Diorella

The house sums up the version sold today in three materials, where the fragrance carries a good many more.

Lemon, honeysuckle, vetiver

Sicilian lemon opens. Its essence comes from cold expression of the peel, and the house lends it a bracing directness it calls spontaneous.

The honeysuckle accord holds the centre. The small white flowers open towards the end of winter and give, according to the house, a floral scent with orange, jasmine, green and honeyed accents.

Bourbon vetiver stays at the base. Its essential oil comes from the roots of the plant, steam distilled, and the house hears in it a woodiness it calls feminine.

The chypre base

The label declares an oakmoss extract that the three announced materials do not carry. The base brings that moss together with patchouli, vetiver and musk, the chypre accord in its classic form.

Stéphan finds in the fragrance sold today the bergamot of the opening, sharpened by Sicilian lemon, and the pairing of oakmoss and patchouli at the base, with a vetiver he calls deep and elegant.

Melon, basil and the green note of the opening, carnation and cyclamen at the centre, hold their place in the fragrance without figuring among the three materials the house puts forward.

What the label declares

The list the house publishes for the Dioriginals version has thirty-five entries. Oakmoss extract appears in it, the signature of the chypre, with patchouli, bergamot, lemon, geranium and lavender.

Methyl 2-octynoate, which smells of violet leaf, and hexyl cinnamal, a jasmine facet, are among the declared molecules, with coumarin. A UV filter protects the juice; no colorant is declared.