Conceptual Disruption

Defining Traits
olfactory-rebellion synthetic-innovation minimalist-ethos

Anti-perfume as manifesto. Industrial materials, synthetic molecules, and deliberate ugliness deployed to challenge what fragrance can be. Concrete, rubber, and ozone where flowers used to live.

Members (10)

Amouage

Memoir Man

2010 Chypre
dark mysterious earthy provocative

Absinthe dreams rendered in frankincense and leather — Amouage's darkest hour, bitter and hallucinat...

Comme des Garcons

Odeur 53

1998 Fresh
futuristic rebellious mysterious bold

The original anti-perfume — burnt rubber, metal flash, and laundry wind bottled as a conceptual mani...

Comme des Garcons

CdG 2

1999 Woody
mysterious sophisticated meditative ethereal

Ink on rice paper, incense in cold air — a calligraphic fragrance where East and West dissolve into ...

Comme des Garcons

Concrete

2017 Woody
rebellious minimalist futuristic bold

Anti-perfume reduced to mineral essence — the scent of poured concrete, cold dust, and architectural...

Etat Libre d'Orange

Sécrétions Magnifiques

2006 Oriental
provocative rebellious dark

A conceptual fragrance that dares to smell like the human body at its most raw. Metallic blood, salt...

Etat Libre d'Orange

Hermann à Mes Côtés Me Paraissait une Ombre

2006 Chypre
dark mysterious sophisticated rebellious

Rimbaud in a bottle — a peppery blackcurrant opening that darkens into patchouli and leather. Herman...

Guerlain

Jicky

1889 Fougere
sophisticated rebellious nostalgic

The first modern perfume — 1889's radical marriage of natural and synthetic that drew the blueprint ...

Le Labo

Another 13

2010 Woody
minimalist intimate mysterious sophisticated

Ambroxan-driven molecular minimalism — a fragrance that dissolves into skin and becomes 'your scent ...

Maison Margiela

Sailing Day

2014 Fresh
fresh serene minimalist

Salt spray, seaweed, and open water — an aquatic stripped of 1990s machismo and rebuilt as a pure se...

Serge Lutens

Muscs Koublai Khan

1998 Oriental
sensual powerful rebellious intoxicating

Animalic musk at its most uncompromising — dirty, carnal, deliberately provocative, the fragrance th...