Balenciaga · 2025

Le Dix

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionParfum

A powdery, old-fashioned iris with violet leaf and a hint of incense.

Balenciaga says

You’ll smell forgotten floral, iris absolute and isolated iris aldehydes.

More from Balenciaga’s description

It also mentions Violet leaf absolute and Incense essential oils.

The house’s page

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The drawn Le Dix bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Le Dix’s scent picture, a draft: forgotten floral, iris, violet, frankincense, ylang-ylang, iso e super (pencil shavings on velvet) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Le Dix, when you spray it: Violet, Frankincense

As it settlesheart notes

Le Dix, as it settles: Forgotten floral, Ylang-ylang

What staysdry-down notes

Le Dix, what stays: Iris, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

13 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus4 herbs & lavender3 florals1 woods1 sweet1 spices1 powder

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Interlude Black Iris ManAmouage · shares orris, violet (sweet violet) and frankincense$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Le Dix’s $320
Dia WomanAmouage · shares orris, violet (sweet violet) and frankincense$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Le Dix’s $320
InsolenceGuerlain · shares orris and violet (sweet violet)$155 for 75 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.