parfums*PARFUMS Series 5 Sherbet: Cinnamon (2003)
by Comme des Garçons

Calchic nailed it: Dentyne gum… this smells exactly like a stick of Dentyne gum. Series 5 Cinnamon is not really a fragrance for a cinnamon lover – its cinnamon is too weak and too distant to satisfy a Cinnabar, JHL, or Ambre Cannelle devotee. I enjoy the smell of those fragrances but I have also come to appreciate the milder, gentler cinnamon of CDG’s Series 5 Sherbet Cinnamon. It is cinnamon smoothed, deepened, and broadened by with a bit of spice from the saffron, carnation, and bay. I get a little sweet and a lot of white musk and not much else. It’s a gentle fragrance, but not necessarily gentle in a feminine way. I think that it is amply unisex. It has weak sillage, which is okay, and poor longevity, which is not okay. Its longevity earns it a neutral instead of a thumbs up.

A puff of cinnamon and woody notes but mostly a lot of woods fluff.

Cinnamon in limbo.

There, but doesn't feel like cinnamon.

Conscious? Nah. Dead? Not yet. Alive? Yea, it's somewhere in there.

Masculine? Nope. Feminine? Probably a bit.

This one is so middle of the road, suspended in mid-air, and even has the ghost of Paco Rabanne's "Paco" in it. The initial top notes are pretty harsh and nothing to get excited about... but then it gets better with the entry of even harsher cinnamon after the bergamot fades -- ending up smelling like a snowball on a bed of flowers sprinkled with cinnamon.

Cinnamon is cleansing and is an extremely terrible scent if used in the bedroom. Outside, it works pretty well as a veil-like light (but harsh if sniffed up close) scent.

Thank god it's only 30ml.

Fresh and spicy, but ultimately not masculine enough for me.

There is such thing as quality over quantity and sometimes Comme des Garcons just release too many scents that don't cut it in comparison. Enter Cinnamon.

bergamot, cinnamon, saffron, carnation, benjamin (aka benzoin, a resinous balsam), vetivert, teak wood, white musk, cedar...

the start it´s just lovely subtle icy cinammon and bergamot, then comes the carnation, pure carnation and strong cinammon.
The concept it´s lovely, it´s fresh subtle with caracther on its own, but i thin it will be more situable for young women, not really men, pity!.
Thumbs up as is a different alternative option for the ones that like non conventional perfumes,as the other brothers rhubarb and peppermint;)