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Comme Des Garçons · Est. 2004

Comme des Garcons 2 Man

The opening strikes with crisp mint cut through by warm nutmeg—an unexpected cold-hot contrast that feels both medicinal and grounding.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2004
Perfumermark buxton
Statusenriched
Comme des Garcons 2 Man — Comme Des Garçons
2004 · Fragrance
vet·lea·inc·iri
Rating
4.2
2.6k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.

Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.

  • Vetiver
    75
  • Leather
    70
  • Incense
    60
  • Iris
    55
  • Iris Powder
    40

By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with crisp mint cut through by warm nutmeg—an unexpected cold-hot contrast that feels both medicinal and grounding. There's an herbal clarity here, almost ascetic, that sets the tone for what follows.

As it settles, vetiver and saffron create a dusty, leathered earthiness while iris adds a soft, powdery coolness that keeps the composition from turning heavy. The incense burns quietly beneath, never dominating but lending a dry, ceremonial quality to the leather. This isn't biker jacket leather—it's something more abstract, closer to worn book bindings or temple interiors.

The overall effect is austere and contemplative, with a slight medicinal edge that feels intentionally anti-seductive. It suits those drawn to fragrance as conceptual statement rather than crowd-pleaser, offering a kind of monastic modernism that reads equally at home in galleries or rain-soaked city streets.

Filed: Comme Des GarçonsSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap