Rouge Comme des Garçons 2020
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Beet fizz with incense
I don't know how a French-Japanese perfume house managed to create a photorealistic accord of a freshly opened can of Vernor’s ginger ale (if you’re from Michigan, you get it) but they did. This has such a delicious ginger note. It’s fresh and realistic but carbonated and purified of the savory vegetal qualities of actual fresh grated ginger. It makes your nose tingle if you sniff it up close.
And the beet. It’s unexpected and wonderful. It’s like a fantasy beet note with the earthy, dirty qualities trimmed off. It’s the kind of beet that reminds you that beets can be used to make sugar. It’s brilliant magenta and hyper-real.
The patchouli and transparent incense base has the classic CdG DNA and leans more patchouli/woody than resinous. Spicy ginger fizzles up into the air for 6-7 hours. Nothing in this is cloyingly sweet or heavy. Despite the unusual notes and the avant garde marketing it’s very wearable.
And the beet. It’s unexpected and wonderful. It’s like a fantasy beet note with the earthy, dirty qualities trimmed off. It’s the kind of beet that reminds you that beets can be used to make sugar. It’s brilliant magenta and hyper-real.
The patchouli and transparent incense base has the classic CdG DNA and leans more patchouli/woody than resinous. Spicy ginger fizzles up into the air for 6-7 hours. Nothing in this is cloyingly sweet or heavy. Despite the unusual notes and the avant garde marketing it’s very wearable.