Point du jour combines two of my favorite things: aromatics and incense. In French, Point du jour refers to the beginning of dawn. Think about the meditative hour before sunrise, when one is awake before everyone else. It opens as an aromatic, herbal, medicinal bomb, with a head of thyme (never savory or food grade), followed in the half hour by clary sage.
Unlike Arquiste's Peau, here the clary sage never leans towards a subtle body odor but stays strong, herbal and medicinal, with clean undertones. A very beautiful frankincense (not unlike Sheldrake's L'Orpheline, or CDG Avignon) pierces through and replaces the herbs as time goes by, then it's thyme again with a hint of clove, then it dies on a fancy herbal, masculine-leaning barbershop scent.
Although it boasts eucalyptus and incense, this would not be redundant with Diptyque L'Eau Trois as it's radically different. You could aslo argue it shares some DNA with Lutens' Encens et Lavande (also from Sheldrake). It could very well become another pillow favorite. Don't be fooled by the Matin thematic, to me this is mystical, contemplative, almost dark.
YoTrato 4 months ago