Eau Lente Eau de Toilette

Eau Lente Eau de Toilette Diptyque (265780078, 60 ml. left, 50 USD - Tester Bottle) Review, Eau Lente is an powdery amber fragrance, soft balmy (feel like quality smoke of incense) and Carnation. I don't read this as actual smoke of incense. Opening is very enveloping warm sweet spice for 5-10 mins. Very sweet and refreshing in spice way. I really enjoy these Sweet Cinnamon and Spicy Clove top. it's roasted and airy. The scent later on create powdery amber feel and slowly reveal soft floral heart. This is the phase that feels balmy and smooth. I really enjoy. Carnation shows during this phase. There was a moment in heart that warm quality of amber presented but it reversed back to powdery side fast. It's a glimpse. It ends with general soft spicy and floral dry-down quite enjoyable. I do like this enough. It is general propose, lite powdery-amber fragrance. Kind of classic. easy to wear in any occasion. Conclusion (31 December 2024) I personally think that these cinnamon & clove combination transfer to 34 Boulevard Saint Germain Diptyque edt. beautifully. Similar airy manner. That just anchor in Vanilla / Herbaceous base instead of lite transparent Balsam and amber. It is slight more envelop, I will drop Eau Lente from assessment. ==== First Impression. It is really comfort scent. This is more like lite balmy amber fragrance than incense. Very shooting, Opening of Spice mixture is relaxing. As it transit to the heart, I think notice "Citronellol" strongly. I swear, why it so familiar to "Carnation" (Clove + Floral) fragrance that I own? Letter, take a look at Ingredient and it declares a lot of Floral Material. I think I do notice floral in the heart that didn't mention in pyramid. So it feel like either Carnation or Orchid amber fragrance. (In Diptyque website, they refers as Red Tangerine.. understandable) Reminds me a lot of other Balmy Amber fragrance (Tolu, Amber Nuit) But it extremely lite like a sheer skin. I know this is unisex. But the way fragrance develop is really gentle and graceful, slowly develop and transit. Quite a love at first sniff. I really enjoy this... ===== 2-3 hours post wear.. Is is fairy soft and sheer to the skin. And that spicy top long-gone is extremely tint-layer of Opponex. But like, barely noticeable.. there is certain aroma-chemical kind of take over opponex. Or un-sweeten vanilla, I am not sure. But it is indescribable balm that really isn't sweet or spicy either. Soapy.. might be.. Impression drop really fast.. I think I will put this to rest and rewear when fragrance slight more stable. ===== Another Morning I am surprise that this really long lasting, in attached on my skin overnight. And that warm spicy cinnamon still linger. The amber show more slightly. All of this, still work in fairly transparent manner. I am impressed again. I think, I need to be with you a few more wear. Ingredients ALCOHOL DENAT( SD ALCOHOL 39-C) AQUA(WATER) PARFUM,(FRAGRANCE)EUGENOL, LIMONENE, GERANIOL, CITRONELLOL, COUMARIN, LINALOOL, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL, IONONE, CINNAMAL, BUTYLPHENYL, METHYLPROPIONAL, CITRAL, BENZYL, BENZOATE, ISOEGENOL, FARNESOL, BENZYL, ALCOHOL, CINNAMAL, ALCOHOL, ETHYLHEXYL, METHOXYCINNAMATE. ETHYLOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE, BHT

A slow burning opoponax and clove bomb. At first i thought it was too clovey, then i thought the citruses were too sharp, then i thought it didnt smell resinous enough, all of these assumptions proven wrong with time. On my parfumo review i wrote about Eau Lente being the perfect example of diptyque’s simplicity: easy to wear, yet quirky enough to set it apart from everything else that smells similar to any given diptyque perfume. I still believe this to be the case. Eau lente was hard for me to grasp, not because it is extremely complex or profound, but because of its quirks like a long lasting clove note and the sharpness of citrus (which is not present in the sillage, it is only there when you put your nose really close to the place you sprayed on). On that note, it has an amazing sillage. Not only does it perform well for diptyque’s standards, especially for an eau de toilette, it also just smells better from afar. It becomes more abstract and well blended when you catch a whiff of it instead of sniffing it consciously. The clove becomes softer, more rounded and powdery while the opoponax adds a beautiful honeyed warmth and an ambery glow to the fragrance. And the drydown is even more beautiful, honestly my favorite part of the fragrance. It becomes softer, of course, without thinning out into a nothingburger musky base. The resinous and balsamic aspects of opoponax become even more pronounced, while the spices move to the background. It becomes slightly vanillic, subtly sweet and just ever so smokey (not an ash tray kind of smoke, a shalimar kind of smoke). It has the texture of a resin that has just freshly leaked off of a tree; sticky and syrupy, embalming everything that it comes in contact with, without ever being too sweet or synthetic. Just like the benzoin in benjoin boheme, the opoponax aspect of the perfume literally behaves as if a piece of resin melts on your skin. It remains slightly spiced throughout, but it definitely doesnt smell like a spice cabinet. It is much more like a chai, without any lactonic aspects. The perfume is not too dense or heavy, yet it is long lasting and pronounced/full of identity. The end result to me, as ive stated in my parfumo review, reminds me of an amber tinted window with sun shining through. This is why this perfume has become a kind of medicine for my winter depression, it just warms you and your soul up. I’ve also already made a scent memory through wearing this during my final french exam, something that made me emotional for reasons not worth mentioning in a review. It does have this meditative aspect to it, and I actually passed all of my exams so it must have something cerebral as well (or i just studied well lol) Anyways, this is definitely one of diptyque’s best. It was hard for me to enjoy at first but definitely keep trying and you will like it more than anything else. Orpheon is nothing compared to this. Scent: 10/10 Longevity:8/10 Sillage: 7/10

Apologies for adding another review rather than editing the others, but I find the 'journeys' that people go on from first whiff interesting and fun to look back on - so ignore this if you don't! However, most of what I wrote previously about Eau Lente was BS (before Shalimar..........) Eau Lente is Mysterious Sensual Reassuring Wholesome Elusive I still love Eau Lente and have decided I will make a purchase soon, but it will be one of 3 perfumes for different occasions. One reviewer remarked it is 'weird stuff for weirdos'! It's so funny and quite true. It's an odd one and Luckyscent candidly admits that is "impossible to define succinctly." Also true, it sort of evades description. I can't really give anyone who hasn't smelled it an accurate description beyond cinnamon, opoponax and vanilla - but that makes it sound like confectionery and yet there is so much more without it being too busy. More pertinent is where and when I would wear it. Occasions when one doesn't want to make waves, like weddings, funerals and court appearances. It melds seemlessly with the scent of sex and is happy close to the skin, but it is not really a sexy smell. Maternal without being frumpy. I would wear it to a christening, an occasion where its wholesome qualities would be most suitable. Eau Lente will get you noticed but no one is going to comment on it - they'd be unsure of what to say! It is beautiful, but again I am not sure in what way. I spray it on and it stays with me, not comforting exactly, more reassuring.

OK, here we go again! It has been a while now alternating between the big THREE Eau Lente, Philosykos and Volutes (have done that one to death in the Volutes section). Eau Lente is sophisticated in the true meaning of the word. Volutes is elegant, Eau Lente is sophisticated. It is more of a natural smell and it is quite sexy. It has become a part of me and can easily be topped up with something fresh like Lush's Ginger or Eau Rose. This comes only in EDT but you would think it is EDP, it goes on and on and keeps on giving! It also has good sillage without overpowering those in the slipstream. Eau Lente is sexy, motherly, feminine (for me at least). It is the smell I want my children to associate with me and my husband to catch when ravishing me! For me it is quite animal, not animalic, but it works well with natural body smells and goes perfectly with the smell of sex...............you all know what I mean! Volutes on the other hand is an 'acquired' smell, something unrelated to skin and body. Volutes makes me feel as though I have been rubbing up to a sexy, stubbly Italian - Oh!! I have: my husband................ Eau Lente is at once a statement and an undercurrent scent, versatile yet a perfect signature. I love it. Putting into words the actual notes in Eau Lente is easy but does it no justice: Cinnamon, Vanilla and something a bit like rubber band at the very end.............but there is so much more, a little fizz somewhere perhaps Cedar and soooo powdery and soft.

Classic and strong: spices, balsamics and old school sweet powderiness. Striking and unbeatable!!!! More substantial fragrance than L'eau and L'eau de L'eau with sweet, woody, creamy, powdery and smoky amber added, while florals and herbal aromatics are removed. Encens Mythique without the ambergris and aldehydes, with even more balsamic creaminess. Good sillage, super long lasting and constantly evolving from spicy balsamics into a sweet powdery woody spicy creamy amber. Very very nice!!!! Super stunning fragrance!!!!!! 😍 During the heart phase of fragrance development on my skin, it really resembled the sweet powdery smell of perfumed red packets given out during Chinese New Year festive season in Chinese communities around the world. It is thus very evocative of the far east orient's spring festival! It conjured up in the mind large blooming peonies, peach blossoms, pussy willows, golden ingots, spring couplets and festive goodies; a happy scent that reminded one of the bountiful life springtime can renew and bestow upon us. The Alexander The Great backstory is very interesting and rather relevant indeed, as he did conquer the east. 😆