Dover Avenue Market reissues a uncommon piece of Comme des Garçons fragrance historical past

Immediately (11 February 2025) Dover Avenue Market Paris has re-issued a uncommon piece of Comme des Garçons fragrance historical past: the heart-shaped packaging created for Comme des Garçons 2 in 2005, to mark Valentine’s Day.

Crafted from a silver brillo-pad, it was first designed as a restricted version accoutrement for Comme des Garçons 2, a follow-up to the model’s olfactory debut Comme des Garçons, which launched in 1999 and 1994 respectively by Rei Kawukubo. Each had been composed by nostril Mark Buxton, with Comme des Garçons 2, a floral chypre, drawing inspiration from Japanese calligraphy through aldehydic florals and coronary heart notes of ink.

Dover Avenue Market Paris: Love Hurts

Comme des Garçons lately celebrated three many years of perfume-making, which – as artistic director of CDG Parfums Christian Astuguevieille informed Dal Chodha for the March 2025 concern of Wallpaper* – is at all times ‘outlined with out the notion of magnificence’.

Alongside Comme des Garçons 2 and its inky scent profile, the Japanese model’s roster of 102 fragrances counts Antoine Lie’s Comme des Garcons 2011 (which produces the olfactory phantasm of commercial glue and brown scotch tape) and Odeur 10, a current fragrance that remembers the antiseptic aroma of hydrogen peroxide.

There are solely 120 models of the particular version Love Hurts packaging, which can match any considered one of Mark Atlan’s pebble-like Comme des Garçons’ fragrance bottles for the likes of Amazingreen, Blackpepper, Wonderwood, CDG 2 and CDG 2 Man.