Top Notes 
Blood orange
Grapefruit
Orange
Heart Notes 
Cinnamon
Rose
Orange blossom
Saffron
Ginger
Turmeric
Base Notes 
Cedar
Musk
Frankincense
05/22/2025
ClaireV
731 Reviews
ClaireV
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Bright, dry saffron orange
The epitome of a dumb reach, L'Eau de Tarocco does a simple thing very well - a zesty, just-peeled orange, sustained by a barely there saffron leather accord and a softly spiced rose - but it's taken me years and exposure to other, clumsier citrus perfumes to understand just what a feat it pulled off. Everything here smells natural, bright, and 'clear' in the traditional Diptyque style, which I'd define as fruits, flowers, and resins pulled straight from nature and pinned to a wooden board like butterflies in a clear museum case. But the saffron, with its slight iodine-y, rubbery aroma, and that clove-ish cinnamon, breathes something alive and exotic into its corners, fleshing it out and extending it without taking the focus off that bright, juicy orange.
It's not enormously robust or complex, and nobody would ever call its performance 'beast mode', but that it smells like a slightly exotic, freshly-peeled blood orange for an hour or two without poisoning the well with Agikalawood, Amberwood, Iso E Super, etc. is one of those tiny marvels (or small mercies) of modern perfumery that I'll never not be grateful for.
It's not enormously robust or complex, and nobody would ever call its performance 'beast mode', but that it smells like a slightly exotic, freshly-peeled blood orange for an hour or two without poisoning the well with Agikalawood, Amberwood, Iso E Super, etc. is one of those tiny marvels (or small mercies) of modern perfumery that I'll never not be grateful for.
