Comme des Garcons Series 6 Synthetic: Garage
Marie-Aude Couture's 2004 entry in the Synthetic series literalises a mid-century garage: laurel aldehyde, traces of kerosene, plastic floral notes, and vetiver acetate stacked into something that smells more like a place than a fragrance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Leather65
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Leather
- Floral Notes
- Vetiver
- Chinese Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readMarie-Aude Couture's 2004 entry in the Synthetic series literalises a mid-century garage: laurel aldehyde, traces of kerosene, plastic floral notes, and vetiver acetate stacked into something that smells more like a place than a fragrance. The opening is sharp aldehydes — slightly soapy, slightly metallic — over an industrial green that reads almost rubber.
The heart is the strongest moment: leather propped against synthetic floral abstractions, the floral acting more as fluorescent light than as petal. The drydown stays dry and cool: vetiver acetate and Chinese cedar. Not designed to flatter; designed to render. Wearable in the way a Dieter Rams object is — formal, austere, more interesting in cold rooms.
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.
