The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
B87.135 was born from a very specific fever dream. Marc-Antoine Barrois and perfumer Quentin Bisch were chasing imagery associated with Middle Eastern rituals and desert landscapes, referencing the atmosphere of Harrods. Four very different worlds, one composition. The result, released in 2026, sits in the extrait concentration, a deliberate escalation of intensity. The name B87 follows the house's alphanumeric convention used across their catalog, a coded identifier rather than a romantic flourish. Launched exclusively through Harrods, it positions the fragrance within a retail context that values rarity and theatrical staging. This time: leather, but not the kind you find in a Parisian workshop. The kind that travels.
What makes the composition work is its refusal to behave like a typical leather. The saffron in the opening isn't decorative, it's structural, giving the leather a heat source. Georgywood, a captive aromachemical, brings an ambery-woody backbone to the drydown. Haitian vetiver roots the blend in soil rather than smoke, pulling the composition downward with a green-earthy gravity that keeps the leather from floating into abstraction. Orris butter appears in the heart, lending a powdery, rooty depth that softens the sharper edges of the saffron and myrrh.
The evolution
The opening is all saffron, leather, and a resinous crackle of myrrh. Sharp, almost confrontational, the kind of introduction that fills a coat collar and announces itself before you've turned around. The pink pepper adds a dry flicker underneath, like heat shimmer off stone. As the composition develops, tobacco deepens the leather into something rounder, less aggressive, more lived-in. The orris root starts pulling the composition toward powder, and the rose emerges, not floral exactly, but the idea of rose, dried petals pressed into leather lining. This is where the fragrance stops performing and starts inhabiting. Eventually, it settles into its base: orris butter, patchouli, Haitian vetiver, and the Georgywood doing its quiet, ambery work. The saffron retreats but never fully leaves, a warm flicker that stays close to skin.
Cultural impact
B87.135 exists in a particular lane: the Harrods-exclusive collector's piece. It wears like something you don't stumble into casually, you seek it out. The leather-spice-powder profile attracts a specific kind of wearer, someone who already owns a Barrois fragrance and wants the more intense extrait version, or someone building a rotation around art-house French perfumery. The Harrods-only release positions it as a destination purchase rather than an impulse buy.
