Comme des Garçons [ ] Dia x Meg Webster Fragrance Review

Read on for our Comme des Garçons [ ] Dia x Meg Webster fragrance review.

After four months of inhaling it, wearing it and living with it; through couture week in Paris to grocery shopping in Brooklyn, we can confirm the Comme des Garçons [] Dia x Meg Webster fragrance is one of the most interesting scent releases of the year so far. In an obsessively digital world, the genderless perfume is rooted in the magical, natural alchemy of things that are impossible to recreate through digital doomscrolling. Think: beeswax, forest floors, moss and ferns, created by perfumer Emilie Coppermann, with collaboration from the iconic earthy sculptress Meg Webster, under the cult Comme des Garçons line of fragrances.

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Comme des Garçons [ ] Dia x Meg Webster is a green scent, but not in the traditional manner. It opens up with a saccharine, honey-like burst of exotic spice and calms down to an earthy cloud of light, woody musk, with hints of heady small flowers drenched in tree sap or rain water.

It’s a scent that wears well throughout the day. You’ll smell it lightly hours after you put it on, but not in an overpowering way and depending on your skin’s chemistry, it may smell slightly sweeter or more woody. With Carrot Seed Oil, Mushroom Accord with Myrrh Absolute, Labdanum Absolute and Tree Moss Absolute standing in as the scent’s heart notes and Patchouli of Madagascar, Mineral Wood as Sandalwood base notes, it’s unusual but not too weird to be totally wearable. Bay Oil of Madagascar, Geranium and Olibanum as head notes lend the scent a rich, intense quality that is reminiscent of both fragrant plants and incense.

To understand this fragrance is to understand Webster’s work. If you ever get the chance to see her pieces up close, the fragrance is basically the ideal olfactive manifestation of the earthy sculptures she creates. The fragrance launch, in March 2026, coincided with the closing of the artist’s exhibition which had been on display at Dia Beacon for two years. Webster’s perfectly positioned square beds of moss, half spheres made of red clay and dirt, winding tunnels made of torn branches and conical salt sculptures are literally rooted in earthiness. But most central to the new fragrance is her artwork “Wall of Beeswax” which is a beautiful and imposing warped wall made of beeswax. When it was inside Dia Beacon, the afternoon light hit it just right so that the material warmed up enough so that it gently emitted the faintest, sweetest smell.

“I was drawn to the bodily experience of the natural world – soil underfoot, light moving through the trees, an eagle passing overhead, the smell of earth and forest air,” Webster said, in one of the statements about the launch. “Working with fragrance opened up a different register for me, something elemental, evocative, and temporary, applied directly to the flesh, which could serve as a reminder to look up and around, and to embrace these sensations in our day-to-day lives.”

Meg Webster at Dia Beacon

If you’re ever been inside a Comme des Garçons store (all of them are designed by founder Rei Kawakubo) you’ll understand the scent’s concept on an even deeper level. Both Comme des Garçons store interiors and Webster’s sculptures are extravagantly geometric, yet raw and organic in form. The packaging for the Comme des Garçons [ ] Dia x Meg Webster Fragrance mirrors this. It’s presented in a metallic silver foiled pyramid. If you’re lucky enough to get it directly from the CDG store, you may receive it in the most perfectly wrapped polka dot paper. The bottle itself is designed as a small rounded object with a thick silver metallic cylindrical cap. There’s no label: only two black brackets.

When a fashion house, an art foundation, a perfumer and an iconic sculptor walk into a lab it’s bound to get interesting. Out came chic and damp mineral earth, bottled; a rare, new kind of signature scent for anyone who appreciates the unusual and lives for art house fragrances.