Fleur de Peau (Eau de Parfum) by Diptyque

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Fleur de Peau Diptyque 2018 Eau de Parfum

Ranked 201 in Unisex Perfume

8.0 / 10 1037 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

8.01037 Ratings

Longevity

7.4895 Ratings

Sillage

6.6882 Ratings

Bottle

8.5809 Ratings

Value for money

6.8604 Ratings

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Reviews

78 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/28/2024

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Nanaafromgha
157 Reviews

Nanaafromgha

Very helpful Review 7

Up on Melancholy Hill

When I first discovered this fragrance, I came across a YouTube video that explained the meaning of “Fleur de Peau”. Fleur de Peau translates to “flowering of skin” or “skin flower” (ahh French people, do not come for me oo - I am just a Ghanaian girl who loves French perfumery). If you’ve ever heard the description “wears their heart on their sleeve”, this has a similar meaning. Fleur de Peau represents a person who is so in tune with their emotions and feelings to the point that it begins to grow on the surface of their skin, like flowers. It may or may not be a good thing to be overly emotional, but that kind of association with this scent is what made me fall in love with it deeply.

As someone who does not like powdery scents, this is up there with one of my absolute favorites. FdP is clean cut, sharp, fresh, but still cozy somehow? It’s very melancholic, which makes for the perfect “sad girl, rainy day” scent. It is not at all sweet or warm, but rather, dry and cold. It’s absolutely stunning. Compared to other scents within this group like You Eau de Parfum and Sonic Flower, FdP truly captures the sadness of evoked by this scent and is much more complex than the others. It’s one of my favorites out of Diptyque, but I do understand not everyone will like/love it.

Not only is the scent gorgeous, it’s one of the better performing Diptyque’s as well. It lasts pretty much all day on me (especially when I spray on clothes), and has a nice, strong sillage. I will always keep a bottle on hand for the days I’m not feeling the best but still want to smell nice.

Updated on 01/04/2025

02/23/2018

7Scent 7Longevity 2Sillage

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.

Updated on 02/24/2018

09/09/2022

Mlleghoul
478 Reviews

Mlleghoul

9

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.

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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01/24/2026

nekomimi
29 Reviews

nekomimi

5

This perfume breaks my heart

I was the biggest Diptyque hater. It was everywhere on social media and I really don't like it when they push a product into my face. But the bottle design was also catching my attention.. I resisted. I went on with my life. Then, I went to a niche fragrance store and just tried some perfumes. There she was, Fleur de Peau. I thought: if I am already here, I might as well try it so I can finally hate on it.
And there I was. With Fleur de Peau on the paper strip. Without words. I fell for this perfume hard.
It was the most powdery, chalky, dry, cold scent I have ever experienced. I didn't even know I liked these kind of scents. Turns out it clicked something within me.
I teleported back into the 90s, where I sat in front of the old, huge television and a plate filled with potpourri. The TV static mixed with some dust and the potpourri was the scent of safety. Of not being bullied in school. Of being alone at home, in peace.
So why didn't I take this perfume home with me the minute I smelled it? Because I got a decant and everyone in my close circle hated it. They called it a grandma scent that smells like dead flowers. I never got so much hate for a perfume in my life.
So it will stay on my fantasy perfume shelf.. for now.

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