Diptyque’s holiday collection for 2023 once again features three candles. This year’s theme: Flame. This year’s models: Sapin (Pine Tree), Délice (Delight, with dried fruit and vanilla) and Coton (Cotton, with tonka bean) candle.
The occasional lemming
Les Mondes de Diptyque, a new collection of five refillable candles. The fragrances are from perfumer Olivia Giacobetti, and I'll take any or all: La Forêt Rêve (mauve, a "fantastical forest" in the "Mexican jungle"; with tuberose, ylang ylang, jasmine, vanilla and galbanum); La Vallée du Temps (smoke/white, "Jingdezhen....cradle of Chinese porcelain, also famous for its white tea", with white tea, maté and jasmine); Nymphées Merveilles (blue/gray, "gardens of the Renaissance", with orange blossom, jasmine and iris); Temple des Mousses (green, "a Japanese Zen garden...not far from Kyoto", with moss, cedar and matcha); Terres Blondes (terracotta, "Mesa Verde. On the high plateaux of Colorado", with wheat bran, red cedar and burnt earth). The 270g candles are $285 each, the refills are $135. You can find them now at Saks.
The almost-daily lemming
Sure, I'll take one. Diptyque celebrates the 60th anniversary of their candle line with "the 49 nuances of our herbarium of scents in a limited-edition box". 13 were made, $3500 each.
At a villa perched on a promontory above Grasse
At a villa perched on a promontory above Grasse, I meet Fabrice Pellegrin, a world-renowned expert in the art and chemistry of fragrances. The son of a perfumer and grand-son of a jasmine-picking grandmother, he has created perfumes for many couture houses, including Diptyque.
He says early in his career “I put a lot of ingredients into my formulas. Now I have become more focused and precise. I want the raw materials to echo each other. The challenge is for each fragrance to be simple, direct, expressive, and balanced.”
— Read more in at Why Every Fragrance Lover Needs to Add the South of France to Their Travel Bucket List at Veranda.
