I guarantee you that no fragrance designers at Coty are sitting around, dreamily licking D cell batteries and saying: “Hey! Let’s make a perfume that smells like an asteroid hitting a manicure parlor.” You want white lace and peach blossoms, indulge in a bottle of Jessica Simpson’s Fancy Love. Odeur 53 is not for those who need to be universally liked.
— From Fashion Up There Where the Air Is Thin, an article about the Comme des Garçons fashion line, at the New York Times.
Comme des Garçons has launched Dover Street Market, a new fragrance named for Rei Kawakubo’s London store of the same name.
Dover Street Market is intended as a “modern twist on a classic woody fragrance”; the notes include bergamot, mandarin, black pepper…
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons 2 in the Glitter Special Edition…
A short film by Daphne Guinness and David Parker. Guinness, in collaboration with Comme des Garçons, has just launched her first fragrance, Daphne; the film “embodies her concept of scent” but is not meant to be a commercial (read more after the jump). Possibly NSFW.
Socialite, heiress and fashion icon (she has been described as the best dressed woman in the world) Daphne Guinness will launch Daphne, her debut fragrance, in September. The scent was made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. Guinness noted that perfume “…takes you away from the everyday and you are transported to something in your past. It’s a very mysterious thing…”