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Our Diptyque Volutes samples and decants are rebottled by Scent Split from genuine fragrance bottles. Scent Split is a wholly independent entity not affiliated, connected, or associated with Diptyque. |
Original bottle not included with purchase. Scent Split rebottles the genuine fragrance into smaller bottles.
For its first woody-oriental fragrance, Diptyque reaches back once more, as it did for classics like Do Son and Premier Figuier, into co-founder Yves Coueslant’s memories. During the sea journeys he took from Marseille to Saigon as a child, he was fascinated by the smell of the Egyptian cigarettes women smoked on the higher deck where he wasn’t allowed to venture.
The perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin sought out these exotic cigarettes to study their scent, which he softened with a milder, dried fruit and honey Amsterdam tobacco note. The honey facet conjures the waxed gangways and wood-paneled rooms of the ship, while the darker leather facets of tobacco hint at the slightly bituminous smell of the hull.
To soften the masculine aspects of his tobacco, Pellegrin added an elegant, powdery iris lined in musk, turning Volutes (“plume of smoke”) into a richly unctuous blend that melts into the skin.
Notes
Mugwort, pink pepper, Sechuan pepper, saffron, mandarin, immortelle, hay, honey, iris, tobacco, styrax, opoponax, musk