COMME des GARÇONS MELBOURNE PARFUMS
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The COMME des GARÇONS Melbourne PARFUMS turns the Australian metropolis into a radical sensory experience. This unusual pairing echoes a cultural duality in Melbourne where Victorian elegance meets urban grit. The note opens like a stroll through one of the city’s secret laneways, with radiant citrus and solar spices suggesting all that daytime busyness. An innovative eucalyptus extraction at its core is neither medicinal nor camphoraceous but a polished whisper of the Australian landscape. Dry, it unfurls into a luxe base of molecular amber and smoked woods that evoke the mind’s warm surface behind Melbourne’s fabled nightlife and underground scene.
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This perfume is a testament to CDG’s penchant for pushing perfumery boundaries, however possible, through novel perfumery techniques at the Comme des Garcons Official Store. The perfumer also created a proprietary eucalyptus extraction for this composition, turning a usually piercing note into something surprisingly graceful. Solar spice accords attune radiant luminosity with the more rooted, dark base notes, and a mineral-metallic sheen does homage to the industrial past of the city. The juice is shown in a warm, golden color — a purposeful departure from sappy eucalyptus green — in CDG’s signature pebble-shaped bottle dressed with abstract maps of Melbourne’s famous street grid.
A SCENT THAT EVOLVES WITH ITS WEARER
Like the city itself, this scent has many layers that reveal themselves differently depending on context and wearer. Atop warm skin, the solar spices blossom in vivid strength, while cooler temperatures draw out the perfume’s cerebral woody heft. The composition is intended to be an evolving portrait of a day, bright and buoyant in morning light and gradually becoming darker and more intimate, more resinous, as night approaches. For CDG collectors, it was also an Australian chapter (albeit rare) in the brand’s Cities Series. For fragrance seekers, it provides an unprecedented olfactive interpretation of the much-heralded urban Antipodes culture that goes beyond postcard clichés.
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