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Diptyque

Eau Duelle

2010OrientalEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A smoky vanilla with frankincense Diptyque briefed Pellegrin to follow along its Spice Route origins, pairing Bourbon vanilla with frankincense, black tea and saffron to keep it bone-dry.

  2. 02

    The name is a French wordplay on 'duel' and 'duality', framing vanilla's two-sided character as both sweet and smoky in the same composition.

  3. 03

    Reformulated and relaunched as an Eau de Parfum in 2017 with denser amber and increased vanilla concentration for the autumn-winter wear the brand wanted to target.

  4. 04

    Composed by Fabrice Pellegrin in 2010 around pink pepper, elemi and saffron over a frankincense-vanilla-juniper heart with a black tea-ambergris-musk base.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active.

A smoky vanilla with frankincense.

Composed by
Fabrice Pellegrin
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
pink pepperelemisaffroncardamom
Heart
frankincensebourbon vanillajunipertea
Base
black teaambergrismuskcalamus

The brief

Diptyque briefed Pellegrin to follow vanilla along its Spice Route origins; the composition pairs Bourbon vanilla with frankincense, black tea and saffron to keep the vanilla bone-dry.

Name'Eau Duelle' — French wordplay on 'duel' and 'duality', framing vanilla's two-sided character (sweet and smoky).

Footnotes

  • Reformulated and relaunched as an Eau de Parfum in 2017 with denser amber and increased vanilla concentration.

The Curator's Note

Took vanilla seriously, refused to make it sweet, then refused to apologise.

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