Dyptique: L’Eau Papier. It starts with a blank page.

Giving voice to ink, and to ideas. Letting the imagination and the senses chart their course across the paper as your dreams, and the world itself, gradually emerge. This is how things have always begun, for artists all over the world. Including of course Desmond Knox-Leet, Christiane Montadre-Gautrot and Yves Coueslant, the three multidisciplinary creatives who, united in their shared love of beauty, art and drawing, gave the world :Diptyque

And this, needless to say, is also the origin of L’Eau Papier, the new perfume Diptyque.Developed in collaboration with perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin and artist Alix Waline. By virtue of its history, its nature and its name, L’Eau Papier is a tribute to creation – the backbone of the Maison – and to paper, the primary means by which that creation is expressed. Paper triggers the imagination, the sine qua non for the emergence of both drawings and perfumes, and these in turn liberate the imagination of each individual with the stories they prompt and the memories they evoke.

The olfactory composition is the product of the vision and imagination of perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin. “Creating a perfume for Diptyque is like writing a book. You have to have a story, an introduction, a structure – the primary materials that echo each other to form a narrative.

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