Reviews of Series 1 Leaves : Lily by Comme des Garçons

I bought a full bottle of this due to my love affair with real Lily of the Valley...this was back in the day when the bottles were green and I was filled with faith.

Initially I was enamored with Lily, but she quickly wore out her welcome. Turns out she's loud, cheap, fake and a bit psychopathic at the core of her being.

I thought about keeping her around for room spray, but I really can't stand to be associated with her anymore.

Life is too short to waste another moment on Series 1 Leaves: Lily

Seriously, leave this fraud behind.

Genre: Green Floral

Lily is a cool, liquid, and elegant exercise in minimalism. The citrus top notes are sharp, sour, and acidic, with an air of cider vinegar about them. Crisp and slightly astringent green notes then herald the transparent muguet accord that emerges in their wake. The brisk greens and tart citrus ward off the stuffiness that burdens some muguet fragrances. The end result is bright, clear, and summery.

Lily is a simple scent, linear and not all that long-lasting. It's also happy and uplifting, and I think it makes a great warm weather pick-me-up.

Definitely worth checking out. It opens with quite a tart, loud Lily underpinned with some rose but eventually softens nicely and doesn't go 'powerdery' like some CdG scents can. Doesn't as last as long as I would like but it's a great fragrance to spray on at the start of a beautiful day before heading out.

Early on in my perfume explorations, I bought a bottle of Lily at the cool CDG boutique while on vacation in New York because I liked the peppery greens. Years later, I almost never wear it and only sort of like it, though I use it as a room spray a lot, just because it's around and I want to use it.

It's mostly a mix of the familiar lily chemicals, very green and vaguely aquatic, with a shot of pepper on top, leafy greens in the middle, and a weird milky characteristic that reminds me of sap or the smell of a broken-open piece of aloe. Eventually, this is joined by some faux rose, which lends the whole mix a bit of a white floral quality, as well as a shot of powder. Once the powdery flowers come in, the perfume takes on a fairly realistic quality, though that fake green chemical character never really goes away and there's a waxy plastic note (a CDG trademark) that I usually enjoy in CDG's scents, but that I feel really exaggerates the artificial cheap undertones that are bothering me in Lily.

Knowing what I know now, I'd probably pick Malle's Lys over CDG's Lily. It's very similar, but minus that plastic cheapness and with a part in the drydown that smells dead-on like stargazer lilies, which I love. That being said, I think the truth is that I just don't like lily scents that much. Oh well - live and learn!

Running against the herd here! On first sniff my face automatically turned away in aversion. Thin lily-ish scent with screechy green aspect pulled to the fore. Smells cheap and artificial - perhaps if I'd given it time it would have become better as other reviewers seem to think. Or perhaps not for me.

I guess I'm joining the fan club here: This is a quiet and lovely lily of the valley scent… remarkable for it's simplicity. It opens green – too green, but it doesn't stay in greenness very long. It softly takes on the lily of the valley note, supported by an unaccustomedly quiet freesia in the background giving just the perfect complementary vibrations. From there Lily simply lets its beauty slowly wane and dissolve. …A graceful feminine beauty with good sillage and longevity..

Wow. My aversion to most lily fragrances (though I admit I've learned to love both Lys Mediterranee and Penhaligon's Lily & Spice) made me avoid this one for such a long time, but this isn't really a lily scent at all, it's a lily of the valley scent! And the purest, best, truest to life I've ever smelt! I love Diorissimo, but in comparison it's much more "perfumey" and with lots of other things going on beside the lily of the valley note. This is pure, fresh, green lily of the valley perfection.

what a lovely floral. it smells of..well, you guessed it right! Lily!. i really like it when a scent makes you forget that you are actually wearing one. the experience becomes very pure and real. i cud imagine myself sitting in a plush hotel where the air filled by the smell of lily with the smell wafting from a big decorative brass tank filled petals of lily over water..

No way can I give such a lovely scent any bad criticism. An airy, green lily with a little bit of pepper. Very nice!

It's a story oft repeated I'm sure: A sample passes under one's nose (in this case, it hailed from trusty Twolf), it kinda registers a thumbs-up, a trial wearing is made, the vial is put in the pass-along pile, it almost makes it out the door when a haunting "better make sure" wearing is made, and, ohh-ohh--this may be something special.This lily is my lily-of-the-valley scent, but it doesn't get there right off the bat. The juice starts out so bracing and tart (imagine an unripe lemon!), you'd never think it was on its way to becoming a floral. When it finally calms down, POP! you're wearing a bouquet of those pretty little white-bell blossoms surrounded by broad-blade leaves. No old-fashioned romance here, no powder or other add-ons. Luca Turin thinks no one ever really wants to smell exactly like a plant. To quote Bugs Bunny, "He don't know me vewwy well; do he?"I believe CdG is no longer producing the scent, but stock remains on the market from Lucky Scent, which is where I paid full price for my bottle (that's saying something). I don't wear this scent often, because it's clearly got a springtime attitude, but it's a wonderful shock of scent when I'm wanting an unabashedly fresh floral presence.Notes: Lily-of-the-valley, freesia, dog rose, green syringa.

Opens on a really green note; goes through a kind of orchestra-of-lilies and freesias phase before drying down to a lily-of-the-valley scent that is charming and modest. I wish it weren't quite so sweet during the dry-down and had a more lemony note to it, but still, I like it.

I bought a sample of this scent in hopes that it would be "green" enough for myself to wear, going by the comments of it being unisex, but when I received my sample it was a bit too floral, but not in a bad way, as it is a most wonderful scent. It's very zen. There is most certainly a sharpness to the scent that certainly does evoke the smell of some miscellaneous white lily by a pond but not in a essential oil kinda way, there is something there keeping the floral in check, and the resulting balance creates something that is unusually "natural" without it being "natural". The only way to describe it's composition I guess is similar to that of Scandinavian furniture design: clean, straight horizontal lines, little embellishment, and My sample gets a happy ending however, I gave it to my mom and she's really enjoying the sample.

Absolutely gorgeous!!!Green and sharp lime with a hint of lilly of the walley.Very wearable as unisex fragrance and pleasant. ;)

Excellent. The calmness and cleanness of white lilies is projected into a pure and almost minimalistic fragrance. Floral, green, no sweetness at all. The ultimate lily fragrance for all floral aficionados, and suitable for women and men.

a lovely scent for anyone who loves lily-of-the-valley and green florals in general, although some may find it a little too sharp.