I have such a complex relationship with fragrance. I adore perfume and tend to wear a different scent every day of the week; I spritz on something new and it transforms me into the person I want to be that day; I can catch a whiff of something at it transports me to another time and place. However, if I ever get my scent wrong I get such an intense headache that it's like my body is screaming 'what on earth were you thinking"' Over the years my tastes have evolved from favouring the sweet and sugary perfumes of the first celebrity endorsements, to opting for a more sophisticated and simple scent that's inevitably focused on only one or two main ingredients. On any given day you'll find me more likely to pick up a bottle of Jo Malone, Molton Brown or Miller Harris than Britney's latest number, but Diptyque has always been a brand I probably should love but never really got the hype around. Sure their candles are ah-mazin, and yes they look delightfully pretty on a dresser, but the juice inside never really floated my boat... Until now. Their latest incarnation 'Eau Des Sens' is warm, refreshing, delicately citrus, effervescently green and quite simply like an Italian warm summers day in a bottle.
'Eau Des Sens' is described as a 'confusion of the senses' thanks to the complexity of the notes and the warming freshness that it provides the wearer. They say: "It?s a Diptyque adventure; as soon as you think you understand it and possess its secrets, it changes direc...