Comme des Garcons 2011
Comme des Garçons 2011 opens with an assertive collision: aldehydes crackle alongside warm saffron and raw leather, producing something that reads simultaneously sharp and animal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Aldehydes
- Saffron
- Lilac
- Hawthorn
- Styrax
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readComme des Garçons 2011 opens with an assertive collision: aldehydes crackle alongside warm saffron and raw leather, producing something that reads simultaneously sharp and animal. The opening has the metallic edge of a freshly struck match.
As it develops, the harshness softens into lilac and hawthorn—delicate florals that provide an odd tenderness against styrax's resinous warmth. Musk bridges the floral heart toward the fragrance's thoroughly unusual base.
That base is the point. Industrial glue and brown scotch tape—genuine adhesive-like synthetic accords—ground the composition in a dry, strange intimacy. It smells of objects more than of nature, and wears close to skin in its final hours.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.




