nothing to do with a health food store anymore. Now we have arrived at fine perfumery. This note, which remains perceptible on the skin for many hours, strongly reminds me of Hilde Soliani's Il Vs Iris. Again, one of my favorite fragrances, which is no longer available. So if someone is looking for a substitute for Il Vs Iris, voilà! However, the top and heart notes here are quite different. But in the base, the two are almost indistinguishable. I haven’t explicitly tested them against each other yet, but I’m sure of that, as I know Il Vs Iris inside and out after my third bottle. What I like: Sticky Cake feels more enduring to me and has a bit more sillage to offer. You can overdo it - similar to Il Vs Iris - but probably not with this one either. I applied 4 sprays, and the scent is and remains subtle and close to the skin.

If anyone is looking for a beautiful, delicate spring iris with almond and grain notes, it’s here. For me, it’s never ever a gourmand. But a must-have. And I have a birthday in a few days.

A big thank you to Ergoproxy for the sample. It will be moving in soon :)

03/29/2021

7.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Chanelle
752 Reviews

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Chanelle

Very helpful Review 9

Variation of Pastry with Almonds

A wonderfully kind perfumer introduced me to this scent, of which I had no idea I needed until then. Thank you for that!
Comme des Garçons has crossed my path more often in the past and remains in my memory with solid, interesting, but not very extravagant fragrances. I had not yet encountered a gourmand from this house, and this one is both solid and a bit extravagant.
From the very beginning, I smell brown sugar, sometimes as sugar bread, sometimes in an almond dish, sometimes in a date milkshake (yummy, I love it). It feels like a blend of desserts from several continents.
Iris butter is also present, giving it a French touch.
Not as sweet as, for example, Loukhoum or Baklava, or those cloyingly girly sugary scents or brutally cavity-inducing cheap LVEB clones, but rather something for gourmets among gourmand lovers.
Good longevity, appropriate sillage.
I have the old Butterfly bottle in front of me, where unfortunately the labeling is peeling off, but otherwise: fine stuff.

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