The Paris-based fragrance house Diptyque is celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2011. Now at the end of this celebratory year they finish with a flourish by releasing two fragrances and a candle to complete the 34 Boulevard Saint Germain collection.The two fragrances are called Eau Particuliere and Eau Mage. I enjoyed both of these interesting creations very much.
Diptyque and Etro are coupled here because each has created a commemorative fragrance to celebrate their respective flagship locations; Diptyque boulevard 34 Saint Germain and Etro Via Verri 2010
Diptyque after having taken on one of the more ubiquitous warm-weather notes in their Spring 2010 release, Vetyverio, are poised to take on one of the cold-weather stalwarts in vanilla and the Fall 2010 release, Eau Duelle.
Diptyque enlisted Fabrice Pellegrin to design Eau Duelle and fresh off his almost science-fiction inspired design of Thierry Mugler Womanity and its caviar accord, M. Pellegrin shows he can coax beauty from the most mundane of beginnings.
For Vetyverio M. Pescheux has chosen to use a blueprint that worked for another Diptyque fragrance, Tam Dao. Tam Dao is one of the most complex studies of a single note, sandalwood, as exists in perfumery. It works because, Daniele Moliere the nose, allowed sandalwood to create an axis around which the other notes would interact and allow for those interactions to illuminate and delineate the central note. In Vetyverio I experienced the same kind of development as M. Pescheux takes us on a journey through all that vetiver can be
Akiko Kamei’s Rouge Hermès is an updated, reworked version of 1984’s Parfum d’Hermès co-created by perfumer Akiko Kamei and Raymond Chaillon
D.S. and Durga Big Sur Eucalyptus, a limited edition composed by David Moltz, captures the majesty of the region photo-realistically
