Comme des Garcons Series 1 Leaves: Lily

Oh I love Lily! She's a green beauty for sure. She starts off a little rough though. It's almost like the notes meet in a chemical cloud and then decide where each one is going.As they are dispursed to their assigned positions things change quickly.It immediately settles into the softest most feminine scent. Beautiful , green, lily of the Valley shines in this. It's as if springtime has landed on your spirit. She leaves a very light trail behind you and surrounds you in an otherwordly lily. I have never worn this and not gotten a compliment. I have never worn this and not felt beautiful. She's straight forward like me. She is what she is~and WOW is she good at it! If you are a fan of Lily of the valley~you owe it to yourself to give this sparkling girl a try.

I get only lily of the valley from this - but it's a beautiful fresh and green lov. However, I have many good lov renditions in my collection and I don't know if I like it enough to pay the price for a FB. Really is beautiful though, reminds me of Annick Goutal's Muguet.

A genuine and beautiful LOTV fragrance! LOTV is one of my favorite flowers. I strongly associate them with the first warm days of spring, and their ephemerality makes me covet the scent that much more. CdG Lily is lovely. To my nose, almost pure LOTV, slightly powdery. I don't get much, if any, of the other notes coming through. My only criticism is that it could benefit from a greener element to cut the powder note down a bit (though the powder note is not unpleasant at all.) I only have a sample of this. At its price point, not sure I'd want to commit to a whole bottle, not because I don't like it, but because it's not complex enough to be one of my everyday scents, and doesn't change too much on the drydown. It's a bold, assertive soliflore LOTV. This is for those days when I wake up thinking "I absolutely must smell like lily-of-the-valley today" - it happens!

A green, stemmmy, dewy, clean muguet. A muguet soliflore, not so much a bouquet (and not resembling any oriental lily), though it does gradually become less green and more sudsy and floral as it dries down. There is a faint hint of Fairy liquid - of all things - in the drydown, but it's not a bad note in this context. Comparing it to other muguet fragrances, it's more streamlined than Diorissimo, less fruity-floral than Muguet Porcelaine, less powdery than the Guerlain, and less harsh than Carillon Pour Un Ange, and feels probably the greenest of all the muguets I've sampled, without having any extra green notes like galbanum, mint, or pine. (This review is for the reissue.)

CdG Lily is my latest attempt to replace my all-time favorite fragrance, Antonia's Flowers, which I wore for 30+ years until its demise. I don't think anything will ever replace it... sigh... but this one comes the closest I've found so far. It has the (paradoxically) sharp-sweet quality of AF, and it lingers beautifully on fabrics (handkerchiefs, nightgown, etc.) It also does NOT have the chemical "aftertaste" that most fragrances I've tried leave behind in the back of your throat/nose. __________ WAAAAH!! Update: just went to Lucky Scent to buy another bottle and it's ALL SOLD OUT - NOT AVAILABLE! History is repeating itself...[sob... 😭]