Comme des Garçons
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Nana mint hits with a peppy, slightly numbing coolness whilst lime's tart sharpness cuts through immediately—it's invigorating rather than sweet, with juniper berry's dry piney notes preventing any fruitiness. The composition feels architectural from the first moments, mapping out green rather than simply announcing "fresh."
Basil's green-peppery warmth emerges, anchoring the mint-citrus top, whilst jasmine softens the herbaceous edges with a clean, almost powdery floral presence. Mastic brings a subtle resinous sweetness—faintly vanilla-like, faintly bitter—that adds complexity and prevents the fragrance from reading as one-dimensional herbal cologne.
Cedar and vetiver create a slightly austere, woody framework, but abelmoschus introduces an unexpected creamy-warm muskiness against the drier herbal structure, giving the fragrance a velvety finish rather than allowing it to fade into bare skin. The effect is contemplative, intimate, distinctly modern.
Comme des Garçons Play Green is a fragrance that treats mint not as a breath mint but as a green plant—peppery, slightly astringent, caught between fresh and faintly medicinal. Antoine Maisondieu has constructed something deliberately herbaceous rather than fruity-fresh; this is a garden after rain, not a citrus grove.
The lime arrives not as sugary brightness but as a tart, almost astringent counterpoint to the nana mint's cooling bite. Juniper berry grounds the opening with a subtle piney dryness that prevents the composition from becoming merely minty-fresh. What's remarkable is how quickly the heart reveals itself: basil steps forward with green, peppery warmth, whilst jasmine adds an unexpected floral sweetness—not lush or indolic, but clean and slightly herbaceous, as though the flower has been dried. The mastic, that resinous gum note, brings a subtle bittersweetness, a faint vanilla-like warmth without actual vanilla's cloying richness.
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