Series 7: Sweet - Sticky Cake 2005

Series 7: Sweet - Sticky Cake by Comme des Garçons
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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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Sweet
Gourmand
Powdery
Synthetic
Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
AlmondAlmond PistachioPistachio DateDate HoneyHoney
Heart Notes Heart Notes
MilkMilk IrisIris Brown sugarBrown sugar
Base Notes Base Notes
GrainGrain MyrrhMyrrh Ambrette seedAmbrette seed

Perfumer

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Scent
7.052 Ratings
Longevity
7.244 Ratings
Sillage
6.641 Ratings
Bottle
6.347 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 23.02.2024.
Interesting Facts
In 2017, the scent was re-released as part of the series Olfactory Library.

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Pollita

224 Reviews
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Pollita
Pollita
Top Review 33  
Spring iris with almond and cereals
Sometimes you get something very different from what you expect. Sticky Cake is no exception. I've had that scent on my screen for a while. When it disappeared from the market, I forgot it and hadn't thought about it until I found it in the collection of a dear perfume. A little research in the WWW showed that it is also available again and so I asked for a small sample.

With the listed notes I thought of a very sweet scent. I like sweet sometimes. With honey, dates and brown sugar I was thinking of a winter scent for cuddling, very intense and maybe a bit sticky, that's what the name suggests. So this morning I tested carefully and already expected an extremely sweet cloud. But stop. What is it? Slightly sweet at first, but it's not really sweet. I like it! And how I like it. He's got a soft creamy note right from the start. Synthetic, but with a synthetic that I like very much. This is first and foremost an almond scent, but not the kind of almond scent à la Mandorlo from AdP or Heliotrope from Etro, which can get on your nerves quickly. No, this is an almond that is rather unsweet. Unsweetened, although we have brown sugar in our hearts, just as I enjoy almonds. Either for breakfast in cereal or as a small snack in between. No bakery, but an authentic almond simply. Nice! SchatzSucher spoke of healthy scents. That applies to me as well. Although, believe me, a health food store doesn't smell like one either. And I do a lot of shopping on organic farms :))))

I can only guess that a pistol is involved. It won't get through here. I don't perceive milk either, but it smells to me more like a slightly sweetened plant drink, maybe oats or spelt? Millet? And here we are again with healthy food and with dishes that I like very much. Okay, we have cereals in the back, that's probably where the association comes from
If the fragrance is on the skin for 1-2 hours, the iris will assert itself and cuddle with almonds and cereals and then the fragrance will become an absolute dream. One has the feeling of having creamed oneself with a soft-flowery scented almond luxury body lotion and this has nothing to do with health food stores anymore. Now we have arrived at the fine perfumery. This note, which is still perceptible on the skin for many hours, reminds me strongly of Hilde Solianis Il Vs Iris. Again one of my favourite scents, but one that is no longer available. So if you are looking for a replacement for Il Vs Iris, voilà! However, the head and heart note are completely different here. But in the base the two are almost indistinguishable. I haven't explicitly tested them against each other yet, but I'm sure of it, because I know Il Vs Iris inside out after my third bottle. What I like: Sticky Cake is more persistent for my feelings and has a bit more sillage to offer. But you probably can't overdose - similar to the Il Vs Iris - even this one. I have applied 4 sprayers and the scent is and remains discreet and body-hugging.

If you are still looking for a beautiful, delicate spring iris with almond and cereal notes, you can find it here. For me, a gourmand is that never ever. But a must-have. And I have a few days birthday.

Many thanks to Ergoproxy for the sample. He'll move in soon :)
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Chanelle

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Chanelle
Chanelle
Very helpful Review 9  
Variation of pastry with almonds
A distinctly dear perfumer brought me this fragrance, of which I had not known until then that I need it. Thank you for it!
Comme des Garçons has crossed my path more often in the past and has remained in my memory with solid, interesting, but not very extravagant fragrances. I have not known a gourmand from this kitchen before, and this one is both solid and a little flamboyant.
From the start I smell brown sugar, sometimes as a carrot, sometimes in an almond dish, sometimes in a date milkshake (yummy, I love it). The whole thing feels like an amalgamation of desserts from several continents.
Iris butter is also there, gives the French touch.
Not as sweet as eg Loukhoum or Baklava, plombenziehende girly sugar scents or brachial caries-promoting cheapheimer-LVEB-clones, rather something for gourmets among the Gourmandliebhaber.
Good durability, reasonable sillage.
I have the old butterfly flacon, where unfortunately the label is peeling off, but otherwise: fine stuff.
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DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat
DonJuanDeCat
Very helpful Review 7  
Cake, cake, cake!!!
Aaaah, cake, I love cake! But somehow the love of cake seems to run in the family. If we are somewhere to visit or have visitors, or someone has a birthday or somehow such an occasion just takes place, and sitting together the first tea or coffee is served, then screams (yes really, screams!) my father immediately in the round: "Cake!".

Stupid only that one never knows whether he wants to express only his joy to the cake, or whether this should be a question whether there is also cake or even a request that one should obligingly finally serve the cake. We all just hear "CKEY!!!" :D

Well, but I'm pretty sure you guys here like cake too. The question, of course, is what kind of cake do you like, a subject on which one could certainly argue, he he he :D

The scent:
I smell pretty good pistachios as well as almonds at the beginning. At first you can smell very briefly the salty scent of these nut fruits, but then it also becomes sweeter. Now it gives off a nice, powdery, milky note that smells pleasant (I'm assuming this is from the milk and iris). I can't smell the dates, honey might be present, but I would say the scent is just sweet without really being able to smell the honey exactly now. Possibly you could compare the scent to milk with honey or something, at least with a little imagination.
Only a little later comes so a pastry-like or cake-like note to the fore, where you could think of cake. This could then well be the cereals.
Anyway, the fragrance remains sweetish, creamy-powdery and gourmandig also in the base. In the base, there is still stated ambrette seed, but I feel as if I smell rather still musk.
Much later, the fragrance actually smells only powdery and iris, which is also very nice, only this phase no longer further reminds me of cake.

The sillage and the durability:
For a gourmandisch oriented fragrance, the sillage has not turned out so particularly strong and is therefore rather above average, which means that it is perceived from normal proximity just so a little. From a shorter distance, the perception is therefore all the better.
The shelf life is already eight hours, only the power leaves the fragrance quite quickly, so that it is already quite weak on the skin after half the time.

The bottle:
The fragrance comes in a metallic, deodorant can-like bottle that is white with the name of the fragrance range printed large on it in black. The name of the fragrance itself has been written in pink. Not a pretty bottle, but there seem to be glass bottles as well, as you can see in the Parfumo photos below.

Hmm... sticky cake? Nah, so despite all the sweet scent notes, I don't think the scent smells "sticky". At all, what's supposed to be sticky cake? All I know is that cake makes your hands gooey and sticky when you eat cake or pies with your hands instead of eating them civilly with a fork... like a dirty sparrow, and then vehemently refuse to wipe your hands with a napkin, preferring to lick all ten fingers... only to offer someone another piece of cake afterwards with your licked fingers... bäääh,.... And the worst thing is, I KNOW guys like that who do that, so when I eat, if I unfortunately have to eat with them, I always sit at the other end of the table, far away from them, bääääh!!!!!!!!!! :DD

In terms of type, the fragrance is a gourmand, but unlike most of these types of fragrances, it turned out a little looser and thus doesn't seem soo heavy. On not quite too hot days, he could thus also be used in the spring. Otherwise, he fits of course super in the fall.

Since he smells not bad, he is well worth a test.

Soo, let's see who's birthday is coming up... oh, my dad this time. So he will probably scream extra loud for "KUCHEN" :D
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7.5
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DogiCoco

345 Reviews
DogiCoco
DogiCoco
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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.
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ScentStudio

141 Reviews
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ScentStudio
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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.
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