This protagonist enters the world of Orphéon. A perfumed shower gel accompanies the eau de parfum and cream perfume. Its light and silky foam brilliantly interprets the festive and cheerful notes of the fragrance.
Orphéon is a tribute and olfactory portrait of a legendary nightclub where the three founders of Diptyque liked to meet. Here, tobacco smoke mingled with the aromas of rouge and patinated wood.
The world of Orphéon
The Orphéon Eau de Parfum was launched in 2021 and is one of Maison Diptyque's bestsellers. The fragrance takes its name from a historic jazz club located in the Latin Quarter, near the first Diptyque boutique. Its atmosphere, décor and party spirit inspired the fragrance. The glamour of its evenings, its notes and accords.
Perfumer Olivier Pescheux, a loyal friend of the house, constructed the fragrance like a painting:
The room itself, dominated by wood: coffee tables, armchairs, the shelves behind the bar where the bottles are lined up, the wooden dance floor in the basement (cedar, vetiver, patchouli). The drinks, in which juniper plays an important role, that aromatic ingredient of gin, served in long drinks with a slice of Italian lemon or a dash of green mandarin (like a gin fizz) over ice. The tobacco, which on many an evening certainly produced a thick haze that no one minded at the time, is now embodied by tart accents of mastic and galbanum, but also by softer nuances of honey and cistus, like a good cigar or Amsterdam pipe tobacco.
The scent of women, floral or powdery, but always multi-layered, ylang-ylang from the Comoros, Chinese magnolia, Turkish Damask rose. And, of course, the olfactory coincidence: a radiant, vibrant sambac jasmine absolute, like a lipstick that glows seductively in the semi-darkness... The men, a little dandyish and always in a flirtatious mood, smelling of musk or amber (but also of cigarette smoke).
Finally, the lighting that shows the décor in its best light: muted, warm red with an accord 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.
