Reviews of Comme des Garçons 2 (1999)
by Comme des Garçons

Aldehydes. Just aldehydes everywhere. Tempered with a VERY sour magnolia and patchouli with vague fruits and woods. (The incense isn't worth noting IMO) This ends up being very perfumey, decidedly feminine, and just unpleasant. Abstract? Meh. It's just sour and cold. Thumbs down.

I do find it a bit too strong for me, too much coriander, smells more like a herbal store and starts smelling sour after a while.

Too sharp for me, one spray is far too much, a bitter vetiver-like single note that lasts and lasts on your skin and chokes everyone around you. It reminds me mostly of mosquito repellant, I'm sad to say.
I asked for something by CdG unsniffed because I loved the concept of unisex and unnatural perfumes, but the best thing about this one is the metal bottle. I have since found several other CdG scents which I love, and my nowadays more trained nose can detect something in 2 that could be a sort of intriguing, beautiful, cool-toned scent with magnolia and ink, if it weren't completely drenched in that loud, bitter, herbal/chemical single note.
I also find it rather boring that it stays the same. On my sister I could even smell it too strongly the day after she put some on to try, after she had showered and all.
I honestly don't understand how someone could call it feminine or beautiful (and I do wear masculine scents and shy away from florals). I've sniffed 2 Man and I liked that one better, it's subtler and softer and warmer, a completely different scent.

So Rei is trying to pass this off as a unisex scent?? You know I'm with comme on a lot of things but she is not getting me with this one. Wreaks of a 60+ white haired woman in NewYork getting out of her limo on Madison Ave. wearing lots of ice and a mink on her way to her husbands bank. This would be a NO for me. Kinda smells like Elixor by Clinique, except Clinique got it right.

this is for women ! the top note
is very flowery! are you sure this is unisex?