#L eau des hesperides diptyque skin#
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0 0 add-to-cart No Citrus L'Eau des Hespérides 100ml 3303.00.00.20 alcohol denat. The citrus fruits that they guarded had several virtues, including the power to bestow beauty and bring down fever. There were three Hesperides: Aegle, Erytheia and Hesperia.

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#L eau des hesperides diptyque skin#

Use the sample to test the fragrance on your skin before opening the full-size bottle. A perfume with a sparkling, green freshness: the fruit scents become stronger with spicy notes and gain a new vivacity that is dapper and diabolically elegant.Įach fragrance purchase will now include a matching sample. (3 stars, good juice) | $150 for 200ml go to .2178 L'Eau des Hespérides - Eau de Toilette 125 125 GBP InStock /Fragrances/Eaux de toilette /Fragrances/See all /Fragrances/All Fragrances /Fragrances/Eaux de toilette /Fragrances/Explore by olfactory family/Citrus /Olfactive Families/Citrus /Fragrances/Summer fragrances /Mother's day selection /Mother's day selection /Italy 9 96 150 151 445 619 726 359 866 929 In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were the nymph guardians of a garden with precious “golden apples”: citrus fruits. L’Eau des Hespérides will have fans and detractors, but it brilliantly expands both the genre and the Diptyque collection. It stays, proves stableĪnd diffuses perfectly. Pescheux, with startling technical expertise, has created one with excellent persistence on the skin. Most eaux fraîches disappear as rapidly as twilight. Imagine the smell of a dentist’s office (dentists historically used clove, and the smell has stuck), only fetishized.Īnd that’s just the scent. 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. 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.