Odeur 53

Comme des Garçons · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 1998

≈ $100 · 50ml · approx. retail

Commissioned by Rei Kawakubo from IFF as a personal, deliberately non-floral project, Odeur 53 is built from 53 abstract synthetic accords standing in for non-perfume smells like burnt rubber, nail polish, and laundry dried in the wind. It is widely considered the first true 'anti-perfume,' rejecting traditional top/heart/base florals entirely in favor of conceptual, industrial abstraction.