Comme des Garçons Monocle Scent One Hinoki
4.0
Overall
Accords
woody
resinous
green
spicy
smoky
Notes Pyramid
Top
CamphorCypressGreen NotesPepper
Heart
CedarwoodHinoki WoodPine TreeThymeWoody Notes
Base
JuniperOakmossOlibanum (Frankincense)Vetiver
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ Comme des Garcons certainly know their incense and heady meditative woods. I was really looking forward to this having become a real fan of hinoki wood recently after familiarizing myself with the note. It's a soft woody/citrus type smell which is really gorgeous. Hinoki is what I expected in that it's a perfect note to build this kind of accord upon. Superbly woody, with the freshness of cedar,…
- ❌ CdG Monocle Hinoki is mildly terpenic, peppery cypress, stiff black waxy leather, and that creepy sterile electrical spark ozone-y aroma that you smell on the jet bridge gangway when you’re waiting in line to board an airplane. This is overall a deeply anxiety-inducing fragrance, conjuring imaginary but highly plausible scenarios wherein I have a connecting flight in Atlanta and that I have only 1…
