Series 3: Incense - Avignon 2002

Series 3: Incense - Avignon by Comme des Garçons
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Series 3: Incense - Avignon is a popular perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men and was released in 2002. The scent is smoky-resinous. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Smoky
Resinous
Woody
Spicy
Earthy

Fragrance Notes

FrankincenseFrankincense Brazilian rosewoodBrazilian rosewood CistusCistus Elemi resinElemi resin Roman chamomileRoman chamomile PatchouliPatchouli VanillaVanilla

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.0436 Ratings
Longevity
7.3329 Ratings
Sillage
6.6317 Ratings
Bottle
6.4285 Ratings
Value for money
7.476 Ratings
Submitted by Sani, last update on 01.04.2024.

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8
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8
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9.5
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Can777

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Can777
Can777
Top Review 81  
In the silence of thought
What I this Christmas at perfume probably put on and in which fragrance direction it will probably go? This question has probably so some here also already asked themselves. It will be an incense perfume with me! Why? Because incense is able to fulfill a lot of things after I long very much, in this very difficult time for all of us. Frankincense carries wishes to heaven and gives hope. Frankincense offers protection and keeps evil away. It cleanses the thoughts and the rooms. Frankincense is spiritual and takes us a little way to the threshold of God. And it is the white, smoky breath that is able to close wounds. Mentally as well as physically! Incense is a protective shield and keeps negativity away. It purifies the spirit, the soul and the body. Which incense perfume will I use on Christmas Eve? I will tell you. It is for me personally one of the most beautiful incense perfumes I know!
Avignon
Avignon tends not to be a cold incense scent like many others. Here the fair is not yet finished,but in full swing. He begins indeed with a slightly cool labdanum note which, however, rather like a slightly metallic-cool breeze. Relatively quickly, gentle warmth creeps in. Not much. More like a slight glow, a delicate sparkle of resinous, warm-smoky elemi comes in. A pleasant, soft resinousness spreads and is gradually accompanied by woody-creamy tones of still young rosewood. Chamomile adds delicate, herbaceous-soft chords. A cool earthy patchouli grounds the perfume in a very pleasant way before it joins spicy and softly smoky vanilla and becomes a great whole of sacred, holy, warming, protective and authentic incense. There may not be many notes,but they are "divinely" composed.

Conclusion
There are many smells and scents that symbolize Christmas for me. For example, cinnamon,anise,cloves,speculoos,almond and gingerbread. These are the childhood and physical joys and memories I associate with Christmas. But that is only a small part of it. Albeit a very beautiful one! The real Christmas and its deep meaning smells to me like church incense. After the holy, white smoke. It smells of silence, humility, charity and comfort. It is the smoke that carries thoughts, wishes and hope to heaven. Avignon is for me the olfactory holy night. Silence of thought, spiritual peace and security. Authentic and real to the last note. It must have been around this time just before Christmas many years ago, I met a friend in the evening as I was passing by. It was snowing and late. I was wearing Avignon. It was my first bottle at the time. We exchanged a few words and parted again. When we said goodbye he turned to me and said: Can,....You smell like Christmas! He felt Avignon the same way I did. Christmas Eve was in the air!

My dear friends,readers,perfumos!
This is my last comment for this year. I hereby thank you for many wonderful hours with you. For much joy and also some suffering what you have shared with me. For many enriching conversations, a lot of laughter and an incredible amount of warmth, empathy and humanity. It was a great pleasure for me to spend this year with you. In good times as well as in bad times. I wish you a blessed Christmas for you, your loved ones and families. And a hopeful new year. Stay healthy and never forget,.... each other well!

Sincerely and good smelling holidays.
Can

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57 Comments
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7
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Minigolf

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Minigolf
Minigolf
Very helpful Review 15  
Airy coolness
Since I am a confessing incense fan, I had to test of course also THIS. And can only be thrilled again.
And incense scents can be as different as chypres, fougerés, floral scents etc.
"Series 3 Incense Avignon" has a very light, almost ethereal coolness, although the fragrance itself is quite strong.
Everything seems to cover the sky like a fine veil of clouds, forming little whirlpools, fringed "cotton balls", everything in light silver-grey under a blue sky.
It's as if I'm walking along a sunlit cloister in a simple monastery, no trace of anything "gloomy" and yet restrained in the intensity of the light.
I can also subtly perceive the spicy radiation of a herb garden in the background.
This smell does not show any heaviness, although nevertheless some at "substance" is present.
The last thing I can say is he's a relief to the mind.
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5
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7.5
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3
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Flavorite

240 Reviews
Flavorite
Flavorite
Very helpful Review 8  
Something Wicked this Way Comes
I must go against the grain, here, on this one and say that Avignon conjures the smell of a freshly opened Pharaoh's Crypt or Temple of doom...someplace old and evil smelling that has not been disturbed until some fool-hearty protagonist in rustic leather chaps swings in and desecrates the Mummy's tomb. This is a very ancient and musty incense to my nose, not at all a sensual experience that I was expecting. Admittedly, I don't have any scent memory or fond childhood association with catholic church mass incense balls. This is has a very dominant myrrh, dusty dead things, creepy crawlies, frankincense and rosewood combination that is very medicinal, linear and disappointing. I am indeed shocked that it gets such high marks, I must now investigate the rest of the CdG Incense series for a more exotic temple type incense, perhaps Kyoto or Hinoki from the Monocle series is the one for me? Avignon just makes the hairs on the back of my neck come up and I think of the expression "Something Wicked this Way Comes."
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7.5
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5
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9
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Tar

261 Reviews
Tar
Tar
Very helpful Review 9  
Avignon
Who could find better name for this overwhelming fragrance? How could it be described without using pictures? (Ok, Miaw2 solved this question, but I am not enough factual for this.) When I first smelled AVIGNON, I used a very common and totally profane Hungarian expression for surprise: I shove off my hair!

When I sampled FULL INCENSE by Montale, my only one sigh was: If I would feel pure incense instead of this sweet mixture! As it would have been a pray, my wish was granted by AVIGNON.

Grey, ceremonial incense, fragrant as popedom and pray and cathedrals. Cold till shuddering, dusty, stony, and not smoky at all. AVIGNON gives wind to the soul and brings back to memories, to past, to ancient era. I am not christian, I was never enough brave to visit a mass, since I do not know, what should have done, how to behave myself to not make a mistake, so I visited churches only as a tourist. When a mass was celebrated there, I was just standing at the gateway and staring inward even as little child, and wanted to go in, but couldn't. (I can risk the statement, that scent of incense was one of the many reasons why I chose history for studying at the University.)
Now with AVIGNON on my skin I feel that I am not an outsider anymore in this sanctified area of prayer.

After 2 hours the incense flies higher, till the attic of the church, wooden timbers, and dusty, old, worn floorboard...

PS: I have a flacon of hair "styling-mousse" in the bathroom, almost the same design as AVIGNON, and when I shoot a glance at it, I am always so disappointed that it is only a poor hair cosmetic and not this beautiful perfume :D
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2.5
Bottle
7.5
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5
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3
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Callas

54 Reviews
Callas
Callas
Very helpful Review 5  
Melancholy
Grown up as a Catholic I immediately connect the goings to church for the preparations for my first St. communion and confirmation which are not loved (but demanded).
Within the last few years, unfortunately, it is funeral services which step into memory.

I can imagine the incense smell to the support of a meditative atmosphere just as well. Into combination with other scents I don't have any problem with him either.

I am aware of only incense, though, what depresses me here.
Unfortunately, he seems very oppressive.
For me it is a mystical church smell which I can take for a short time but in the long run would not like to have in my surroundings.
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Vec2tVec2t 16 days ago
Earthy, slightly green and Elemi Gum overpowering in the opening. Slight woodiness.
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KatzevogelKatzevogel 29 days ago
Bitter frankincense for sure. Church in a way that feels old and respected and off-limits and inaccessible .
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TombbbTombbb 3 years ago
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It is aged church wood all over it, but nicely touched up with something ethereal, but fresh - rose, maybe some other flower.
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