diptyque’s fragrances
celebrate their 50th

diptyque, despite its respectable age, has not lost any of its vivacity nor its appetite for all that is avant-garde.

Forever loyal to its curiosity, its sense of refinement, and its delight in undertaking new endeavours, today it celebrates the 50th anniversary of its very first eau de toilette launch while simultaneously announcing the birth of two new creations. Respectively the 36th and 37th opuses in a constantly flourishing repertoire.

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The olfactory landscapes

Tempo

From the Orient, young people also brought back sounds, unusual harmonies and peaceful music. Sitar, tablas and wah-wah guitars. A way for them to share the resonance and rhythm of the new world with the old one. If for Jack Kerouac the main influence of the “beat generation” came from jazz, for the post-WWII Baby Boomers that followed, it was more the haunting effects of psychedelic music that brought together the incomparable “flower power”.

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For Tempo, it’s the vision of a shaman (referred to as a “guru” in India) communicating ritually with the forest where patchouli was born, where animals and spirits live freely. The universe is abundant, infinite, secret. What’s inside this little bottle? On the back, swirls emit from a volcano illuminating the night sky. A magical, powerful yet beneficial mountain whose ashes nourish the island’s lush plant life. Indonesia being located on the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, the marvellous shrub thrives on its sulphury slopes three times a year.

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Safia

Her multiple practices have encompassed the forgotten tools of engraving, serigraphy, advertising animations, graphic identity for television and agency art direction as well as illustrations for packaging and interior decor. Each illustration is the result of a journey that mingles with a story. Her work truly involves composing, because although she loves nature, Ouares strives above all to elevate it.
About the project for the new diptyque perfume Tempo, she said: “This project moved me, intellectually speaking. What I learned from the emergence of life on Earth to develop the creative idea based on time has profoundly changed my relationship with the world.”

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Fleur de Peau

The 1960s were also a time of great empathy toward Hindu rituals, a spiritual wave swept over the world. Yoga, transcendental meditation, vegetarianism. People began sitting in virtuous circles, chanting the “aum” mantra as long as possible, making love everywhere to everyone. The Summer of Love!
The smell of skin: the smell of musk.

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For Fleur de Peau, the illustrator was inspired by the word psychedelic, rooted in an ancient Greek myth in which an incomparably gorgeous princess falls madly in love with Aphrodite’s son. He sneaks out at night to meet with her. She wraps herself around him in her dreams. Countless hallucinations, calamities and miracles later, two lovers, already parents to a girl named “Voluptuousness”, unite foreternity. Marriage of love (Eros) and soul (Psyche).

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Dimitri

Dimitri designs and creates worlds, images, objects, scenarios and spaces above all because he dreams... and because he likes to invite others to dream and marvel along with him for a neverending world of possibilities. His dreams are fond of encountering materials to become tangible, living, enchanted realities.
Words cannot describe his immense kaleidoscope of techniques and creative styles. Whichever style he chooses, his aim is always to invite spectators on a journey, to tell a story with poetry, art, freedom, humility, curiosity and demanding standards.

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The perfumer's palette

Tempo Tempo

diptyque revisits the patchouli theme, but refines it to reveal its most exquisite beauty. Combining three different extractions, each from a sustainable supply chain managed by Givaudan on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A persistent vibration, like an ongoing echo of a musical wake.

Henné, khôl, patchouli : une signature !

Olivier Pescheux for Tempo & Fleur de Peau Olivier Pescheux est un auteur de parfum

Olivier Pescheux is a perfume author. At Givaudan, he works on the conception of perfumes of prestige, and so he is behind renowned ones. Traveler with the heart and soul of a Parisian, his accurate talent is in the research of the right balance of a fragrance, between its obviousness and its profoundness, between the natural raw materials and the synthetics, between the seal of a House and the necessity of astonishment.

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Fleur de Peau Fleur de Peau

But what’s the trick to making a musk fragrance in today’s world without debasing oneself? By opting to include a hint of iris, matte and cool, long lasting and deep, like yesteryear’s glove makers used to perfume their leather.

Meticulously selected by Olivier Pescheux, musks share the lion’s share of the spotlight, dancing between leathery, powdery and fruity facets – one minute wild, the next peach fuzzy like the angelic nape of a chubby baby’s neck.