Advent Day 2 - To Smell It Is To Love It

Behind door no. 2 (but you have to wait till March 2011), a new look scent from diptyque. '34 Boulevard Saint Germain' is also the mythical address of the original diptyque birthplace. The oval ceramic candle is so potent I can smell it on the press release that came with it. The EDT is reet oop my street, with 40 raw materials combined, it basically smells spicy, woody, rich and masculine - my favourite kind.

Diptyque happens to be my biggest beauty love, weakness, and one of the only beauty things I'd happily spend my money on (you get indulgently used to the freebies in this job), so this is fall off my chair exciting

My first was a Rose candle, still my favourite, but at the moment I have the Xmas ltd edition Pine awaiting a burn. (kittens permitting. Elwood singed his eyebrows at his fourth attempt to sniff an open flame yesterday)...

sketches from travel notebook of Desmond Knox-Leet, one third of original diptyque founders

Diptyque Goes Alfresco

If you've got a thing about candles (I have, I have!), then this news will make you almost fall off your chair.

Diptyque, the ONLY candle worth falling off your chair about is launching an outdoor version! In a cermaic pot! What is not to love? Except if you don't have a garden. Er, like me. But I still want one sooo bad, so really, What's not to love? 

I will store it until I earn enough to one day get a garden. And then no one else will have them because they'll have burnt them, so it'll be like when you get a coat in the sale, but wait till the year after to wear it, and then you can say 'oh its vintage', when anyone compliments you on it.

But I digress. 

Figuier Scented Candle, "Indoor and Outdoor" Edition, £170