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Patchouli Palace Mondo Mondo 2002

7.2 / 10 315 Ratings

A perfume by Mondo Mondo for women and men, released in 2002. The scent is synthetic-floral. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Synthetic

Floral

Sweet

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Clove

Cumin

Heart Notes

Rose oxide

Jasmine sambac

Fermented Transistor

Base Notes

Sandalwood Musk

Musk

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Nicolas Beaulieu

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Ratings

Scent

7.2315 Ratings

Longevity

7.5260 Ratings

Sillage

7.0257 Ratings

Bottle

8.4252 Ratings

Value for money

7.0114 Ratings

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Reviews

17 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/28/2017

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Aquamonza
10 Reviews

Aquamonza

Helpful Review 3

Not a hard one

If one has a weakness for concept fragrances, Comme des Garçons is always in view: The balancing act between joy of experimentation and wearability (and - not to forget - availability) gets this house like almost no other.

So now the topic 'concrete', to which CdG has already approached; perhaps most clearly with "Series 6: Synthetic - Garage", which realizes ‘concrete’ as the aldehydic, petrol-drenched floor. How can the construction material itself appear?

Stupendous: The start may be called mineral; a slight whiff of the well-known garage floor appears. No "Petrichor"-asphalt, no "Nox"-clay. I rather imagine the smell of a mineral mask: not predominantly mineral, but flowery and spicy scented ooze. So this concrete has just been mixed; instead of gravel and lime, maybe cardamom and surely sandalwood are stirred into the mash, the floral remains soft, achromatic & abstract, the conjured consistency is highly viscous - or, maybe, creamy.

I surely prefer to let this concrete to my skin - who had the misfortune, to dive in fresh concrete with bare hands, knows what I mean. In any case “Concrete” is an exciting candidate for (blind) tests and layer experiments.

By the way: Anyone who misses the joy of the expected concrete smell, is compensated by the haptic encounter with the bottle.

Updated on 10/28/2017

09/19/2017

5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Helpful Review 2

Intense raspberry but not much sandalwood

I dived into Comme des Garçons Concrete without prior knowledge of the press release, and Concrete does not smell like concrete the material, nor like sandalwood to me. At least not the characteristics that I associate with the sandalwood from smelling its essential oils and a few sandalwood-centric fragrances.

I do sense a discreet plaster-like smell upon spraying Concrete, but the fragrance is mostly dominated by a sweet cloud of raspberry and red berry jelly, oily artificial rose, an ionone-like violet note, muted vague spices and musky elements. The whole effect, especially when I get a whiff in the air, is reminiscent of a flattened, less layered, and more synthetic-feeling Féminité du Bois.

A nebulous, white flour-y wood starts to surface after about 1 hour. With the heavy sweetness of raspberry and rose, I don't associate it with a particular material. Instead, it's more like an underlying chalky texture beneath the rose raspberry jelly. Actually, the bubblegum sweetness of the raspberry and this clean chalky texture combining together, Concrete smells more like a deconstructed fruity tuberose perfume rather than a deconstructed sandalwood to me.

Concrete has barely any change afterwards. The sillage is moderate and the longevity is at least 7 hours.

I was aware that Concrete does not aim to replicate the cement in literal sense, therefore I'm not disappointed on this front. But reading about its "sandalwood" after wearing Concrete, I'm first puzzled then upset about the lack of sandalwood characteristics and the overbearing raspberry sweetness on me. From what I experience on my skin, I would not recommend it as a sandalwood fragrance, but rather a gourmand, intense raspberry/rose/violet fragrance, with a nod to Féminité du Bois in the opening and a clean, sugary fruity tuberose dry down.

04/11/2018

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

2

Bona-Fide Quasi-Petrichor

As far as I can tell, this might not actually accurately reproduce the 'smell' or olfactory ambience (as is it really a smell atall? but then there _really is_ a 'salt ' note!) of concrete; but I would say that it is a true quasi-petrichor fragrance (if you like), as it _does_ strongly evoke, to me anyway, rain & wetness of earth, etc. It is like Xerjoff's ~Birdie~ in that respect: in fact, I would say it's very similar to that. I haven't sampled ~Rain~ by Marc Jacobs, but it's probably similar to that also, from what I have read of it. Certainly I would say this is truly a fragrance _of that genre_. I am astonished at anyone saying that not only is it gourmandy, but a cloyingly sweet gourmand at that! I do _not_ get anything _remotely_ like that from it. No, to me, this is a bona-fide quasi-petrichor fragrance - and a good one at that!

Updated on 04/11/2018

07/19/2025

2Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Ayomiyukki
15 Reviews

Ayomiyukki

2

Wet terracotta that turns into bubblegum car air freshener

This is the third CDG fragrance I try and I was super excited for this one. I do admit that I let myself completely trust its name and didn't really look up the notes or reviews before ordering a sample. So I was really expecting a mostly concrete/asphalt-y scent, mixed with musk or dust/dirt-like notes.

As soon as I sprayed it, it reminded me of wet terracotta tiles by the pool, which I loved and found interesting given that this isn't an aquatic fragrance by any means. It's very similar to petrichor but so fleeting. It quickly turned really sweet with a hint of spice, something I was not expecting at all. The sweetness is mixed with this synthetic rose scent that unfortunately I was not a fan of. It smells almost sticky and peachy.

Throughout the day it developed into an unbearable bubblegum scent. Very reminiscent of the bubblegum little trees car air fresheners, or a bubblegum pack that was left out in a hot car all day (which is my personal olfactory nightmare). Sadly this one was a miss for me. I feel like it had so much potential as a concept.

Of course the fragrances that don't work well with me are the ones with the best performances. It lasts all day, it's very strong, and quite hard to remove. I do love the bottle, just wish its contents matched what the bottle represents.

Updated on 07/19/2025

08/31/2025

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Ursaw
174 Reviews

Ursaw

2

Of youth and avant-garde

Rose, musk and cardamom. Damp concrete and rusty steel beams barely holding together a long abandoned residential building. Sweet spices. Church bells tolling somewhere in the distance. First lights turning on in apartments across the street. Deliciously synthetic, overwhelmingly creamy. Like first timid taste of someone else's skin. Reeks of youth, and yearning, and misery. Though that last one probably comes from within.

Sillage is moderate. The cloud of rose and cream is thick and clearly visible in my immediate vicinity, but dissipates completely about an arm's length away. Takes ~2,5 hours to settle on skin. Remains first and foremost rosy. Well, that and synthetic.

Which in my book would usually be a "game over" for a perfume, but somehow I dig it. It's very... conceptual, for a lack of a better term? It is the way it is deliberately, as a feature. It's an avant-garde artwork and it nearly brings me to tears.

It's currently pretty warm – around 26°C in the room. I expect it to be less sweet and rosy in winter, but to be honest I really enjoy it as is. The fact that it falls a little short of perceived perfection adds something elusive yet very fitting to the experience.

I wonder if it would evoke such a vivid image of concrete if I didn't spray it out of a concrete covered bottle? Then I come to a conclusion that it doesn't matter. I might as well worry if I would've loved it if the girls from my fuzzy teenage memories didn't smell like this. Because of course they didn't. We all smelled like sweat and cheap smokes and our parents' apartments; and rotting trash all over the floors of that crumbling building was barely hidden by rotting leaves brought in by the wind.

But the longer you hold onto a memory, the more it mellows out and fades around the edges, and gets rosier and sweeter, until you can barely discern reality from myth. Once you get to that point, you get Concrete.

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