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. 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.
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