B. is the new perfume by high-end designer brand, Balenciaga. The fragrance is one that was created with the input of the house’s relatively new designer, Alexander Wang. Wang apparently wanted the main note of Lily of the Valley and the fragrance delivers that from beginning to end.
If you like fresh, green fragrances, then this one delivers as it’s not too floral and still quite feminine.
The drydown as amber, musk and woods, with the amber being none-too-sweet in the fragrance.
While the opening is very green and fresh, the middle notes have more the floral-ness in them, and the floral mixes nicely with the ambery woods in the drydown.
It is quite different than Florabotanica and Rosabotanica, the last couple of Balenciaga scents, and I feel like those were more “different” than this scent is. They had a certain base woodsy quality in their floral-ness, while this scent doesn’t have that. They smelled slightly off which added to their character, and this one is lily of the valley through and through.
Available at Holt Renfrew.
