Marc-Antoine Barrois
B683 and Ganymede
Two enigmatic names, fragments of universes belonging to the same galaxy and telling
in wakes the inspirations of an artistic encounter between two young creators. One is a perfumer,
the other a fashion designer. Quentin Bisch and Marc-Antoine Barrois met in 2015 and
immediately created an extraordinary creative partnership. Childhood memories, shared
values and the same love for beautiful materials as well as the respect for a certain
sobriety have brought them together around the challenge of defining
and redefining new and timeless elegance(s).
B683 was born in 2016. The name is inspired by the asteroid of the Little Prince by Saint Exupery
and by the birth date of the couturier who made it his own imaginary planet. It is a fragrance
that blends leather and spice in a subtle, powerful and distinguished refinement. Ganymede was
launched in 2019, it is still a leather-based perfume but just like the planet whose name
it bears, it is a new elegance, which is fresh and mineral, just as timeless.
GANYMEDE EDP
For this new opus, the duo has not changed, nor the creative osmosis between Marc-Antoine Barrois and Quentin Bisch, but the destination is elsewhere. Creating an elegant and unexpected harmony around a quartet of mandarin, violet, immortelle and suede, the two fellow artists have dreamt of this new planet: Ganymede, the rocky satellite of Jupiter discovered in 1610 by Galileo…
Fragrance notes:
Top: mandarin, saffron
Heart: violet, Chinese osmanthus
Base: akigalawood, immortelle absolute
B683 EDP
A perfume like a heady sobriety. Ten years after commencing Haute Couture, French couturier, Marc-Antoine Barrois is launching his first perfume: B683. Building on the timeless and charismatic elegance of his mentors, with this perfume he reveals his most beautiful souvenirs as well as his world of contemporary designs. Ultimately, B683 is an invitation to explore…to travel on his planet where bespoke unique pieces collections, jewels and accessories meet a genius symbiosis of poetry and dreams with arts and crafts. Subtly combining refined woody essences, sensual spicy notes and heady smell of leather, avant-garde perfumer Quentin Bisch is signing a perfume both heady and sober modelled on the fantasy universe of the designer.
Fragrance Notes:
Top: saffron, black pepper, chili and nutmeg
Heart : violet leaf, musk, cistus absolute, Moheli vanilla tincture and amber
Base santal wood, patchouli, ambroxan and oak mousse.
B683 EXTRAIT
With this reinterpretation, the two creators offer a dive into the most sensual character of B683, an immersion at the heart of this perfume and its signature: the warmth and the depth of a woody-leathery accord. Here, it gains another intensity to become an authentic “patchouli leather.” Around that, other notes of the composition sublimate the different facets of this matter with tactile sensuality. Pepper and cumin offer the vibration of their spicy accents, the oud wood enhances the density of then accord while the vanilla brightens it with a caressing roundness…
Fragrance Notes:
Top: spicy, liquorish with pepper berries essence, cumin seeds and green apple.
Heart: animalic and leathery. Made with safraleine, violet leaf and natural oud from Laos (ethically sourced).
Base: warm and woody and concentrating the smell of patchouli from Indonesia, sandalwood from Australia and vanilla.