Odeur 10

With Odeur 10, Comme des Garçons has perfected the laundry scent. I had hopes I'd love this scent, but nothing could've prepared me for the emotional impact I had first trying it; transporting me directly to my childhood. I have always wanted to find the fragrance that most reminds me of being a kid in the early 2000's. That feeling of driving in the car with my dad, listening to classic house and electronica, drinking 7-Up, wearing GAP. To me this aesthetic is perfectly encapsulated in the note of laundry-aldehydes; clean, uplifting, musky, fizz. I've found some of these elements in other fragrances, like L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme, CDG Standard, or CDG Synthetic Series Soda. However none felt quite right. Standard has too much icy, metallic lemon, and Soda is packed with white florals. Odeur 10, however, is a stripped back pairing of the two: taking the aldehydes of Standard and the sporty freshness of Synthetic Series: Soda, discarding the rest, leaving you with a simple, ambient fizz. The quality is incredible too. To my nose, it's like a better version of Byredo Blanche, and a higher quality Leau d'Issey Pour Homme. Despite being a new fragrance to celebrate 30 years of Comme Des Garcon Parfums, Odeur 10 feels like a scent that's been with us the entire time. It takes true expertise to create something so nostalgic, yet timeless. In Odeur 10, I've found that scent of my childhood I have been looking for, and I truly couldn't be happier.

The longer I own and use this one, the more I see how perfectly in line this release is with the previous Odeur scents. The fact that a lot of the CDG/Odeur lovers did not resonate with Odeur 10 shows that CDG managed to create a scent that is just as out there and evocative as it should be. A big factor might be the different marketing, the original Odeur scents had an extensive list of phantasy notes, while the list is very limited for Odeur 10 and leaves more to the user's nose: The field of technological scents was already explored more than enough by CDG in the past. The super sterile, clean, fresh, abstract, airy, ozonic facet of Odeur 10 gives it an incredibly avant-garde and futuristic DNA and yet it feels familiar to some degree. Clean skin, fresh laundry, air, the scent of nothing, soda, sparkling water, disinfectant, electricity, my mind tries to make sense of it and lingers between all kinds of abstract ideas of what this could smell like. Still, it smells very well blended and enjoyable. It will definitely bloom in the summer, but I feel like it can almost be worn all year round. Its abstract nature makes it crystal clear and ice cold during colder months, and its general wearability scales with an interesting fashion sense.

I have been on Fragrantica for probably 15+ years and never written a single review. Have made many purchases from the incredible reviews of others, that said. The poets of Fragrantica help transport me into magical, imaginary worlds that the perfumes quite often live up to. All that said, I cannot let Odeur 10 out of my head and am with a heavy heart nearing the end of my sample. My perfume scale ranges from heavy, dirty incense stink to aseptic surgical clean. And Odeur 10 is proudly at the end of the latter end. It feels like the multicolored reflections of bubbles made out of green Fairy dish soap in a metallic and sterile operating theater. It's cool and fresh and crisp, without a single emotion. Today I showered myself in green Fairy dish soap and doused myself in Odeur 10 from head to toe, and I am in heaven. This will be perfect for the canicular Summer months. And as weird and futuristic and cold and emotionless as this is, I also think it's probably very likeable for most. I feel like I smell germ-free and safe. I think you get the gist of my metaphor. A masterpiece of simplicity. edit. I got a full bottle.

so so so clean, I lowkey love it, it's a very unique experience smelling this, airy, fresh, clean, aldehydic, like being inside an oxygen bubble floating away, it really feels like you're inside a chemical molecule for some reason this one smells like my childhood, there's something in there that triggers so many memories and specifically a best childhood friend I had, it's very visual and I also love how it blends with your skin, gives it a second-skin scent, and pushes your natural scent forward in a very good way, I bet this fragrance changes on different people and skins if Odeur 71 is Gen X Soft Club, this is Frutiger Aero/Neo-Aero as I mentioned in my Ultrae review, I do a lot of analog VJing and artistic work and I've been looking for fragrances that could bring cohesion between what I do visually and my scent bubble, this is super interesting but not exactly what I'm looking for, maybe for the same reasons as Odeur 71, good candidate if I want to tone it down for an office in the creative field or a more formal context

my bottle from Aoyama just arrived. a great addition to all other Odeurs, probably the best one in the line. futuristic cleanliness. mainly aldehydic, slightly metallic and mentholated, truly ozonic — reminds me of Xerox machines and Soviet era medicinal quartz treatments that I experienced as a kid. it absolutely has some hydrogen peroxide feel to it. laundry detergent — in its powdered form — is also there, but it’s ‘very demure, very mindful’. quite unique: Humiecki & Graef Eau Radieuse and A Lab On Fire Almost Transparent Blue are Odeur 10’s distant relatives, more green and citrusy. think of it as of classic men's cologne but with high (natural citrus) frequencies completely cut. an anti-perfume in its true form: Odeur doesn’t feel perfume-y, it just makes you smell like a newly introduced replicant model. sits relatively close to skin, it is mild despite of its industrial vibe. lasts forever. 100% CDG.