Heritage
A house, in its own words
Boris Bidjan Saberi was born to Persian parents in Germany, carrying a multicultural identity that would later inform his design sensibility. He relocated to Barcelona, establishing his atelier in the city where his eponymous label took shape in 2007. The label quickly distinguished itself within the avant-garde fashion landscape, drawing references from skate culture, streetstyle, and hip-hop while maintaining an underlying architectural rigor. Saberi developed a reputation for garments that felt simultaneously protective and subversive, often working directly with leather to achieve effects that mass production could not replicate. The designer had long worn scents from Geza Schoen's Escentric Molecules line before initiating a conversation about collaboration. This prior relationship, built on personal resonance rather than commercial calculation, shaped the nature of the partnership. The first fragrance, "11," arrived in September 2016, named for its position as a deliberate exploration rather than the beginning of a numbered series. The collaboration continued with Angir in 2024, a fragrance rooted in Persian linguistic heritage and the elemental density of its opening materials. The fashion press has noted Saberi's position within the avant-garde design community, with coverage spanning both his garments and his expansion into scent as an extension of creative practice.
Saberi approaches fragrance with the same confrontational logic he applies to garment construction. He seeks sensory impact over elegance, physical presence over subtlety. The partnership with Geza Schoen emerged from a shared interest in pushing material boundaries, in creating scents that do not apologize for their intensity or their departure from conventional beauty. Where many designer fragrances aim for broad appeal, Saberi's olfactory work deliberately narrows its audience, addressing those who respond to rawness and material honesty. His garments do not soften the body or follow expected silhouettes, and his fragrances refuse to soften the air around the wearer. The designer's philosophy centers on authenticity of experience, on creating objects and environments that feel genuinely felt rather than calculated for market reception. Fragrance, in his framework, becomes another surface for this uncompromising approach. The decision to work with Schoen specifically reflected a desire to engage with a perfumer who had already demonstrated willingness to challenge orthodoxies of the fragrance world through his Escentric Molecules project.