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

Despite the fact that this Sherbet is to cinnamon as jumping on your bed is to beeing an astronaut, this is a nice scent. A tiny dose of "cannelle" on a HUGE amount of white musk. Fresh but not too generic, with an acceptable sillage and a 3-4 hours lasting power. The budget for this composition was supposed to be very low. What saves Sherbet Cinnamon from precipice is Mr.Duchafour's mastery to make of a puerile composition, a very wearable fragrance. Thumbs up for the perfumeur's ability, thumbs neutral for the smell.

25th April, 2011.

This smells very much like something a child should wear. Or maybe it just smells OF little kids? Gum-chewing kids with milky breath, yeah. Not bad at all, but not perfume for grownups.

22nd February, 2011.

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.

16th March, 2009.

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

14th December, 2008.

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.

28th July, 2008.

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

23rd December, 2007.