The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Daisy Murakami Green is a 2025 limited edition in the Marc Jacobs Daisy collection, created in collaboration with artist Takashi Murakami. During Jacobs' tenure as creative director at Louis Vuitton, Murakami's cherry blossom designs became well-known in the fashion world. The bottle reimagines the classic Daisy silhouette in green, a nod to Murakami's botanical palette. The perfumers, Sonia Constant and Adriana Medina-Baez, incorporated a banana accord as the signature note for this fragrance. The opening is bright and tropical, with a sweet-synthetic character that some find reminiscent of artificial banana and banana candy. There's a playful quality to the top notes that evokes the fun of banana laffy taffy, an immediate attention-grabber that announces itself clearly upon first spray.
The perfumers paired the banana note with jasmine, a flower with enough textual complexity to keep the composition from flattening into food territory. The vanilla and amber base then anchors everything, adding warmth and a soft drydown that stays close to the skin. The result is fruity-gourmand without reading as a dessert. It's an unusual combination: tropical brightness, floral depth, and edible warmth stacked in a way that feels deliberate rather than chaotic. That balance is what makes it worth attention.
The evolution
The banana opens bright. Almost alarmingly so, like catching the scent of a bunch at a market stall. That's the first twenty minutes: tropical, vivid, attention-grabbing. Then the jasmine softens and deepens. The banana doesn't disappear, but it settles, becomes part of a larger conversation. The floral heart prevents the whole thing from turning into a fruit salad. By hour two, the drydown kicks in: vanilla and amber, warm and intimate. Close to the skin. The kind of scent someone notices when they're standing beside you, not across the room. The full arc takes the wearer from that initial brightness through the floral middle and into the warm finish that lingers into the evening.
Cultural impact
The Marc Jacobs and Takashi Murakami partnership dates to the early 2000s, when their creative collaboration first took shape. This fragrance revives that creative energy in a new form. Daisy Murakami Green draws on their shared design history while standing apart in the Daisy lineup. The banana note sets this one apart, offering a departure from the more traditional fruity and floral directions the collection typically takes.
