Sixty years after the three founders of Diptyque first introduced the scented candle to the world, the brand is now opening a new chapter into this olfactory journey with a new five-piece collection of refillable candles called Les Mondes de Diptyque.
Diptyque’s appeal has long been two-fold – we love them for their delicate and emotion-inducing scents and fragrances just as much as we love them for their beautiful packaging, empty candle holders often find a place in one’s home, finding second life as make-up brush holders, planters, decorative objects and more – but how many more candle holders can we dot around the home before it’s too much?
Diptyque’s new Les Mondes de Diptyque, translated to The Worlds of Diptyque, is more than just a positive step towards environmental responsibility. The candles are truly an exceptional design, carefully and thoughtfully designed, more than ever, to blend in with the aesthetics of our living space.
Cristina Celestino is the designer behind the new object, chosen for her expertise in glassware. The design for the new refillable candles follow the classic candle’s design, a monolithic oval shaped from three stacked tiers of striking coloured glass that is manufactured using pressed glass technology. The oval shape is immediately recognisable as the brand’s signature, present in the shape of its perfume bottles, its label design and everything in between.
The vessel comes with an engraved glass lid, which when lifted, reveals a block of scented wax. The wax is a new formula, a blend of waxes exclusive to Diptyque that once consumed, can be replaced by a fresh block in a way that’s never been done before by any other candlemakers, and never before found in other Diptyque candles.
Five scents are available in the Les Mondes de Diptyque collection, each taking us to a faraway corner of the Earth. Nymphée Merveilles is a warm and sunny scent that evokes enchanted gardens of the Renaissance palaces of 16th century Italy. La Forêt Rêve is dreamlike and bewitching, a trip to the Mexican jungle of Las Pozas with an exotic bouquet of tuberose, ylang-ylang, jasmine, vanilla and galbanum that tickle the nose.
Temple des Mousses is an excursion to Kyoto, a scent that reminds one of zen gardens and quiet nature, an olfactory creation that pairs woody accents with velvety notes of matcha. La Vallée du Temps places us in the province of Jiangxi, China, where the region is as famous for their porcelain as they are their white tea. The scent brings to mind verdant tea plantations, earthy, floral and rich. The last candle is Terres Blondes, which brings us to Mesa Verde, a city of stone on a high desert plateau in Colorado that was once inhabited by Native American tribes. Think primordial and fertile lands and distinctively warm breezes that hint at toasty cereal crops.
Your new olfactory experience starts here.