Orphéon Solid Perfume

I love smelling Orpheon, but on my skin Jasmine smells sharp and like pee. As a result I didn't have much of a reason to keep the bottle, but I'm glad I found the solid perfume. Being a wax-oil product it doesn't project florals all that well, but you still keep the cool, almost petrichor effect of the juniper berry note and there's just enough jasmine to create the powdery woody note at the center of the fragrance. Projection is alright, but the fragrance truly shines in longevity. I might dab this on, spray another fragrance on it and after a six or so hours i'll get hit with a whiff of the woody bar on a cold late autumn evening. 100% recommend if you also love the smell of Orpheon but the EDP doesn't play well with your skin chemistry.

I love this one so much. Because it's a solid perfume, it won't project as much but I still have received quite a lot of compliments for this from people I've hugged. Soft, sweet and floral. Simple, but gorgeous.

Cedar i what I smell the most. It's gorgeous. It's very woody. I agree with others that it's timeless. I agree though it would not project as much as others. I don't get much powder either, mostly woods!

I prefer this to the Orpheon EDP spray because it still projects similarly, but has a less jasmine-forward profile.

Oh so subdued... With the heaviest finger gouging and smothering on a wrist, you will evoke the fragrance, but it is like smelling the original Orpheon though a cotton soap flannel. (I wrote this while smelling the solid on one, and the EDP totally separately on another wrist, and the EDP has an additional dimension for sure, it has juniper berries and fragrant wood) This solid perfume should be considered a totally different fragrance to the solid. It is nice but subdued and Diptyque should not have attempted to name it 'Orpheon' after the original liquid. What a shame... Cotton, soapy, incomparable Edit; on a very hot day, once the solid wax has soften and your own skin has warmed considerably, the scent projects much better and the juniper is detectable so it smells marginally less waxy cottony - it still is not worth the high price point for the amount of product required, it is simply incomparable to the liquid EDP fragrance