Fleur de Peau Diptyque 2018 Eau de Parfum

Fleur de Peau (Eau de Parfum) by Diptyque

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8.0 / 10 648 Ratings

A popular perfume by Diptyque for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is powdery-floral. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Fresh

Creamy

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Iris

Musk

Aldehydes

Ambrette seed

Ambrettolide

Pink pepper

Ambergris

Turkish rose

Perfumer

Olivier Pescheux

Ratings

Scent

8.0648 Ratings

Longevity

7.4570 Ratings

Sillage

6.6558 Ratings

Bottle

8.4509 Ratings

Value for money

6.9337 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 12/02/2024.

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Reviews

27 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/23/2018

7
Bottle 2
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Helpful Review 5

Gossamer Skin Scent

Fleur de Peau opens with a lovely iris on my skin: slightly carroty and mostly woody. There is nothing overly metallic or rooty, nor is it excessively starchy thanks to a discreet buttery sensation of orris.

What soon follows is a soft, vaporous white musk light as a feather. Tiny sparkles of fruity spiciness and fruity liqueur nuances stemming respectively from pink pepper and ambrette pop out here and there, but are rather short-lived. The musk feels mostly clean without evoking laundry products, partly owing to the vegetal sensation of ambrette.

Iris and musk then start this long, graceful waltz. There is at first a very faint animalic nuance about 30 minutes after initial spray. Combined with the soft creaminess of iris, it creates a fleeting illusion of a plush yet lightweight suede. Later on, as this humming warmth dissipates, the airy musk is infused with this cool, almost minty sensation of geranium and the fluffy, delicate sweetness of heliotrope. The resulting chiffony skin scent is at times clean and vegetal, and sensual with a delicate musky sweetness.

I suppose the name comes from "à fleur de peau" in French, and it indeed stays extremely close to skin. I actually got a 9-hour longevity, but as the scent itself is very diaphanous, I frequently thought it disappeared, only to find it still lurking around when sticking my nose on my wrist. And the last 3 hours mostly smells like the kind fo clean white musk in the late dry down of Penhaligon's The Revenge of Lady Blanche and Byredo Blanche.

While I'm not bowled over by Fleur de Peau, as a fragrance inspired by clean skin scent, it's solidly made in the effortless elegant style of Diptyque, easygoing without being banal. I'd definitely recommend it to those who are looking for a gauzy musky skin scent with a beautiful iris touch.

06/28/2018

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

fleur de peau

Dyptique’s Fleur de Pear was released about a year after Le Cri de la Lumière and is also based on an ambrette accord. If I had to characterize the difference between the two, Le Cri stems from the overlapping of its notes and accords and Fleur de Pear is build from a sequence of consecutive musk accords that appear one after the other. Convergence. Divergence. Two different approaches to ostensibly similar accords.

Fleur de Peau moves very differently than Le Cri. Wearing it is like strolling from room to room in a large house. Each musk is joined to the next in a chain. The top note is a papery iris. Then a starchy musk à la Mugler Cologne. Then a grainy pear, then shoe polish, then waxy skin. No accord goes away entirely, but they don’t merge. They just reappear periodically. This olfactory junket is captivating in that it’s so meticulous and methodical. It’s not just the aromas that oscillate, it’s the tones. The iris is cry and crinkly, the rose is sheer, the pear is grainy, the skin note is fatty and waxy. The accords maintain their edges and don’t bleed into each other. They simply rotate.

Diptyque’s ambrette is more animalic than Perfume d’Empire’s and it’s very human. The Diptyque ventures much further into the sweaty-skin facet of ambrette, which can make the perfume seem a bit odd as it moves from sweat to laundry soap to floral bouquet. If you tune in closely to the perfumes fluctuations, though, it’s compelling.

The specificity of the composition creates an interesting opportunity for perfume critics. The fluctuation of the perfume, its progression through distinct olfactory territories creates the opportunity to consider composition without referring to formula per se. It can be described in terms of its qualities and can be analyzed based on its dynamics. Any perfume can be viewed this way, but Fleur de Peau lends itself particularly well to this approach.

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09/09/2022

Mlleghoul
407 Reviews

Mlleghoul

8

a ghost all along

I thought peau was french for pear, and not being keen on fruit-forward fragrances was surprised by how much I like this one... but pear is poire, and peau is actually skin, so this perfume translates to Skin Flowers and now I understand why I enjoy it. Created in tribute to classical mythology's Psyche and Eros, it's a love story with a heart of musk. At first a light and grassy scent of mildy soapy green florals, it abruptly drops in temperature, and strangely it's in this chilly stage that the musks emerge, as if you're kissing the wrist of a wraith. It's a perfume that's eerily bloodless and while it's not burning with passion, it radiates a sense of cloudy befuddlement, the way a deeply consuming love affair may affect you. It conjures ill-fated lovers in a romantic mystery by the likes of Sarah Waters, a timid governess of modest means and the coldly beautiful mistress of the manor and they declare their secret love in a bed of irises and it turns out one of them was a ghost all along.

05/18/2022

5
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Kurai
387 Reviews

Kurai

3

A (too) proper skin musk

In his review below, jtd made a spot-on comparison of Fleur de Peau and Le Cri . Both perfumes approach the ambrette-iris accord in an interesting way, but in my opinion Fleur de Peau stays far behind of Le Cri.

Fleur de Peau seems heavier on the the ambrette note. Here it seems to have quite a musky or even sweaty chararacter; intimate but never funky. It develops slowly into a more creamy type of musk, reminding me of clean human skin. The rose is clearly there, but never really emerges from the background.

In fact, the whole perfume is more of a background scent, with its low-key behavior. Introvert and totally office-safe. A little too proper perhaps. I like that, usually. Compared to the also subtle but more flirtatious Le Cri, though, this makes me yawn a bit.

12/30/2023

4
Pricing 6
Bottle 5
Sillage 10
Longevity 1
Scent

MarielleP
8 Reviews

MarielleP

1

An eternal skin scent

Some people love that light, clean musk at the dry-down. So-called white musk. I absolutely despise it. I sprayed it on my wrist at Nordstrom, and went about my shopping. For about 15 minutes, FdP was actually quite nice. Those pretty notes soon evaporated and left me with that horrid base. If the dry-down were a color, it would be the ugliest, dull, grayish beige you could imagine. If it were a texture, I would describe it as rubbery. Rubbery greige. I couldn't wait to get home and wash it off. I scrubbed like mad, and still it clung. I smelled it on my shower pouf for days.

I don't get the point of notes that completely disappear in a few minutes, with the dry-down as the only accord that lasts. Maybe one day I'll understand. If you dig this structure and this skin scent, you'll prolly love Fleur de Peau.

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