It’s one boy on a vacation, the beach, some landscapes, summer and skateboard and that’s it. It’s the best way to explain my perfume.1
That’s Russian fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy, who started his own brand around 2008, and is known for streetwear and skateware, and undoubtedly other things I am equally ignorant about. His eponymous fragrance, released last year in collaboration with Comme des Garçons, was inspired by skate and street culture in Moscow, a particular gap in my already scanty knowledge about things that are cool and hip and young. Perfumer Alexis Dadier found his own way in…
