Balenciaga bottles time: a new era of fragrance

    Balenciaga rewrites the rules of scent with the launch of ten new fragrances — a collection that isn’t just about perfume, but about bending time itself.

    Seventy-five years after Cristóbal Balenciaga unveiled Le Dix, the House’s very first perfume, the Maison dives back into its archives to resurrect a forgotten icon. What began as a 15-year hunt by archivists led to the rediscovery of a 1947 bottle — the seed for a collection that bridges past and present.

    The result? A set of refillable flacons that feel like artifacts from another century yet engineered with today’s precision. Globular glass caps, handtied ribbons, and boxes etched with the patina of age each detail whispers history while pulsing with modern industrial edge. Even the original Le Dix logotype reappears, nestled within Balenciaga’s signature industrial grey, proof that time leaves its own design.

    The palette deepens with each bottle, from crystal clarity to smoked glass, finally plunging into obsidian black. The progression is not just visual but olfactive: a spectrum of moods, intensities, and contradictions These ten perfumes are more than scents — they are sculpted volumes of air. French perfume mastery collides with futuristic signatures. Tradition folds into innovation. Heritage is refracted through technology. Each fragrance is a study in duality couture, bottled.

    Balenciaga doesn’t just ask you to wear fragrance. It asks you to live inside it.