Listen to the first in a series of podcasts dedicated to the pioneering perfumes featured in our exhibition Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent.
In this episode perfumer Mark Buxton discusses his madcap entrance to the world of perfumery. Released in 1999, his perfume CDG2 was created in response to a brief from Comme des Garçons' founder Rei Kawakubo to create the smell of a swimming pool of ink. His most acclaimed commission for the Japanese fashion house, the fragrance sought to move beyond the notion that scent should primarily focus on seduction and changed perceptions of what perfume could be just as a new century began.
