Nature’s secret wonders are fragrant inspirations distilled with Diptyque’s Les Essences collection: five fragrances echoing treasures sometimes hidden, but beautifully revealed within each of these scents. Coral, mother of pearl, bark, water lily, desert rose – each interpreted by master perfumers, every bottle engraved with Nigel Peake’s brush-swept artwork, and the spirit of Diptyque’s Parisian poetic curiosity woven through every shimmering note. Join us as we explore each one…
Diptyque says: ‘Diptyque has always drawn inspiration from nature. Nature enchants our gaze. It stirs our curiosity, feeds our creativity.
The Maison’s new collection, Les Essences de Diptyque (The Essences of Diptyque), freely reinterprets the treasures of nature, fluctuating between the realistic and the fantastical. Revealed in all their beauty, these treasures invite us to pause and admire them.
Delicate, dreamlike, the five perfume compositions in this collection are the product of a collaboration between the perfumer’s nose and the hand of an artist. Each creation celebrates one of nature’s treasures – reinventing it in fragrance and exceptional drawings.’
Lazulio
A lapis lazuli dream, Lazulio shimmers with tart rhubarb and a blush of rose, curling like peacock-feathered shadows above balsamic benzoin and root-y vetiver. The composition glints with gemstone clarity, swirling a vivid tale of radiant blue skies and velvet dusk. It wears on the body as a modern poem: unfurling softly, dazzling yet contemplative, both jewel-bright and infinitely deep.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Corail Oscuro
Light ripples across the Venetian Lagoon, illuminating coral gardens in fiery vermilion. Corail Oscuro conjures this undersea mystery – crystalline mandarin teasing with a sunlit sparkle, rose bourbon swaying through salty-mineral breezes. Waves of warmth and salinity undulate like Renaissance light: chiaroscuro painted in scent, vivid yet shadowed. The sensation is at once tidal and tender, restless as memory, consumed by beauty.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Lunamaris
Moonbeams dissolve on water, revealing the iridescent secret of mother of pearl: Lunamaris floats atop this radiance, pink pepper and rockrose spinning dreams across the surface, their shimmering brushstrokes mottled by mineral incense. It’s a gentle gleam, subtle yet magnetic, as though the sea itself murmurs in opal silks, delicate and soft. Every spritz is a slow drift through luminous, moonlit reverie.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Bois Corsé
Threads of bark embrace the ancient forest, holding fast to time. Bois Corsé strikes deep – black coffee absolute pulses through woody sandalwood and warm tonka bean, conjuring the rough textures and earthy secrets of bark, mysterious yet comforting. Inhale: sunlight fills the cracks, and every breath feels alive with the pulse of woodland heartwood, sustaining, grounding, endlessly rich.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Lilyphéa
Monet’s water lilies, transposed in scent: Lilyphéa floats above ponds glittering with aquatic green. Cardamom and violet leaf burst with fresh sap, intertwining with vanilla’s gentle ecstasy. Soft petals, silky shadows, nature painted in Impressionist strokes and then dissolved in velvet ripples. The air seems almost blue-green after rain, the melody of quiet ponds lapping in every gentle exhale.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Rose Roche
A crystalline desert, swept by heat and wind. Rose Roche is poetry in mineral form – Sicilian lemon slits the horizon, centifolia rose opens fresh, dewy petals against the mirage, while mineral patchouli anchors drifting sillage like the trace of footsteps across glowing dunes. It’s delicate yet undaunted, both ephemeral and enduring, as if the rose herself had blossomed from stone.
£255 for 100ml eau de parfum diptyqueparis.com
Written by Suzy Nightingale
