Comme des Garcons 2 Comme des Garcons for women and men

I smell so much patchouli and magnolia in this, far from futuristic or anything avant garde. It's like a late-90s/y2kfied cyphre. I do find it alright, but wouldn't buy a full bottle for myself.

One of my all time favorites. This was my upgrade from Acqua Di Gio. A little bit sweeter, less citrusy, greener with less bitterness.

Although I'm not a big fan of the opening which is overly green & bitter. However, they fade a way in the dry down (after 20-30 mintues) and the scent just becomes incredible and quite addicting. I really love the balance of different notes here like mandarin, tea, cedar & vetiver along with the spicy notes which provides the perfect amount of freshness while being intimate & elegant.

Definitely a must in my collection and I usually keep more than one bottle around.

I had exactly the same experience as the person who voted before me. I have worn this for years. It’s my signature scent: classy, warm, smooth, undeniable and just perfection. Today, the sample I ordered from the same place I had it from a year ago is completely wrong. I don’t like it at all. It’s definitely changed. It’s much more green. It smells completely different. I wouldn’t even buy a candle if it smelled like this.

The first time I smelled this, it was from an empty bottle of my friend's that my memory told me it was a powdery, silver dried wood. Then I just ordered some sample included this in order to explore CDG fresh department. I must say, I don't like it from the beginning and I wasn't impressed at all. It just came too flowery on my skin. I got a picture of my mum's rich friend of the 90s, taking us to a tea room with flower bouquets on tables that has absorbed the CFC from air-conditioning in humid tropical country. The dry-down is exactly as I remembered from my friend's bottle and CDG Concrete is similar to CDG2 dry-down, which I can appreciate but still too soft for me. At the end it's a good scent, but the flowers throughout the journey is too overpowering to me. Definitely pass.

Slightly metallic, inky, fruity tea. Very balanced and fresh. Addicting. I think this is a great summer fragrance actually. It warms and spices up ever so slightly in the dry down but remains fresh and easygoing the whole time. Right down the middle unisex.

Do I think it is “posthuman”? lol no. But it does smell good.

Subtle, not like the first where it radiates spice. Very work friendly. Previous poster nailed it on the head and has it right. Only some things I would wear to work especially if you’re in close quarters with others. This works well in such situations. Reminds me somewhat of White Fire, hums in the background.

I received this bottle as a mistake from a niche retailer. But wore it and I kept it especially since this is more expensive than the ordered fragrance. Love it now, especially since I know the original Commes des Garçon bottle.
A lot more refined and a next level fragrance.

God, I love this! It has been my go-to for work for the last few weeks (hospitality, can't wear anything too strong) & literally, every person I've stood next to has commented how nice I smell! I used to love CDG 1 but then it became a little too strong for my nose - this one is subtle, fresh & not headache inducing to myself or others. Very gender neutral.. It's a definite winner for me!

Comme des Garçons 2 might have been futuristic at the time of its release, but while it is unusual, it isn't avant-garde by today's standards, given the proliferation of niche perfumery and the countless boundary-pushing artistic compositions that are available as a result. That said, it is complex and unpredictable, but is overall a cohesive, wearable scent. Dry, aromatic and freshly spicy, it is a woody-musky scent, subtle on my skin.

CDG2 has an aldehydic opening, squeaky-clean and soapy rather than radiant and Chanel-like. The orange note that follows is fresh and sweet, the perfect prelude to the main event. There is muted herbal freshness up top, adding a fresh green undertone that complements the dry woodiness that follows. Magnolia adds a clean floral component, emerging early, more fresh than sweet.

As the woody accord develops on my skin, forming the backbone of this scent, soft, warm spices emerge, melding beautifully with it. Nutmeg is the most obvious spicy note to my nose, warm and biscuity, but the spice accord is more savoury than this suggests, likely thanks to the coriander and remnants of the herbal notes. Peppery and inky, as well as given some sweetness by the caraway and aforementioned nutmeg, it is compelling, adding bite to the woods.

It becomes increasingly musky as it dries down, complementing the dry woodiness to perfection. Vetiver becomes quite prominent here, dry and grassy, while the patchouli adds an earthy chypre-like quality to the base. The soft spices linger, keeping things aromatic until final fade. Sillage and longevity are moderate. It is a transeasonal, unisex day scent.

An interesting aromatic scent with dusty spice and dry herbs, CDG2 is wearable as well as unusual. Much to appreciate here, but not FBW for me. 3.5/5.

I'm a blind lover of this fragrance 😋

Lots of complexity throughout its longevity, opens with heavy burst of floral notes, mostly magnolia and patchouli, complimented with a beautiful smokiness from the incense. Dries down to a fairly different scent profile, sweet and smoky. Smells like aluminum, powdery and musky, provokes images of an airy flowery field, but with a portal to a sleek metallic white room stagnating in the middle. Best suited for artistic individuals who aim to smell unique, very memorable scent and has quickly become my signature scent.

Opens between a fresh squeezed orange juice and a refreshing yerba mate. Invigorating and lively, takes me to times I would be sitting in my friend's backyard drinking orange yerba mate cans in late spring. I get the inky marker smell about an hr later. It smells more like one of those fat aluminum Sanford Markers than a Sharpie. I think this is the citrus expanding down after the initial aldehyde explosion of the opening falling onto the skin and mingling with the spices. I like it even though it's not something I'd usually wear. Performs better outside or in a small space indoors.

I'm convinced everyone in these comments is pranking me. I got a sample of this because the reviews made it sound absolutely insane. I was so excided to smell it, but all I got in return was just a tea, incense, and very very subtle ink/rubbing alcohol scent. I for real thought I was going to turn into main character from bladerunner, but instead I became a cool little grandma that just got done picking tea leaves. I'm never trusting yall again :(

So I don't particularly hate the smell but I definitely would not wear it myself, as a mid 20s male. I bought a sample blind. Off the rip it conjures the image of my eastern European grandma, and don't get me wrong she is wonderful but some note in this fragrance has to be in one of her favorite perfumes, possibly the magnolia, angelica, or bay leaves. It is a little overpowering for my taste. I don't smell or see what most people are writing about, its not cyber inhuman utopian or robotic for me, unfortunately because those descriptions are why I decided to try this fragrance out.

two robots having a night long foreplay.

This one is insanely weird, I tried it on and it's been on my skin for about an hour now.

On my skin it smells completely inhuman, I feel like an evil robot wearing a trench coat, or some kind of a disturbing post human being, an alien, something that is completely out of this planet... I think I'm equally as intrigued by the creativity and uniqueness of this fragrance as I am disgusted and scared of the absolute craziness that this one is.. And don't even get me started on the CdG Concrete one lol.

So it is bizarre, but very artsy and interesting nonetheless. I've never smelt anything like this before.

If you are an alternative folk who is into fashion, dark experimental electronic music and raves, this one could be for you. At least that's the kind of a person i think of when i smell CdG2.

Spicy, floral, green and fresh. Good performance and niche quality. Almost smells futuristic in a way. One of my most beloved scents.

9,5/10

To me it smells like sushi.

I received a bottle of CDG2 over 20 years ago and it immediately became my signature scent.
I love how this perfume smells on me, others have tried it and it doesn’t smell as good on them.
I used to work front of house at a theater in California and every single time I wore this I got many compliments, and at least 10 people each performance would ask which fragrance I was wearing.
It is such a unique scent and a little goes a very long way, I normally am a heavy spritzer, but not with this one, a single spritz will do, it lasts all day long, and when I’m showering after wearing it and the steam starts to fill the air my entire bathroom smells like CDG2.
I have been trying to find other scents that I enjoy wearing, but so far this is my #1

There are so many notes listed and almost no flowers, but in a way this is also a floral perfume, although it's a flower grown in a humanized lab in an utopian future. Magnolia, bay, freshly squeezed orange juice and aldehydes create something which, technically speaking, smells equally clean, floral and spicy, but these tags don't explain the impression of something unnatural and yet totally approachable. This is Comme des Garcons' idea of sci-fi cleanness with a human soul. At the bottom of this composition there's an emotional accord of resins, wood and patchouli that never dominates, but makes it more complex and ornamented, as if the foundations of this imagined futuristic space are made of natural materials.
I was wondering what do we mean when we use words like "urban", "futuristic", "utopian". And my guess is that these are all architectural terms. Perfumes like this depict a surrounding. The closest way to experience future like this in our time are high tech hotels. They combine purity, disinfection, state-of-the-art technology and materials with a welcoming natural aura of wood, stone and plants.
Of all the creations I've smelled since CDG 2, there are only two that intentionally combine natural and unnatural with the same level of complexity: Panorama and Ghost in the Shell.

Created in the 90's but will still smell futuristic and avant garde in the 2050's. Best from the house of Comme des Gracons.

Android, metallic, clean, spicy, floral, with a touch of circuitry and noise. It smells like a near future dystopian cyberpunk city, but in the middle-class neighborhoods—complete with the crime and grime. I also get this vintage vibe from it, strangely familiar, I feel like I've smelled this on a grizzled and depressed uncle with a 5 o'clock shadow before, not in a bad way. There's a hint of indie print shop and someone is looking to get their zine printed.

I'm in love with this, definitely grabbing a full bottle once I finish this tester.

Stepping into a gallery space with four white walls, and on one theres a photograph depicting a cold inlet on the seaside, with rocks covered in moss and shimmers of bright light glistening against its dampness. Small, sweet flowers grow in the cracks. And in this moment you can smell it all: the freshly sliced paper of the photograph, the ink it was printed on, the earthy moss, the clarity of the sea, and the sweet light. This scent is transcendent because it is an image, articulated technically and carefully like a photograph.

I’m a big fan of CDG and on a recent trip to Japan I stopped into a store to try to find something to treat myself to. I was looking for a fragrance that would remind me of my trip there and this fit the bill.

It’s extremely unique and encapsulates Commes des Garçons in style. I tried a number of their perfumes and I liked this one the best. It’s a little “cold”, but futuristic and unique. It’s definitely not for everyone or a safe blind buy but something about it projects smoothness with my body chemistry. After getting home, it’s quickly become my signature scent which I’ve been looking for! It’s also a good value for the money, takes me on an olfactory journey in the same way other niche perfumes have, and at a reasonable price point. Definitely a 10/10 for me, I absolutely love it.

Super specific smell. After everything I read about it I concluded I should like it but at the store it turned out I can't bear this smell. Metal and ink. It's definitely very unique and maybe some will appreciate it but oh boy it would be the worst blind buy ever. More on the masculine side as well.

10/10

This peculiar potion of scent is a delightful oddity that has managed to charm its way into my olfactory affections. Originally tailored for the fairer sex, one can't help but ponder the whimsical musings that occupied the perfumer's mind during its creation. A tad smoky and a touch powdery, it unfolds with distinctive aromatics that I can only label as irresistibly alluring.

This fragrance is a true maverick, an aromatic expedition that whisks the wearer away to a faraway realm. However, I would caution against a blind acquisition; this is no scent for the faint-hearted. Rather, I implore you to embark on a personal olfactory odyssey and explore whether its charms align with your discerning taste.

Bay is really distinctive in this perfume!
And this may be both attracting for some, both repulsive
For me it's rather the latter, unfortunately
However, the smell itself is not bad at all
Just try it on your skin first!

Also, it has nothing in common with Blamage, those are completely different fragrances
(i tried them both)

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وەکی بۆنێکی بەهاری کەمەک تیژ, بۆ کەسی بە تەمەن سەرووی 40 سال و پیر باشترە نەک گەنج
مانەوەی و بلاوبوونەوەی باشە

it’s not exactly robot in the Sorayama Gynoid sense like I get with womanity, but it’s almost… uncanny in a way? whoever said it was inhuman and post life is kinda correct. backstory to the purchase, I have a few performances lined up where I’m playing this futuristic technological pop star version of my drag character, and I needed a perfume to match. I found this at my local perfumery and even without the tester, something about the reviews and that simple, scribbled 2 on the box drew me to it (I’m coming back for floriental btw but that’s another story)

I think the packaging drives a lot of that robotic aspect that people latch onto; it’s like Pat McGrath’s makeup packaging (the foil and sequins) where it’s Mylar and ration-y almost. the bottle is gorgeously simple, and the scent really just… wow.

it opens up with an aldehyde blast that seems wetter than most regular aldehydes. it’s moist, slightly humid, steamy almost. sudsy. soapy. like a l’occitane soap from the future perhaps; almost reads like a precision blast of verbena.

then the middles start coming in, and this is when it gets interesting. that precision blast weaves in and out with an earthy ink note that’s not as rank as, say, Zara’s supreme vanilla (now THAT’s a rank ink), but adds a layer of… dust? almost? there’s almost a faux warmth that never really translates, which is what I think makes this so interesting and futuristic. the caraway led spice combo really starts to show off too, laying out well with this waxy, bodied magnolia note; which again, kind of feels like a precision engineered magnolia. something birthed by a lab.

god I sound so pretentious but the drydown is something out of a post-life thing. I think there’s an aftertaste from the mid notes that reads like a cumin note, cause to me the dry down feels like an uncanny valley human in a really good way. that faux warmth with the spices really shows here where the base just feels refreshing, like holding onto a cool metal railing in the summer. I get the comparisons to old school perfumes, cause in my mind this also struck a strange chord of “wait did my grandparents or relatives wear this perfume?”; I think it really is the uncanny resemblance to older style perfumes that really drives home that feeling of post-life.

honestly, I really love this perfume. there’s something about it. it’s rather translucent, but I think for winter that’s what I might need! longevity is pretty great (as of writing this it’ll have been 6 hours since I sprayed it on my hand and it’s currently in the drydown) and sillage is good for it being an airy perfume, though it does become a skin scent over time. approved!

(ps I saw someone say this was like two robots giving backshots and I guffawed. not exactly diva but good effort!)

CDG2, like a diamond from the rough:

Earthy floral opening with hints of caraway, while the bay leaves worked so well to politely conversate with the florals... then shrouded in warm radiating cardamom tea bliss...Spicebomb OG ? The caraway note only lingers in the background momentarily. As the skin acclimatize to change, it then dissipates and segues into richly matured flowers, like opening an old make up cabinet. Towards the very end it shares a drydown that is similar on Habit Rouge - fortunately CDG2 is not as dense and does not reduce to the weird musk.

No robots / computers for me, maybe you guys just romanticising on the design, though I must applaud its Dadaist/Futurist display - like a space drink in that silver foil packaging. I think CDG2 is a fantastic introduction to the caraway/cumin note in general because it's airy and light like tea. As someone who finds cumin too potent, CDG2 carries a rarity in refinement instead, by transforming beautifully on skin. I can see this easily becoming a daily staple.

olfactory poetry

I bought it blind and definitely did not like this fragrance
it smells old and modern all at the same time
you enter the room of your grandparents who have gone out
from the bathroom about 1 hour ago. Sometimes it smells old
an apartment in which they did a partial renovation, and
after all the fragrance made it good but it's not
about me,
There are some attractive and nice smelling notes but do
there.
Definitely old school

Smells like windows XP

Bright lush clean metallic
Quirky cozy spice
Like looking really really close at an LCD screen, seeing each diode’s cool glow and then zoom out to see the image of a meadow made of thousands of them

I’m amazed by how good this one is.

The opening is like a robots breath.

Very aldehydic, metallic, aromatic and floral. It changes drastically as it gets to the later dry down phase to a more ambery and resinous scent and the spices start to come out more.

I’m definitely getting the nutmeg, caraway and coriander. I love aromatic fragrances and this one is most certainly that.

It’s awesome! Totally has the cdg floral incense vibe that’s in floriental. And the performance on this one is pretty solid. I get 6-7 hours with decent projection in the first few.

9/10

This one is an absolute stunner. Worn best in cold weather, in my opinion. Powdery deliciousness. It’s just so sexy. Reminds me of my late grandmother’s Mercedes. It was named Baby Benz. The interior smelt like a mixture of cold leather, metal, and her perfumes. This fragrance smells like lipstick and cold metal. Love it.

This is by far the best perfume I have ever used, since 2007 till now this is the greatest perfume ever for me. It is unique , classy and sophisticated. 10/10

Frosty, clean, and nuanced. Perfectly unisex. Love at first sniff, will be my signature when i get a full bottle.

Describing what this fragrance smells like would be a waste of words, just scroll down through the reviews and you'll see what I mean. This is a fragrance that is so complex that if you were to give a decant to 10 people, those 10 people would all report back with completely different notes they picked up. Truly a milestone in olfactive art and VERY ahead of its time.

My signature scent for the last year. Wearable for any season, any occasion, any outfit, any time of day. ☆

CDG2 is complex, but successfully so. It’s somehow blended white floral, spices, cinnamon, ink, wood and citrus in a way that doesn’t obnoxiously shove any individual aforementioned note in your face.

This is one of those scents that makes me wish I was a more creative writer, as I truly feel it deserves a more astounding review than I could give it.

This is one of the great oddballs of the fragrance world. At once pleasant and challenging, masculine and feminine, soapy and austere, 2 avoids all categories and usual classification. The fabled ink note is illusory- if it wasn’t suggested I don’t think I’d detect it. The opening swirls, making the wearer uncertain where this journey will end up. Ultimately, if I had to pick a category, this is a floral fragrance. What ends up lingering in me is an accord that smells very much like rose/incense I’ve experienced in other fragrances. Do I personally enjoy CDG2? Yes. My wife said I smelled like her grandmother the few times I wore it, so off to the swap bin it went. Still, it is undeniably creative, unique, and curious. Definitely worth a try if you enjoy floral fragrances with a lot of character.

vinyl blood vessels, glass eye, logarithmic spiral, solarpunk, under surveillance

Interesting this one. I think I like it. At times quite a lot and then it becomes a bit meh. I’m not sure I’d wear it much.

It opens up almost like fresh laundry - the aldehydes and light breezy florals come through strong. Slightly metallic though - think prada soapy fragrances (powder detergent) rather than a luxury diptyque-esque floral soap you get in a little packet at nice hotels.

Some of the reviews here seem to get a bit carried away. Underneath it all, it seems quite a traditional fragrance with a metallic/aldehyde sharpness over the top which does make it quite unique and interesting.

Interesting to see West Indian bay as a note. I think that note, and the slightly peppery caraway, are what bind this together underneath everything else going on.

For me this is at its best between about 15 minutes and an hour - the laundry blast has faded, and it becomes a really nice, cold floral. I don’t think this leans too feminine as some have said - in fact, I think this middle period leans slightly more masculine - it’s not a barbershop scent at all, but it has a cold, sharp, freshness, a bit like the feeling when you come out of a barbers after a short back and sides. The pepperiness of presumably the caraway comes through here too keeping it a bit masculine, as does the coriander. (The opening ten/fifteen mins is pure aldehyde soapiness so I see that as very unisex.)

Unfortunately I do then get a bit of the old lady slightly sweet floral. If it stayed at the middle notes, I’d probably wear it a lot.

This smells like the art installation called "Can’t Help Myself". If you don't know what it is, it's a robot arm scooping up fake blood. CDG 2 smells exactly like that vibe, but if the robot arm was outside, and instead of fake blood, the robot was scooping up ink.

Techno tea! CdG 2 is synthetic smelling, but not in a mineral, metallic way that the bottle might suggest. Instead, it conveys electronic and technological sensations with its curiously 'wet' aldehydes, and a bright-neon-highlighter magnolia embraced by an ozonic force field and muddled into smoked tea.

Has an 'ascending' quality throughout the sniff, like building up towards takeoff. Damp mossy bitterness in the mid interplays with the bright aldehydes to give a pseudo-chypre effect; same blueprint, different ingredients. The red tea has plenty of sugar, and grows more astringent in the back of the throat as it progresses.

Morphs very slowly and gradually; the sweetness stays but character smoothly glides from tea- into floral- dominant. Little sneaks of vanilla and labdanum from a gentle amber accord begin to take hold.

Modern art gallery on Mars.

Art gallery hard wood floor, nondescript rectangular pedestals, expansive white drywall, track lighting, little rectangle placards of off white with blank print of the title, artist, and description. Big glass windows overlooking the dusty Martian terrain.

There’s something dusty and ancient, but warm and intimate and comforting. Time immemorial, the consciousness that lies in some ancient tomb or place. Sense of wonder, mystery, curiosity, musing, but with a melancholy and longing that pings your heart. You have no idea how you got to this art gallery on Mars, and there is no imaginable way for you to return here, yet your consciousness is here, and longs to be here.

I have a moderate collection mostly of cheapies, most unfortunately rather synthetic, and mostly none of them provokes any kind of internal emotional response the way CdG2 does. Off my wrist, something about it makes my heart sink a little at the tail of inhale. Sort of have to put your nose into it to get all the vegetal subtlety, otherwise in the air, it just comes off as just a nice, somewhat feminine musky, light spicy aura.

This is one special perfume. For me it leans on feminine, because I smell aldehydes and magnolia the most. Magnolia smells a bit southern for me here, but maybe that’s just my personal opinion, because I was watching Honey Boo Boo when I was wearing it.
The ink gives this scent futuristic quality, that’s why this perfume is still modern, despite it was released in 1999.

This is a well made scent. If you are curious, check it out.

After I put on my sample I came back here to see why I ordered it... When I saw the accords graph with aromatic at the top I was confused, but then saw the ink references and yeah. I'm into fountain pens and this definitely evokes that ink if you are looking for it.

Usually I like vanilla, rose, incense, fig. Tend toward deeper, sweeter stuff. This is only mildly sweet, but not a challenging scent to me even though aldehydes are not my usual thing. This is really pretty, and interesting, and I'll have to see how it wears over the day but at this point I'm thinking I'll need a bottle. One more thing, I've developed an over sensitivity to patchouli as I've explored fragrances, and it doesn't bother me here at all.

it’s an ink cartridge, a metal spoon on your tongue, a weak lemon iced tea.

I’m in delight!
Wanted to test it long time ago and just got a decant today. And it’s… beautiful!

This frag is an intimate one, it holds close to your skin, but it’s not a problem for me personally as I planned to use it while relaxing.
It’s chilling in a calming way, it makes you feel safe and comfortable. It also awakens a beautiful scene and that’s what I like in frags!

Number 2 puts you into an old apartment or even a house, it’s from you memories - like a returning to something old and drawing in the meaning of “alluring” not “seductive”. The dust dances in the rays of fading light percolating through the curtained windows; cooled down mate tea with mandarin zest awaits you in the kitchen next door; and you can notice that there were some flowers in the bowl in the room, you can clearly smell their later presence; you can smell the stained glass of an old sideboard and even some vintage perfumery kept in this house by its former owners.

Thanks I can smell zero cinnamon as I’m in hatred with this note. It’s mostly about laudanum, angelica, aldehydes, mandarins, different tea varieties, ink and magnolia. It’s not sweet and clearly unisex, out of age and time. It really feels like the time is stopped around you while you smell this frag.
Delicious! Pure perfection! I’ve expected something like this and I got what I wanted. 10/10, I swear.

Such a complex fragrance, I like it, but it leans masculine to me. I'd love to smell it on a man.

Supremely well blended, the layers of this perfume peel back slowly over time. The opening of mandarin rinds is prominent when first sprayed for me, but it's the first to fade away too. A bouquet of light flowers follows, which slowly becomes more transparent. And just as you think this scent has nothing more to give, there, right above the skin, hovers a slightly woody warm remnant.

It isn't particularly natural-smelling, but never screechy. Because it's so well-rounded it's pretty wearable too. Unisex, more of a day-time scent, but fits anywhere really. Sits close to the skin for most of the duration.

Angelica, Vetiver, aldehydes plus some mandarin and incense. Some days I hate it, other days I love it. This reminds me a lot of L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu, I guess it's the prominent but soft vetiver with the watery, slightly smoky fruit note

sorayama robot crushing a mandarin with her stiletto....FIERCE!!! i love how you can smell it as either very clean, metallic and sterile or dark and dankly incensed depending on what you focus on... you can read it as a brand new stainless steel kitchen- staged for the open home with a bowl of mandarins- or a dusty cellar stocked with spices and tea, the door opened for the first time in years. the way it transforms from an aldehydic initial spray to incensed dry-down is like a gentle slap- a light sting, tingling for a moment then warmth as blood rushes to the surface.

This has NOTHING to do with Blamage. Totally different scents.

My absolute favourite. A light fragrance that works well in high humidity and smells very retro-futuristic.

The comeback of the fangirl from Comme des Garçons, episode 128.

Well... as usual, and no matter which nose is behind the creation, it's very very good. Beautiful, light, almost floral-fruity tea-magnolia top notes, overlaid (really an overlay, not replacing one with the other) with drier, more laurel-coriander, very lively notes; then an opening with both cedar-mate-vetiver notes... ah... I love it.

I have a very indescribable almost mushroom-like aspect in the background, which adds to the long list of mystery notes that are the hallmark of the house.

The drydown is extremely complex, and relatively impossible to put into words as well (windy, wet, metallic, dry and dark green spices closet, lye), but it's a very big treat.

In short, completely approved and savored. Thank goodness they're here, sometimes. On the other hand, my +1 thinks it's too "sweet" (I don't know if that's the best way to describe it) for her expectations, so test anyway before you buy. As for me, it suits me perfectly. In any case, I'm going to dig a little deeper into Mark Buxton's creations.

The opening is very green, walking in the woods after it rains with a cup of herbal tea. The mid is musky, almost powdery spicy warmth and dry down is sweet amber. It is a unique scent that changes a lot through the hours. Leans masculine.

I was recommended to try this from a friend who absolutely loves it. The concept of Japanese calligraphy is very cool so I decided to try it out. Cinnamon, magnolia, ink, aldehydes, bay leaf, tea, oakmoss,coriander, nutmeg, patchouli, cedar and vetiver is what I get.

I believe this inspired the astronomically expensive Le Labo City Exclusive Mousse De Chene which is one of my favorites from that house, so this is an easy like for me. But this is actually much more complex than that one. It's sharp but also soft and even a bit powdery/dusty on the drydown.

I can see why this was considered futuristic for it's time, and still holds up 2022. You will smell different than others, but it also smells good and is wearable. If you want a beast mode version of this with more bay leaves, medicinal vibe and oakmoss, try Mousse De Chene. Very interesting and definitely one to try at some point if you are a collector.
Besides MDC, nothing else I have ever smelled, smells like this. So for 99.99% of the population, this will be a new and fun experience, and it does fit with the Japanese calligraphy inspiration. 🌃

Scent 7.5/10
Performance 6.7/10

Abstract.
As Love.
As Art.
Beautiful

I had to get it again after a few years. Such a unique and elegant scent.

It's solid smooth metalic surface, just like the bottle; with some herbal, nutty and a little spicy notes on the top.
As someone said "it's the perfume of future". It's unique.

My bottle is a bit old (since ~2015) and I recently sampled a new bottle. If anything, I’d say the new bottle is a touch smoother and better blended. What’s for sure is, worry not about reformulations with this one.

As for the scent itself, a masterpiece. Very smooth aldehydes that dry into a big dose of magnolia along with tea and other natural tea-like spices (nutmeg, coriander, patchouli, etc).

If a tea farmer were to serve me a very natural freshly-harvested tea (meaning it has some earthiness but also complexity and a hint of sweetness in the smell/taste), this is how I’d imagine it. Add magnolia and sweet smooth aldehydes to it, and a bit of incense.

And incredible combo. Perhaps not for ones who dislike herbal or earthy notes, but I think the aldehydes and magnolia balance it out that no one is going to hate per se. If you love magnolia, you’ll enjoy this.

Това е един от моите любимци, които са част от мен и буквално ме хипнотизират и когато го нося сякаш всички други са излишни. Страхотно бижу.

This is one of my favorites in the realm of CDG's treading between natural elements and the willfully synthetic. Many are fascinating, but do not quite translate to full wearability, certainly not versatility. With CDG 2, however, even as the metallic, refractive aldehydes blast in the open with layers of opalescent herbs, there is a shimmer that is compelling, even somewhat inviting. A bit of musky warmth comes from what is perceived as angelica root.

I get a lot of mandarin aldehyde, the smell of the peels magnified tenfold, served with high-tannin green tea served in saucer magnolias and the ghost of bay rum as we enter the heart, and all of a sudden I hear Dusty Springfield singing "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" with the Pet Shop Boys and I am surrounded by mirrors and shimmers. I have never been one to huff ink from its well but I get a bit of permanent marker here, used to draw doodles on the mirrors.

As it dries down, the new song is Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies", more specifically the video, where there's that technique of painting over the film and everything is impressionistic. It smells like Christine McVie's voice now, as caraway is handed over as a palate cleanser and things get more incensed and resinous. I am reminded of the peculiar but addictive aroma of a lot of steam coming from hot running water or even dry ice, verging on sweet but still, so hard to explain.

CDG 2 is bewitching and futuristic; it's not nearly as high-falutin' experimental inaccessible as one might expect. It's great.

I don’t know what ink is supposed to smell like and I think everyone’s lying when they say they smell it but to me this smells like slightly burnt orange peels and rubber bands and metal. It smells like the future. I love it but you should definitely smell it for yourself before you buy it.

Ink and herbs. Smells like a pungent tikka masala spice inside a fresh printed paper. It's on your face with crazy projection and trails. But don't worry it eventually transforms to a really pleasant drydown. It just "different" from the rest

I just blind bought this. Very cute how you open the box and the bottle is in a silver bag. The fragrance opens in a slightly old fashioned way but it’s not old fashioned at all. And it’s the perfect unisex perfume. If I was to name a perfect example of a unisex fragrance, it would be this one. It reminds me of visiting stationary shops in my home town before the start of the school year when I was a child. The smell of fresh paper, new text books and scented coloured pens. This is not a particularly strong fragrance. It doesn’t take over. So it’s very comfortable to wear. Beautiful.

The first time i tried this was on a hot summer day, it just disappeard and was a tad nauseating. But then i tried it a few months later, on a rainy cold autumn day and it's just amazing. I had given up on this perfume and i'm very happy that i decided to give it another go. For some strange reason it's all over the place, green, floral, spicy, aldehydic, woody, cold, warm, feminine and masculine, but it still feels so perfectly blended and put together. It really is a masterpiece and a milestone in perfumery.

I am wearing a small sample of this, but I get the sense you need to apply this scent quite liberally to get the full effect. With this paltry sample size, I can tell it is beautiful but it disappears like a ghost.

Aldehydic, bitter-inky, patchouli-labdanum chypre, very mysterious. Very interesting. Beautiful. Feels like a perfumery landmark or milestone...

It’s very….herby. I am not one for tea fragrances so this does not fit the bill for me. It’s smells like a spice cabinet. Also there is an earthiness to it as well. It’s also reminds me of artificial sweetener.

Honestly, this smells a lot like a cucumber lemonade, or something of that effect. Fresh, but earthy? Slightly sweet, but also slightly savoury? I’m not sure. I personally love it, but I understand that it’s such a unique fragrance that individual accounts are hard to go by. You have to try this yourself.

I don’t know what’s in your bottles but this Buxton creation is a beautiful, transparent rose with woody background. No ink, not moody, a genderless shapeshifter. I wonder why rose is not on the list of notes as it clearly is here. I’m binging this right now and aim to continue until I stop for whatever reason.

I just don’t get it. Purchased a sample to try it out. It’s boring, dated and not at all unusual or avant-garde as I was led to believe.

2 reminds me of the Rorschach inkblot test. Conveniently, ink is included as a note. 2 can smell like anything - the descriptions are merely reflections of the psyche of every individual. For some, the complexity is overwhelming - but if you see the bigger picture, 2 is pleasantly familiar, comforting, and not even that weird at all :)

You run out of work, merging into the darkness of a narrow alley. Small prickly pieces of ice hit right in the face. “Black night, white snow, wind, wind, a man can't stand, wind, wind all over God's world.” — You repeat it like a mantra. Here is the exit to the main street. The blizzard intensifies, the snow bites defenseless skin, and the air burns the nostrils. How delicious it smells, though. A red "M", similar to a fragment of a cardiogram, caught your eyes, and a moment later you dive into the subway.

Comme des Garçons Parfums 2 smells like the warmth of thousands of human bodies, condensation on steel structures, dust, creosote and hidden aggression. Unlike anything else, aloof and unearthly, bewitching with its power aroma, 2 Eau de Parfum is a punk, introversion and total deconstruction. It opens with a tense, dissonant chord of pungent aldehydes, bitter ink, citruses and laurel. Vetiver, ink and metal — this is what the black goo from low-budget horror movies could smell like. And then there is only a black background in front of the mind's eye. Hieronymus Bosch would love it.

In my opinion it smells like the slightly blooming licorice plant, absolutely unisex and very pleasant to wear.

just wonderful, so bright and optimistic, incredibly wearable, yet an indescribable iconoclast. peach ice tea. dewy grass. purple berries. smoke. glowing amber. pure olfactory bliss ❤️

Smells like turkish delight

Comme des Garcons 2 smells so beautifully of youth. Not only does it present a light bouquet of aromatics and other springtime notes, but it wears very lightly and does not seem overwhelming. Moreover, the notes are blended unusually with the "ink" note (whatever that is in actuality) providing a metallic underpinning that makes it seem very postmodern.

It's hard to separate out many of the notes in here, because they are beautifully blended, but the orange (which does not predominate) is certainly evident and ups the freshness ante.

Yes, I have it, it's really good, it got a valid grade from me, I recommend it to friends who want to get it

Unfortunately this reacts with my skin in a way that I can smell mainly very strong cheap rose note (the very headachy one). Then a bit of incense and wood,l. The notes really don’t change, just slowly linearly dry out. Definitely not something I feel attracted to, and whenever I wear this, my partner complains.

I just adore it...

This guy again.
Its a paradox to me.
While I love it I can’t wear it in a long run.
It opens floral aldehydic citrusy inky where ink is not bold enough and you need to practice your nose to find ink at top note.
As time passes ink become bolder and it becomes a true masterpiece , so take your time.
Buy it if you are patient enough to reach to heart and bottom note as the top note may not that kind of art you are looking for.
Buy it if and only if :1) you are familiar to CDG other fragrances 2) you’ve tested it before 3) you are patient and independent.
4/5
Age;+35
Projection is good and longevity is eternal.
Autumn nights and winter days.(it has the potential to be worn whole year if you choose the appropriate weather condition wisely.)

Alright, here comes my first review.

Many have described this perfume as futuristic, possibly due to the cool silver packaging, but to my nose, this perfume is unapologetically Post-Modern. It is playful, fragmented, multifaceted and unpredictable.
Comme Des Garçons 2 is the smell of insubordination. You think you are wearing it, but it is in fact wearing you!

It’s a perfume that envelops you with a haunting aura that projects mystery and charm. It is not for the faint of heart. Only a confident edgy woman will easily pull it off, any time any day- so would a daring man who’s seen (and smelled) it all.

It is warm but also green, lightweight but long-lasting, it’s delicious but not a gourmand, sophisticated but simple. This scent is oh so hard to describe.
I can detect ink, similar to the smell of freshly traced calligraphy letters. I can detect a non-conventional Patchouli, other than that, I find it impossible to put my finger on the notes. Totally untamed.

This fragrance was a gift from an awesome fraghead comrade of mine, and the moment I smelled it, I was like Wooooah! Where has this perfume been all my life? Oh yes, it is that good.
Bottom line is, if you put your hands on it, do not give it to anyone! (Wearing it today and not only feeling great, but also got 2 compliments!)

Quite possibly my favourite fragrance of all time. Yes.

moment of truth, to make the long story short, This is regal, stand out, and not from this world's perfume. total abstract and a master piece.

The first perfume I chose for myself, utterly unlike the scents of my mother’s and grandmothers’ generations. It smells like geometric shadows, it really does. Sometimes I go months without wearing it, especially in the summer, but I always come back.

Chameleon. Seems like the notes are hard to find reliably, or they come out like random whack a moles, but the chypre structure is really really solid. Today I'm getting rose! And a funny type of powder that I associate with the unintentional backside of Cool Water's aquatic note.
This is surprisingly fruity on me as well.
Anyway, it's like how I feel about Coriandre; I know it's a great perfume but it's out of my league. CDG 2 is so weird. Normal rules apply, and yet it feels alien. An alternate universe--I am struck uncanny.

Greatest fragrance ever made. Blind Buy do it !

Pretty weird. Hard to describe. I think it leans feminine. A bit powdery. Do not blind buy. Dislike.

Bubblegummy, extremely reminiscent of the pink Ceclor antibiotic syrup.
Of course, a fragrance which brings back childhood memories of times of sickness is a no-go.

4/10

Im using it since many years and i love it. Its one of the smells that is perfect to wear it in any season and smells rich.

Ink, with dusty nutmeg and vanillic touches. A very addicting scent!
I agree with the reviewer below, who said the fragrance gives different results with each wear. It really does! On occasion, the notes of mandarin orange, tea, and magnolia vary in their development and produces a different result almost every time.
The fragrance has moderate projection and longevity, 7+ hours. Due to its aromatic nature, I'd recommend it as an autumn & spring scent.

I would suggest it as a unisex fragrance, however, it does lean slightly masculine as a result of its background spices. But don't let that stop you from wearing it!

Try it if you can, a very interesting wear.

-Opens softly with a mild, woody note.
-CdG 2 is the softest, most comforting vetiver I've ever smelled- its more feminine than the vetiver in Creed's Vetiver Geranium.
-There's an addictive quality to this scent.
-This scent brings to mind a steaming mug of herbal tea on a cold rainy day.
-Leans masculine.
-The inky note can be off-putting to some. Sample before you buy.

*Update*
-I made myself finish a 2ml of this and here's up my updated thoughts on CdG 2.
-It's an unusual yet soothing scent. Like an ice-cold stainless steel ice cube on a sweltering hot summer day.
-I still don't find it wearable on a daily basis. But layered with a (linear) woody scent like Aesop-Rozu, it's perfection!
(Except, i dont see myself getting a bottle of CdG 2 anytime soon. It's a bit of a unicorn- tough to locate a bottle where I'm based. Besides, I wouldn't wear it without Rozu..a scent which i don't own a bottle of as I wouldn't wear on it's own - it's a touch too linear and 'dry' for me.)
-Overall, if you find this unwearable and want to experiment with layering scents, I'd strongly recommend getting your hands a small decant of Rozu by Aesop. The dampness in CdG 2 is grounded by the dryness in Rozu. And blended together..its one of the most beautiful scents ever.
-Fbw if you enjoy layering scents and don't mind having a fragrance that isn't 'standalone' in your collection. (+)

Had a feul load of intoxicaticaing notes then balanced out with mate. Mark Buxton your a gun, job well done there. Still the greatest fragrance of all time one hell of a mighty chypre!

Had a 1.5ml sample I got for free with an order from noseparis.

On paper I got green tea, on clothes it reminded me more of oolong tea, and on skin I got cold slightly woody musk.

I think I like it, the problem is it was hard to get a good impression of the whole of this fragrance wearing it because the atomizer on the sample was busted and it just sprayed out large droplets of the juice so I kinda had to rub it on where it landed.

Couple things I thought it reminded me of with what I could smell through wearing this was creeds pure white cologne perhaps mixed with silver mountain water.
It also reminded me of that woody iso e / better than your skin type musky scents, but cold.

Definitely pretty interesting, it felt refreshing. I think I want it.

Here goes my first review.

I see that some fellow reviewers got hung up about this fragrance being silvery/avant-garde/post-human sci-fi (probably being over-influenced by the bottle design) and -presumably after seeing the notes listed above- a bit too heavy on the ink. Not unlike the reviews I see on Mugler Alien and other lines as such. I beg to differ.

I find this bad boy not to be a silvery/cold/"too futuristic" concoction, but an oriental chypre reminiscent of YSL Opium line (both the original and pour homme), Chanel No. 5 and such, and it has that spicy, powdery "auntie's house" quality that kicks in right after its massive nutmeg&coriander-ish spicy opening. It's probably the combo of aldehydes, patchouli, vetiver and various flowers that does it. There's a bit of dark, wet-leaf quality to it, which it owes to a vague tea-ink combo, I think.

It tends to turn into this comforting wrist-turner with its warm, heady, boozy sillage within a few hours. Definitely unisex. CDG2 is a new favourite of mine and a delicious fresh kick after vanilla and anise bombs I generally use.

Edit: Upon further inspection, I stand corrected about the ink stuff. This juice is a true shapeshifter and gives different results with pretty much every spray as many fellow reviewers pointed out & it genuinely smells like how I imagine the studio from Bendy and the Ink Machine does, an hour or so after the initial heady spicefest. Henceforth, this is getting lovelier by the day.

I did a blindbuy (big mistake). It's not what i expected. I'm going to say that it's not that unique. It smells a lot like Florida Water (Agua de Florida). It is also a little bit woody. Yes there is the smell of paper, but it smells more like money (I was hoping for a toner smell, like a fresh printout). But everything is drowned out by the aggressive Florida Water like scent (I'm guessing it's the Aldehydes, but I'm not sure). It also smells a bit like Aspen Cream (probably the incense). So it has a very strong association for me with mature women (I'm a guy). The Aspen Cream like scent and the money scent stay in the dry down. It would probably be an OK (still not great) scent, if the Florida Water and Aspen Cream notes were weaker.

I have no complaints about the performance. 2 sprays easily stayed on my shirt for days. Even when I wasn't wearing this shirt, I smelled it as soon as I entered the same room. I decided to just to wash it off after about 5 days. I also tried it on my skin, on which it smells about the same.

I get that reviewers who never smelled Florida Water, would call it out of this world and futuristic, which i think is kind of funny. I guess it's true what they say "What's old is new again". I think the reviewers here are focusing too much on the faint notes, which gives the wrong impression.

Scent: 1/5 (I really didn't like it and was expecting something more unisex. Maybe i can sell it)
Sillage 5/5 (Very good but I did not dare wear this out)
Longevity: 5/5 (No complaints here)
Price: 4/5 (The performance is great, if you like the scent)

Firstly Autumn the most popular season for this? Really! This is a spring scent through and through. Although autumn is the only other season you could also wear it, but it lacks any warmth for autumn. Metals, plants, ink and aldehydes. It’s completely unique and creatively brilliant. Not always easy to wear however and sometimes off putting. I give it a love instead of a like purely because of its uniqueness, but I don’t always like to wear it. Very futuristic or avant-garde as many below have said.

العطر هذا تحفه فنيه وماله مثيل ويحبوه اصحاب الطبقة المخملية وينفع للجنسين

If Black Mirror had a scent then this would be it. It smells futuristic... Definitely a unique scent!

OK, i would just say it.... This is the best perfume ever made. OFG is more focused, crowd pleasing, louder, darker, but this just drags me out of reality and takes me out of this world. It's the most original perfume ever made, the most zen perfume, the most charming one.

i LOVE 2 as a candle so i wanted to see how it would fare on my skin; unfortunately i think it performs much better as a home scene (the candle has nice throw as well). initial spray is strong on the sumi ink note and dries down to a more mellow patchouli. for some reason this becomes a skin scent on me after about an hour

Comme des Garçons 2 is a zen perfume to me. I imagine myself practicing shodō in a garden. Most of the time I smell the aquatic magnolia near the pond, the dry angelica root, the herbal quality of the mate, and the green verdance of the vetiver. Other times I sense a very dry and powdery chypre rose, not quite different from the great chypre rose perfumes from the 70’s but much more subdued. It reminds me of past times but focused on the future, if that makes any sense.
When I wear CDG2 I feel that everything is still and quiet, I am at peace with myself and the world that surrounds me. CDG2 makes me feel grounded and centered amidst the chaos. It’s definitely my most beloved anchor perfume.

Possibly one of the best fragrances ever made. Quite unique in its own beautiful way, it's the ink, magnolia and angelica that makes this fragrance quite special. Brilliant sillage and longevity.

If you ever get your hands on a bottle of this, hold onto it...nothing like it, and so special. My new signature scent, and I dont wear it every single day because you dont have the luxury of randomly bumping into it, on the cheap. I cant remember the last time I saw a 3oz bottle of this on fragrancenet or fragrancex, in other words Every now and then, you'll see this pop up in EBay, but not often...and when you do, the price tag, is usually hilarious. Im not exaggerating when I say I bought 3oz of it, for 80 bucks on EBay. And Im almost certain the person had no idea how much they really could've gotten for it..or they were so desperate, they didnt want to wait longer if they had priced it higher.

I really like this stuff. To me, this is typical of Comme des Garcons...always giving you something off center and strange, sorta like the emblem on the bottle. I like to think this is 'old school-chypre meets new school-herbaceous'. Solid longevity...solid sillage...solid packaging, which does have some value w/ purchasing, truth be told...and a well put together perfume. It wasn't mished-mashed at all....Comme des Garcons' best fragrance, in my opinion.

Edit: West Indian Bay Leaf 🍃

The fragrance scents sweet and inky at the first moment when the bottle is opened. Together with the inky notes noticeable are aldehydes and magnolia with presence of some spices, while on my skin it changes toward a lovely mix of aldehydes and spices (espeically coriander). The fragrance reminds me of a walk in a pine tree forest in a sunny day, the the air is sweet, fresh and warm and the tree needles and creamy sand on the road are tickling your bare feet. There is nothing that would be too much or lack in the fragrance which gives a thoughtful feeling to it just like a well-dong work of calligraphy.
The sillage is noticeable, but not obtrusive, and the longevity is very nice, around 10 hours.

I wouldn't call this elegant or beautiful. Nor would I call it weird. it is interesting and very cool, and it has an addictive quality to it.

Floral aldehydes takes the center stage at det very beginning, along with soapy coriander and cedar wood, and it stays. The perfume is pretty linear and the sillage is perfect - more than this would be nauseating. It smells a lot more like sweet chalk than glossy ink. But it doesn't surprise me, after all it is a chypre. It reminds very much of my climbing gym. Do I want to smell like my climbing gym, without the sweat? I don't know. It also reminds me of a cedar wood bracelet I bought many years ago in Lebanon. A very atmospheric scent indeed.

Would be great on a festival, a concert, a fun trip, a relaxed evening out with friends. Late spring and summer. I would say it leans feminine, but twitching my mind just a little, I can easily see guys pull this off. I am drawn to this.

I bought this fragrance because of its weirdness and uniqueness, the scent is beautiful and the performance is excellent, but it is not suitable for all tastes.

This fragrance was first brought to my attention on /fa/ board on 4chan. A guy posted CdG 2 as a picrel with a brief greentext: "tfw when I spray it on myself and walk around smelling like Mark Rothko's million dollar painting". Intrigued by that comparison I bought a 5 ml sample and I have to admit: never have I agreed so much with any perfume description. This smells like I would imagine Picasso's or Kooning's painting studio to smell.

wow i totally get the "in the city of sin" vibe ! i don't think it has similarities with timbuktu but definitly i won't buy the kilian, having this one! this one is the spring version of "itcos" !that's really unique and bottle worthy , totally unisex , slighly sweet , beautiful!

-Opens softly with a mild, woody note.
-CdG 2 is the softest, most comforting vetiver I've ever smelled- its more feminine than the vetiver in Creed's Vetiver Geranium.
-There's an addictive quality to this scent.
-This scent brings to mind a steaming mug of herbal tea on a cold rainy day.

*Update*
-The inky note is a bit off-putting after a while.
-Leans a tad too masculine for my liking. (-)

*Refer updated review above*

Like Luca Turin rightly observed, the internal structure of this thing is based on the giant 1980s rose chypres: Knowing, Montana Parfum de Peau, and so on. (Jack from TPN has a great take on this as well, for those of you who know.) However, grafted on to the inky and leathery rose body is a brilliant and shimmering tangerine note—it's the same fizzy coca cola tangerine that appears at the opening of Tauer's "Incense Rose" (which could be seen as a sort of softer and spicier take on this same concept). I haven't tried his "Une Rose Chypree" but it would be interesting to compare that with this one.

This is slightly quieter and lighter than the classic 80s rose chypres, but still very good quality—it lasts for hours and hours on skin, and days on clothing. It's also totally unisex: ornate and surprising on a man, intensely feminine on a woman. I totally understand some of the the weirder descriptions that pop up in some of the other reviews (ink, copy machines, rubber plants), but I don't think that moves this one outside the realm of safe blind buys. If you like rose scents or generally feel adventurous, this is absolutely a safe blind buy.

This is peculiar. It’s glossy. Ink. Bright but dark at the same time. You need to take your time to get to know this weird guy. Upon spraying you can smell something like... a magazine with a bunch of perfume strip.. like a scratch and sniff type. And you just quickly do the thumb thing to play with pages for a quick second. Doesn’t point to a certain note but you appreciate the vibe lol. It’s strong and poignant. It’s cold but you have the urge to understand it. Take your time. 8/10

Ok, finally I smelled this, and WOW! just WOW, I looooooove it, so sexy, really lovely, unique, clean, fresh, earthy, woody, ok let me tell u if you got bored of the typical women fragrances just try this one. I wanna kill myself, I expect this to be good but not this much good :)), I can not believe it was launched in 1999, definitely can be a signature scent, so memorable. Totally worth a full bottle.

This review is for CDG scents as a whole:

A post-human, post-life world. James Lovelock's Novacene. The unholy copulation of vegetal and machine.

Genetically-modified, sentient plants and artificial intelligence as one.

Of this world?

Of many worlds.

I tried them all today. I felt violated by something not of this Earth. They incited strong emotional reactions, my stomach still unsettled from the vulgar inhumanity. I have never experienced this with a commercial scent.

Yet they were evocative. Personal. Like an alien lifeform reading my mind and conjuring dreams and nightmares from a past life.

These are concept scents. Beautiful concepts. Absolute irreverence to the beauty of olfaction and human allure. High Concept art in cold-cut commercial form. Robot sex. Frigid concrete and glass rooms. Vicious vegetation. Forests in Venus. Cathedrals built in reverance to a God rid of humanity, the incense still burning. Metal. Rust. Abandoned buildings with overgrowth. The stench of what was.

CDG 2: Cold metal, almost tactile. The blackest of inks. Juxtaposition of opposites, aldehydes and incense. Sweet and unforgiving. Dazzling longevity.

Have tried to scrub it off twice since this morning (now evening as I write this). I still get whiffs of ink.

I love this, but it's quite simple for me: berries. It's not overly sweet although I could imagine it maybe being cloying on a bit day, but upon first spray I just get JUICY and this purple berry feeling persists. My ex used to wear this and so I can vouch for how good it is on a man, and now many years later I thought I'd revisit it. It certainly sits differently on my skin than on his, it's edible, almost, very long lasting and pleasingly unisex. It's moreish and provocative, sweet and flattering. But definitely berries!

Wow, this one is hard to explain. CdG2 is extremely avant garde and worthy of the Comme des Garcons brand.

On my skin, CdG2 smells like opening a brand new glossy magazine on a frigid bright winter day. It remarkably captures the inky, rubbery, and smooth scent of a thick glossy magazine pages, evoking with it all the glamour and nostalgia.

The opening notes of CdG2 are piercing, blindingly bright aldehydes, metallic and sharp, the urbane successor of YSL Rive Gauche. It's exceptionally potent, and sniffing too close is the olfactory equivalent of staring into the sun, blinding your nostrils. The opening seems to be going for abrasively synthetic and alien, eschewing anything resembling natural materials.

Through the aldehydes, you can peak the woody-floral heart of fatty magnolia and cool-toned ink/tea/incense. Wafted from a distance, I’m getting an intriguing cold ink/tea vibe, similar in mood to Lalique Encre Noire (although the actual scents are nothing alike). This is the phase that smells like a magazine wrapped in plastic, and forms the central DNA of the fragrance to me.

As the aldehydes peel off even further, I can get in closer to pick up spices-- some nutmeg, bay leaf, and coriander. It never gets overtly spicy, but just warms up on the skin over time, getting slightly ambery and musky in the ultimate drydown.

Strange, intense, urbane, you're gonna have to try it yourself. Oh, and 1000% unisex.

To me it smells very similar to Timbuktu Lartisan. Very good longevity aswell. Because it’s not so heavy i could see myself wearing it all year around. Thumbs up

I have tried a few CdG fragrances and generally like them, but this took me completely by surprise. I bought a mini for my partner (who's a typographer), thinking he would enjoy a perfume with ink note. We tried it together, but it smelled completely different on each of us.
2 was rubbery and linear on his skin, where aldehydes were the most prominent note, and there was no trace of ink whatsoever. We could detect some fleeting spices, especially coriander, but no woods nor patch.
Instead, 2 behaved like a scent rollercoaster on my skin. Initially, it was all sharp aldehydes and coriander too, but after an hour or so, the sweetness toned down, becoming much more woody and bitter, and I could finally perceive the ink note. This phase lasted for some four hours, and now, in the late dry-down, I get a sultry, smoky scent supported by cinnamon, nutmeg, and amber.
Occasion-wise, it suits any weather but hot summers. As it's such a unique scent, I think anyone with the right chemistry could rock it either in a ballgown or pajamas. The projection is never too invasive, and it lasts for quite a while as a skin scent.
I must admit I was thinking about reselling my mini, as I'm not the biggest fan of aldehydes. However, I'll give it a serious ride before deciding whether to dismiss it due to the aldehydic phase, as the rest of the experience is really something.

8/10

This is an amazing perfume, i love it and im usually not into floral scents, this really has a twist to those typical floral scents which makes it very interesting/unique.

2 sprays and i radiated 12 hours with this beast so i advise being easy on the trigger.

Overall 9/10

Awesome! Fresh, floral, aldehydes with an amber orange drydown, the ink provides a kind of kick. A real spring / summer fragrance. Super stuff! 94

I love this stuff but it sadly does not last more than an hour on my skin.

As someone previously stated - smells like alien abduction.
Good/Fitting scent for Aquarius.

This is such a beautiful, calming fragrance that lasts a long time. It's so perfectly blended. I'm really impressed. I bought an almost full 100ml bottle for $60 and it was well worth it. My first CDG fragrance and I'm blown away.

I have to be honest, I know nothing about perfume. I just started using it because I quit smoking and I want to smell better. I feel like there's a lot of ridiculous reviews all across this website, overly wordy, extremely pretentious, the whole works. Maybe my nose will get better one day and I'll actually be able to tell what's in this and that it smells like "calligraphy." But today, I'll just say - this is a great perfume. I have no clue what it smells like, but I, as well as the people around me, greatly enjoy it. It last a while, and people near me can smell it without telling me it's too much. I enjoy the bottle design a lot. I am glad I purchased this, and will probably start my newfound hobby with another CDF perfume.

A rather hard-to-describe scent; it has many parts but smells like one cohesive whole at the same time. It has a somewhat bright opening thanks to aldehydes and a somewhat camphoraceous/herbal note due to the bay and angelica. Some light white florals - supposedly magnolia but is rather nondescript in reality - acts like a satin veil over the entire composition. Its lightness is juxtaposed against the slightly spicy and dry notes of nutmeg and mate tea.

Further into the drydown, I detect notes of transparent patchouli (probably thanks to Clearwood or related materials) and ashy incense. These aren't smoky or earthy, but are instead smooth and slightly medicinal, and help paint the illusion of an "ink" note. This isn't quite the cold metallic inkiness of Creed's Silver Mountain Water or Zoologist's Squid; it's definitely warmer and more textured with a slightly warm ambery base.

I found that it had a similar vibe to Etat Libre d'Orange's Jasmin et Cigarette, although the former was sweeter and lusher. CdG 2 is definitely more austere, but this DNA - a light, Hedione-fuelled transparent floral juxtaposed against a warmer, darker base - instantly reminded me of Jasmin et Cigarette.

Moderate projection and longevity; I can see this being worn in spring. Definitely one of the more approachable CdG fragrances.

Много чист, елегантен,различен.Създава ми асоциация с въздух, пространство и същевременно самовглъбеност.

(December 2019) The first time I smelled this, it was an instant classic for me. It's totally unique, so well blended that I just can't tell the notes. It's maybe a bit more feminine leaning in my personal opinion, but the thing with this is that it's kind of a feminine scent (maybe because of the soapy aldehydes) without the typical floral bouquet smell. It's elegant, classy, luxurious, one of a kind. There's something vintage about it (again, probably the aldehydes), yet it's timeless and modern at the same time.

My girlfriend loved it too, so I bought her a full bottle.

In my mind it conjures images of green, white and silver, a woman in a Mucha painting, she wears a pale green dress and white blossom flowers in her hair, a goblet of sparkling white wine in her hand as she descends a spiraling art nouveau staircase. Through the roof window shines the light of a giant silver UFO that hangs in the air over her house.

I hope, no I pray CdG will never discontinue this magnificent perfume! It's gorgeousness and gorgeosity made scent!

💙💛💚

Beautiful, ethereal, futuristic and mysterious. So well blended that I can’t easily discern the individual notes but it’s a stunning, understated and highly original composition. Perfectly unisex and very versatile - can be worn in any season. Not remotely loud or aggressive, it is quietly assertive, quite delicate yet not at all weak; projection and longevity are more than adequate. It seems to morph through many very different stages, like some kind of shapeshifter, which is quite fascinating.
I find overall it gives off a very otherworldly but calming vibe.
I absolutely love it, what a superb creation!

I just can't get enough of this one, e real coup de coeur!

Interesting and creative fragrance. I wouldn't wear it though, and could become quickly boring imo.

That dog on the picture gets it right. CDG2 is fresh and stale at the same time. It smells of tea that was made a few days ago. Of flowers dipped in ink. Of the wrong underwear. Of amber on sick leave.
It is fantastic, and surprisingly wearable. I consider CDG2 Man to be better, but CDG are in top form with this one as well.
****(*)

I love this! However, I don't seem to find it as strange as most people do.

It opens with a herbal sweetness that evokes dried vegetation.

As it evolves it gets fuller and slightly sweeter and introduces a slight sharpness with the bay leaf and the synthetic edge of the ink. It's very cool! Gives it an avant-garde high fashion feel.

The drydown is sublime too, Smoky, hazy and subtly sweet with labdanum resin. I love it.

I can't really gender this fragrance, it's more of a state of mind. However, I would love this on a guy with a personality that could carry it.

I can only imagine that if I had been abducted by aliens from my bed overnight, this is what their sweat would have smelled like. I love how despite being a gift from an extraterrestrial civilization it still smells good to our humanly noses. This perfume is a bold statement in the world of prevalent meekly crowdpleasing blue-ambroxan scents that all smell like xerocopies of each other. Over course of last few months it gradually became my perfume of choice for business meetings. Sophisticated, clean, reflective, confident.

I like this CdG but that's as far it goes. I prefer Blammage because it doesn't have the aldhydes or ink. It's warmer and perhaps more unisex.
This is a colder scent that's perfect for the heat. From the beginning the scent is dominated by aldhydes and ink. The green notes and magnolia only gradually surface after 15 mins or so. Even then it's hard to recognise the magnolia. It's like the green notes and floral ones are just accent notes.
There is sort of a metallic feel that I can't say I'm keen on. It's a curious one alright.
It hasn't done changing yet. Now it becomes a little warmer and it does remind me of Blammage but it's so weak.
The sillage and longevity are no more than average. Even in these warm conditions.

I got an official travel bottle and wore it 3x. It's aldehyde rich to my nose and on the feminine side to me. The drydown is a bit overpowering to bystanders.

My wife complained each time I wore it, so off it goes.

I was hoping for a citrusy floral scent with a twist...However, this smells quite soapy and rather dense when my expectation was the opposite. I really shouldn't have made that blind online purchase after all...Well too late
EDIT 15/01/20: Received my 100mL today and was fascinated by the packaging inside the box it was packaged in a foil aluminium pack like a "bag of chips" except it's a bag of perfume! Okay, I have to take my words back...when I tried this on in the store it smelled boring but now smell it fresh off the bat I really really like it. it's green floral and refreshing yet dark. It's a unisex perfume...an androgynous one. I think because in the store the smell of other perfumes distracts my senses. This is definitely an avant-garde scent that should be worn by artists or graphic designers or fashion designers. It's that fashionable. It's a scent that I would grow to love the more I wear it I can see that happening.

This is a fascinating scent and I agree with most of the reviews, even though many are contradictory. This fragrance goes through many stages.
It starts with a cool, aldehydic opening that shimmers, then the brightness settles down and some sweetness comes through - citrus peel and spices. And then - and this is a stage that catches me by surprise every time - before I know it, I have a woody, spicy, rosy scent. This reminds me of Feminité du bois in its sheer woody-floral approach, although it is less fruity than FdB.
Like mercury, a metal that moves slick and languidly, this scent shifts from icy silver (like many people reviewing, I find the opening is hard to describe without resorting to colours) into a delicious and weightless woody oriental. All of this means it does feel other-worldly. It also means it suits most occasions and seasons and that it is very hard to get bored of it.
I do not think of this as a strong scent, but I have been surprised by how many people have complimented me on this as I have walked past them, so the sillage is there, it is just transparent like chiffon.
This is one to wear by itself and to wear all day for a couple of days to appreciate all the twists and turns.

If you spend enough time avoiding certain notes in perfumes, when you finally encounter them again while trying something new, it’s all you can smell. Such is the case with 2 and me. I used to wear this in college and loved it. I got alot of woods and cinnamon. Now all I get is aldehydes and laundry musk. I can’t imagine the formula has changed since it is a synthetic classic. But yes, 2 is a great abstract composition that allows for multiple interpretations. It’s like staring at the clouds. I might see a hamper filled with clean laundry and the next person might see a pile of fire wood and old newspaper.

This fragrance isn't masculine, feminine or even unisex, it's post-human. It's not that it doesn't have a pulse, it just feels more like organic matter from another realm. This juice doesn't spray, it floats through the air like fizzy sparkling pixie dust.

CdG's 2 is abstract perfume art composed by a master. Headspace technology was used to capture the aroma of Japanese calligraphy; Sumi ink made in Japanese temples to be exact. I have a fondness for ink as a note, so I was excited to wear this. I can picture Mark Buxton perceptively imagining the austere atmosphere of a kimono-clad zen monk, hunched over, quietly laboring over his writing. Oranges on the table, a cultivated garden out the window . . .

It opens with a citrus-y floral, very sweet and unexpected. Then comes the aroma of those mimeographs we all love, the fresh dampness of wet ink on the page. The orange/magnolia was still the dominant accord, and I found the blend surprisingly tempting with the orange being a bright inflection throughout the drydown. There were also unusual notes popping up intermittently, like the smell of cut grass, and the scent of an ozonic metallic linen, as if just starched and ironed. Along with a faint amber and powder accent(reminiscent of the powdery sachet in CdG's Kyoto).

CdG 2 has the subtlety of Buddhist temples with their innate beauty, and dissecting the notes doesn't describe the experience. The composition is incredibly modern perfume jujitsu! As you become slightly anosmic to one accord, another rises to display a different facet of the overall scent. Each note adds to the performance producing a very appealing contemporary fragrance. Super wearable, moderate sillage, good longevity.

So after smelling this at a department store I realised I had just discovered something magnificent. I'm not sure which is the note that makes me giddy with delight, but I just cannot pull my nose away from my arm. I'm a bit late to the game, realising it was released so long ago but oh so worth the discovery. Just got a bottle for my birthday and jumped up and down like a school girl. Beautiful, beautiful, sublime! !

This is refined sexy elegance, like a cotton shirt on a warm body. If going to details, it smells like graphite, cedar and cinnamon, sometimes I sense coriander and magnolia. I am living aromatic catharsis each time I smell Comme des Garcons2 on someone in public transport. I think it's great for office too.

A noteworthy Comme release right from the time when the brand's releases were on the way into their heyday of highly original perfumes.
From a current perspective, "2" appears as a sort of Rosetta stone, exquisitely embodying many of the micro-themes that became landmark directions in their products over the years. Firstly it sits well bracketed between "White" - a year earlier, and "3" - a year after - these three products probably also put Mark Buxton properly on the map. At the same time, its fantastic hyper-aldehydic opening smells more dry clean than the brands own "Dry Clean" from a couple of years later, the fantasy ink note with its somewhat minimal incense like character could be prolonged into the houses "Incense Series" or even the "Artek" release. "2" also turned into the most successful Comme release, paving the way for the brand's ongoing productions with Puig. At the time it came out I was endlessly more interested in their Odeurs, both 53 and 71, and their original EdP/EdC and shrugged "2" as a tad too mainstream for my likings. Looking at it again almost twenty years after its launch, I do consider it is an important release - with the dubious quality of many of the Comme / Puig launches - "2" turned into a solid reference, evidencing the good results and timing of the Comme / Buxton period. The perfume manages perfectly to navigate both unknown associations with utmost familiar and comforting territories. It was so universal as a scent that I recall a good handful of designery fashion shops that must have decided to declare "2" as their room spray, employing the gorgeous wholeness it succeeds to navigate to embody a certain modern vibe. Its success rendered it also into a somewhat culturally affluent cliché release, so often it appeared to be the perfume of choice for a certain clientele - sort of a L'Eau d'Issey for the cultural industry - in any way, to date, it remains a landmark release, recommended to test, even if for reference only, ideally together with "White" and "3" to get an insight in that highly creative period around 2000.

Are we really talking about the same fragrance here? because I am really amazed with the reviews and how wrong people can smells Comme de Garcons 2. CDG2 is a lineal sweet spicy rose, patchouli, cinamon. warm, eathy,with no trancision or top and midle notes. Is a red color juicy fragrance ,nostalgic with a happy vibe.I can't smell aldehydes or the champagne effect present in many fragrance classics .CDG2 has an animalic chypre accord like in Amouage Jubileum.Very alike Alain Delon' s Le Temps D`Aimer.Unisex.Smells amazing,very seductive and sexy.

احب هالعطر وايد

If someone asked me to synthesize the smell of the Royal Chapel of the treasure of St.Januarius (in the Cathedral of Naples- Italy),with its marbles,its golden and silver busts, candlesticks and other decorations; with the subtle persistence of the burned incenses and the dust settled over the centuries, as well as the blooms on the altar:
THIS WOULD BE THW RIGHT SYNTHESIS

Sampling this one now. It smells a bit like genitalia in the beginning, to be honest. Some kind of body odor scent that takes one aback. That fades, and what remains is an incredibly fresh soap. Warm, woody, eternal. I agree that is a strangely traditional scent. To my nose, it's almost sporty. I'm glad the crotch-note has faded, because the drydown is fantastic. It's a bit solemn but gets fresher and happier as the it progresses. Odd, fantastic, unique. Not really sure what mood it's for... but I still want a bottle anyway, because I like the fresh dry down very much. Despite its branding, to me this is a scent to wear with a polo and new sneakers. Preppier than my Acqua di Colonia Iris Nobile. Go figure!

This has been on my radar for a long time as a translucent woody scent to try but I would look at the list of notes and puzzle over how a fragrance could possibly smell of all those things, and it would get put to the bottom of the to-test list.
I tried it today and it is really compelling. Despite the futuristic bottle, I was surprised on the initial spray how familiar - even traditional - it felt. There is a swoosh of sunny citrus on aldehydes. After that... it gets harder to explain. There are cold green notes, some surprising soft floral notes and there are woods and there is incense? Amber?
Overall it feels clean but also with some sweet woods. It is complex but not difficult - although I see that others do not feel that way which surprises me.
It lives up to its promise of offering a translucent wood scent. I need to try this more, wear it more. I have not been able to stop sniffing my wrist today and I may go straight for a bottle.

I like this perfume a lot. Very light, fresh, sparkling, and kind of metallic, I'm assuming from the aldehydes, and kind of sweet, but like metallic sweet. I'm assuming from the ink accord? I don't get much floral or spice but I know they're there, It's classified here as a chypre floral, and it does have that kind of feel, but a weird/avant-garde, modern take on it, also but nice and wearable at the same time. Very hard to describe. The silver bottle goes with the overall feel of the fragrance, I'd say. Very nice.

Most people detect aldehydes, ink and magnolia in this one? Wow. I'll give it points for being daring and different, but... I don't like it. It's strange and way too powdery.

The very first thing I get from this is a blast of something sharp and very much like enamel or lacquer paint - that solvents nose burn. The drydown reminds me too much of the scented talcs my mother used to get from Avon when I was a little boy. It doesn't seem to last long... the long term scent here is mildly floral/woody.

No like.

amazing, sparkling fragrance! to me, i can really see the aldehydic fizz around me when i spray it. it brings joy, and i associate it with winter nights and christmas spirit.
i love to wear it with an oversized coat, black turtleneck and hair tucked into the collar, it really defines this look on me and underlines the attitude.
for me, it's one of the best of cdg, and i own few of them - somehow the ones like wonderwood or floriental are cdg tapping into more common ground, whereas cdg 2 is extraordinary, pioneer, groundbreaking one.
longevity is a killer, it really lasts and lasts, and it mesmerizes everyone around you - 3 friends of mine have bought it too.

I agree with most of everything that has already been said. What i will add is this: it smells like a cellar or attic where no one spends time, where dust collects and things sit still until the owner dies and they are (maybe) moved. Like old comic books, encyclopedias, typewriters, sewing machines. Maybe there's some fertilizer and asbestos there too. It smells like deceased happiness. Let me clarify: it doesn't smell like sadness, it smells like energetic experiences and youth that were once there but are now gone. It brings silence to mind

Oh this one is a weird one. I can definitely see how this is a great fragrance, but it gives me anxiety for some reason. It's like I've been kidnapped and put in a concrete cell with no windows, in which petrol keeps spurting out of a metal faucet. This is what I imagine a math teacher would wear somehow...

Obsessed with this scent, every time I go to mecca I try it and am always blown away by how unique and interesting it it.
I think this would smell super sexy on a man.
Its clean and crisp without being citrusy or soapy and there is still depth to it.

As someone has already said here, it smells of newly printed money and smarties.

It's essentially a waxy rose perfume that I find leans on the feminine side IMO...so for me it's difficult to find the right occasion to wear it. Fantastic stuff though.

White floral on a woody, musky, herbal background; a hazy quality that must be aldehydes? Maybe a kind of ink but I have trouble putting my finger on it. Projection and sillage seem average but the notes are soft. It will be hard for this to be bold. Longevity seemed good as well. Feminine and appropriate for any age but a man could wear this. I think the CDG bottles are cool and the sprayer worked well. Interesting, unique, quality but not for me.

I am always in awe when put this on, the most beautiful blend of darkness and light. When I was a child, I used making graphic pictures with ink, so I can smell ink, paper and woods in CDG2. But what makes it my favorite is clean fragile magnolia: literally like sun ray coming through rather heavy mist of woods and smoke.

AMAZING, but not on my skin, sadly. I have a few blind buys (this is one) from the past 6-12 months I am looking to sell, so anyone interested, PM me!

This fragrance is incredible in that it is very different, and rare -- the ink shines through on me, as does a smoky flavor of sorts (my thing is real, true to life citruses). Someone else got it right to call it SENSUAL .. definitely!! All around great smell!

This is a soft take on aldehyde. CdG 2 is completely devoid of sweetness, well, there is just an inherent hint like something between fizzy tonic water and seltzer water.

The carbonation is tempered with an airy floral with a touch of velvet; soft green backdrop of fresh breezy air.

A slightly mineral haze hovers like a whisper. Occasionally it smells like the gauzy, onion skin airmail paper I'd write on to my relatives overseas, when people used to write letters with pen and paper.

CdG 2 is so delicate on me -- my skin eats this up. Unfortunately although I love the scent, it's too subtle for me to enjoy. I wish I got the fabulous projection that so many others are experiencing.

Petty much, a masterpiece. Original. Metallic. Soft.

Amazingly radiant and bloomy - must be the aldehydes. For me, a radiant rose, incense wood fragrance. Tried it on going to bed and it was gone by morning, so must try it during the day next time - will report back later.

I've tried this on three separate occasions and every time I get a really strong synthetic orange smell and thats it. so annoying as I was really looking forward to it, must be my chemistry

un altro di quei profumi concettuali che tanto mi piacciono se non altro per il fatto che sono lontanissimi da tutta quella paccottiglia sempre uguale a se stessa commercializzata per compiacere persone che non sanno osare. qui invece si osa, eccome. il profumo è pulito, metallico come la bottiglia, ipersintetico e moderno, con un mix di aldeidi e legni, e una prima impressione di inchiostro. ricorda molto blamage di nasomatto che tanto positivamente mi ha colpito. la piramide riferisce di una miriade di note, difficilmente distinguibili, ma che si fondono piuttosto in una totalità di minimalismo complesso (sì proprio così, perdonatemi l'ossimoro) fresca, aromatica ma, soprattutto, metallica. non invasivo, ha una persistenza media e una originalità che, nonostante abbia 18 anni suonati, fa ancora impallidire la profumeria di nicchia. bello.

Floral aldehyde bomb!

Really much going on here. I've never smelled Sumi Ink, so I couldn't possibly comment on whether this scent is similar to that. It opens with bright fizzy aldehydes and citrus, going through a floral/herbal phase and drying down into a sort of sweet ambery vetiver blackcurrant patchouli. Very unique and I actually find different notes to be more protruding on different days - weird.

The scent is complex and extremely well blended. Futuristic, metallic, avantgarde. Great fresh scent, but unfortunately it's slightly too much on the feminine side for me. A very delicate fragrance somehow. Great projection and longevity.

Instant attention grabber. What does it remind me of? I thought of Aramis Devin in its original formulation gussied up for women and that the closest I can get, so it follows that I am truly I am foxed by this fragrance. I've had a small bottle jiggling around in a drawer and when the mood takes me I wear it,invariably feeling a little disappointment at the longevity, but on the other hand it is so hi-brow that I forgive it. A full bottle is in my future at some stage

اصن سراغ این نرین که پشیمونیتون قطعیه
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Scent & Qualiy: 5/10
Longevity: 7/10
Sillage: 6/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 5/10
Affordability: 3/10
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Overall: 5.2/10

Fragrance with a very particular aroma, unique, in fact, I do not remember any fragrance to which any similar can be associated. Only by this detail deserves a great recognition the author, Mr. Buxton, by self-taught and the original of this aroma and more living in an era in which most of the fragrances are clones or are copied from other fragrances of success.

In addition Cdes G 2 for me goes beyond, is without a doubt the best aldehido that has been made up to now, avant-garde, immense, rich in nuances, creative, suggestive and bright like a giant emerald.

Its fresh and aromatic facets feel immensely green, intense facets, colorful and take me to a tropical jungle. I emphasize the nuances of yerbamate and especially the angelica that round off the aldehyde so well that they seem to unite and disappear, all becoming a new and unique aroma, almost metallic and curiously nothing acid or acrid, closer to the wet, with nuances Aquatic

The spices below drag us towards the middle notes, joining the floral contribution of the magnolia, delicate, vaporous, succulent, vibrant and very fresh.

The development continues slightly sweet for the amber and brings with it a drying of noble woods, patchouli and ink, remembering fragrances with the animal point of the authentic castoreum that smells precisely like that, with that shade as in Leonard pour homme the primigenio or also in Davidoff Davidoff .

Incredible aroma, radiates balance, perfect vision of a dreamlike and unreal world as green and luminous as Pandora created and rounded by the mind of a genius, the Avatar of Mark Buxton.

Rating: 9.5

I've love it. Looks like unisex at the 1st sniff but I would recommend to be wear by a strong woman, over 35 who knows how to handle almost everything :).I've got a miniature of 9 ml and I love it... it makes me happy and confident all day. Please note that this scent is not fit for corporation offices... is too daring. ;)

Obtained 3 x 9ml miniature bottles of CdG (others are Wonderwood and Amazingreen).

This one is also very unique - in one word "oriental floral incense" with a hint of metallic feel (this could probably be ink??)

The longevity is OK and the sillage is soft. Though it is said unisex, there's a little or no masculine side so I think this fragrance may be too feminine for macho-type guys to wear (this is why CdG released 2MAN???)

Even though Wonderwood is my favourite, I'd like to buy a full bottle of 2 when it's on sale.

Overall, very nice smell - I like it!

[Edit]
Having thought twice after I posted the review above.....the longevity is quite good. Just the sillage is very soft, so I spray this juice around my decolletee area in order to entertain myself.

5/10

"CDG 2" opens with a high-pitched soapy sweetness, cold spice and a glossy metallic edge. Looking at the notes, I would attribute the main act to be an accord of fresh, soapy coriander and tingly aldeyhdes, sweetened with citrus, sparkly cinnamon and bay. There's a cool, herbal slightly medicinal quality as well that reminds me of aniseed. It does sort of give an impression of ink, but without the rougher, charcoal aspects I usually get from this note. It's very clean smelling in a deliberately pristine, artificial way.

I don't really get much from the base notes other than a sanitized, minty patchouli and a big heft of Iso-E, which lends a vaguely plastic feel to the dry down, like sweet latex mixed with a hint of toothpaste. Overall the tone is sharp, electric and ultra modern, with a magenta-like vibrancy.

I like it, it's definitely unique. Perhaps the closest thing I can compare it to is Histoires des Parfums "1969". The similarity might sound surprising given the difference in the listed notes, yet when you check the actual ingredients it does make sense. Eugenol and geraniol feature prominently in both compositions, though 1969 goes in a more floral gourmand direction, the tone and the overall accord is very similar. I certainly think CDG 2 is more unisex in its appeal, though it smells far from any typical men's designer fragrance on the market today.

I'm kind of person who like to wear perfume which nobody knows what is. So using it, few people asked me what I'm wearing. I really like it.And people liked this perfume too. Is femenine but in same time is not floral and no citric for this reason is differens of others I could it feel all day on me, is kinda heavy, but in same time is not strong. On the end of the day is smels like vanilla with spices for me. Every person is different for perfume is very personal but for sure I can say that this personal is does not compares with any perfume from perfume which you can buy in shoppings. I would buy it again one day.

عطر ناعم ومريح للنفس .. مناسب للجنسين بكل أريحيه.

الرائحه : 10/10
الثبات : 8/10
الفوحان : 8/10

Wow what a beautiful perfume this is,
it smells like walking in a field of
wild flowers blooming in spring on
a perfect day, it is really an
uplifting perfume for sure, i love it.

Tart, fruity opening; a powdery fruitiness that reminds me a bit of smarties (it's actually much more delicious than it sounds.) I have no idea why I'm getting such different notes as those that are listed (and what everyone else seems to be smelling) but I get a tart and sweet rose - a pretty big rose, too. Don't really get any aldehydes. Within a few minutes a powdery, ambery base starts to appear as the tartness softens and dissipates. It still smells really flowery to me, in a soft, spicy, powdery way. Maybe violets, or lilac. Tea? Although it calms down after a couple of hours it's pretty big for a Japanese perfume, which I generally find to be more subtle. It's certainly bigger than the transparent/incense fragrances I've smelled from this house. It's soft and yummy though; I'd say this is a very green fruity floral but much more interesting than your average run of the mill mainstream fragrance. There's an undertone of something cold and medicinal that keeps it from being boring (the inky note?). Dries down to a sweet but cool powder; cool but silky soft, like soapstone. I agree with other commenters that this is a peculiar and mercurial scent. Strange but refined, flowery but urbane, with odd notes that pop in and out. A very modern elf. Definitely not for everyone but I'm planning on buying full bottle as soon as I can.

This is an unisex perfume - on the beginning it smells one hour feminine sweet smokey caramel complete in style of Histoire de Perfumes 1969 but less intensive than those and then it morphes into the manly part - herbal vetiver. Dezent sillage the whole time, longevity so so. Probably more for a men than women, as the first part is only one hour playing. Edit: the first part stays longer on clothes than the skin.

One of the big guns from the posh, avant-garde house known for their obscenely expensive clothing and creative scents. Fortunately the fragrances are mostly affordable. 2 is a superbly blended, futuristic floral that in true Comme des Garcons fashion, experiments with contrast and does so with natural confidence. The aldehydes emerge like the cleanest air imaginable, not unlike fresh laundry blowing in the wind but also in the otherworldly way one would come to expect from CDG. Incense and ink slightly restrain the big, white magnolia flower. The ink itself does play a major role and will probably make or break 2 for many. I'm no perfume guru but it's seemingly a strange note that isn't used so often. This isn't a printer/ball point pen ink, but more a stroll though an Asian museum's calligraphy rooms. Papery, woody, faintly sweet, and very calming. 2 may seem weird but it's really beautiful and often garners compliments.

This is what I am wearing to bed tonight.

I have a small 25ml bottle CDG calls "pocket size", and I decided to crack it open this evening.
It's been a few years since I wore this scent and I've been holding off on opening this one for a while since it is quite old.

What's funny is that I DO notice the smell of ink as soon as the top notes disipate. Ink from a fountain pen, but in an icy-fresh soapy way.

The freshness of various trees in the dry down.
I love the juicy opening, the citrus/magnolia top notes remind me of wine for some reason.

For some reason I think of icy woods when I wear this one.

All I can smell is rose. And musk. On my husband it smells like MOR Marshmallow, which isn't bad - because I love that floral sweetness. But I cannot even get a hint of magnolia. Weird.

Like it overall - husband smells great.

Surprisingly traditional in my opinion. This sent me to the 80s' and the very first Fendi fragrance - which I loved but couldn't wear as it gave me headache. Almost all my favorite scents have been floral chypres, but in my nose this is rather a spicy one, not so much wood or moss?

It is indeed a curious one.

I can definitely smell the orange in it and also a hint of tea plus lots of spices. Probably some flowers as well but in a green way. Metallic is a proper way to describe it, soapy too. Regarding the ink, I don't get any (which is sad because I discovered this scent while looking for inky perfumes).

It is probably more masculine than feminine which I don't mind, I don't quite get that gender separation.

In short: it deserves the attention it gets.

This to me is, Kouros minus the Civet note.
Also some what reminds me Fahrenheit for the first 5 minutes.
Dry down is amazing.
Longevity: 6-7 hours
Projection: Average

As reviewer Ouch! so aptly put it, you really do have to smell this yourself. I just couldn't get an idea of what it was like from the notes and reviews because so many people had difficulty describing it, but reading them did make me want to try it. It's sweet and floral on me, magnolia mostly, and for awhile that was it - I was certainly getting the 'light' side of it. Then it began to shift through some subtle changes. I got a strong hint of metallic green mixed with dry wood, but with the florals still very present. I think this is the kind of fragrance that gives everyone a very different experience, and is also what makes it hard to describe. Longevity and sillage are excellent on my skin.

Totally unique
unusual and intense
i can't describe it
i love it

Really nice, unusual floral fragrance with spicy and other strange touches. Another great creation from CDG.

2 starts green and metallic. Quickly, the magnolia blooms and on my skin it will be the dominant note in this fragrance. As the perfume wears, a watery vibe comes along with a tea-like accord. Although it's very floral and powdery in the middle, the sharp metallic start together with the incense that comes later, gives it a little structure.
The changes are rather subtle, in the way that this is a flowery dominant fragrance with background changes (green metallic opening, powdery heart and incense woody base). Sometimes it feels a little sweaty, sometimes fuzzy or dry but every time artistic. I think this is a mood scent.

Scent: 6/10
Longevity: 8/10
Projection: 7/10

This fragrance is the smell of a magnolia tree in full bloom on a rainy day. The aldehydes produce a beautiful petrichor/mulchy impression. The conjunction of this with the magnolia is perfect.
The ink and tea notes are also detectible, but I would say they're buried quite deep.

Overall, this fragrance speaks of possibility.

Beautiful,unique and complex! Elegant, aldehydes prevail, and act as a support to other notes. Complex parfum and really well done. It gives me a sense of peace, of tenderness and happiness ... maintaining the elegant character. Every note plays a role in this magnificent composition! Very nice in my opinion! the projection is moderate, while longevity is quite good (8 hours on me). Surely it will become part of my collection !! :) Highly recommended!

Sillage: 6.5/10
Longevity: 8/10
Scent: 9/10

Overall: 9.10

Smells like comfort. I mean... Comfort (with a capital :/ ). OK, i recognize that aldehydes/flowers always tend to smell "good", but ultimately this one will resemble "something you've smelled before" (air wick, fabric softener and so on).

Pass/buy: for me it's a pass (although the frag is well made)

Lasts longer? really? This is such a killer fragrance! It lasts for more than 12h on my skin and for a couple of days on my clothes :D

Beautiful, contemporary, modern, interesting and different...just wish it lasted longer. grrr.

I feel like this is the future of perfumery. So sweet and metallic and simple in it's composition. I'm drawn to it so much but DAMN that longevity.

I wouldn't say this is inky..it's smooth and sweet more than anything with a very subtle spice that melds in perfectly.

This is one of those fragrances where looking at the notes pyramid will do you no favours, you have to SMELL it because it smells like none of the notes listed, but an entirely different thing altogether. It's frustrating because it's really cool and modern but I'm thinking, where are all of those things that are listed? It's deceptive!!!

A smooth sweet tone is what this is about..I can't say much more as it's a bit of a mystery.

Bought it on the first smell test, couldn't resist its uniqueness. Keep receiving positive comments while wearing it.

when i first smelled this I was confused. I didn't 'get' this fragrance until i compared it side by side with some more normal florally scents. I smelled it alongside marc jacobs daisy and givenchy extravagance d'amarige and it started making sense.

my first impression was sort of a plasticky flower like those scented dolls and little girls' toys. I'm not opposed to synthetic vibes, but this wasn't harsh or metallic, just unidentifiably nice. the more i smell it and the more i compare it the deeper it gets, i think. the tea particularly is something i didn't notice at all until later. and i'm sure in a couple months i'm going to pick up another note and appreciate it even more.

i grew up in the south and i think the magnolia is what's throwing me back to the little girl floral i get from this. pleasantly nostalgic, especially when layered with white flowery scents.

i'd say this leans toward the feminine side (I could totally see my mom wearing this in springtime if it had a touch of gardenia) though a man wearing it would be really cute. i picture this on a younger person though it's so changeable i'm not sure.

give this a chance to grow on you :)

p.s.: this smells COMPLETELY different on clothes vs on skin for me. on my skin smells more floral/tea and modern, if i put it on my clothes instead it smells a lot more incensey (not in a smoky way but in the thick old fashioned way, somewhat reminiscent of shalimar?). interesting how different it is.

Believe it or not, I sampled this one at Sephora about 10 years ago. It reminded me so much of Halston. Maybe I'm crazy. Does anyone else see a similarity? That reminds me...I need to get some Halston!!

This fragrance makes me feel so classy and confident. It's one of my favorites.