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Eau Capitale
Eau de parfum
A chypre for Paris, where patchouli takes the place of moss.
With Eau Capitale, Diptyque salutes its home city. The house chose the chypre, a structure rich in facets, to evoke a capital that has just as many; the label brings together the Eiffel Tower, roses and a peacock.
Bergamot, lifted by pink pepper, opens the fragrance, before a profusion of roses. Diptyque takes a liberty with chypre tradition: patchouli replaces the moss.
Fragrance notes
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Main accords
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Seasons
- Spring
- Autumn
Moments
- Day
- Night
Eau Capitale in detail
Diptyque, a Parisian house born on the boulevard Saint-Germain, wanted to salute its city. It chose the chypre, a structure rich in facets, to evoke a capital with many faces. On the label of Eau Capitale, the Eiffel Tower, roses and a peacock meet.
The house cites its notes without tiers. Lively bergamot, lifted by pink pepper, opens the composition. Then roses in abundance take over, generous and luminous. Diptyque deliberately departs from the rule: in this chypre, earthy, deep patchouli replaces the traditional moss.
Eau Capitale suits spring and autumn, by day or by night: in town, at the office, for a dinner. Its patchouli gives the roses a deeper, more modern frame.
Three chypre fragrances in our catalogue come close: Chypress by Floris shares bergamot, rose and patchouli; Portobello Road by Memo Paris pairs rose and patchouli; Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre by Etat Libre d'Orange finds rose and patchouli again.
Text written with the help of AI, based on official information from the fragrance houses.
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