Blackcurrant and roses by a riverbank — Diptyque's oldest surviving fragrance, a green-tart floral snapshot that predated the niche revolution by decades.
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Sensory Profile
Composition
Concentration Eau de Toilette
Style Niche
Notable Ingredients
blackcurrant bud Bulgarian rose green leaves lychee musk coriander
Olfactory Structure
Family Floral
Evolution Moderate
Sillage 3/10
Character
Moods
fresh nostalgic delicate playful
Season
Spring Summer
Occasion
CasualThematic Territory
Roses growing wild by a river, their petals mixed with blackcurrant leaves and morning dew. Not a rose bouquet — a living garden glimpsed through a fence, where fruit and flower blur together.
Era & Context
Modern
One of Diptyque's earliest fragrances still in production, dating to 1983 when the house was primarily known for candles. Predated the niche boom by two decades. Its blackcurrant-rose pairing was radical for its time — green, tart, almost edible rather than classically floral. Remains a quiet cult classic.
Spiritual Links
Influences
Influenced
Frederic Malle En Passant Both use green, dewy floral compositions to evoke a fleeting moment in nature rather than a finished perfume construct
Le Labo Rose 31 Pioneered the concept of rose deconstructed with non-floral elements, paving the way for Rose 31's cumin-cedar approach
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