09.12.2016 Shoreditch
The sociological revival of this area may well be striking and spine-tingling but is not without some heartbreak and nostalgia…
08.05.2016 The fan
The Eureka moment first came when man watched a bird’s wings flapping in the air.
07.22.2016 Bulb bubble
The speculative bubble caused by tulips in 1637 has the experts split in two camps.
03.17.2016 Manual of soap
The vast history of soap spans several eras, and probably all the continents and all cultures.
11.09.2015 Shanghai
Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.
11.02.2015 The way of incense
It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.
10.29.2015 Rose d’Amour
The rose and its perfume are standing here, just between evocative associations, lost memories and truth.
09.10.2015 Port of Opone
The image of Opone revives all the excitement of an unknown and fantasised Orient that brought to our shelves strange and sought after riches…
08.17.2015 Waltersperger
Waltersperger is the last semi-automatic French glass and crystal maker whose work requires highly skilled manual intervention.
07.09.2015 Way of flowers
Unlike a Western bunch of flowers where beauty is the underlying key, Ikebana’s purpose isn’t decorative but of harmony created by a rigorous balance…
06.22.2015 perfumed haiku
Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…
06.04.2015 Eau de Cologne
For centuries its unique formula has been kept highly confidential, strongly coveted and extensively imitated…
04.20.2015 The Villa Noailles
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
03.02.2015 Vanilla love stories
Vanilla – this botanical pod covers history, space, issues, struggles, bankruptcies and shoddy fakes, however vanilla remains associated only with its flavor, its softness or pleasure…
02.26.2015 From Russia with vinaigre
The diptyque Vinaigre de toilette was inspired to the founders during their trip to Russia…
02.23.2015 Amber Maze (continuation)
At all times amber was used for religious objects, arts and jewellery.
02.16.2015 Who’s afraid of Potpourri?
What exactly is potpourri?
Why would it be feared?
And by the way, who is Mrs. Merwin?
02.05.2015 Merchants of nothing
01.29.2015 An hourglass of scents
Time flies says the metaphor but there is no time that answers the sense of smell hence, the idea to create an hourglass of scents…
01.26.2015 Who is the conductor?
A young sales person gets confused by a prestigious long-term customer about an interpretation of Mozart…
01.22.2015 Eau de Lierre
Eau de Lierre was a tribute to long lasting friendships that is at the source of diptyque…
01.15.2015 The house of Les Lilas
The garden of Les Lilas is at the front of the tall house of Hennequeville from where Marcel Proust would telegraph Paris…
01.12.2015 Candles on Beverly Hills
At 312 North Beverly Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210
01.01.2015 Candles stories: Barry Lyndon
Directed by Stanly Kubrick, this true masterpiece was entirely and exclusively shot under candlelight…
12.29.2014 Candles stories: the birthday
Today, lighting candles for a birthday, and often as many candles as years of age, has become a tradition shared throughout nearly all the cultures of our world…
12.25.2014 Candles stories: science
Lavoisier (1743-1794), who was a chemist, an economist and a philosopher, came to some key conclusions of his times while watching his candle burn.
12.18.2014 Karlheinz Stockhausen
The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…