Diptyque · 2012 · Fabrice Pellegrin

Volutes

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Honey and cinnamon with a powdery iris that smells of make-up, over resinous opoponax and mild tobacco.

Diptyque says

You’ll smell honey, opoponax, cinnamon and iris accord.

More from Diptyque’s description

It also mentions Mild tobacco and The powdery scent of make-up.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Volutes’s scent picture, a draft: honey, opoponax, cinnamon, iris, tobacco, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Volutes, top notes: Limonene (orange peel)

Heartas it settles

Volutes, heart: Cinnamon, Geraniol (rose)

Dry-downwhat stays

Volutes, dry-down: Honey, Opoponax, Iris, Tobacco, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

6 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell6

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBHT (keeps it fresh)Vitamin ETriethanolamine, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

CherguiSerge Lutens · shares honey, orris and tobacco$330 for 100 ml · about the same as Volutes’s $260
HommeJoop! · shares honey, cinnamon and tobaccoabout $93 for 125 ml · about a fifth of Volutes’s $260
Forbidden GamesKilian Paris · shares honey, opoponax (sweet myrrh) and cinnamon$295 for 50 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.