Meg Webster and Comme des Garçons Launch Fragrance to Benefit Dia Art Foundation

Luxury fragrance has long flirted with the art world, but the collaboration between Comme des Garçons Parfums, sculptor Meg Webster, and the Dia Art Foundation produces something rarer: a scent that genuinely smells like its source material.

The new fragrance, titled Dia x Meg Webster, blurs the boundaries between art, design, and scent. The aromatic composition was devised by Webster alongside late Comme des Garçons creative director Christian Astuguevieille and perfumer Emilie Coppermann, and it marks Webster's first signature perfume. According to a sample evaluated by ARTnews, the scent is "gender-neutral, woodsy, and slow-suffusing, with a late spark of musk, like a fallen branch underfoot, cracking the stillness."

The pyramid opens with Bay Oil of Madagascar, geranium, and olibanum at the top; a mushroom accord built from myrrh absolute, labdanum absolute, and tree moss absolute sits at the heart; and patchouli of Madagascar, mineral wood, and sandalwood form the base. The cumulative effect is less perfume than landscape: the olfactory equivalent of standing inside one of Webster's earth and salt installations.

Webster is known for indoor sculptures composed of salt, earth, sand, and other natural materials, and the fragrance is housed in a polished silver tetrahedral box, a form central to Webster's formal vocabulary. The pictogram on the bottle references a diagrammatic element from Webster's early sculptures, which often featured enclosed spaces designed to activate viewer engagement by positioning participants in relation to one another within the sculptural environment.

The physical component of the collaboration extends into retail. To celebrate the new collaboration, Comme des Garçons installed Webster's "Copper Containing Salt II" (2017) at its West 22nd Street store in New York. The choice of location is pointed: the West 22nd Street boutique sits directly across from Dia's Chelsea outpost. The 2017 sculpture, measuring 42 inches tall and 28 inches in diameter, features a single sheet of copper curled into a cylinder and filled with coarse rock salt, the copper lending shape while the salt fills it with purpose. A second salt cylinder by Webster remains on view at Dia Beacon, connecting the two spaces through the same vocabulary of void and elemental material.

The fragrance is available exclusively at select Comme des Garçons shops globally and at Dover Street Market New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo from March 19, 2026, with a broader rollout to follow. It is priced at $330 for a 50 ml Eau de Toilette. Ten percent of sales will support the Dia Art Foundation.

The release fits squarely into Comme des Garçons' established pattern of treating fragrance as conceptual object. Since launching its first product in 1994, the label has built a reputation for unexpected scents, and has previously collaborated with KAWS, Max Richter, Tracey Emin, and Serpentine Galleries. The Dia x Meg Webster edition was developed by late creative director Christian Astuguevieille, and follows the earlier Max Richter 01 collaboration. For Webster, whose sculptures have required visitors to step around salt mounds and earthworks for decades, the fragrance is simply the next logical container: one that travels home with whoever encounters it.