BALMAIN introduces “Les Éternels”, where every identity has a fragrance
WELCOME TO THE BALMAIN BEAUTY UNIVERSE
Creative Director Olivier Rousteing has built on Balmain’s rich fashion and perfume legacy to create an all-gender collection of eight maximalist fragrances.
After two years of exhilarating work and passion, Balmain introduces “Les Éternels”, where every identity has a fragrance.
A fragrance experience inspired by the universal quest for self-realization, featuring bold, all-gender fragrances powered by a richly crafted duality of ingredients.
In his own words, Olivier Rousteing defines the quest for identity at the core of Les Éternels Collection – the inspiration, personal emotions, and vision.
"WHAT I LOVE ABOUT PERFUME IS ITS EMOTION. IT'S YOURSELF, BUT IT INVITES OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE." - OLIVIER ROUSTEING
THE JOURNEY OF SELF-REALIZATION
True essence
The two sides of identity representing the confidence to be yourself.
LES ÉTERNELS
Every detail in Balmain Beauty’s inaugural fragrance collection reflects the craftsmanship synonymous with the house, from the timeless bottles to the maximalist scents.
Experience the avant-garde luxury of a new fragrance journey inspired by the universal quest for self-realization.
Be the first to experience Les Éternels de Balmain, available today, exclusively at BalmainBeauty.com and select boutiques.
In its lacquered signature Balmain black bottle, Carbone drives the quest for identity. It confidently reflects all the facets of who you truly are and shares it with the world.
The assertive duality of a maximalist musk mirroring the minimalist rose.
Carbone drives the quest for identity in the Les Éternels collection, confidently reflecting all the facets of who you truly are.
At its heart, Carbone holds an assertive duality of maximalist musk and minimalist rose to invent a new fragrance experience.
Key Notes: White Musk, Rose NeoAbsolute, Suede, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cumin
A total musk where the pure and the carnal unite in opposition. White musk envelops a darker, sensual side to infuse the perfume with light. This complexity mirrors the two faces of the opening neo-absolute rose–one innocent, the other irreverent with a tinge of tobacco haze. As each note unleashes its full potential, skin-like suede and a dusting of spicy cumin invite emotional warmth into this maximalist identity statement.
Fragrance Family: Musk
In its reflective signature Balmain golden bottle, Sel d'Ambre captures the mystique of glittering desert nights. Its mysterious glow illuminates the path to inner peace.
A captivating alchemy of glowing amber and the mineral and oceanic depth of salty ambergris.
SEL D’AMBRE
“Les Éternels” collection’s Sel d’Ambre captures the mystique of glittering desert nights. Its mysterious glow illuminates the path to inner peace.
With glowing amber and salty ambergris at its core, Sel d’Ambre offers a captivating duality of ingredients that delivers a new fragrance experience.
Fragrance Family: Amber
Key Notes: Amber, Ambergris, Olibanum, Rukeri Tea Accord, Ambre 83, Orris Accord
The opening captivates with warm spice rising from olibanum before the composition cools down with rukeri tea leaves. Caramelized ambers exult, carrying an opulent, long-lasting trail.
Vent Vert reinvents Balmain’s vintage iconic green fragrance for a new age, respecting nature forever in a timeless journey through past, present and future.
Airy vert de mandarine and sensual jasmine in full flower: Vent Vert is composed around a lively duality of ingredients to set a new fragrance experience in motion.
Vent Vert has a direct connection to nature. In its translucent emerald-green bottle, the uplifting fragrance breathes new life into the pioneering classic green Pierre Balmain created in 1947. Reinvented for a new age, the iconic green fragrance embodies respect for nature in a timeless journey through past, present, and future.
A combination of airy vert de mandarine and sensual jasmine in full flower.
Fragrance Family: Floral Green
Key Notes: Vert de Mandarine, Jasmin, Blackcurrant, Galbanum Essence, Calypsone, Soft Musks
Within Vent Vert, new harmonies bring a verdant composition. This zephyr of basil, spearmint, and fig leaf fills the air with all shades of green. Liveliness deepens with an unexpected woody blackcurrant finale, for a moving celebration of nature.
Rouge radiates addictive love, reminiscent of LA.’s magic hour when the sky is not even the limit.
Rouge features an electrifying floral fruity bouquet led by the sensual lily flirting with radiant georgywood to welcome a new fragrance experience.
Rouge draws inspiration from Pierre Balmain and Olivier Rousteing’s deep connection to the allure of stardom and success. In its passion-red bottle, the fragrance radiates addictive love, reminiscent of LA’s magic hour, when the sky is not even the limit.
An electrifying floral fruity bouquet flirting with radiant woods.
Fragrance Family: Floral Fruity
Key Notes: Lily, Georgywood, Moraea Ciliata, Osmanthus Flower, Ylang Ylang, Magnolia Flower
As soon as the sun sets, sensual lily, exotic morae ciliate, and fruity apricot-like osmanthus conspire to let their supple nectar overflow. The exhilarating experience reaches its culmination when warm and radiant georgywood blows a final kiss to ylang-ylang in the night sky.
Ivoire carries Balmain’s New French Style legacy to the world and into the future. This classic 1979 fragrance has been updated to reflect the optimism of modern Paris, unifying all the beauties of the world with no exceptions.
With an alluring duality of intoxicating tubéreuse de nuit and earthy vetiver, Ivoire opens up a new fragrance experience.
Ivoire carries Balmain’s New French Style legacy to the world and into the future. This classic 1979 fragrance has been updated for Les Éternels in a crystal-clear bottle to reflect the optimism of modern Paris, uniting all the beauties of the world with no exceptions.
An intoxicating grand tubéreuse de nuit unfolds her indulging opulence while entangled in the vetiver's untamed and rugged roots.
Fragrance Family: Floral Woody
Key Notes: Tubéreuse de Nuit, Vetiver, Turmeric, Grapefruit, Solar Orange Blossom, Suede
The flower's natural appeal becomes irresistible after a crisp opening of bright grapefruit. The allure turns majestic as woody turmeric reveals its hidden green notes.
BLEU INFINI
“Les Éternels” collection’s Bleu Infini transports you to endless skies, infinite seas, and their call to set you free.
Bleu infini holds a boundless duality at its core, with warm cistus and salted lichen, to make way for a new fragrance experience.
Bleu Infini transports to endless skies, infinite seas, and their call to set you free. In its translucent Mediterranean blue bottle, the inspiration for the fragrance is Villa Balmain, Pierre Balmain’s modernist hideaway on the island of Elba.
Land meets sea when the maquis warmth of cistus absolute embraces salted lichen.
Fragrance Family: Woody Aromatic
Key Notes: Cistus Absolute, Salted Lichen, Baie Rose, Clary Sage Essence, Akigalawood, Oakmoss Absolute
The clash of sun-soaked stones and oceanic vapor lingers. In the air, fragrant clary sage and spicy pink peppercorn make one. With its opposite earthy and marine notes, the oakmoss finale makes the infinite felt as the Mediterranean calls for freedom.
Ébène is the revival of Pierre Balmain's 1983 Africa-inspired fragrance, envisioned through the lens of Olivier Rousteing’s discovery of his origins. In its high-shine ebony-like dark brown bottle, the timeless fragrance ushers in the age of self-discovery and a journey to reveal our universal origin.
A new fragrance experience unfolds as Ébène’s precious myrrh and eternal ebony tree form a timeless duality of ingredients.
Precious myrrh oil coiled around an ebony tree’s eternal roots to ground the scent in essence and permanence.
Fragrance Family: Woody Amber
Key Notes: Ebony Wood, Myrrh Oil, Tobacco Leaves, Incense, Geranium Oil, Cedarwood Atlas Oil
From earth to air, an extraordinary tobacco blend brings out the most treasured spices of vanilla and cinnamon. The trail they leave behind is evocative of the universal path back to our origins.
Within “Les Éternels” collection, Bronze symbolizes rebirth, majestically rising like the Phoenix from the ashes.
At the heart of Bronze, a fearless duality of ingredients–blazing cedarwood and refreshing patchouli–welcomes a new fragrance experience.
In its metallic ignited copper bottle, Bronze symbolizes rebirth, majestically rising like the Phoenix from the ashes. The story behind this creation is Olivier Rousteing’s healing journey from a fire-related accident.
A contrasting trio of blazing cedarwoods revived by a surprisingly cooling patchouli.
Fragrance Family: Woody Chypre
Key Notes: Cedarwood, Patchouli, Black Pepper, Tobacco Leaf, Jasmin, Hay Absolute
Black pepper lends a fusing fresh note before clean, animalic, and mystical woods are set on fire. Each flame is intensified by tobacco leaves and exudes a new primal energy — a raw purity born from transformation. Warm herbaceous hay absolute pulsates a hopeful light in the embers, signaling that the woods are back to life.
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