Comme des Garsons 3
Comme des Garçons 3 announces itself with an unusual pairing: magnolia's creamy softness against the sharp, anise-adjacent snap of fresh basil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readComme des Garçons 3 announces itself with an unusual pairing: magnolia's creamy softness against the sharp, anise-adjacent snap of fresh basil. The opening is immediate and slightly disorienting, two unrelated registers performing simultaneously.
The heart fills into a dense floral-spice accord—freesia and jasmine provide familiar architecture, but cardamom and clary sage push it toward something less conventional. Rose anchors the heart without taking it over; the pimento adds a quiet heat.
The base is the composition's real statement: incense, vetiver, birch, guaiac wood, and patchouli form a deep resinous-smoky foundation that carries through to the final hours. Amber and sandalwood smooth the edges. Perfumer Mark Buxton built something serious and layered—not austere, but not accommodating either.
Scent twins
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