Acne Studios Makes Its Bath and Body Debut With Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

Acne Studios par Frédéric Malle is growing beyond the bottle. Two years after the Swedish fashion house and the Parisian perfume publisher debuted their first collaborative fragrance in 2024, the partnership has produced its next chapter: a body wash and a body milk that mark Acne Studios’ entry into bath and body for the first time. Both products carry the same scent composition as the original eau de parfum, extending perfumer Suzy Le Helley‘s aldehyde-driven formula from a finishing gesture into the earlier, more intimate stages of a daily routine.

The original fragrance was the product of a correspondence that began with a handwritten letter from Malle to Acne Studios founder and creative director Jonny Johansson. Their shared creative DNA provided the foundation: both houses have built their identities on multidisciplinary thinking, drawing from photography, architecture, culture, and design rather than staying within their primary disciplines. Malle’s founding premise for Éditions de Parfums, established in 2000, was to treat perfumers as named authors with full creative carte blanche rather than as anonymous formulators working to a marketing brief. Johansson, meanwhile, has steered Acne Studios into publishing, furniture, and retail architecture alongside its seasonal collections. The collaboration sits where those instincts overlap, and the body care extension deepens the investment: it signals that the partnership is a sustained line of thinking, not a one-off release.

Le Helley’s composition, which the brand describes as a “neoclassical perfume with an irreverent twist,” opens with a bright rush of aldehydes before settling into a floral heart of rose, violet, and a touch of orange blossom. A whisper of incense provides a brief smoky detour, and the base lands on vanilla, creamy sandalwood, and a soft note of peach skin. White musk closes the structure, lending what the brand likens to the feeling of a “comforting mohair sweater” against the skin. The architecture is deliberately referential to the twentieth century’s great aldehyde florals while keeping the overall weight modern and wearable.

The body wash translates that composition into a rich, fragrant lather, designed to cleanse while leaving a soft, lingering trace of scent on the skin. The body milk follows as a lightweight, hydrating layer formulated to replenish and smooth, extending the fragrance’s presence further into the day. Acne Studios positions the two products as a sequential pair: the wash introduces the scent in the shower, the milk prolongs it through moisturizing, and the eau de parfum remains available as the final, most concentrated layer. The effect is a system that lets the same olfactory profile build gradually rather than arriving all at once from a single spray. Both products are presented in “Blossom pink,” the same soft visual identity that has defined the collaboration since its 2024 debut.

The body wash and body milk join an existing fragrance range that includes the eau de parfum in three sizes (10ml, 50ml, and 100ml) and a travel set bundling the 10ml spray with a carrying case. The two larger perfume formats are listed in two colorways on acnestudios.com, though only “Blossom pink” is currently identified by name.

The full Acne Studios par Frédéric Malle collection is available now online.