Tam Dao

Diptyque launched Tam Dao in 2003 as an Eau de Toilette, signed by Daniel Molière. In March 2005, Now Smell This described it as a creamy sandalwood, surrounded at the time by rosewood, cypress and ambergris.

A memory of Vietnam

The house links Tam Dao to the childhood memories of Yves Coueslant, one of its founders. He found in it the sacred forests of Vietnam and the velvety, milky, barely spicy scent of the sandalwood that was burned in the temples.

Diptyque tells how elephants carried there the sandalwood logs destined for the temples. Yves Coueslant never forgot that childhood scent, the house says, and it places Mysore sandalwood “in majesty” at the center of the collection.

Sizes

Tam Dao is sold today in 50 ml, at 112 euros, and in 100 ml, at 155 euros. The bottle can be refilled in store, and the house also offers the scent as an Eau de Parfum, where spices seize the sandalwood, and as a scented soap.