Copper

Recently got this and it was not what I was expecting. Comme De Garcons fragrances are among the most unique in the designer fragrance world. So much so that many people insist they are a Niche Brand. My feelings on this subject is that CDG is indeed, by definition, a designer brand. They are just committed to making perfumes that challenge conventional ideas of how perfumes, made for a mass market, should smell. Comme De Garcons doesn't care about likability when developing a fragrance. CDG's "pebble bottle" collection are among the more "mainstream" of CDG's fragrance creations by CDG's standards but they are far from the typical, focus group designer fragrance. Copper, the newest addition to the "Pebbles", may be the closest to mainstream scents they have made so far. Even still, it is unlike anything made by a designer brand and also unlike anything Comme De Garcons has made so far too. A couple of the feature notes in Copper, tobacco and vanilla, aren't common notes in Comme De Garcons Fragrances. It's the sweetest "Pebble" scent made by the house and while u notice incense it's not the main player in Copper as in other CDG scents. It's there, no doubt, but the focus of Copper is tobacco, amber and vanilla. It reminds me of a more interesting Sunshine Men by Amouage. Think about that. A designer fragrance that smells more interesting than a fragrance it shares similarities with from AMOUAGE...Copper and Sunshine share a similar smell which reminds me of old school american vintage candy cigarettes with the red dye on the tips of them as if they were lit...LOL. What can I say I love vintage candy. ;p Unlike Sunshine, it doesn't just start that way and end that way. It's not as linear. Copper starts off spicy and very green...to the point of vegetal. This threw me off at first and this is probably the most challenging part of the scent. Very beautiful but very weird. It's as if Comme De Garcons made the choice to do a tobacco amber scent but, as is their way, U get a curveball to let u know ur not wearing Chanel or Dior. The green open can remind one of what happens to copper when it oxidizes. It turns green. Copper the fragrance ages backwards because it goes from Green to Gleam. When the green opening subsides, the warm sweet tobacco, comes forward. Later, the composition is grounded by a beautiful amber-vanilla and myrrh combo which make up the drydown. It's not the most natural smelling CDG offering but it's beautiful to me. It's one of the more wearable options from CDG and is perfect for cold weather. It lasts on me for 7 hours and it projects a lot for a CDG fragrance, especially in the first 3 hours. I'm highly impressed with the scent for what it is. If ur a CDG fan and expect a more conventional CDG scent, you may be disappointed just as many fans of Amouage were disappointed with Sunshine. Both scents are a lot more playful than people are used to from both houses. Without bias, you may discover that this is a beautiful tobacco fragrance worth owning as I have. If I had to rate Copper using my PAGE RATING system (P-Poor, A- Average, G- Good, E- Exceptional), I would rate it a G fragrance. Copper is not among CDGs best from a quality ingredients perspective but it does so many things well that it doesn't lose too many points for that in my view. While it does resemble Sunshine Man by Amouage it's actually an improvement on the smell imo. Copper comes across darker and warmer where as Sunshine has a brighter slightly fresher vibe. It's not as potent as Sunshine but it's a lot more interesting and I'm a huge fan of Sunshine Man. It's also $230 less expensive. Simply Put, it's one of the best designer options, released in 2019, that men can wear. SIMPLY PUT SCENTS

I haven't been compelled to write a fragrance review in a long time... because nothing inspired me, most fleeting, generic, blah boring, whatever, ya know> Until I got a sample of this in the mail and tried it! I can't wait to buy a full size bottle and drench myself in it. I love the kind of sharp, masculine grassy metallic note that it starts off with, because it's bold, and it isn't generic or sweet! It starts to warm up a little after awhile, and with it comes a unique tinge of sweetness ontop of metal, which could be construed as copper, honestly. A brand new shiny penny, a cold one, sitting on frozen grass, in mid winter, mixed with freshly sliced slivers of wet in your face ginger, that transforms into delicious notes of tobacco, which then becomes laced with amber after it settles into itself. The tobacco sweetens up a bit. I no longer smell grass or ginger, unless.. its candied ginger, at this point. It very well could be! Still smelling... Spice comes in. Almost like spiced cider. It might be the black currents, it might be the myrrh. Spicy gingery tobacco, with fleeting blades of grass, and cold shiny new copper pennies falling from the sky into a dark mug filled with this concoction that's not liquid, not leaves, nothing that can actually be touched, like smoky clouds and puffs of something masculine and fiercely feminine in the way that a tigress is, not delicate, but strong and sexual and sensual. Heated, yet cold. Sex on a metal table. Rough. Smoky. Natural. Biting into a piece of ginger, feeling the inside of your mouth go numb as the juice saturates your mouth with spice and pain relievers. And then, a bite on your lower lip that you can feel.. and it hurts so good! Gosh darn it, it hurts so good. There's my review on 'Copper' Comme des Garcons. I like it a lot. : ) ; ) <3 <3 <3

Now this is what perfumery should be all about guys. Creating experiences. Telling something new. Being creative. Making a statement. Changing the world, or at least the way we percieve it. This is a fragrance that needs to be learned to love. There is plenty of people below who will do their best to tell you what it smells like, so I'll pass on that. Sample it. Just trust your guts with it. Give it a couple wearings. We live in very interesting time for perfumery. On the one hand you have designer brands that come up with one good hit in a decade and then everybody else tries to copy it in hopes on making a good buck and flooding the market with other fragrances, designed to please masses as wide as possible at the same time. On the other hand you have niche brands undergoing a market boom right now, doing more or less the same thing, but with more expensive ingredients, or, in the worst case of the 'indie brands', learning how to make a perfume in the first place, with us as their lab rats paying for it. And then you have a brands like CdG, Guerlain, Jovoy, Maria Candida Gentile, Amouage: brands with great history, or in the process of making their mark, with every scent being a finished piece of art, well-thought piece of art with its own narrative and context. Copper is one of those. If you're a collector, if you have passion for perfume artistry, you should definitely experience it. It will be talked about in 20 years in the same way we're talking about the breakthrough frags of the 90s and powerhouses of the 70s and 80s today. Don't miss it. Thank you for your time.

My 70th review on Fragrantica! And what a beast to hit 70 on! Copper is electrifying. An immediate burst of raw industrial notes and grim nature, which all work in perfect harmony with eachother, followed by a dry down that is a blissful balance of both bitter and sweet. This is another bold olfactory statement, from a brand that in my opinion, has it's ups and downs. Copper is definitely an up. It hits the nail bang smack on it's rusty head, and that rusty nail is being punctured into an old boiler, with gusto, like the person banging it in is efficiently hammering a racist police officer to death. This hammering of various metals takes place in an abandoned warehouse, that mother nature has begun to claim back, due to numerous green plants appearing in cracks. Copper is the smell that is on this rusty nail, when it is pulled out of the old boiler, as it combines with the vegetation scents in the air. It is odd, stark, beautiful, complex and energised. Some of CDG's other scents are Kodak red batteries from the pound shop, but Copper is Duracell batteries from the artisan DIY shop. It wants to shout about it's day to you, after it's done a celebratory line of cocaine. It is also a bit of a romping, steamy love letter to Metal Chypre by Juliette Has A Gun. It wants to fuck that perfume in a forbidden whirlwind romance. It could electrocute an electric eel to death. 10/10. I rarely give out tens, but this one deserves it.

This is CdG well and truly back on track for me, Just with this line (in the pebble bottles) you understand. It wasn't that Concrete and Blackpepper weren't alright but they were just that...alright and didn't encapsulate the avant garde, futurism and funky, artistic nature of the brand and certainly other releases. This epitomises Comme des Garcons for me. Copper doesn't have the incense themes but the sharpness and smoky bite is still coming from resins but the transparent, green and metallic, galbanum, slashing through the composition, injecting that edginess. it has a combo of my favourite top notes in cassis, pink pepper and ginger which are prominent and all in all give the main focus and a vibrant, energy to this perfume. The drydown is actually intense, brooding, resinous and with a heavy twang of myrrh which has an inimitable quality to it. Outstanding! Completely and utterly, outstanding. I don't even love it, I'm just glad that it exists and that comme des garcons are still shaking the tree of perceptions.