Roses collection

“A hint of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”

Confucius was right... Roses are to love what perfume is to diptyque: an inseparable pair.

Central to this collection, a pair of roses holds the title role, the most emblematic ones used in perfumery: Centifolia rose and Damask rose.

olfactory & graphicportraits for two singular characters

Centioliarose

Also known as “May rose” due to the month of its harvest, owes its name to its multitude of petals. There are 100 of them, it seems – or nearly. It has been cultivated in the region of Grasse for the extraction of rose absolute since the 16th century.

This is the first time in the history of perfumery that a Maison has devoted a candle to it. Centifolia has never been experienced this way, revealing in the wafts of a flame its scent of fresh, intact flowers, exactly the way it smells when growing in the soil of Grasse. To experience this fragrance, one must usually go out into a field of roses in the month of May, at dawn before the roses are cut...To celebrate this creation, diptyque has created an exclusive illustration to adorn the Centifolia candle.

“Illustrate each and every one my petals! As you can see, they’re dense and there’s a multitude of them all around, I want them to mirror my scent: delicate, heady and lightly spiced with peppery notes. As for the colours: pink, pink and more pink! With a hint of blue.”
Centifolia might say about her portrait

Damascenarose

It too is presented “au naturel” in a candle with an exclusive illustration. It releases its voluptuous notes of a rose born in the Orient, in Damascus.

It is said that the crusaders brought this flower to the West. Today, it is cultivated mainly in Bulgaria and Turkey. The essence of Damask rose, also known as the essence of Turkish rose, is extracted from it.

“I, on the other hand, want it all! Absolutely everything! Yellow, red, orange and purple too, and a mauve shade. It must reflect the intensity of my scent. Can you smell it? There’s opulence, contrast, animality... olfactory fireworks!”

Two flowers and their singularities are captured in these two candles that can be burned separately or together. The fresh, delicate scents of one then mingles with the voluptuous, honeyed accents of the other.