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Virgilio is Diptyque's 1990 green-aromatic eau de toilette from the house's naturalistic golden era, now discontinued. Sweet basil takes center stage in the opening, joined by crunchy caraway, before settling into a bed of soft vetiver and cedar. It dries down like green, woody castile soap — classic, unadorned Diptyque.
To me this smells like crushing basil between your palms in a sunlit herb garden. Sweet basil takes over immediately — green, peppery, alive — with caraway adding a crunchy, almost rye-bread earthiness underneath. Vetiver and cedar dry it down like green castile soap: clean, woody, completely unadorned. This is Diptyque's naturalistic golden era in a bottle — no tricks, no sweetness, just herbs and wood and honesty. The discontinued classic that purists still whisper about. Green to the core, and proud of it. Beginner-friendly.
✓ Beginner-friendly
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