B. Balenciaga Balenciaga 2014

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B. Balenciaga is a perfume by Balenciaga for women and was released in 2014. The scent is floral-powdery. It was last marketed by Coty.

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Floral

Powdery

Woody

Fresh

Green

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Top Notes

Lily of the valley Soy bean

Heart Notes

Cedar

Orris root

Base Notes

Cashmere wood

Ambrette seed

Perfumers

Domitille Michalon-Bertier, IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances)

Ratings

Scent

7.1141 Ratings

Longevity

6.796 Ratings

Sillage

6.098 Ratings

Bottle

7.0114 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 05.02.2024.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is German model Anna Ewers, photographed by Steve Klein.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/22/2020

7
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
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Eaumygosh
47 Reviews

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Eaumygosh

Very helpful Review 7

Delicate flower powder

Who doesn't know them? The little specimens that are packed into the bag as an extra when you go shopping at the perfumery. This way I have already discovered one or the other favourite scent. If you often buy fragrances, it doesn't take long before you can call a large collection of samples your own. This is what happened to me. And sometimes I take the time and test scents. Simply because it gives me such pleasure
"B." starts off very floral and woody on my skin. It has a delicate scent of lily of the valley and violets embedded by the woods. Powdery, velvety and at the same time watery. The fragrance has something cucumbery about it. I find this note very interesting in combination with the floral powder. Compared to the scents I usually wear it is very unsweet, but not harsh. With time it gets a bit spicier, but keeps its character throughout. I find it very well-groomed, grown-up and clean. The Sillage is cuddly, just like the scent. Close to the body, yet noticeable. I can only evaluate the durability to a limited extent, as I have only tested it once. After about 4 hours I only took a soft, woody touch.

"B." Is a fragrance that's only partially compatible with me and my taste. I'll never buy it. But I do appreciate it, though - elegant brevity is a beautiful thing

04/08/2018

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

Peas!? Soya Bean!?

Soya bean (or peas, as I have seen this notes-listed elsewhere)!? That's at least original!

What prompted me to appoint this my olfactory panoply for the day is a combination of the fact that I found it quickly as I was searching for something, and a combination of the fact that I have just been reviewing a fragrance that someone else found to have poor sillage & longevity whereas I did not find so, and the fact that I have tried ^this^ one before and found it to have poor score in those qualities, whereas others do not so find.

This was one of my first ventures into °light° fragrances. I had thitherto always gone for the heavy ones - those being they that make the greatest initial impact in the retail environment; but some research, and curiosity as to what all those others were °about° that didn't seem to°do° much eventually swayed me unto actually starting giving them at try-out.

It wasn't very successful at first, and I ^longed^ for my heavy stonking fragrances. Just how unsuccessful it was was revealed to me in my inspection of just how much this bottle had gone down through my previous assay: I thought to myself "I really used ^that^ much!". I must have been ^seriously^ stonking of it on that occasion!?

Another one that this reminds me of is ~Decadence~ by Mark Jacobs. In fact, they are like two peas in a pod! (someone said to me recently that she & I are like that - I do believe with goodwill. (Schrödinger's Cat!)). That one doesn't have pea or soya bean essence in it, but both are green+amber type fragrances, and also light - or at least what I would call that. Some say they are quite heavy, actually, which again raises the matter of the capriciosity of the olfactory faculty.

I'm getting a strong °green° enthusion from this one even as I speak; and indeed it was that that attracted me to it in this case: I particularly like the way green is rendered in this fragrance - I think it's done with a certain ^style^. It also has a certain sweetness inwhich it resembles ~Sine Die~ (a latin legal term - nothing to do with dying (Laurent Mazzone fragrances are sometimes named ^very^ strangely - ~Cicatrices~, for instance (!!))); but that one is much sweeter than this one. Also, the ambrette musk is clearly apparent in it by virtue of my having become familiar with Calvin Klein's ~Beauty~, which I now adore, and also which I think might °layer with this extremely well.

This fragrance, and the others I have mentioned in connection with it, being what I have just a little earlier called ~green+amber~ fragrances, are that by virtue of their being essentially a fusing of a green note with an ambry or musky note, or a musky-ambry one. This seems to me to be a difficult perfumery fusion to well-accomplish, the two kinds of note tending to fight each other to a considerable extent, to my mind; but in this fragrance, and in the others I have mentioned - and ~Nomade~ by Chloé is also an outstanding instance of it - this perfumery °high-wire act° is executed with consummate slicity.

B. Balenciaga Balenciaga 2014

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