Girl

First, just a heads-up that the gift set is currently selling for $32.50 at Macys, which consists of a 100ml bottle and travel rollerball along with free shipping. Although not a favorite, it's a very good full-bodied Comme des Garcons fragrance at a bargain price IMO. Check it out if you're interested. I just ordered a bottle since it's bargained priced. Anyway, I sampled 'Dead Girl' perfume in the Fall of 2014 at my local Sephora. The fragrance was in the women's fragrance section and, after talking to a sales associate, it was noted that the ladies (staff and customers) did not like it because it had a very masculine opening. But I was also told the drydown was quite nice. Needless to say, I haven't seen this fragrance in the stores in at least six months. To my nose, the opening was messy-masculine. I have heard it described as a dryer sheet...absolutely, just add a cup of fabric softener, toss in a packet and table pepper and throw in a handful of dirt and that's what I take-away during the first few minutes. I found it to be bit odd...but it was certainly masculine so it didn't bother me; certainly not like it would some of the ladies. However, a few minutes later Girl transitioned into a decent woody, flowery, earthy scent that is very dry. I am not a fan of powdery fragrances, however 'Dead Girl' was not overly-powdery to my nose and the Iris was well-done. Conversely, I didn't detect any vetiver in this one. To my nose the resulting blend in drydown is a pleasant, warm, creamy cedarwood (smelled like a cedery sandalwood) with some violet and earthy patchouli rounding out the background. Not too shabby and better than expected. At times (fleeting glimpses) I could detect some slight similarities to something like a Bois des Isles or Trumper Sandalwood but, as I said, those moments were fleeting, at best, as Girl is oddly-unique to my scent pallet. This fragrance projects pretty well (it doesn't push-out, but it leaves a nice scent trail on my skin) and the 3-4 times I sampled it lasted 8+ hours on my skin (I would be surprised if it didn't). Overall, I feel this scent is worth checking-out (it's a good frag) but it's not quite my style and/or I have other perfumes in this genre that I really love. C'est la vie! Moreover, since it's bargained priced it may be a good blind-buy some men and women who like a ballsy type fragrance. Regardless, I was pleasantly surprised...really nice peppery fragrance with a loud/sharp iris note that was not overly powerdery. Moreover, the woods/vetiver and patchouli combined with the pepper and iris give Dead Girl a very nice dark/woody/spicy vibe that is lightly perfumey. While I balked at the $100+ asking price, I have no problem paying $32.50 for a bottle of this juice. And yes, the bottle is quite fugly.

This is absolutely perfect scent for man or woman who’d like to make statement that they are EXCENTRIC and slaves to abstract ART. My immediate visual imagery pulled Kazimir Malevitch “Black Square” - iconic to seeking minds and general-public-opinion’s disaster. IT is unbelievable in its longevity; and I think, in general, it’s just accidental struck from other dimension that happened to come through Pharrell. Commes des Garçons, from other side - are so expected to be found behind thing like this! - ha-ha just twist their name gender-wise and here you go! This Violet note always stands out - Fahrenheit, eau de Gaga, Jil Sander Man, BH Metal Jeans (I believe), e.g. etc. ..but ‘Oh boy’ (or shall I say here - ‘Oh girl’!) Violet here is abducted into some futuristic alliance.. All ingredients named - are quite familiar.. how come this perfume twisting my olfactory brains!? There must be something else there, or maybe they irradiate it by laser beam while mixing.. I promise you - U WON’T LIKE IT - cause IT’S made NOT 4 LIKING!! IT’s for making the person who wears it to fall out of ordinary, to generate disturbance and to challenge feelings and mind - as if some ultra-violet alien hides behind their human form. Don’t be scared now to try though- it’s perfume by all definitions and there’s nothing unpleasant here. Brilliant (well, quasi-brilliant) perfume. Any age any gender can pull it and be challenged by it. As much as I like to pull “macho” majority of the time - I have days when I want to listen only to David Bowie and wear silver plastic shoes on bear feet and not to comb my hair, and put all my jewelry at once and go to wine tasting with friends.. is it ‘girl’ in me? cause on those days this perfume is the “bulz-eye”.

One of the best celebrity scents I've tried! I thought it was going to be more feminine, but this is indeed very Unisex. I agree, more masculine than feminine, but still perfectly Unisex. There's nothing synthetic about it, and it is very nichy in scent. If Bond No. 9 and Montale had a baby, that company would produce scents inline with this one. Without looking at the notes, I was thinking cotton candy, hazelnut, violet, patchouli... but looking at the note pyramid, the iris must be softening up the vetiver to give it that nutty vibe. The amount of sweetness is perfect, not too much, but not so little as to allow the notes to be too controversial to be unisex. Also, the iris doesn't stand out as a singular note. I've never smelled iris mixed or masked or complimented so closely as this before, so I must say, I'm wowed. This is not the basic woody or citrus or generic "I just want to be even more famous" type of celebrity scent at all. There was some real thought put into this scent and it wears WELL above its price tag! The only negative for me is that the bottle is a little childish to my personal tastes and reminds me of the spongebob and marvel/disney scents, but who cares - it's what's inside that counts. Props, Pharrell. This is dope!

Scent: 10 I was looking for this fragance but It is not easy to find It here. Endly i found It in a perfumes online outlet for a very good price. The smell is wonderful for me. It is soapy, creamy, powdery, Woody, flowery and very very spicy. It makes me remwmber of other comme de garcons parfum but i cant remember which one... Cdg quality for a Zara price. Longevity: 8 This is not de most long lasting perfume i have, but It is better than most of the perfumes which can be found nowdays un the market. Sillage: 8 His projection is quite good as well. This fragance is not a beast but it goes with you and after you for some hours Quality/price: 10 As i have said before, i find It quite as a niche fragance for the price that a supermarket perfume costs. It really worths his price Versatility: 9 I think It is a very versatile perfume. It could be a oerfect perfum for a daily use case of his soapy and powdery character... But It is strong and spicy enough yo became a nice company for night out or yo assit todo different events. Global: 8

I blind bought this because it had been on my "to try" list for a while and it was on sale for almost nothing. When I took my first spray onto my arm, I thought I'd made a terrible mistake - the irises and violets are really strong, and it smelled to me like an old lady's handbag. (I would later get used to the opening.) Leaving it on, though, it morphed into something quite different. I think this must have been the pepper and the woods coming through. My skin tends to make everything smell a little soapier and cooler in temperature, and I think that helped too. It has a real slouchy, chilled-out air about it, and the flower punch at the beginning makes a lot more sense when you've smelled the drydown. As a Pharrell scent, I think it totally works: it's slick and cool, with a bit of a quaint classic charm about it. It's also weirdly non-gendered, rather than unisex - less "for men and women", more "that wasn't even a question in the first place".