Diptyque - Orpheon - Cleansing Hand & Body Gel
This protagonist enters the world of Orphéon. A perfumed shower gel joins the Eau de Parfum and the Creme Parfum. Its light and silky lather brilliantly interprets the festive and joyful notes of the fragrance.
Orphéon is a tribute to and olfactory portrait of a legendary nightclub where the three Diptyque founders liked to meet. Here, tobacco smoke mingled with the aromas of rouge and patinated wood.
The World of Orphéon
Orphéon Eau de Parfum was launched in 2021 and is one of Diptyque's best-selling fragrances. The scent takes its name from a historic jazz club located in the Latin Quarter, near the first Diptyque boutique. Its atmosphere, décor, and vibrant party spirit inspired the fragrance—the glamour of its nights, its notes, and its accords.
Perfumer Olivier Pescheux, a loyal friend of the house, built the fragrance like a painting:
The room itself, dominated by wood: coffee tables, armchairs, the shelves behind the bar where bottles stand side by side, the wooden dance floor downstairs (cedar, vetiver, patchouli). The drinks, in which juniper plays a key role, that aromatic ingredient of gin, served in long drinks with a slice of Italian lemon or a splash of green mandarin (like a Gin Fizz) over ice. The tobacco, which on many an evening surely produced a thick haze that no one minded back then, is now embodied by bitter mastic and galbanum accents, but also by softer nuances of honey and rockrose, like a good cigar or Amsterdam pipe tobacco.
The scent of women, floral or powdery, but always multifaceted: ylang-ylang from the Comoros, Chinese magnolia, Turkish Damask rose. And of course, olfactory serendipity: a radiant, vibrant sambac jasmine absolute, like a lipstick that glows seductively in the dim light… The men, a bit dandyish and always in a flirtatious mood, smelling of musk or amber (but also of cigarette smoke).
Finally, the lighting, which puts the decor in the right light: muted, warm red with a chord of Venezuelan tonka bean and vanilla-scented benzoin from Laos.
An overdose of Ambroxan: a harmless addiction, but definitely dizzying…
In four words: fresh, floral, sensual, woody. And as always, free from any gender roles.
© Out of love for fragrance ( hb )