Katie,
Comme des Garçons Rose is so much more a Comme des Garçons than it is a rose. It's completely spare and post-modern and you're gonna scoff when you smell it. But I wore it to the 94-degree ball-game last night and I was delighted. And delightful!
You'll be getting your decant in the mail tomorrow.
Dan
Dan,
Yak! I am NOT enjoying my spritz of CdG Rose! This isn't "ho hum", this is just bad. This smell is why people say they don't like rose perfumes. It's just soapy and strong and a bit musky. The sudsiness is doing me in. I'm not getting "berries" the way others online seem to. For a fruity sweet rose, it would have to be Micallef Rose Aoud for me.
How are people getting "masculine" out of CdG Rose? It just smells like a cliched ladysmell of rosy damn rose.
Katie
Katie,
Ha! That's exactly how I imagined you reacting. I feel like I'm really starting to know you.
I don't get much berry either. It smells soapy and slightly spicy and rather modest. And I think that modesty reads as masculine because we expect rose perfumes to smell like Aunt Edna. And this doesn't smell like Aunt Edna.
Of course, it doesn't smell like Uncle Billy either. And thank goodness for that. (Uncle Billy loved his whiskey, didn't he?) It's a eunuch rose or, at most, a feminine rose with very narrow hips.
I just sprayed it again and while it's definitely uncomplicated, I kind of like it. Though I can't persuasively argue with you because I'm obviously less passionate about my opinion than you are about yours. My opinion's lack of passion is built right in: "I don't know, it's alright."
When it comes to CdG Rose, I'm Switzerland. And you're some rose-crazy country with all kinds of strict perfume ordinances that would lock up anyone who wears "a ladysmell of rosy damn rose." (Let's hope the ordinances are more specific than that.)
Dan
Dan,
I tried to wash it off, and hell no, Rose won't go. And I disagree, it's totally Aunt fucking Edna. It's the soapiness...the soapiness...it's just...the soapiness. I'm starting to understand that I'm not a solid rose + musk fan.
Nyet nyet nyet!
Katie
Katie,
No, no, no, you obviously don't remember Aunt Edna at all. She wore perfumey perfumes and Rose is merely soapy. It doesn't jump around and shriek, it sits down and doesn't do anything, like a child with asthma at recess. And I know you're going to say the crappy perfume is causing the asthma, but perfume can't cause asthma, KP, you know better than that.
Dan
Coming up in Part 2: CdG Rose and wearing pants make Katie angry.
"Aunt Edna" and "Uncle Billy" photo from deepsloweasy.com
I remembered I have a sample of this - it was in the large "purgatory bag" awaiting final judgement. It came from a man in Montreal, who may or may not have worn it to a hot ball game, or at all. He may have just wanted to get it the hell out of Canada because it smells like a scented drawer liner.
ReplyDelete"Completely spare and post-modern"? Anyone who thinks that is an antimacassar short of a picnic! And I am not Switzerland - I am somewhat east of there and I am revolting.
flittersniffer, I'm not sure which sense of "revolting" you mean, but in the case of CdG Rose, both are equally applicable.
ReplyDeleteKatie and Dan: Do you like Rose Oud by Kilian? Czech&Speake Dark Rose? Both have been billed as masculine roses, but I think I have decided that "ROSE" is indelibly stamped on the part of my olfactory cortex that registers "feminine" (or "Aunt Edna". Actually, above the indelible stamp, in neon, it says "Grandma", whose heavy hand with the "Youth Dew" left many an asthmatic gasping for air). Love you both, you always make me laugh.
ReplyDeleteThe illustrations are cracking me up, and I will forevermore consider Dan the Switzerland of perfume fans.
ReplyDeleteScott, I like both Rose Oud and Dark Rose (and I think both are discussed here on KP Smells), but roses are Katie's domain. Though I'd also suggest Eau d'Italie Paestum Rose, a dry unsentimental rose by Bertrand Duchaufour, and Washington Tremlett Black Tie, a very smooth saffron rose that's masculine enough for everyone except a few old boxing coaches and quarry workers.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Nathan, there's easily enough evidence here to disqualify me as Swiss when it comes to perfume in general. But regarding rose specifically, I can't ever seem to take a stand.
And flittersniffer, I'm an antimacassar short of everything that requires an antimacassar. I know this because I just had to look up "antimacassar."
Dan, I think in your case it would be Uncle Macassar.
ReplyDeleteSoS: kee-yuk!
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