Comme des Garcons Series 5 Sherbet: Rhubarb
The Rhubarb opens with a realistic tart-fruit note—rhubarb captured accurately: sour and slightly vegetal, with a candy suggestion underneath—alongside lychee sweetness that tilts the opening toward sherbet brightness.
The scent fingerprint
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- Vanilla60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Rhubarb
- Lychee
- Bergamot
- Orchid
- Camellia
- Oak
By the editors · 2 min readThe Rhubarb opens with a realistic tart-fruit note—rhubarb captured accurately: sour and slightly vegetal, with a candy suggestion underneath—alongside lychee sweetness that tilts the opening toward sherbet brightness. Bergamot provides the citrus lift that keeps the fruit accord from turning heavy.
Camellia and orchid in the heart are both quieter florals—sheer and watery—that let the tart-fruit quality of the opening persist into the midpoint without adding significant new structure. The composition is intentionally transparent.
Vanilla and oak in the base add warmth, rounding the dry-down into something more conventional than the opening promised. Bertrand Duchaufour's Rhubarb remains the most legible of the Sherbet releases: odd in premise, coherent in execution.
Scent twins
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