Denim Tears × Comme des Garçons Tears Eau de Parfum

Paul Guerlain bottles Georgia after the rain — cotton, red clay heat, and a dry musk floral in a yellow 50ml flask for $180.

By Material Progress · September 18, 2026

Cotton After Rain

Tremaine Emory’s Denim Tears joins Comme des Garçons Parfums for Tears, a musk floral built around the smell of cotton in rural Georgia once the storm clears. Heat lifts off red clay. Fields sit wet and green. The brief is place, not laundry musk.

Galbanum To Hay

Paul Guerlain opens with galbanum, ambrettolide, and sage, then moves through daffodil, jasmine, flouve, and orris before landing on vetiver, hay, cypriol, and musk. The dry-down reads warm and hay-like rather than sweet.

Yellow Flask

Emory owned the concept and the bottle. CDG worked the juice until he signed off. Fifty milliliters of eau de parfum, made in France, shipping from the Denim Tears store, Africa Diaspora Goods in New York, select Dover Street Market doors, and Comme des Garçons boutiques. One-eighty dollars. Final sale.