A behind-the-scenes look at the Balenciaga Couture candle

‘When other people start throwing up,’ Sissel Tolaas told us back in 2020, ‘that’s when I start to work’. Thankfully, Tolaas’ new candle fragrance for Balenciaga is quite the opposite of vomit-inducing, though it certainly maintains the perfumer-artist-scientist’s penchant for bizarrely derived …