Description
2nd Cumming presents a new interpretation of the original perfume humorously named Cumming by the actor Alan Cumming and the perfumer Christopher Brosius. This new version is launched as a part of Christopher’s niche brand CB I Hate Perfumes, enriched with quality ingredients and available in smaller quantity. Its formula is identical featuring the ingredients that Alan personally selected, presented in a new and unique format.
This, as the authors call it, “anti – celebrity project casts a new perspective on the classical men’s fragrances, dedicated to” sex, scotch, cigars and Scotland”. The atmosphere is captured by notes of bergamot, black pepper, Scotch pine, whiskey, cigar, heather, pine, rubber, worn leather, highland mud, burnt rubber, white truffles and peat fire. The fragrance reflects many moods and changes with time, the more you sweat the better it smells.
2nd Cumming is available as perfume absolute in bottles of 15 ml and mini travel edition of 2 ml, as well as 100 ml perfume water.
2nd Cumming was launched in 2010.
lio07 – :
An intensely sexy scent and easily a tie for my all-time favorite. Vinyl, rubber, ashtrays, scotch. Dark, messy. Reminiscent of dive bars at 4 AM, bad decisions, and walks of shame. If you’re all sweetness and light, this will give you some mysterious edge. If you’re not, this will sharpen that edge. An ex-boyfriend of mine loved this just as much as I did, and a woman who’s a close friend likewise thought this was intensely super-sexy. Whether you like this or not depends on your “truth serum” version of what you find erotic. It does *not* smell good… but oh is it good.
I live in SF. I could see this being confusing or seeming like an outright mistake in other parts of the world. Um, not for work or a family Christmas party.
p.s. I think it’s very difficult to make this kind of off-putting synthetic smell work and be sexy, so this scent is actually quite a feat, one of CB’s very best, and I love so many of their fragrances. You can see it as a distant, and better, sequel, say to Dior’s Fahrenheit.
p.p.s. I’ve tried this in both Absolute and Water formats and so far don’t really have a preference either way.
GT67RUS – :
This perfume is problematic in terms of composition. When blending, a fragrance can quickly turn into a mess. Christopher Brosius is famous for using HeadSpace tech to build his famous accords that smell of this or that, and those are often quite nice and fun, but his signature fragrances always smell muddy, confused and heavy to me. Not worth the money or the effort it takes track down a sample to sniff. Stick to his soliflore line and his accords.
romis69 – :
yea…
to me, terrible. I get that it’s more of a statement than anything, but it’s not a pleasing smell at all to me. I blind bought it a long time ago and never left a review…it’s a very dry and pungent fragrance. Someone below described it as wet dirt – which I totally agree. Just not for me. I’ll trade my fb in a heartbeat. PM me if you’re interested!
natalina – :
The more I use this, the less I know how to describe it really, but I’ll have a quick go!
I think a good starting point is to mention that like most, if not all CBIHP 100ml offerings, it is a water perfume. Which in my experience means it’s quite light and with limited silage. Having said that, I’ve had people ask what I’m wearing when I myself can’t smell it much at all. So maybe it’s just ‘one of those’?
It is odd though, because this stuff boasts some heady notes, opening with a toned down and quite addictive petrichor/geosmin note, with a touch of bergamot. It then reveals a nice pine note that is the underlying mainstay of the scent I think, before beginning this really well articulated, evolutionary progression through accords of leather (I get upholstery), smoky peat, soil/dirt, scotch whiskey and tobacco. Hardly a list of notes you’d normally associate with a light, airy perfume!
But in a way, I think that works for it and shepards it away from sledgehammer territory, to something quite personal and cozy. Sexy even? And it lasts surprisingly well!
It’s suggested in the CBIHP propaganda that this stuff smells better the more you sweat/warm it up. I actually find that to be true. As a result, I find it’s best suited to liberal sprays under clothing, to the bare chest, bare back, shoulders etc.
It’s certainly a very odd little number and one I’ll admit I was a tad miffed by when I first got it, but I’ve come to really appreciate it. It is a totally lovely smell and wearing it is a such an interesting olfactory journey.
One of the stranger things I own, but I dig it!
Roman55 – :
The first time I tried this, the whiskey note hit me a little too hard and I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. The second time I tried this, it was perfection, and I fell head over heels in love. Scotch, cigar, old books, damp earth, pine/fir evergreen trees, all in a surprisingly light-handed mellow blend, with something sweet, musky, warm and balancing woven through–the white truffle, maybe. I don’t pick up a rubber note in this at all, for which I am grateful as rubber is a note that never agrees with me. When I told my husband, who is NOT particularly interested in smells, that I had a perfume that smelled like Scotch, cigars and dirt, he was not impressed and told me I would smell like old man. Then he sniffed it on me, and raised his eyebrows. “That’s interesting. That’s a good one.” High praise indeed, coming from him! Then I asked him to wear it himself, so I could see if I liked it better on him or on myself. Smelled even better on him.
I love this juice and will certainly be wearing this again, on nights when I’m staying in by the fire and sipping a hot toddy. It’s gorgeous in fall and winter. I want my husband to wear it again, also. This is one we will share, like Tobacco Vanille.
artas2076 – :
An oddly appealing petrichor perfume—wet dirt with a wheaty, semi-sweet chord to back it up. It sits somewhere between the scent of a field and an organic grocery store, a bizarre earthy thing that simply shouldn’t have any of the magnetism and appeal that it does. It’s somewhat sweaty upfront, and has minor glimpses of leather and booze, but it’s mainly a hops type note rendered delicately gourmand. Totally innovative with the closest analog being perhaps Humiecki and Graef’s Skarb, it wears beautifully in the water perfume through its perfectly sequenced ethereality. Gorgeous stuff with a brilliantly rendered concept, but it’s barely recognizable as perfume.
dick777 – :
This is one of the sexiest scents on a man, at night. It isn’t a day fragrance at all. The man has to be confident though, very much so. Strong, daring, active and distinct. I go a little crazy over the fellow who can pull this off, and they are correct, the warmer the body gets, the better it smells.
Wear this one lads. Stride in and take charge.
BibeIlluremum – :
Why is everybody hatin’ on this perfume?!?
It smells outrageously good. Heavenly.
I think it’s because everyone hates Alan Cumming, anymore. Or because He’s bisexual.
Honestly, I look beyond him and adore his perfume.
Besides, who knows what other designers are like of the popular perfumes.
Buy a full sized bottle. I only have the tiny, tester type.
moss3 – :
I guess there must be something wrong with my sense of smell because i do not smell rubber in this fragrance. The notes I detect the most are the fir, pine and leather. I also get tobacco and just a hint of whiskey. The very beginning of this fragrance is rather challenging because it smells like sweat, a musty kind of sweat that reminds me of a men’s locker room. That must be the earth tincture. The smell of sweat quickly gives way to the leather, fir and pine notes. I’m surprised how long this fragrance lasts because the projection is so laid back. I wore the fragrance today but only I could smell it and I can still smell it eleven hours later. Because this fragrance blends the smell of pine and leather so well, I think I will eventually buy a full bottle.
ARFX – :
i SO wanted to love this scent. i wore it a few times to hopefully give it a solid go and get it over the hump. alas, as much as i love mr. brosius’s talents, i couldn’t fall in love with 2nd Cumming.
celebrity scents tend to be total crap – having been over-engineered by corporations to ensure the juices are pleasant-but-polite so they can leverage that celebrity to huge sales by offending absolutely nobody. and of course they impress very few as well. that is BEYOND not the case here 🙂 .
the composition here is wildly intriguing, quite beguiling, and most definitively distinctive. in the end i simply couldn’t get past the rubber notes, which i found off-putting. i have crazy respect for CB and many kudos for his willingness to not just lean out past the ledge – but to hop right the hell over it! but 2nd Cumming just isn’t for me.
Vladimir33 – :
What a wonderful sounding blend!! I’d love to try it, but it would probably be too masculine for my ( a girly girl’s) taste.
man-in-black – :
What a messed up composition ?!? Burnt rubber, cigar and white truffles??
I hope to find this somewhere in Australia, and I hope I actually like it. Id hate to make all this effort to find it onlt to hate it.