Launched in 2009, Bal d’Afrique is the woody floral Jérôme Epinette composed with Ben Gorham for Byredo, as a tribute to Africa, its dance, its art and its music: buchu, tagetes, bergamot and blackcurrant, a heart of violet and cyclamen, and a base of cedar and vetiver softened by tonka bean and musks.
A thick cylinder of clear glass with a white label in sparse black lettering, topped with Byredo’s glossy black cap.
In the house photograph, Bal d’Afrique comes in the Byredo bottle: a squat cylinder of thick clear glass, with straight walls and a massive base, revealing a very pale yellow juice.
A matte white label with sparse graphics bears Byredo, Bal d’Afrique and Eau de Parfum in black sans-serif capitals. A glossy black cap with rounded edges tops a short glass neck.
The house announces a new bottle design that keeps this iconic black cap; during the transition, an order may arrive, it specifies, in either the previous or the new bottle.
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