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.

Galbanum has a sharp green smell which, to many, smells cold and metallic. I don't really get that... Galbanum, to me, smells sharply green and balsamic.. a massively potent note I'd recognize anywhere. CdG COPPER smells incredibly good: green, spicy, drying down to cozy, almost-sweet tobacco and vanilla/powdery hints. I think it's safe to call it a "Green Oriental"... a classification we don't often see. (Perhaps the first Green Oriental was Guerlain VOL DE NUIT in 1933). To my way of thinking, COPPER smells very masculine, indeed, almost like a modern take on KNIZE TEN. COPPER alludes to the past of manly-man fragrances, in the very best way; I can't read it as unisex. A real "flannel shirt" type scent... which is to say, a woman will go crazy sniffing this scent in the collar of her man's flannel shirt after he's gone. This scent is wonderfully powerful and complex-- not minimalist and transparent, like other CdG scents-- and as such is probably best worn in Autumn and Winter. I love this addictive number.

★★★★★ Comme Des Garcons is a brand that always takes extra care in their concept. We live in times when thoughtless fast production and consumption dominate, therefore brands that take time and focus on each release are an absolute oasis in the current designer perfume market. Copper starts off with an extra shot of galbanum, a metallic haze that sometimes smells like wet asphalt. This vibe will fade over time but will always be there and it's what makes this composition modern and unique. Copper starts turning into a honeyed tobacco scent, reminiscing masculines of the past. Imagine a high quality rich tobacco paired with the metallic galbanum. The base of this scent wraps you with a blanket of amber and vanilla, adding warmth to the cold modernity of the galbanum. Copper is clever, uniting the masculine tobacco vibe of the past with the more abstract contemporary metallic facets. These are the compositions that move perfumery forward. Stunning.

Ordered a bunch of CDG samples and Copper absolutely blew me away. Yes, the galbanum opening is very overpowering, but it calms down in just ten minutes or so. I do think the name Copper fits it nicely - it's metallic, fizzy and rusty, ozoney and very very fresh. And undeniably green. It makes me think of some kind of overgrown abandoned industrial area, full of rust. But in a crisp and cool way, not old or pungent. After about 6 hours it goes through a switch - from sharp and fresh to something more warm and comforting. The galbanum and metallic notes fade, and the vanilla and tobacco come forth. I love this transition - from refreshing and energising in the morning to soothing and comforting in the afternoon. I'm going to play around with the other samples for a while, but I'm pretty sure it will be Copper that I order a full bottle of in the future.

This is probably my favourite perfume. I've had my bottle 2+ years. At first I didn't wear it often, but as I've worn it more it's only made me want to wear it even more. Most other things I like to wear edge darker - more birch tarry but there's something about Copper that comforts and envelopes me. Opens with a huge blast of spicy, peppery, gingery, carrot. It has an edge of shrillness that hints at metal - which I guess gives it its name - but for me it isn't really metallic at all. Pretty linear through it's long life - at least 8 hours close to the skin - with ginger and warm woody tones producing a wonderful trail. Maybe not one people will compliment you for often, but for me something I could sit smelling, on myself and others, all day. Unusual, intoxicating and fabulous!!

This one is really hard to describe, much like many of the CDG fragrances. It starts with herbal greens and cool mineral notes but soon the greens fade away and round up to this earthy-smoky amber cloud with unsweetened vanilla undertone, definitely tobacco leaf as well. It really does give off this copper metallic feel, more like warmed up metal, not the cold sharp one. It's very dry but warm. Natural and and futuristic at the same time. Definitely unisex or even a tad masculine (still arbitrary). I don't think this would be a crazy complement getter, it's more like a fragrance that a confident modern person would wear for their own comfort and self expression. Modern and different yet not too strange or in any way repulsive or polarizing. A strong like from me.

From reading the reviews, I expected something between horrifying and mildly pleasant. I got brilliant instead. I’ve never experienced a perfume change so drastically from opening to drydown as this does. It’s jarring, impossible. At first, it’s so green, almost alarming how piercingly green it is-bold, bitter. Just when you think you can bear the intensity no longer, the shocking metamorphosis begins. Something quite alluring, somewhat milky, or creamy even, emerges. The drydown is a superb tobacco with mild vanilla. It’s still cut with enough residual bitterness that it never gets very sweet. How did it get from A to B? I have no idea. What a journey! This is art. If you like tobacco fragrances put this on your sample list.

This one is cool, and unique, and I really can't say enough good things about it. Definitely a skin scent but lasts surprisingly long. I ran 13 miles yesterday with it on and could still smell it after, which is unusual. As for the fragrance itself, at first it's kind of like if you picked random plants from the side of the road and left them in your father's dresser drawer for a few weeks. After a bit, it brightens up to an almost citrus-y, bright, and metallic smell. Really like this one, I don't pick up as much tobacco as others do, but it's there in the background.

This scent so beautiful and sexy. If you like oriental fragrances with a salty note this is a must have. This is unisex but a man wearing this would be delicious!!! I do get the copper note but it smells like freshly minted pennies not the kind you find on the ground. The myrrh is pretty prominent on my skin so it sort of goes Middle Eastern on the dry down for sure and the metallic notes begin to disappear after a few hours. This scent projects like crazy. I just do one spray on my right ear and still get compliments. To me this scent is a unique without being weird.

Truly a piece of contemporary art. It's somehow perfectly copper and not copper at all. Opens with a sharp galbanum note and dries down to a wonderfully synchronous mix of green, metallic, and vanilla notes. It shouldn't work but it works so well; it's surprisingly wearable for something so avant garde. No idea why so many people have rated this as a fall or winter wear though, this is fully spring/summer to me. I only ordered a sample size but the actual bottle is so beautiful as well. This is so perfectly CDG to me and really epitomizes the house.

The first time I tried it I was horrified, almost wanted to scrub it off, but also kept coming back to it. Confrontational but alluring. I don’t get copper or metallic, it hits with a wall of tobacco and milkweed, then evolves into a gentle, cosy sweetness that reminds me of violin rosin. Obsessed with this, it’s a trip in a bottle - put it on and ride it out. A scent to wear outdoors in wild places and a coffee-shop afterwards. I keep forgetting I have it on, and getting whiffs of it hours later, it’s comforting and intriguing and I love it.

this one is very special to me cause it reminds me of my childhood somehow. it kinda smells like my grendparent's car used to smell in my childhood when we used to go for a roadtrip to the south of our country. unfortunately since like 10y.o i haven't been able to feel that scent cause they changed that car. but how amazed I was when first tried this one on my skin... it just shooted me to the depth of my memories into the time when the grass was greener, sun was brighter and the sky was clear as a tear. i simply love this one

Opens with a strong green vegetal note, like sort of reminds me of artichoke or green beans, as well as something metallic. I can't say that is terribly pleasant. A strange novelty I guess. After a few minutes, the sweet amber comes forward and the tobacco. It becomes warm, sweet, spicy/peppery, and powdery. It reminds me very much of a root beer float. This is delicious, warming, and cozy. I'd say after the opening, this is pretty safe. Perfect for colder months, nighttime, or a date. It's sexy and sure to please the senses.

This is my #1 fragrance of all time. Opens with a slight metallic, earthy, and clay-ish smell, the clay accord tones down and you can smell this sweet minty scent which reminds me of powdery spearmint gum strips. I can pick up a slight tobacco scent, reminds me of an unlit cigarette. This is my favorite weird fragrance, cause it is not a putrid type of weird, more so an interesting type of weird, if I had some money laying around, I would buy at least 3 bottles to last me a lifetime, that's how much I love it!

Wow - really does smell like copper! What a comeback after the disappointment that was Yoyogi. Blind bought it the instant it was available - common feel and base like Amazingreen and to a degree Blue Santal. Red, metallic, dirt. Amazingly cooling and refreshing - quite a lovely and inoffensive scent - I can think a lot of people recoiling at first then going - hmm - works well. Unique in its own right. Only thing previously that came close was Copper Skies. This smells like copper if it was a perfume...

I was in love with this as soon as I smelled the opening. It's absolutely addictive. Not at all surprised to see other people mentioning that it smells like a car in various descriptions. It reminds me of a specific rental car we had on vacation in Florida to go to Disney when I was a kid. A very clean car with an air freshener and the AC on, that's probably been smoked in a few times, before being thoroughly scrubbed--in the best, most nostalgic way. It's definitely a unique scent.