Paris, 1961: three friends teamed up to open a boutique at 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain. Parisians were able to discover this special place, with exclusive avant-garde fabrics and a multitude of objects brought back from their travels across the world forming a hodgepodge as fascinating as it was delightful. Curious customers would soon be flocking. Their universe was so culturally rich, so colorful, and so inspired that they wanted more. That’s how the idea came to manufacture colored candles with scented wax. An inimitable effluvium would inhabit the store’s atmosphere, and that’s how Diptyque candles were born.
Today, these candles are known for creating an ambiance that’s as rhythmic as a melody. The Baies candle, composed with a duality of roses and blackcurrant leaves, would soon become the label’s emblematic scent. An irresistible fruity scent transports you elsewhere – an elsewhere in the shadows of a romantic arbor; an olfactory poetic promenade, where Bulgarian rose petals respond within a special symphony to the bitterness of blackcurrant leaves.
Today, the famous brand is releasing its icon in a more generous format: a new 600 gram version. Presented in a new three-wick format, the candle preserves all of its manual fabrication – still with its black porcelain holder that resembles the brand’s oval door image. This irresistible freshness of a bouquet of roses punctuated by blackcurrant leaves is a nod to the Diptyque’s emblematic fragrance ‘L’Ombre dans l’Eau’, which also enraptures any room and nods in turn to the richness of the world’s cultures
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