COMME des GARÇONS AMAZINGREEN
CHLOROPHYLL SHOCK THERAPY
The Comme des Garçons Amazingreen explodes like a chlorophyll bomb, pulverizing all notions of green perfume. This 2012 offspring of CDG’s wayward fragrance family opens with an almost violent burst of living greenery — not the well-mannered mossy greens of classic perfumery, but the sappy, sticky green of broken stems and shredded leaves. The opening is a hyperrealistic accord of galbanum and black pepper so vivid it produces a synesthetic feeling of emerald light. As the scent changes, it shows its conceptual brilliance: this isn’t nature served back but nature juiced through an industrial point of view, with metallic overtones evoking greenhouse racks and laboratory exactitude.
THE BIOLOGY OF SYNTHESIS
The brilliance of Amazingreen is precisely its paradoxical construction. The perfumer is using synthetic molecules to achieve something more truly “green” than any literal botanical extraction could ever produce at Comme des Garcons Official Store. A radical violet leaf absolute provides the spine of the fragrance, frozen to subzero temps during processing to maintain its wet concrete freshness. The heart reveals a surreal “lawn dew” accord, not the familiar floralcy of rose or jasmine, but a humid breath of photosynthesis itself. The base roots the composition down in earthy vetiver, all the woodiness removed, leaving only the scent of a warm parcel filled after a summer rain. Bottled in a CDG medicinal flask with bold green lettering, the packaging reflects the juice’s clinical interpretation of nature.
WEARING THE UNWEARABLE
This scent works its magic in different ways on every person who wears it. On some, it is fiercely green from first spray to drydown — a continuous rush of chlorophyll. Its metamorphosis is sometimes bizarre, temporarily evolving into something like gasoline or frozen celery before it lands in that final vegetal form. (Amazingreen is another that falls under the category of the third way freshness that is neither aquatic freshies nor woody aromatics; it offers an unexpected sort of squeaky-clean, invigorating new synth.) For CDG collectors, it is one of the more wearable entries in the Experimental Series. It’s evidence, for fragrance radicals, that innovation isn’t dead in contemporary perfumery.
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