Wonderoud by Comme des Garçons
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7.3 / 10 175 Ratings
A perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is woody-spicy. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Woody
Spicy
Resinous
Smoky
Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Australian sandalwoodAustralian sandalwood Texas cedar Orpur®Texas cedar Orpur® OudOud Pashminol®Pashminol® Gaiac woodGaiac wood Haitian vetiverHaitian vetiver Indonesian patchouliIndonesian patchouli

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.3175 Ratings
Longevity
7.5132 Ratings
Sillage
6.9137 Ratings
Bottle
7.0134 Ratings
Value for money
7.137 Ratings
Submitted by Michael, last update on 04.02.2024.

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Sillage
8
Longevity
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Scent
DarkWinterCS

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DarkWinterCS
DarkWinterCS
Helpful Review 6  
Make a notch in the wood
What makes a fragrance attractive? Radiant? Convincing?

The own taste carries here certainly the main responsibility. If one does not like the fragrance, it will be difficult to get closer to the carrier, let alone give a compliment. However, scents about people can also be worn in such a way that they can be enticing despite dubious agreement with one's own taste.
If one gets along well with the respective person or this person has a certain charisma, it sniffs itself immediately completely different, as I was allowed to determine now with this fragrance.

Until now, Comme des Garcons did not appeal to me. The compositions were quite unconventional and partly disturbing in my nose, so I had no interest here to try out the lineup. There was always something that put my nose in a defensive position. When I then met a - now - good friend at a smaller event, so overcame me in the evening a surge of fragrance that I could not get out of my nose. For hours I heard him from two meters away and wrapped myself in a woody cover. Then, after asking once, Wonderoud came into my life. An almost creamy aura that had a spiciness and also a little the signs of oud.

That this is synthetic oud should be clear both with Comme des Garcons and the price. But as surprised as I was at the moment, I skillfully ignored this and hardly bothers me to this day. I just got the urge to buy this fragrance after sniffing. The greed itself to experience the fragrance on the skin was already quite present and by a good souk offer I was then allowed to hold the flacon in my hands.

Yes, it is as mentioned a synthetic oud. But it is so much more, which stood out. Especially the due portion of pepper rings in the nose after spraying on. Slightly spicy, aromatic, spicy. This is where the nose gets going. After a short while, a prominent cedar joins in, both dampening the pepper somewhat and responsible for the powerful base. The synthetic oud note gradually mixes into the action and brings a little darkness and a minimally felt trace of smokiness.
Once 30 minutes have passed, the scent becomes more lovely, less spicy, more pleasant to one's nose. He is rounded by lighter woods like sandalwood and gets this great touch, which I smelled on my buddy. A purchase that was definitely worth it, also because the performance is already neat. Just when you take times a few sprays more radiates the neat.

Wonderoud is just that. A wonder that synthetic oud wonderfully packed and also for the connoisseur / friend of natural fragrances has something to offer. Especially on days where it is then already a few degrees less on the scale can be sprayed on without hesitation.
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Emrego

22 Reviews
Emrego
Emrego
Helpful Review 2  
One of the best sandalwoods out there
My signature scent, all time favorite. One of the best sandalwood frag out there. Not sure if anything can beat this. It is heaven. I'm on my 5th Wonderoud bottle, and I've used 2 bottles of Wonderwood in the past. Yes, Wonderoud is very similar to Wonderwood. The biggest difference for me is Wonderoud is more creamy compared to Wonderwood but they are both amazing full throttle wood scents. It is also similar in DNA to Floriental from same house. I think they just multiplied an amazing formula, according to slight differences of taste. Wonderwood is for clean/super dry cedar-pepper-vetiver-leaning, Wonderoud is creamier, warmer/richer version, Floriental is plummy floral and slightly powdery.

This is also the top compliment getter, I've never been complimented more by strangers (most being females). I'm not a fan of dark, heavy oud, so contrary to the name, oud is so muted, pepper and other woods prevail. You will definitely get sandalwood, some black pepper, cedarwood, vetiver before oud. There's a great play of fruity musk type of note in the background, that you only notice when paid attention, which saves the scent from being too dull.

If you feel it's too dry for your taste, try layering with a little Azzaro Visit, to have a bit nutmeg and creamy sweet warm spices. It works great in winter!

Projection and longevity both are great with this one. Sillage is normal to me, but colleagues tell me they can find my exact spot in the building (Pretty sure it's Javanol/Pashminol combo). It is also one of the rare scents that I get olfactory fatigue (again, culprit Javanol and most likely Iso E Super). I've tested it so many times in my daily life, so many nights, with so many noses. I can clearly say that Wonderoud has 2-3 times better performance than Wonderwood. There's nothing better than Wonderoud lingering on your winter scarf, jacket even after weeks...

Ingredients I can pick are:
Javanol (sandalwood) that lasts to eternity, check out EM - Molecule 04),
Cashmeran (musky velvety wood, check out EM - Molecule 05),
Iso E Super (airy radiating light cedar and musk, check out EM - Molecule 01, not exact but very close as Molecule 01 featuring the captive Iso Gamma, not Iso E)
Pepperwood (captive black pepper molecule, used in CdG Blackpepper too and likely in Wonderwood, Blue Santal, Incense series etc)
Vetiver, likely Vetiveryl Acetate (check out Molecule 03)

p.s. It has very little similarity with Encre Noire IMO. As I said, you don't get burnt/dark wood/oud feels with Wonderoud. It is rich, subtle, lasting, and boosting confidence with a clean feeling.
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
Helpful Review 6  
Wondermeh
Wonderoud opens as a woody-peppery vetiver-based designer with a sprinkle of sandalwood. Not the slightest hint of oud here to my nose, just a subtle sort of soft, finished medicinal-leathery note on the base (I guess that would be the oud), and a hint of incense – we’re young and hip, no incense, no party! Basically this is Wonderwood with a cheap, light “medicinalish darkish” thing underneath the rest. Which by the way vanishes quite soon, leaving you with a persistent drydown comprising vetiver with a slight ambery-incense undertone... and that’s it. Undoubtedly pleasant, but honestly I can’t find this more than just barely decent. To my nose it’s a perfectly safe and friendly “office scent” which may have been created by Montblanc or Zegna or St Dupont as far as I am concerned, or any other “low-profile” brand like these aimed at thirty-something men with low pretenses and low budgets looking for a safe woody cologne for job interviews. Nothing wrong with that, I am a fan of designer cheapos: but not at this price (and well, not from such a – usually – creative brand). And why call this “oud”?

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Rickbr

190 Reviews
Rickbr
Rickbr
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Kaleidoscopic woods
Well, if the first impression of CDG Wonderoud is that it's not a typical oud perfume, it's a correct one. Your perfumers since the beginning didn't do it to be like that, and including, from what the brand revealed, your structure was made without any oud, until it was introduced some, at the request of PUIG, a variety of Indonesian Oud that Givaudan had acess to. And, this way, Wonderoud end being for me a kaleidoscopic version of the original Wonderwood. All its main elements are here: the cedar, the sandalwood, the green, almost cheese like, cypress, the vetiver, the gaiac, the dry spice aroma, the incense nuance. Still, they don't form either a linear or a classical three layers evolution. It's like, somehow, the woods made images that shake themselves, dissolve and them formed another olfactive shape during its evolution. I smell for quick minutes an oud aroma whith reminds me of a nargamotta one less heavy, more fresh somehow. And then, promptly the oud go out of focus and i notice a dry sandalwood aroma, and then after the curious aforementione cypress, which reminds me of green leaves with something slightly moldy that reminds me of cheese. Begore this impression become overwhelming, the vetiver mixes itself to the smell, changes the focus of the cypress to aits green grass and wood vetiver aroma and when you realize you notice that the vetiver woody aroma is itself mixed into the oud too. It's a fragrance at least curious, the interchange of woody impression is something that i don't remember having seeing happening this way in another creation.
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Vec2tVec2t 1 month ago
5
Bottle
5
Scent
Synthetic, dark and weak. Hard to identify the scent on a strip but yet to test on skin.
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HermeshHermesh 9 years ago
7.5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
8
Scent
Many different (and synthetic) woods combined in interesting and at the same time "full-bodied" way. Remarkable!
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