Where and how should I be applying my fragrance?

If you want to increase the diffusion of your fragrance, apply it to your "pulse points" (i.e. behind your ears, on your wrists and in the hollows of your elbows).

We'd also like to share a tip with you: well-moisturised skin helps diffuse the fragrance better. This is why Diptyque offers scented body care products. Finally, fragrance can be worn using scented accessories (brooches, bracelets, patches).

We also recommend layering your methods of perfuming with fragrance gestures, such as a body lotion or shower gel. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, there were ointments, spirits of wine and elixirs. There were scented pastes formed into bird shapes from Cyprus. All of these fragrance gestures invented the world of fragrances and its objects.

The Fragrance Gestures draw their inspiration from the history of perfume, reinventing textures to offer a new approach to personal scenting. It is a way to make the invisible sensual, and the ethereal tangible. Each of the gestures – eau de toilette, perfume oil, body mist or body balm – has a specific concentrate designed to offer the best olfactory rendering depending on its formulation. With its high concentration, it can often be used alone depending on the moment and the mood. Matter becomes scent, scent becomes matter…