Artist Bouke de Vries has created five unique sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten's unisex perfume Soie Malaquais, which launched in 2022. The bottles, priced at £6,000 each, are sold at the designer's London and New York stores, with a limited-edition series also available online. De Vries, known for reassembling broken china fragments into dynamic objects, designed the bottles to reflect the fragrance's warm notes of chestnut, rose, blackcurrant, and cardamom, developed by perfumer Marie Salamagne.
The collaboration matters because it bridges contemporary visual art and luxury perfume packaging, elevating a commercial product into a collectible art object. De Vries's work subverts the historical tradition of ornate porcelain perfume bottles, infusing them with his signature energy of reimagined broken ceramics. This partnership highlights how artists can bring conceptual depth to functional design, while also making high-end art accessible to a broader audience through the fashion and fragrance market.