Series 10: Clash - Celluloid x Galbanum Comme des Garçons 2019

I, who can't do anything with floral stuff, now wear Celluloid x Galbanum.

There's little of galbanum here - that's assuming galbanum actually smells "green" or like a flower shop - the olfactory cry for help from the cut flowers (Luca Turin).

The scent starts out for me - shockingly: like good old 90s toilet spray, instead of flower shop. These are aggressive canned flowers. Sometimes you still see them today, these automatic sprays in café toilets, from which you have to be careful as hell not to be suddenly sprayed - they smell more pleasing than this.

Jasmine is over-present here and lays down only reluctantly.

The celluloid note can only be guessed at. Too bad - that's what I was hoping for. Camping, rubber ducks, tubular messengers, 35mm film reels - none of that in my nose. Only jasmine. Some musk, perhaps.

But wait, a splash of synthetic does appear at the very end, and the scent tentatively becomes more bearable.

I must say, after the first spray I wanted to send it back immediately. Have looked directly, as it stands around return of opened fragrances - goes unfortunately not.

Immediately began another phenomenon, which I, in another context, had already described: the attempt to convince himself, the fragrance is somehow good, after all, it is Comme des Garçons. I just have to understand it. Exactly.

Yes, it is kind of good, if you have a preference for jasmine maybe. I do not know if we both become friends, I wear you anyway - in protest.