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L'Eau Trois Diptyque 1975

7.8 / 10 83 Ratings

A popular perfume by Diptyque for women and men, released in 1975. The scent is spicy-woody. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Smoky

Green

Fragrance Notes

Frankincense Myrrh

Myrrh

Rosemary

Cistus

Perfumer

Serge Kalouguine

Ratings

Scent

7.883 Ratings

Longevity

7.462 Ratings

Sillage

6.561 Ratings

Bottle

8.167 Ratings

Value for money

6.722 Ratings

Submitted by Pazuzu, last update on 08/17/2025.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/06/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 1

Sunburnt garrigue

Most of the older Diptyques smell like ancient medicinal salves made out of crushing various barks, spices, and unguents down into a fiery yellow paste and applied to an open wound (Eau Lente, L’ Eau). L’ Eau Trois flips the trope a little, taking it outside to the sunburnt hillsides of Greece or Southern France where the healer combs up tufts of wild rosemary, pine needles, and mastic from the maquis, and uses his cocaine fingernail to dig out sticky yellow globules of myrrh and pine sap from ancient, shrubby trees bent over with age and wind, before singeing it all over a fire so that greenery takes on a burnt, bitter flavor, and mashing it all down to a paste in a pestle and mortar.

Smoky, wild, and herbaceous, L’Eau Trois this is myrrh at its most confrontational. It smells of incense, yes, but also of bitter greenery that will either kill you or cure you if ingested. Less like a perfume than something born of the bowels of the earth.

08/21/2022

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

2

Diptyque / L'Eau Trois

L'Eau Trois is a typical unisex wood and spice representative. L'Eau Trois (Third Water) was launched in 1975 and is unique to this day - its full face. Personally, I think it's Diptyque's best work. Top notes are rosemary and myrtle; middle notes are spices, myrrh and caraway; base notes are kyara incense (olibanum), pine tree and myrrh. Greenery, conifers, lots of spices and once again green with incense. Very good durability and just in time for forest idols, fairies and lost in forest, smoky spacetime. I recommend

04/10/2025

videecco
9 Reviews

videecco

2

Luxe, calme et volupté

Three images:

The first is a peaceful hammam or steam bath, where a camphorus oil is mixed with the water vapour, mixing the warm and the fresh in a delicious, calming, yet invigorating sensation.

The second is a still, quiet pine forest after the rain.

The third is a small empty chapel where myrrh and olibanum have just been burnt without smoke, leaving the visitor with a ghost presence.

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On skin and blotter, the opening is very aromatic, herbal and forest-y even, with a hint of pine and a camphorous facet that strongly associates with eucalyptus, and not rosemary (rosemary oil contains high levels of 1-8 cineole, also known as eucalyptol.... so that could explain it). Here we are, where the hammam meets the forest for a grounding effect that makes you want to breathe deeply and stay in the moment.

Past the first few minutes, the caraway hits hard on skin. On blotter and fabric, the first notes persist and the caraway just makes a peek that complements the olibanum and the myrrh that then start to come out.

The perfume then turns to a skin smell barely an hour after application on any kind of surface, staying close to the wearer, so intimate one could barely smell it on themselves unless they have applied a healthy dose of sprays, or resprayed.

Past the first few hours, the camphorous notes are gone, leaving us with a pure, calming, churchy vibe of olibanum and myrrh. This incense finale can linger in for many hours, albeit very discreetly: tried on my pillowcase at night, I could still smell it in the morning.

A naturalistic, timeless delight.

Smells like the colors: dark green, brown.

03/18/2025

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Chribei
3 Reviews

Chribei

1

Orthodox Monastery in the mountains of Greece.

As the title says, this is my association for this scent, I never smelled something like this in a perfume. A mix out of resin, pine and incense. As a fan of churchy scents, this is one of my favorites and the most unique so far, but not for anyone and not a blind buy. One or two sprays are enough to fill a room and a spray on your clothes last a wash at least (and it can stain a bit so be carefull with white clothing)

04/19/2019

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

ElysaShades
63 Reviews

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ElysaShades

Top Review 14

"Yes, why not? "

I asked myself this question very often in the course of my perfume searchtel career. Starting with the purchase of Chanel No. 5 with sweet fast-19, over Lady Million at a time when I used to bathe regularly in patchouli, up to hopelessly dusty classics and some strange niche scents which I found here about perfumo. The latter category also includes L'eau Trois.

Published in the deepest seventies, this fragrance outshines many an indie-underground-knows-no-pig-should-be-please-carrie-scent-composition.

I don't know how old my little probie is and also not if they reformulated here, but the prelude was a little creepy. They say tilted scents can smell like Maghi. I'm afraid that's exactly what you have here. For lack of comparison, of course, I don't know if that's the way it should be. But just hold your breath and then it's over and on we go, right through the herb garden. Everything we read is not blinded by the head and heart notes, really like in the garden. Laurel, however, stands out quite well throughout the course. Foody never becomes the whole thing, even though the fragrance pyramid sounds a bit like a pizza spice mixture. Only because Labdanum makes the fragrance softer, you don't have to wait.

After an hour it gets really wonderful. The herb garden is joined by beautifully scratchy smoky notes. A lot of incense and something woody behind the scenes. That way it stays that way for many hours. Only towards the end do I smell a little Labdanum out, like a conciliatory final chord.

The association I can think of: Noise music in spring.
What's the matter with you? The fragrance is so bulky and scratchy, but of peculiar beauty. And he's got something so alive, so sunny. This must be the herb garden. I always associate green and herbal fragrances with spring.

Laurel and dirty frankincense are the most popular things to enjoy L'eau Trois.

For me, there's no reason here why not. Many thanks to the test donor. I'm really excited