Diptyque Eau Rose Eau de Parfum Review (Fabrice Pellegrin) 2022 + Unleash the Rose with Maurice Harris Draw

January 15, 2022January 15, 2022

Diptyque Eau Rose Eau de Parfum Holiday Pop-Up Store January 9, 2022

Cult favored French fragrance house Diptyque is beloved for their legendary fragrances, candles, and world-class lifestyle products has been very busy the last couple of years judging by the number of releases and collections. With in-person fragrance events on hold since the pandemic began, it was a welcome invitation to come and celebrate Diptyque’s 60th Anniversary last September at their pop-up store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District for the release of their five-piece collection Le Grand Tour. During the holidays it re-opened. I attended Sniffapalooza’s The Art of Gifting! where I was given a (pre-view) sample of their soon-to-be-released, Eau Rose Eau de Parfum (January 4th, 2022).

Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens: Rose Garden (Piece of Eden)

“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” Gertrude Stein from “Sacred Emily”

I adore flowers and especially the rose, the “queen of the flowers”. This stems from my visits to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, California growing up. The fourteen gardens are exquisite but the gorgeous Rose Garden made the biggest impression on me. That was it for me! The 3-acre garden features 1,800 rose species and varieties that are arranged to trace the history of the rose from 450 B.C. to the present. It holds at least one of every type of rose, old and new, including alba, bourbon, centifolia, China, damask, English, floribunda, gallica, Grandiflora, hybrid musk, hybrid perpetual, hybrid tea, miniature, moss, noisette, polyantha, portland, rambler, and tea.

Diptyque Eau de Rose Eau de Parfum floor display

Last week while doing a scent-through at Bloomingdale’s on 59th Street and came across the two Diptyque Eau Rose Eau de Parfum wall displays. One on the main floor and the other at their counter in the fragrance department (further back on the same floor).

Diptyque Eau de Rose Eau de Parfum counter display

Diptyque has crafted some spectacular rose fragrances (call them rose specialists) but what threw me off was a rose launch in winter. I would have thought a spring release to be appropriate. Well, this Eau Rose Eau de Parfum release is anything but conventional. And, a winter rose is a beauty to behold and this one is no exception.

The 10-year anniversary of the original Eau de Toilette (2012) made it an opportune time to re-conceptualize Diptyque Eau Rose Eau de Parfum. Crafted by Master Perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin the 2021 Winner of the Prix Francois Coty, who specializes in rose scents, and is the creator of a number of iconic Diptyque scents (such as Do Son and Eau Duelle), all constructed around notes of the rose, it is a mixture comprised of the original Damascena and Centifolia roses, as a tribute to its sister scent, but M. Pellegrin gives us a richer and more intense aroma as an update to its predecessor, the Eau Rose EDT. This is not your powdery rose. This is a cozier and more romantic version., with good sillage and longevity. Having a good size collection of samples and bottles from the house I had a chance to compare the different iterations of the Diptyque rose-centric perfumes over the years and compare. As the saying goes, “nothing succeeds like success.”

Eau Rose Collection

Diptyque Eau de Rose Eau de Parfum emphasizes artichoke, litchi, and chamomile which gives roundness to the entire scent experience. Infused with extracts of firad rose, the rose is upcycled through the use of discarded Damascena rose water during the distillation process, in keeping with the brand’s commitment to sustainability; Diptyque’s collaboration with renowned florist Maurice Harris on the new Unleash the Rose collection recreated a polychromatic portrait of the rose to create a colorful flower arrangement that has been digitally printed onto the packaging.

Roses – by (Mary Ann Evans known by her pen name) George Eliot

You love the roses – so do I. I wish

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be

Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!

The house is releasing a limited-edition collection of signature candles in four scents, Roses, Camomille, Litchi, and Artichaut mimicking the ingredients in the blend. Lit together they re-create the scent of the floral composition. I do not recall any house doing this. Game changer. The full Limited-Edition Collection includes Eau de Parfum Eau Rose 75ML, Eau de Toilette Eau Rose 100ML, four Limited Edition scented candles, Eau Rose hand cream and, Eau Rose refillable solid perfume, and Eau Rose hair mist.

Top notes: roses damascena and centifolia, Middle notes: chamomile; Base notes: litchi

Perceived note: artichoke

Disclaimer: This review was based on my preview sample provided by Diptyque at Sniffapalooza’s Winter Event. The opinions are solely my own (and no one else’s!).

~Hernando Courtright, Senior Events Contributor and Brand Ambassador

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