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L eau de hesperides diptyque1/9/2024 ![]() ![]() This is a quintessential Diptyque: dark, moody, odd, consciously inaccessible, arcane, striking, insistent on The result is an exercise in transcending the genre. Of peachy-apricoty fruit, green leaf and ripe human body. ![]() Here, Pescheux used bitter orange oil, peppermint oil and immortelle, a flower that gives an astonishing combination (to the Greeks they were oranges, not apples), and citrus is the heart of any eau fraîche. The Hesperides was the mythical Greek garden from which Hercules stole the three golden citrus fruit It is the third, L’Eau des Hespérides, that shows what Diptyque can do with a simple eau fraîche. Of eliding cliché, as the perfume attempts to do. Its structure is “classic,” the polite word for traditionalist, which itself is a way The first of these Pescheux based on the 1968 L’Eau, and it is called, clearly enough, L’Eau de l’Eau. “For the 40th anniversary, we wanted to make three new perfumes using them.” Said Pescheux recently at Diptyque’s loft on Madison Park. ![]() “The inspiration for L’Eau was potpourri: geranium, lavender and patchouli,” ![]() Today, a much healthier Diptyque is having its new triplets presented by the perfumer who created them, the talented Olivier Pescheux. And an excellent creative director of perfumes. DiptyqueĬlaimed the house’s English founder, Desmond Knox-Leet, made the perfume. Diptyque has always been obsessed with both its purity and its myth, a narcissistic and unhealthy fixation that led the house into trying to hide its perfumers’ identities. The first Diptyque scent, created by perfumer Norbert Bijaoui in 1968, was an eau fraîche,Ĭalled L’Eau de Diptyque. Ice cream: You could, but why? Diptyque has just launched not one but three new eaux fraîches, and their response is simple. This is why the choice of its latest triptych of launchesĪn eau fraîche (“cool water,” the original 17th- and 18th-century scented waters whose basic formulae of lemon, bitter orange, spices and herbs led to modern perfume) is the scent equivalent of vanilla Against the flood of focus-grouped syrup, the house has resolutely charted noncommercial, inaccessible territory and done it brilliantly. Eau de Lierre is mesmerizing, Olene is wonderfully strange and L’Ombre dans l’Eau is not merely strange butīracingly rebarbative. Their brilliant Philosykos,Ĭreated in 1996 for Diptyque by Olivia Giacobetti, is often credited with the late 1990s fig craze. Definately worth a try, and I will surely edit once I actually wear it out for a round and can guage experience next to illusion.Diptyque is an avant-garde, resolutely chic Parisian scent concern whose perfumes and candles push boundaries, take risks and generally form one of the most interesting collections in the world. I could never lend it the credence to make it an everyday scent, but it is fun in its unique dirty/freshness and peculiar approach with herbs. I might not be the best golfer on the course, but damn am I enjoying myself. I am now on the ninth hole, with a couple of salty cocktails in my belly, splashes of pond water creeping up the hems of my pants, and quite a bit of turf scattered about my arms and chest. As it dries down the dirtiness becomes even more succinct. The opening is extremely citric and clean, but as it wears off there is a dirty edge that is both gorgeous and a bit repulsive at the same time. I can even detect a bit of earth loam seeping up through the bottom. There is a hint of freshly cut grass, a hint of salt, and astrigency that could easily be a metaphor for the acid in tomatoes. a wonderful bloody mary! This could possibly be the closest olfactory equivalent to playing a round of golf with a couple of your closest friends. from beginning to end there is a translucent and fibrous effect that could possibly be the combination of certain herbal traits, but in the end you get a mental picture of. I will whole-heartedly agree with the summation of each of the previous three reviews, but my stance is quite different. ![]()
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