Description
Comme des Garçons has launched the project Parfums Series 2000. Fragrances of each of the lines are united around the common topic.
In 2004, Comme des Garçons have again declared war to natural components and launched the next series of anti-perfumes, Series 6 Synthetic. The smells of a big city are captured in a transparent plastic bottle in which you can observe a garbage bag. Everyone finds something familiar, and even dear, in it, just as we like the strange smells of our childhood.
Soda is a real refreshment for, exhausted by heat, citizen of a metropolis, and therefore he took a cold tin or a soda-machine cup with sweet carbonated drink. Bubbles are spraying the face and the drink is cold, citrusy-sweet and of artificially intensive color and aroma. Just like from a child’s dreams.
In 2017 CDG Parfum brings back some of the long lost scents from it’s past, going back to 1996. The fragrance composition remains intact, packaging gets a new trendy look, though.
The main notes are: aldehydes, lime, citral, pimenal, lilial, iso-eugenol, galaxolide and acetal rum, ingredients familiar from the soda labels.
The nose behind this fragrance is Nathalie Feisthauer.
Deroxdwldy – :
I agree with the reviewer who called this harsh. I couldn’t get this one off fast enough. It really is like furniture cleaner and the drydown is not any better. Sorry but Yech.
dreed – :
I’m slightly confused why this one would be called “soda” – as it doesn’t really contain much of a soda quality.
My first impression of this, much like the gentleman below, was pledge furniture cleaner. It definitely has a lemon/aldehayic quality that is undeniable.
After I thought about it for a moment – and re-sniffed several times, I feel like I understand. This isn’t coca-cola soda. This is like club soda with a lemon. The aldehydes give the effervescent qualities that are emitted from a fizzy, freshly poured club soda. The lemon gives the freshness you’d associate with a refreshing, clear gin and tonic.
Once the aldehydes calm down, it’s actually a really nice lemony-sweet scent.
Just don’t go into it expecting a realistic interpretation of soda.
Nice, but not special.
Alex_SEdygGA – :
Love this fragrance. Admittedly, it kind of reminded me of lemon Pledge furniture spray at first, though. I think it’s really best used with a light hand. It’s a really clean, cold, aldehydic, citrus scent. Not a sweet scent at all, to me.
It opens with a sharp, almost painful aspect reminiscent of strong carbonation being exposed to oxygen, which likewise settles quickly into a fizz that dies down gradually.
The soapy fresh smell and the lemon/lime scent stick to my skin and clothes like glue for hours, thankfully. I was worried after reading other reviews that it would fade quickly, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. I find myself repeatedly pulling my wrist to my face for energetic little whiffs.
Perfect for summer. Simple, clean, different, unisex, fresh2death. A really unique and long lasting citrus, soapy yet only very faintly floral. Can’t wait to layer this, I think a touch of musk or vetiver would make it truly amazing.
Belij_vlad – :
7up and spent candle wax
Meawg026bedyWelty – :
In the words of Monty Python… Now for something completely different.. CdG gives us Soda..
I am not really sure how to describe this scent. It is more of an experience, or a feeling, than a scent to me. Think… the burst of carbonation as you open a bottle of Sprite soda.. or maybe a glass of soda water with a twist of lemon and lime in it. I give CdG an A+ for effort. It captures that essence perfectly. But I am not sure where I would wear this one. Hmmmmm… I do live in Atlanta, so maybe the World of Coca Cola museum?
This is a great novelty fragrance, very well made, but not one I see getting worn a lot, unless you work in the World of Coca Cola museum.
nikolay1505 – :
Soda makes me think of the 90s. It is the olfactory equivalent of that fake Japanese font that was used for techno clubs/rave flyers and the clear PVC backpacks containing a bottle of Soda and 2 white Mitsubishi’s 😉
картер – :
Very strong aldehydes, lemon peel, and floral soap. Quite harsh, and not like a soda I’d drink (though a bit like the lemon-flavored mouth-wipes they give you when for medical reasons, you can’t drink liquids). Not a fan.
assassin – :
I love this! Was definitely the relaunch I was most excited about from the Olfactive Library, and it didn’t disappoint.
If you’re a fan of Bond No 9 Coney Island you may find something familiar here, but less obtrusive. Where Coney Island is a very strong, sharp lime scent with an almost heady bitter edge, Soda is is a bit sweeter, fruitier and crisper, without any hint of bitterness. Soda also sticks more closely to your skin, making it less of a…conversation piece as Coney Island.
It’s tangy citrus, effervescent, and every bit as synthetic smelling as you’d expect. It’s also a whole lot of fun.
liocha87 – :
Among the countless reasons why I love Comme Des Garcons (both for their fragrances and their clothes), is that they’ve been able during the years to bring a strong dose of (smart) irony to two of the most “serious” an “pompous” sectors of the fashion industry. Where other brands focused on stereotyped luxury and made-up heritage, CDG has based most of their innovative power on irony and a funny mash-up bewteen the japanese comics culture, avant-garde and slight fetishist aspects (see many of their military-inspired collections of clothes).
If you’re fine with their “vision” and, sometimes, you feel like wearing a fragrance just for fun, Soda it’s just up your alley. Wha it smells like? Ginger and citruses galore with a remarkable effervescent aspect given by the aldehydes. A true to life rendition of the soda with the usual slight pvc twist of most of the fragrances in their Synthetic Series. Not a wower, nothing particularly weird, revolutionary or groundbreaking…just plain fun.
Rating: 7/10
Anduell – :
Now that I’m learning that this series has been discontinued, I’m wondering if the sample I smelled hadn’t turned by the time I got to it.
I found this scent. . . revolting. Sharp, abrasive, nostril-flaringly bad. . . To me, it smells like that first burst of carbonation from a soda can – so in that way, it’s a total non-smell, just a feeling, and for me, not a terribly good one at that. . .
роман77553 – :
This will take some time to get comfortable with. For now it just smells like all kinds of cheap yellow synthetic citrus floor cleaners.. Sharp soapy and none of the Sprite/7Up note I had heard of and was so hoping for.. I agree with batabidd that the sillage is monster. I`m hoping to negotiate a truce with this one, some day..
For now I`ll stick with Pacifica Malibu Lemon Blossom, another one that was difficult for me in the beginning, but which came somewhat closer to what I had expected from this one. Though without the spritzy note of Soda.
I must add that I have yet to find any one citrusy scent that goes well with my chemistry.
kucum45 – :
It has been my top one of citric fragances, and still. I’m very dissapointed that this serie, the synthetic has been discontinnued. There’s, in my opinion, the best one of the Comme des garçons synthetic range.
Soda is quite linear, uplifting, refreshing, electric, effervescent, slightly aquatic.
Smells just limonade with clean far away flower notes and vinylic notes on the background.
It’s beyond synthetic, for sure, but the quality of the ingredients is so high, that I found it the most natural of the synthetic I own and know.
The fragrance is based in lime accord. It starts as it finish, zesty and refreshing.
You can detect the aldehydes, and the lily of the valley, a fresh version here, nice and captivating. The vinylic note starts to blossom after 30 mt application.
This note just has a nostalgic impact on me, as reminds me of my childhood, when I was a child, and I used to play in the pool with those plastic lilos on the surface of the water.
Well that is waht smell like, clean wet vinyl.
Citral and pimenal are molecules that represent acid citric and pimento. Lilial is a molecule that represent lily of the valley but softer, and has a electric twist.
Iso eugenol smell fake flowery and the galaxolide is a well known representation of sot musk scent…
Bla, bla, bla…
Whatever!. The final: jut a heaven perfume.
The sillage is monster, specially being a citric fragrance, as the projection too.
It’s one of the favs of the crowd. Ive been stop several times on the street for people asking me what I was wearing, and the current impression of “I smelled that but I can’t get what is It”.
The formal memory of this synthetic series : A constant intriguing Deja-vú. Fab!.