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Bal d'Afrique Absolu(2025)
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Bal d'Afrique Absolu is an eau de parfum from Byredo, launched in 2025. It opens with bergamot, blackcurrant and lemon, moves into praline, musk and violet and settles on black amber, cedarwood and vetiver.
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This scent's violet note exists because of ionone, synthesized in 1893 to replace violet-flower oil, once one of the most expensive materials in perfumery.
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Bal d'Afrique Absolu is an eau de parfum from Byredo, launched in 2025. It opens with bergamot, blackcurrant and lemon, moves into praline, musk and violet and settles on black amber, cedarwood and vetiver.
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