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B. Balenciaga Intense 2016

7.3 / 10 28 Ratings
A perfume by Balenciaga for women, released in 2016. The scent is fruity-green. It was last marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Fruity
Green
Woody
Fresh
Spicy

Fragrance Notes

BlueberryBlueberry Green teaGreen tea CedarCedar MahoganyMahogany Soy beanSoy bean Queen-of-the-nightQueen-of-the-night

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.328 Ratings
Longevity
7.527 Ratings
Sillage
7.326 Ratings
Bottle
8.147 Ratings
Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 08/22/2025.

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Hippolyte

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Hippolyte
Helpful Review 8  
I've Got the Pants On!
After my first comment on the platform was unfortunately a polemical comment against an Escada fragrance, I am glad to leave my second comment for this Balenciaga scent, which particularly caught my attention.

I first tested it in August, during the almost unbearable temperatures of Southern Europe. Although I am from the South, I can't handle strong heat very well myself. Shortly after testing the fragrance, I read a few comments here. “Cucumber salad with dill” was the comment from MarieTheres, and I became skeptical! I didn’t want to smell like cucumber salad!! But there was really something to it (though not so extreme, I thought)! It was due to the bitterness and freshness of the scent and the outside temperature!
After a few hours, we became friends. And it lasted a long time, which I thought was great. In these temperatures of over 30 degrees, it was a refreshment without citrus, without “soap.” Green fruity and slightly woody.

However, I only bought it in mid-September - temperatures in Germany were already lower. And therefore, the scent suddenly felt different (no cucumber salad :D)! Bitter and dry, strongly woody for me, less green, which is why I would describe it more as fruity-woody rather than green-fruity.

The bottle is, by the way, as with the entire B. Balenciaga line, great! An expressionist art object that I enjoy looking at.

Resume: The core of this fragrance is strong, its exterior soft. Not a typically feminine scent. I show my femininity, but I've got the pants on!

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Top Review 16  
Fata Morgana - it didn’t help him at all.
When it’s really hot, that is, hot for a Northerner like me, meaning when it’s over 30 degrees Celsius in the shade and you mistakenly think you see water on the streets, can’t trust your eyes, and start thinking of all the various desert scenes from your entire television and comic upbringing, then B. Balenciaga Intense is a welcome anchor that brings you back to the northern German ground of reality: No, that’s just a street, just a mirage, no water, and we are roughly at 53 degrees north latitude.

On such a day, one should take B. Balenciaga Intense and enjoy the rugged down-to-earthness, green, dry, fresh, cool, like water in the distance and somehow taciturn, reduced to the essentials, just like the men on the bench in the advertisement for Flensburger Pilsener. More words, more intensity, more floral notes, more movement, more of anything just doesn’t work in the heat anyway.

But what about a day like today: 53 degrees north latitude, 18 degrees Celsius, drizzling rain?
I spray on B. Balenciaga Intense and - I’m already thinking of a mirage again. Am I crazy? Am I imagining this? Is this really the same scent?
Herb violet leaf green-nutty with a hint of fig. And then a basket flower stink in my nose, often listed as blackcurrant in pyramids. Aha, and there it is. It follows with minty-herb lemon balm for many hours, distinctly lemon balm. This scent is no longer taciturn, no longer reserved, no longer reduced to a freshness anchor for the essentials.
The addition of "Intense" now lives up to its name, but somehow I find it too bitter-herb, too intense, too verbose for a Northerner like me.

I only like it when it’s over 30 degrees Celsius in the shade.
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MarieTheres

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Helpful Review 4  
Cucumber Salad with Dill
"Smell this!", said my favorite perfume saleswoman, whom I visit every few weeks and with whom I have become friends. She held a strip under my nose that she had previously sprayed with Balenciaga Intense. When I saw the bottle, I expected something powdery, fruity, something for the evening, with a hint of vanilla and maybe a little gourmand. After all, berry is my favorite color, and I can hardly resist berry-colored bottles.

But it was all wrong. This perfume smells like salad, like freshly cut grass. Not a hint of purple! I commented on this, to which she laughed: "Yes, my colleague said it smells like cucumber salad with dill!" :-D That hits the nail on the head. No trace of blueberry, I only smell something extremely green. Something I wouldn't want to wear. I feel a bit cheated because the bottle says nothing about what the scent actually is. What a shame!
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8 years ago
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Wow, what a fruit bomb. Reminds me of Byredo Bibliothéque. Fruity start and then turns green-herb but never masculine. Stays feminine.
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Admittedly, it's unexpectedly different. Herb-green, dry, yet soft and refreshingly unusual without citrus. Great in the heat!
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Green and fresh with synthetic fruit. I really wanted to smell like Queen of the Night, but she wasn't home*
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It's great that it's so distinctive. Green, but not herbal, not sweet, no lemon. I'm not so fond of the drydown. Artificial wood...
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5 years ago
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Synthetic cucumber with aquatic flowers. Scents like these might be why designer fragrances sometimes have a bad reputation.
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A pleasantly fresh scent. It could definitely be worn by men as well.
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