Pierre Balmain

What the Pierre Balmain range is made of

50% of the 24 Pierre Balmain fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain bergamot. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Pierre Balmain returns to bergamot more than to anything else — across 24 releases that is a position rather than a coincidence.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads more textured than the catalogue as a whole: texture averages 0.59 against 0.48 across all mapped fragrances. The margin is modest — this is a house closer to the centre of taste than to any edge of it.

One idea, or many

Pierre Balmain releases variations on a theme. Measured as the average spread of its fragrances across all five axes, the range scores 0.099 — narrow. Someone who likes one Pierre Balmain fragrance is unusually likely to like the next, and someone who dislikes one probably will not find the exception further down the range.

The median release year across the mapped range is 2006.

Where Pierre Balmain sits