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Volutes is Diptyque's 2012 oriental tobacco by Fabrice Pellegrin, inspired by co-founder Yves Coueslant's childhood memory of elegant women smoking Khedive cigarettes on a steamship to Saigon. Tobacco, dried fruit and saffron open into honeyed iris, hay and immortelle, over myrrh, opoponax, styrax and benzoin. Sweet, smoky and sensual — curling rings of golden smoke.
To me this smells like a memory of elegant women in a 1960s drawing room, cigarette smoke curling toward the ceiling. The tobacco is dry and golden, wrapped in honey and dried fruits, saffron giving it an amber glow like lamplight through a glass of something brown. Iris and immortelle add a powdery, hay-like softness — dried flowers in a drawer — and the resins (myrrh, opoponax, styrax, benzoin) burn low and sweet underneath. It is nostalgia you can wear, but it is a heavy, smoky nostalgia. Not for beginners — beginners stay away.
⚠ Not for beginners
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