COMME DES GARCONS
MAX RICHTER 01
2025
PERFUMER
Guillaume Flavigny
cade
cumin
ylang-ylang
black pepper
pimento
tagetes
cedarwood
vetiver
patchouli
‘Picture this: Paris in late July, humidity clinging to your skin, and a hush in the air as anticipation builds. At Dover Street Market Paris, a new fragrance is about to debut—not just any perfume, but one composed by modern maestro Max Richter in collaboration with Comme des Garçons Parfums. If it feels a little like something out of a film, you’re not far off. With Max Richter 01, the soundtrack to your life doesn’t just float through your headphones—it lingers on your skin. Richter’s approach upends everything predictable about celebrity scent launches. Forget tropes of seduction and swagger; this is a scent intended as “a quiet narrative.” The fragrance isn’t about dominating a room, but coaxing you inward, into the layered world of Richter’s memories, both obvious and obscure. The composition leans deliberately cerebral: Graphite, Vetiver, Piano Soundboard Cedar, Violin Bow Rosin, Transistor, Magnetic Tape—notes as tactile, textured, and analog as the composer’s own music. It’s a scent for anyone who carries their childhood, or the fragments of an unfinished song, tucked away in a pocket. The project was born from a swirl of creative dialogue between Richter, his partner Yulia Mahr (herself a force in the art world), Comme des Garçons Parfums’ president Adrian Joffe, and a crew of frequent collaborators. If that reads as “a lot of cooks,” it only makes sense for a fragrance trying to capture something as expansive as memory, possibility, and the future tense of nostalgia. It’s as if the plan is to catch a scent you’ve forgotten, or maybe haven’t lived yet—a quiet, radical invitation to dream forward and backward at once. Mahr’s hand is everywhere—in her distinctive packaging, in the original art plucked from her series, “The Church Of Our Becoming,” and even more so in the exhibition set to unfurl in the DSM Paris courtyard through August 24.’ – A Shaded View On Fashion
‘I’ve always wanted to compose a perfume because, in my mind, scent and sound are sisters. In both mediums you work by relying on, or being in touch with, the things you don’t yet know, and that is really exciting to me.’ – Max Richter
