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

Ink? yes, exotic aldehydes? YES! fruits, berries, flower built around aldehydes all this tempered with some kind of cool liquid, which give it that tranparency and clean feel inspite of the assault of dense notes. quite potent and would last ages.. is very classy, definitely a club wear. would definitely smell a lot better on ladies...would make me drool for sure....if black xs is cranberry juice...then CDG 2 is some kind of elixir made of exotic fruits and flowers tempered with the coolest aldehydes and ink available with the touch of incense....a wet scent with mega potency. two light sprays under shirt would take one thru whole day..definitely not a office/daily wear for me...i would prefer to wear it to a rave....unisex...yeh..not my cuppa tea but hey, you wudnt have sniffed anythin like it before. a must have for anyone who appreciates the art of frags.

I don't like it during the first hour or so after spraying it on; to me it smells like a characterless men's after cologne, powdery and too sweet. But after a while it develops and becomes warmer and drier. After a few hours it has a sexy scent of leather, spice and ink. It's ok.

Rather overpowering for a woman although I do think its more feminine than masculine-was surpised when I learnt it was masculine. A very synthethised pungent smell. A confident woman with a strong personality will get away with it-if you like things like Nu and Opium and Prada (the first one) you'll like this. Does not wear off gracefully or for a very long time so a single spritz will do

A very bright citric beginning of tangerine and aldehydes. It doesn’t last long and the scent moves to a floral / spice center, which is sweet and powdery. From the dry down I get a very soft patchouli and leather(?), but certainly not very clearly. The fragrance, especially the opening, has kind of a metallic vibration going on in it. It’s not a bad scent but I think it is much more on the feminine side of unisex. It has very good lasting power. Fantastic bottle!

I can't see a man wearing this, and I've smelled better scents on women. To me the scent is confused with itself. Very different, but I guess that's cdg's motto. As with odour 53, I don't give it thumbs down because I can't understand it or know the path its taking. I will use up my sample and if I don't feel it then I will walk away from it.

I think this is comme des garcons highest selling perfume, and I love their other scents so much, but something about this one has yet to captivate me. Hmmm. Strange. I try the sample every once in a while, and seem to like it a little more each time. I like their original and #3 better.

Really has a strong noticeable ink note like the pyramid says and it is definitely well balanced in terms of uni-sex-ness. 2 does smell original no doubt, and has achieved large sucess in Sweden for being so avant-garde. However something prevents me from loving it like with so many other Comme de Garcons fragrances. The is something disharmonic, industrial about it. I'm sure that is the whole point, but can't digest it myself.

The first time i tried this, i liked it, liked it enough to buy a bottle. After i wore it a few times, i've noticed that it smelled actually quite feminine. People even asked me if i was wearing some kind of perfume cuz i smelled like a girl. It smelled very powdery and maybe the aldehyde gave off a floral smell. I also did not detect much of the Sumi ink note which everybody else was claiming. Lastly, it smells almost identical to Custom National's Scent and Scent intense. And it is true, if you're brave enough to wear it, then it might be for you, but to me, it's a bit too feminine for my taste.

I think it's o.k. not too bad ,but nothing special, good for all day.