chamomile — Perfume Reviews — Lavender and Spice

Comme des Garçons parfums*PARFUMS Series 3 Incense: Avignon

In our wear of a 2020 decant, we found that Avignon lives up to the hype as a transformative treatment of incense, but confounds an easy description. The opening of Avignon has a remarkable similarity to the scent of fossilized amber purchased from Eden Botanicals. There is a bright fruity, leathery, phenolic note that is a unified scent. It could be the fruit from the Roman chamomile combined with the peppery, lemony brightness of the elemi resting on the deeper cistus and vanilla. A blend of different myrrh oils and resinoids could also support this. Still, it goes beyond our understanding.

Comme des GarçonsLavender and Spice StaffJanuary 18, 2021Bertrand Duchaufour, chamomile, incense, cistusComment

Clinique Aromatics Elixir

Released in 1971 only three years after the Clinique brand launched, Aromatics Elixir was a generation-defining, accessible scent for women moving away from the heavy, spiced perfumes of the 1960’s. This was a sharp, medicinally bitter green powder that came out the same year as Chanel No. 19’s galbanum-driven green monster.

CliniqueLavender and Spice StaffJanuary 11, 2021chamomile, Bernard ChantComment