Max Richter Debuts A Fragrance With Comme Des Garçons Parfums

German-British composer and pianist Max Richter is known his contemporary classical styles, with “Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons: Summer 1,” “Space 21 (petrichor),” “On the Nature of Daylight (Orchestral Version),” and “Spring 0” being some of his most loved pieces, each gaining over 13 million streams on Spotify. And now, the musician has teamed up with Comme des Garçons Parfums to create a new scent that works as a “medium for memory.”

Coming about from creative dialogues between Richter, his creative partner Yulia Mahr, and Comme des Garçons Parfums’ President Adrian Joffe, the scent, which is entitled, 01 Eau De Toilette by Comme Des Garçons Parfums focuses on objects tied to Richter’s life and work.

Here, created with Comme des Garçons Parfums’ creative director Christian Astuguevieille, together with perfumer Guillaume Flavigny, we see the combination of Graphite, Vetiver, Piano Soundboard Cedar, Violin Bow Rosin, Transistor, and Magnetic Tape come together in a harmony of notes.

Richter shares, “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.”

President of Comme des Garçons, Adrian Joffe and co-founder of Dover Street Market, says, “I think what is interesting with this is that we hope we’ve made a perfume with you that could evoke memories that you may not know of yet—lost or future ones.”

The packaging is brought to you by multidisciplinary creative Yulia Mah, and features original artwork from her series “The Church Of Our Becoming” along with designer Zak Kyes, who led the product design. Yulia says, “I’m so happy my series gets to sit alongside this beautiful perfume and in the extraordinary courtyard at Dover Street Market Paris.” She continues, “The world I see is beautiful in its diversity, in its complexity, the world I see is stronger for it. The world I see is in the process of becoming.”

In other Richter news for your radar, marking the 10th anniversary of Sleep, he’ll be releasing a new album called Sleep Circle, described as a “hallucinatory 90-minute journey into the hypnagogic state, that liminal space where the brain drifts between wakefulness and sleep, and where dreams begin to form.” Plus, he’ll be playing the largest SLEEP shows to date at Alexandra Palace in London next month, widely considered to be a concert-meets-art installation, that’s been embraced worldwide.

Max Richter 01 Eau de Toilette by Comme des Garçons Parfums retails for $160, 130€, £120, ¥22000 and is available to buy at Dover Street Market Paris, Dover Street Parfums Market, and Comme des Garçons Paris as well as CDG and DSM stores and other retailers worldwide.