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
(Picture credit score: Inventive course by Ronnie Cooke Newhouse and Karl Bolander for Comme des Garçons)
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.

(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Comme des Garçons)
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.
They’re joined by an edit of bespoke items by designers near Dover Avenue Market exploring ‘love and all its iterations’. This contains the JW Anderson pigeon bag, dressed up in a customized BDSM harness; a sculptural bodysuit from Duran Lantick (considered one of Wallpaper’s Design Awards 2025 winners); and a sequence of caps by Aaron Esh, embroidered with texts from John Donne, PJ Harvey and a ‘Reddit consumer’.
As well as, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse and Karl Bolander, who’ve collaborated with Comme des Garçons’ Parfums since its inception, have offered new Love Hurts marketing campaign imagery.
Newhouse’s archival adverts may also be present in Dino Simmonet’s ebook Comme des Garçons’ Parfums 1994 – 2025, obtainable at store.doverstreetmarket.com.

(Picture credit score: Images by Neil Godwin at Future Studios; artistic course by Sophie Gladstone)
Dover Avenue Market Paris, 35-37 Rue Des Francs Bourgeois 75004, doverstreetmarketparis.com.
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