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Poll Results: Which Comme des Garçons Serie3 : Incense is your favourites ? --Multiple answers--

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 31% (17)
    Avignon – Catholicism
  • 7% (4)
    Jaisalmer – Hinduism
  • 33% (18)
    Kyoto – Buddhism and Shintoism
  • 12% (7)
    Ouarzazate – Islam
  • 14% (8)
    Zagorsk – Orthodox Christianity
54 Total Votes  
post #1 of 19
11/20/11 at 5:32pm
Thread Starter 
This series really interest me. The perfumes inspired by religious seem mysterious. I want to try it.

As a Buddhist, I find Kyoto interests me the most. It seems serene like a scent for meditation to find inner peace.



Avignon – Catholicism
Roman chamomile, cistus oil, elemi, incense, vanilla, patchouli, palisander, ambrette seeds

Jaisalmer – Hinduism
cardamom, incense, cinnamon, amber, benzoin, pimento, berries, guaiac wood (aka gaiac wood or saint wood), ebony

Kyoto – Buddhism and Shintoism
incense, cypress oil, coffee, teak wood, vetiver, patchouli, amber, everlasting flower, Virginian cedar

Ouarzazate – Islam
incense, pepper, nutmeg, clary sage, wenge, musk, vanilla, labdanum absolute, Kashmir wood

Zagorsk – Orthodox Christianity
white incense, pine, pimento berries, violet, cedar, iris, hinoki wood, birch wood

Ps. my house has doors and furnitures made of teak wood so I am really looking forward to try Kyoto.
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post #2 of 19
11/20/11 at 5:49pm
Avignon – Catholicism
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post #3 of 19
11/20/11 at 5:50pm
I like all of them - but my favorite is Avignon.
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post #4 of 19
11/20/11 at 6:32pm
Avignon and Zagorsk are my favorites, although I wish Zagorsk had better longevity on me. Kyoto definitely has a meditative quality to it that I really like. It is definitely worth trying them all.
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post #5 of 19
11/20/11 at 6:44pm
Kyoto is the undisputed champion!
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post #6 of 19
11/20/11 at 6:45pm
Avignon
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post #7 of 19
11/20/11 at 6:57pm

Avignon is my favorite, followed by Kyoto.

I like Jaisalmer a lot, I don't get the greatest longevity though.

Zagorsk is probably my least favorite, something sour about it.

I'm not sure if I've ever tried Ouarzazate.
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post #8 of 19
11/20/11 at 7:26pm
Kyoto. Bought it when it first appeared because I was a fan of Rei Kawabuko and I used to love temple hopping in Kyoto. I think it it a great abstract evocation of a winter late afternoon at Kyomizu.

Avignon is probably going to go down as the 'reference incense' for this whole genre though, don't you think? Talk about starting a movement in perfumery.

On second thoughts that is probably a dumb thing to say given that burning incense a couple of thousand years ago kicked off the idea of 'par fumes' / 'through smoke' but you know what I mean

It's even more ironic that a decade or so after releasing the Incense series, designed to evoke temple incense, that CdG should finally release incense sticks to replicate the perfumes (quite nicely, I should add).
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post #9 of 19
11/20/11 at 7:28pm
I like Avignon, Kyoto and Ouarzazate. I have the latter most but will definitely get the former.
Ouarzazate is very spicy. I think the spice amount is on par with the incense amount. Which in a way is good but also not so good because Avignon for example has more or feels like it has more incense in it.
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post #10 of 19
11/20/11 at 8:10pm
I have tried them all and Kyoto is my favorite.
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post #11 of 19
11/20/11 at 10:59pm
I went with Kyoto. Pretty accurate depiction of what the graveyards smell like here too.
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post #12 of 19
11/21/11 at 1:30am
Hmm interesting that Kyoto is in front of Avignon I was under the impression that Avignon was the clear favourite.

Personally I struggle to love these. Somehow they're just not "incensy" enough. I rather prefer Shanaan or Incense Extreme.

I think my favourite of the CdG's is Zagorsk actually but I haven't tried Ouarzazate yet.
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post #13 of 19
11/21/11 at 1:38am
They are all bottleworthy - Avignon is my favourite.
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post #14 of 19
11/21/11 at 6:51am
Thread Starter 
I have tried Avignon, Kyoto, and Ouarzazate today.

My favourit is Kyoto, then Avignon.
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post #15 of 19
11/21/11 at 6:54am
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post #16 of 19
11/21/11 at 9:07am
Kyoto's my favorite, followed by Avignon and Zagorsk.
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post #17 of 19
11/21/11 at 9:49am
I love them all for different reasons but Avignon is the winner, no match!
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post #18 of 19
11/21/11 at 9:42pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by alfarom View Post

Avignon

agree ...
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post #19 of 19
11/21/11 at 10:11pm
After years of wearing them off and on and not realizing why it was I didn't wear them more often, I figured out that it was the massive amount of bluntly presented ISO E Super in all of the Incense Series that always ended up annoying the hell out of me after a couple of hours. I prefer them as ambient scents rather than actual fragrances, and I still love the smell of Avignon even though I rarely wear it anymore.

And for what it's worth, the ISO E Super in the Incense Series is still done a lot better than it is in something like Encre Noire which smells good enough but grates like few others can.
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