Diptyque’s Eau de Lierre, conceived as an homage to the ivy growing around the country homes of the line’s founders, launches this week. The fragrance features fresh notes, pepper, ivy, water notes, musk and wood.
Eau de Lierre starts with ivy, heavily peppered. It is green and slightly bitter, but nothing like the explosion of green that opens L’Ombre dans L’Eau: this is considerably lighter and airier, and much less astringent. Although I prefer the more concentrated approach of L’Ombre, the Lierre is probably the more wearable of the two fragrances, at least in the early stages, and I rather liked the breezy quality of the top notes…
