Zagorsk Eau de Toilette by Comme des Garcons Series 3: Incense

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Zagorsk
Eau de Toilette
by Comme des Garcons Series 3: Incense

The Scoop
Built around a 14th century monastery, the Russian holy spot of Zagorsk lends its name to this fragrance. Zagorsk opens with a surge of crisp pine and cedar. At its heart is an almost clean feeling… like pinecones strewn on brand-new snow on a dark winter's eve. Pretty poetic, and so is Zagorsk. At the base is Russia's famous birch wood, but not smoky, just the memory of old, fragrant fires burned in an Orthodox church in the middle of a forest. Clear and clean with a touch of melancholy.

Zagorsk Notes
white incense, pine, pimento berries, violet, cedar, iris, hinoki wood, birch wood

Perfumer
Evelyne Boulanger
Other fragrances by: Evelyne Boulanger

	$80	50ml


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It's a great masculine scent. The top notes of pine keep it invigorating. It dries down to a pleasant woodsy scent. I have to agree with other reviews it doesn't have lasting power. With that being said it makes for a good casual everyday mans scent. It smelled too much like mens cologne for me to wear it personally.

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Anonymous -server from brooklyn

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Anonymous -server from brooklyn

This one didn't work on me. Hardly any scent at all and what there is is like cheap pine air freshener. But then, my body chemistry is such that perfumes have to be extra strong to give off a scent. I tried this one as a lark, glad it was only a sample.

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Anonymous -jewelry designer from

I think this is wonderful - I absolutely don't see where people are getting the idea of motor oil from in this scent. I get strong pink pepper, which dries down to a combination of allspice, a hint of pine, and just a breath of cedar and violet. Profoundly complex -- more-so than Ouarzazate or Avignon from this series. It's not the sort of thing you drown yourself in to wear to the mall or that Neurosis concert-- it's a grown-up incense, for grownups, designed to be treasured and used cautiously. Wearing this is like having a really wonderful secret, I think. Sillage is not overwhelming; the staying power average. I think this scent is a gem. I love incense fragrances, but was not anywhere near as pleased with Messe de Minuit or Incense Extreme or Frankincense & Myrrh as I am with this. Dry, haunting, lovely -- not cloying or suffocating. It's like taking a deep breath of cold air.

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Mnemosyne - from Kansas City

This is the worst of the line for me. However, I'm a Greek orthodox and I can say this smells exactly like the inside of a church during mass. It creates the same feeling as Avignon: heavy, solemn, spiritual but hot were Avignon is cold. This one smells like pure incense to me, not like a perfume or even skin scent. Perhaps, that's why I don't like it? I much prefer Avignon and Jaisalmer over this.

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fani -computer programmer from Athens

BIG disappointment. It's no incense AT ALL! Bland, weak, semi-green scent evaporating from the skin in minutes. Forget about charisma and style. AVIGNON and KYOTO are far better, but generally all incense serie is sadly a big mistake. Try HINOKI MONOCLE if You want smell interesting, if not brilliant! I respect CDG for their innovations and brave, but it isn't for me. Pass

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bert - from

Soapy and gross on me. I love woods, and after reading about this one I was sure I would love it, but I had to scrub it off after a few minutes, which I felt were a few minutes too long.

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JK -Lighting tech from Los Angeles

The best of the Incense lot by a country mile. Refreshing & downright dirty at the same time. It's a ripper!

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Gee - from Sydney

Zagorsk is a very special fragrance. It has incredible wood tones of birch and pine, emphasis on the birch. It is what Cartier’s Déclaration wants to be when it grows up! Zagorsk has a sweet nutty opening (pimento berries). Then, haunting smoky wood appears; an exceptional treatment of this scent. Florals (violets, iris) are a minor note, slightly softening the wood. The effect is one of austerity, dryness, restraint. The mood evoked is loneliness, melancholy, and yet at the same time satisfaction and contentment. Finally mild white incense appears and takes the fade-out. Zagorsk is subtle; despite having only a few notes they are very well done. It doesn’t have great longevity, but such moods (and scents) are of the moment anyway.

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s. muir - from edmonton

It's the smell of a thought. The most evocative thought one could have: a sad thought but that plunges its root deep in time. Superbe!

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Philippe - from

For me, this scent brings back hurricanes. The smell of freshly fallen pine trees and wet earth combined with debris being burned. Also, the hint of ozone that comes with a big storm.

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Anonymous - from Gulfport

Zagorsk is so clean, so stringent. It smells like allspice and nutmeg soap. A russian ghost haunting a dirty-iced cemetery, trampling over pine, disturbing the cold earth in his determination for a moment in the breeze and frozen sun. He rests his soul against the porous ancient stone, crumbling autumn-crisp leaves in the palm of his hand, breathing in the incense of the cathedral, his home. Old and clean. Gone and clean. Absolved of the weight of centuries.

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Cillar -Recluse from

I think Zagorsk is the best of the Incense Series. While I think all five are brilliant, and each has something to say-- Zagorsk is easily the most haunting. It's not the most wearable or versatile fragrance out there, but it has such a feeling of melancholic beauty. It's like being a fifth-grader and reading all about Anastasia and having secret feelings for her--upon which, you can never act. You know it's stupid, but you can't help it. That's how Zagorsk is. The sad beauty of a yellowed black and white photo-- and everyone in the picture is deceased. But there it is and here you are--separated by time. If you consider yourself a romantic old soul, you'll be moved by this.

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Anonymous - from

this one has to grow on me i guess. not off-putting precisely but kinda curious...perhaps a bit too piney for my taste. still interesting though.

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Elizabeth -radiographer from cambridge

Hot milk with pine aromas, resin oil and gasoline, old, burnt, wet wood and clear, melted snow. The best of all CDG fragrances.

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trentee -lighting designer from

One of my good friend's father comes from Russia and he immediately remarked on Zagorsk as distinctively Russian, so at least its authentic. Its so unusual but oddly familiar to me as well. After much pondering- I came to the conclusion that it smells like a mixture of my Colgate shaving cream and those Neco waffer candies. It didn't get a pine smell and I didn't remind me of whimsical winter or snow- I even wore this during a snow squall and didn't feel any connection. Too bad, I did want to like this. :[

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John - from Boston

Oh my tundra! The descriptions of this one really peaked my interest. My husband has been wearing the sample and I think I love it- but not for the usual reasons. Sour and smoky in a good way, this fragrance is not pleasant in the classical sense but it grows on you... remember the first time you ever tasted coffee as a child? You were maybe thinking "I don't get it"? It's an acquired taste that is by no means meant for the masses. Deep and sophisticated like a character in a Tolstoy novel.

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Jules D. -Sales Rep from CA

This one is very raw-wood-section-in-Home-Depot on my boyfriend. Pretty interesting, but it doesn't make me want to grab him & kiss him or anything. Kind of makes me want to build something. Like a birdhouse.

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Holly Fleming -writer from Oakland

My husband and I both love this. How it manages to capture both a dark, smoky element and a clean, snowy one--it's simply amazing.

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Leigh -Makeup Artist from Tuscaloosa, AL

Wonderful. In fact, it brilliantly captures the smell of Russian (Greek Orthodox) church. That's incense, and perhaps even melted wax (from candles), and pine trees, and snow... Anyone who'd ever visited Moscow (or Zagorsk, or any other russian town) will remember this odour immediately.

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Denis -journalist from Moscow

Some of the other Commes des Garcons incense fragrances are quite nice but this one smells like gin and motor oil. It's quite bizarre but that's the combination that comes to mind. Unless you're one of the Bush twins I don't see why those odors would hold any allure for you.

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MadAboutTheBois -Bon Vivant from Manhattan

to me it smells like laundry detergent: cheer or tide

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Anonymous -masseur from west hollywood

how utterly bizarre- a scent that actually makes me feel sad. as if just by smelling it i am suddenly lost in an immense, wooded forest, covered in snow. calling for someone to come, but no one does.

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rima -chef from tel-aviv

this perfume really evokes strange memories.maybe a bit of melancholic ones of mountainous holidays when you were younger or of your first kiss.it has a lot of notes that i can't indentify and a little spicy hint that mellows the nose the mind and most of all the heart.unbelievable!

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stella - from athens greece

Love, love, love! This is def. my favourite from Incense series. Next one is Kyoto. For me, it's such a familiar scent, evocative and fresh, almost like "deja vu"

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Zdenka -mom from Vancouver

Wow !!!! I could smell this kind of incense smoke trapped in rich church marble pillars, There is a granite/stone like aroma I've NEVER experienced in any scent- the stone and smoke blend into a ritualistic , ehterial element along with woody bits along the whole jouney into this mystical elixr - I love ALL the CdG Incense series, but Zagorsk/Kyoto. and Avignon are the BEST. I could prattle on for longer but you all get the idea -I'm sure.

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William -Artist / Surreal-estate agent from St. Louis

Beautiffull smell I love it very woodsy and nostalgic smell.

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Ronald - from sanjuan

Mystical and woody pine scent - magnetic like all the Incense series. On me, it dries into a medicinal woody, violet potion that has an iodine fragrance - very serious.

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Anonymous -Artist from Praha

imagine christmas...in a church.....a winter walk at night first snowfall surrounded by pine tress... i LOVE this

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louise kahle -talent agent from st pete

This is an amazing scent- it smells so clean you'll feel like you've just taken a hot bath after a late night happy dog walk in deep mountainous snow.

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Jason -Advertising Exec from San Francisco

This smells like the lumber department of Home Depot. Smells great, like freshly cut wood. Also notes of spice like allspice or anise. If you like spicy cologne, you'll really like this.

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Jeff -Culinary student from Sacramento

At first I was not impressed, then at the drydown..... to die 4!!! wonderful...... piney, woodsy, incensy, sexy mild cedar, longlasting crisp,very unisex. Another favorite of CdeG !

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Carmen -artist from Fla.

Not my favorite CdG incense, but heads and shoulders over most of the stuff out there. The pine struck me as just a little artificial, but still this is lovely for a snowy, winter day. Oh, and by the way, I love Lucky Scent! What a carefully thought out selection and what a wonderful, helpful staff. And the web site is so darn cute!

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Anonymous -Classical Music from Kansas City

A beautiful pine incense scent, very deep and comforting.

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Anonymous - from

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ZagorskEau de Toiletteby Comme des Garcons Series 3: Incense

Zagorsk
Eau de Toilette
by Comme des Garcons Series 3: Incense