Standard

One of only two bottles i currently and have ever owned (alongside CdG's Blackpepper which i also really like). I don't wear perfume super often, usually only when I know I'm gonna be around friends, but when i do it's usually this one. I didn't think i liked perfumes forever until i met a friend who always wears stuff i really like. He's a huge CdG fan and especially likes their Wonderwood and incense collection. I was looking through his bottles with him a couple years ago and he said he didn't really like this one, but I tried it on and be said it smelled better on me so he gave me the rest of his almost full bottle. I had never smelled any perfume like this. At the time I didn't know it was supposed to be evocative of a woodworking shop, but i didnt pick up on that at all and i still kinda dont. Really I couldn't figure out exactly what it made me think of and that was what made it so exciting. I definitely thought of some sort of factory, metal and rubber hose, which i found surprisingly pleasant. Lemon pledge. But at the same time somehow foresty, vaguely grassy and woody. Simultaneously industrial and natural. I didn't know perfumes were allowed to do any of this! The balance shifts around a lot as it settles and I still pick up on something different every time I smell it which keeps it exciting. Very well balanced and no single element screams for attention. Once settled on the skin it becomes a subtle and fresh aura. I don't think anyone would really notice how odd parts of it actually are unless they actually stopped and paid attention to it. In my opinion very versatile and easy to wear. I don't think I would have bought something this cold and austere for myself, but I'm surprised how much i like wearing it. Bottle is really cool too!

Wood and metal. The school woodwork classroom, tidy and orderly. And an occasional whiff of Finnish Labrador Tea - one of my favourite scents of all time. FLT does not smell like a honeysuckle. It smells like pickled ginger with something metallic, something animalic. And with a salty edge - coarse sea salt, and some desert dust. Fresh and unique scent, I wish I could give you a sample right now. And it's not just the bloom, the whole plant has this distinctive aromatic smell. Actually, I picked my first bottle of Standard because the note list mentioned Finnish Labrador Tea. I don't get the aroma in the opening, but there certainly is a delicate, haunting whiff of it when the scent develops on the skin. One of my absolute favourites. The notes are framing one of my best-loved wood notes - humble cedar - so well. This is a great everyday perfume, uplifting and fresh, but with just enough edginess and unique flair. Very silky musk base makes it last for ages. It's clean, but does not smell like laundry detergent.

I think this might be my favorite "woody" scent from CdG, and that includes the most popular ones in Wonderwood, Sequoia, Monocle series etc. You could almost call this one Wonderwood Intense as it has a similar woody but balsamic vibe but really amps the cedar here, bolstered by the spicy ginger. On top there's this kind of incense like aspect, quite different than the incense line like in Zagorsk and Kyoto (that take them into a different category for me) but a fresh energentic incense more than a liturgic one. In the drydown it gets a little smoother with the unmistakable note of saffron coming to the fore lending a creamy aspect to the wood not dissimilar to a suede creaminess but with its own smoother feel, as saffron tends to bring. It lasts a good while, isn't offensive but is interesting and the minimalist presentation works well for this too. One of CdG's best. I backed up this one.

In its way this is quite outrageous, but it is brilliant, beautiful, high art. Early on the lemon and to a lesser extent tea notes dominate, accompanied from the beginning by pencil shavings - refined, arty pencil shavings in a studio or loft, somewhere. The allusion to the modernist wooden furniture of Artek is not hard to find, either. It is intensely refreshing, above all in hot weather, and can be worn in a wide range of circumstances. It has a certain coldness about it, but not to anything like the invigorating degree of CDG's Zagorsk. And the drydown first brings the woodiness of the pencil shavings to the fore, before accelerating into a gorgeous smokiness that takes ages to disappear. Standard this is not, it's something special, with its strength lying in its understatement and surprising complexity. I love it.

I'm finding it difficult to describe how this smells, but I'll try because it's such an interesting fragrance. To me it evokes memories of hot Scandinavian (or Finnish, I guess) summers in a birch forest or by a wood cottage in the mountains. I think it smells like stained wood heated by the sun - a kind of incense-y smell - as well as lichens on hot rocks, dry heather and earth. It is so well blended that I'm finding it difficult to separate the individual notes. I cannot pick out the ginger, but it has some spicyness to it. Very dry, not so green in my opinion, more yellow, if that makes sense. I think it's a beautiful scent, I even find it a bit moving and I don't know why I haven't bought it yet. As unisex as a pine chair. It is funny that such a unique and innovative perfume bears the name "Standard".

Smart scent, I totally love it! Original without beeing too odd. If you're into sharp/austere cedarwood and spicy (desweetened) ginger/lemon concoctions, you'll probsbly dig this. It has the overall minimalistic incensey vibe of many Comme Des Garcons. Someone could argue saying it smells like pencil-shaving, but hey....this is the best "pencil shaving" fragrance on the market. A very wearable, discreet yet charismatic fragrance for the laidback personality guys! My only disappointment is the lasting power (no more than 3-5 hours). GDG is confirmed to be amongst the best modern/avanguardist perfumes outfit. Rating: 7/10

I imagine Jesus probably smelled like this after a hard day's carpentering. You have to go in pretty heavy on it, as it's not very long-lasting. The scent of course and not Jesus, who actually had great silage and projection. I imagine this would get the Moms down the Sunday school asking questions about their own faith in god as they couldn't help but breathe in your Jesusy aroma. Is it actually a sin to want to smell another man like that? I think not.. CdG coming at us with yet another theological one!

I love this perfume! I’ve had it for 6-7 years and I suppose I can say that it has become my signature scent. Understated, unique and quite rare to find people who wear this! I love the clean wood blended with fresh lemon and ginger! Little spicy, very clean and light! I imagine modern library with Artek furniture! My only issue is the longevity ... can’t get more than 2 hours from skin, 3-4 hours from clothes out of this! :( But I keep buying this ... and keep spraying! :D

Standard is anything but ordinary. It opens with the sharp brightness of saffron and fennel with a cool metallic edge. The effect is striking — a medicinal liquorice tincture, equal parts herbal remedy and futuristic potion. Standard feels both clinical and comforting, an avant garde scent that lingers in memory long after it is gone.

Pine wood in a IKEA store. This fragrance evokes the pine and spruce wood of the taiga or nordic countries. Dry, crisp, woody with perhaps a bit of lime and ginger to round it off. Excellent, and unique. I think it leans towards the masculine side, and lasting power is average.

it is a beautiful clear perfume. On my skin I feel mostly very bright and a bit acidic white francenscense. Very natural and cozy though the scent has nothing sweet. Performance is moderate, but better than CDG/Monocle editions.

Good stuff. The concept of fresh wooden furniture is perfectly executed. A comforting smell that is similar to (and feels like) the comfort you get when opening a new plywood drawer to pull out old photographs or a book.

It smells like sugar and wood for me.

Perfumer: Christina Astuguevieille. Notes of lemon, labrador tea, twinflower, metal note, rust, fennel, watercress, ginger, saffron, dill, musk and cedarwood. The unisex fragrance was created in line with Artek studio’s brief on combining synthetic and natural elements. My first thought on smelling "Standard" was: a mix of "CDG Incense line" with "Hinoki" and then some deja vús of "CDG Synthetic series". "Standard" opens airy, slightly aquatic and synthetic with lemon and a herbal, metallic atmosphere with a smoky mostly incenseish tea plus a dry herbal finish that easily could remind you to a cammomile flower and conifer scents. The juice develops mostly clean, raw woody with cedar while the watercress and the gorgeous twinflower notes melt into each other bringing a delicious clean, floral blast, that will play around in the whole life of the perfume. I get some fennel and lovely ginger accent. The dry down is soft and posses a smooth finish; a dry, slightly floral, slightly green-incense-velvety pleasant scent. I like it very much. A lot. Ideal for a quiet, calm day: you staring indoors through a window, coily, feeling nice and warm while the world goes by. Again, CDG show us that It remains as the King regarding to scents based in a fantastic balance between natural and artificial components. Lasting power is reasonable, (no more than 5 hours) while it develops into a quiet skin fragrance.

The very eclectic CDG's take on the modern citrus musk (and a collaboration with design house 'artek') offers two Scandinavian ingredients that are unique to this class of perfumes - Finnish Labrador Tea and Linnaea borealis blossom in addition to the usual notes of ginger, lemon, dill, musk, saffron and cedar. The result is a light radiant beauty which is still very edgy and unique. This is a safe scent that can be easily worn around anyone and by either genders. Sillage and projection like most of the CDGs is moderate. This is yet another winner from the house that is at the cutting edge of modern perfumery art with very eclectic, contemporary, and abstract offerings. Very nice!

If you love cedar, "Standart" is the perfume you should try. The very masculine creation is perfectly suited for most occasions, but due to strong freshness of citrus and ginger "Standart" will suit warm weather much better. The quality is outstanding. Even though I did not get any tea I hoped for so much, I was pleasantly surprised by the complexity of this scent, cedar usually develops terribly on me, but "Standart" was a good exception. Longevity is excellent, more than 7 hours. For this type of scent I consider this a job well done by Comme des Garcons. Do hunt down a sample if you love cedar.

I dont know how they did this but they get my respect for this creation. Not for everyone and definitely not a mainstream designer fragrance but this is my 11th perfume from cdg so I know what to expect. Smells like a brand new - finished piece of wooden furniture polished with lemon pledge Dont know many who would want to smell like that but it reminds me of the coastal breeze in my hometown

Reminds me of the cleaning products my grandmother would use. Then it dries down to a smooth woodines. Office safe but I wouldn’t wear it to the gym personally. One thing I like about cdg is how fragrances like this go well when you’re deep in the city. Concrete and Black are good examples of this too. I choose this often when I want to smell good but don’t want to grab too much attention.

Dominant note for me is Japanese hinoki (cedar/cypress wood), and on that score it is better and clearer than the actual CdG/Monocle "Hinoki" fragrance, which is too confused for my liking. I like this scent a lot, even if it doesn't remind me at all of Finland. My only disappointment is that it is rather short-lived.

I get lots if incense, especially in the first 1-2 hours. It's like mixing fennel, green tea and incense. Very interesting, just like most CdG. Can be worn all year round as it's more of a woody-green scent. Lasting power: medium Projection: good for the 1st hour or so, then becomes a skin scent.