Sunscreen captures the shimmering memory of a long-lost summer. West Coast sun against salty skin morphs into cool splashes of ocean surf, and the whiff of chlorine on the wind. Plastic pool floats and coconut sun lotion: the scent of Venice Beach, California. Comforting and weird.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of close summer heat and sun-warmed skin, worn in a relaxed, slightly ironic way that still feels sensual. It suits a setting where the air carries salt, sunscreen and poolside plastic, and where the wearer wants a soft, nostalgic aura rather than a polished statement.
How to wear
Best in warm weather, especially when the air can carry its coconut, peach and milky notes without turning heavy. Two to three sprays are enough; it wears as a soft, skin-close scent with a gentle woody drydown, more atmospheric than loud, and feels especially natural on sun-warmed skin.
Who it’s for
For those who like sweet scents with a conceptual edge: coconut and heliotrope softened by milky warmth, peach and cedar, with a slightly strange, nostalgic finish. It will appeal to people who enjoy edible-leaning fragrances that are playful, modern and not overly polished.
Release year
2021
The nose
Christian Astuguevieille is the long-time fragrance mind behind Comme des Garçons Parfums, known for turning scent into concept rather than decoration. His work often leans abstract, synthetic and deliberately offbeat, from the early anti-perfume experiments to more recent compositions that balance strangeness with wearability. For Sunscreen, he helped translate Eli Russell Linnetz’s Venice Beach imagery into a fragrance that feels both nostalgic and engineered: sun lotion, salty skin, chlorine and coconut rendered with the brand’s signature conceptual restraint.
Collaborators
Eli Russell Linnetz shaped the fragrance’s concept and visual world through his ERL label, bringing the Venice Beach memory, the title and the summer-float packaging idea. Christian Astuguevieille led the technical perfume development, working through multiple iterations to turn those images into a wearable composition.
Comme Des Garcons’s story
Comme des Garçons Parfums treats fragrance as an extension of the house’s avant-garde design language: conceptual, experimental and often resistant to conventional beauty codes. The line is known for abstract ideas, unusual materials and scents that feel more like artistic propositions than standard luxury perfumes.
Sunscreen’s concept
Released in July 2021, Sunscreen was developed over two years as a collaboration between Comme des Garçons Parfums and Eli Russell Linnetz’s ERL. The brief began in images rather than words, then settled on a direct name that anchored the fragrance in a nostalgic Venice Beach summer of sun, surf, chlorine and coconut lotion.
Extra info
Sunscreen was released in July 2021 and came in a clear bottle with a limited-edition inflatable sleeve designed to echo a summer pool float. The fragrance was created to evoke Venice Beach, California, and was developed over two years before launch.
Sunscreen captures the shimmering memory of a long-lost summer. West Coast sun against salty skin morphs into cool splashes of ocean surf, and the whiff of chlorine on the wind. Plastic pool floats and coconut sun lotion: the scent of Venice Beach, California. Comforting and weird.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of close summer heat and sun-warmed skin, worn in a relaxed, slightly ironic way that still feels sensual. It suits a setting where the air carries salt, sunscreen and poolside plastic, and where the wearer wants a soft, nostalgic aura rather than a polished statement.
How to wear
Best in warm weather, especially when the air can carry its coconut, peach and milky notes without turning heavy. Two to three sprays are enough; it wears as a soft, skin-close scent with a gentle woody drydown, more atmospheric than loud, and feels especially natural on sun-warmed skin.
Who it’s for
For those who like sweet scents with a conceptual edge: coconut and heliotrope softened by milky warmth, peach and cedar, with a slightly strange, nostalgic finish. It will appeal to people who enjoy edible-leaning fragrances that are playful, modern and not overly polished.
Release year
2021
The nose
Christian Astuguevieille is the long-time fragrance mind behind Comme des Garçons Parfums, known for turning scent into concept rather than decoration. His work often leans abstract, synthetic and deliberately offbeat, from the early anti-perfume experiments to more recent compositions that balance strangeness with wearability. For Sunscreen, he helped translate Eli Russell Linnetz’s Venice Beach imagery into a fragrance that feels both nostalgic and engineered: sun lotion, salty skin, chlorine and coconut rendered with the brand’s signature conceptual restraint.
Collaborators
Eli Russell Linnetz shaped the fragrance’s concept and visual world through his ERL label, bringing the Venice Beach memory, the title and the summer-float packaging idea. Christian Astuguevieille led the technical perfume development, working through multiple iterations to turn those images into a wearable composition.
Comme Des Garcons’s story
Comme des Garçons Parfums treats fragrance as an extension of the house’s avant-garde design language: conceptual, experimental and often resistant to conventional beauty codes. The line is known for abstract ideas, unusual materials and scents that feel more like artistic propositions than standard luxury perfumes.
Sunscreen’s concept
Released in July 2021, Sunscreen was developed over two years as a collaboration between Comme des Garçons Parfums and Eli Russell Linnetz’s ERL. The brief began in images rather than words, then settled on a direct name that anchored the fragrance in a nostalgic Venice Beach summer of sun, surf, chlorine and coconut lotion.
Extra info
Sunscreen was released in July 2021 and came in a clear bottle with a limited-edition inflatable sleeve designed to echo a summer pool float. The fragrance was created to evoke Venice Beach, California, and was developed over two years before launch.