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jurgen – :
with this masterpiece i
finished my search of incense scent. churchy air scent.balsamic scent with base notes olibanum and pine with mirth and rosemary and a solid base of mirrae plus some spice .super performance and super price?what else?wearable all year. 9/10 Incredible parfum.
lebron23 – :
for now i can o only write that my search about incense scente is finished.this is a masterpeace. incense balsamic.what else? pure olibanum with pine..rosemary and mirto…a touch.od mirrae and litte spices…Incredible performance and Price. 9/10 wearable all year.
vip-of-baku – :
I don’t get the incense as much as others. But this has been a grower! It doesn’t smell complex, but it’s just the kind of smell I love. I would say, it’s the best PINE fragrance out there. The incense, and herbs, spices, accentuate, and enrich the pine.
This does not smell old or dated, but it’s very raw in a beautiful way, natural, not refined, perfumy.
A wonderfull realistic pine forest, with Mediteranian herbs and balsamic richness. A true Diptyque classic.
This is 70 % starkly realistic pine. It’s like crushing pine needles and sap, raw and realistic. I love it.
It’s like Tam Dao, in that Tam Dao has the most starkly realistic Cypress note.
This also has much stronger Myrrh note than frankincense. It smells somewhat medecinal, in a good piney way.
Tam Dao is like a cleaned up, crisper, more modern version of this, with cypress vs pine. The camphoraceous myrtle makes a fine old accord with the pine, giving it a nice aromatic Mediteranian flare. Mediteranian kitchen spices of oregano etc, remind me of Ambre Sultan by Lutens, but this doesn’t have Amber, but is rich in resins of Myrrh and Frankincense.
I do not think this is linier, as it progresses, I pick up new spices, accords Ebb and flow. I am getting beautiful whiffs of mentholated pine.
This is going to grow on me, I can tell. When I first sniffed it, I recoiled a bit, due to the old, gloomy, dated feel. When you get beyond that, you begin to enjoy it more and more, as you see it for what it is, a very fine, high quality, great blended classic. It feels like a very fine antique fragrance, unchanged from the way it was in 1975.
There is nothing cloying about this, it smells wonderfull.
I liked a reviewers comment, that it smells like a potpourri of raw incense material, before it has been lit.
This is a warming fragrance because of the resins, yet it’s not heavy because of the fresh herbs and spices.
Diptyque is my favorite house, very sophisticated, pure, fragrances. I’m glad I found out how to purchase this from the Diptyque site. They ship express from their warehouse in NYC. This is an oldy but a very goody from 1975, a Diptyque classic. A happy blind buy for me for sure.
PS: All the first impressions of it feeling old have faded, and it’s become a favorite Winter fragrance, when I want to be transported to a Winter pine forest.
This can be enjoyed in any season. The Pine has a fresh volitility.
Rating: 9/10
God bless. John 3:16
demis – :
Cool, herbal opening with oregano, myrtle, pine, rosemary and camphor. In the past when I’ve worn this, the slightly too herbal opening would transition to a lovely, holy grail pine straw and sap scent with a quietly smoky resinous base. L’Eau Trois made it on to my wishlist as the perfect scent of sun heating pinestraw on a hot summer day – a nostalgic trip to my childhood in Georgia.
Trying it again after a long haitus, I’ve found that there’s much more of a metallic note and the oregano is dominant. It’s not wearably herbal, just reminiscent of pizza sauce. I’ve changed medications and diets, so maybe L’Eau Trois no longer favors my skin chemistry. Such a shame, but perhaps it’s a good thing to no longer pine after a discontinued gem.
Lornillor – :
What everyone else is saying, sweet, resinous, dry. It’s lovely, but low projection. Very calm. Earthy but clean. Makes me feel like I’m on the coast somewhere, with the heat of the sun at my back and the cool breeze of the sea ahead of me. It’s really unique, very beautiful. 7.5/10 maybe even an 8!
bva2007 – :
For me it was love at first sniff. The smell of a beautiful church. I love all the notes of this perfume. It’s not a perfume for everyone, which makes it seem like my own little secret. So secret indeed that actually no-one could notice it, including me, no matter how many sprays I used. This, with Opus 1810 from Penhaligon’s would be my my two “frustrating fragrances”. Both absolutely beautiful but with such little performance that it makes it difficult to pay the high price.
Uouf – :
This has to be the strangest smelling fragrance I’ve ever sampled. The closest I could ever come to this is Tom Ford Sahara Noir, which I like only as a layering fragrance. I think the evergreen note in here really throws me off. I appreciate the inspiration behind this, and I love the smell of Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic incense, but this is not for me. This is very resinous. On me it lasted about 4 hours on my wrist. The pine note seemed to disappear early on, and it was tolerable, but I can’t wait that long for a fragrance to get to where I like it. As I like heavy orientals such as Youth Dew, Opium and Cinnabar and almost all oud fragrances, I thought I’d sample it. Sorry, not for me.
volchica – :
Deliciously resinous, warm, herbal, and piney. Really does evoke hot summer days in the Mediterranean. High-quality, natural, cleverly done, and unique even among frankincense-based scents. What stops it being a full bottle for me is the low projection.
vitalik_93 – :
I love this scent, and have worn it for years. Sweet and dry, resinous and rich. Very herbal and discreet in the opening, I find it’s perfect for cold weather sweater-wearing days and warm dry hot climates. It opens beautifully; the drydown is heavenly, sweet and ambery-rich.
I find it’s quite similar to SL’s Fille en Aiguilles without the dried fruit notes. And also similar is Azuree by Estee Lauder but without the leather. All share a balsamic/amber smokiness that is very sexy and enticing.
If you’re looking for an unusual/odd-ball scent that has personality, low sillage and excellent longevity, this may be for you.
Катюша – :
Opens very piney. This can definitely give the impression of a clean toilet (thanks pine-sol). However, those familiar with frankincense will understand this fragrance. It is a raw and bright portrait of resin incense.
Also, it’s best to use a lot. In small quantities it reads less sappy/sacred and more vague/disinfected. In addition, the sillage and longevity are both incredibly limited.
Definitely a good choice for other olibanum enthusiasts.
8/10
ale-uluano – :
Scent of the Catholic Church . Great <3
Scent like a : Mazzolari Alchemico.
mherik – :
Oddly, I do not get the pine or resins. I get smacked with the garnishes of a bloody mary, especially celery. Disappointed that I don’t smell the lovely parts that others are experiencing.
ЧапаеFF – :
I smelled Eau Trois the first time couple weeks ago without knowing its notes. I was really intrigued by its Frankincense, woody and spicy scent and had been thinking about it for a whole week before buying a full bottle.
To me, Eau Trois opened with very strong Frankincense and subtle notes of Myrtle and spices. Then the scent of Myrrh and pine joined in and became the dominant notes while the Frankincense retreated to the very background. This scent stayed as it was for a long time without much changes even after a few washes. On my skin, Eau Trois is a heavy but not loud fragrance with moderate sillage and excellent longevity. IMHO it is quite unusual as a fragrance but for some strange reason I found it very comforting and really enjoyed the woody earthy dry down of it.
vitaline-nn.ru – :
I must own an extremely poor batch, I get 5 mins of longevity max (no exaggeration). Bought from a Diptyque store.
Alekscom18 – :
On me, L’Eau Trois opens with a strong pine-needle smack, backed up with a citrus-y raw frankincense and a touch of dry dusty dirt. It’s interesting to start, smells like a hot summer afternoon, sitting on a warm rock next to sun-baked evergreen shrubs, but it never really evolves past that, and after an hour I’m a little tired of the hot pine smell. Caraway, oregano and rosemary try to join the party, but it’s just not enough to make the drydown more interesting. It’s nice for a while, and I can see why so many love it, but it doesn’t quite fit the incense bill for me.
gex111 – :
What others smell as “citrus” here, is, as far as I’m concerned, the realistic smell of not burned olibanum. I have some here and the funny thing is, that it smells somewhat citrus (Lutens used that facet of the material to create an “Eau” with it, which is one of his biggest strokes of genius).
So for me this perfume does not start like it’s written down, but with its supposed basenote. It’s a very realstic picture of real unburned olibanum. Which is nice!
To my nose all the additional notes, the herbs and the pine notes are just there to hold this smell of olibanum realistic. It is, as if they are all working together to create this picture. If I want, I can smell rosemary, but if I let the idea of rosemary go, I go back to olibanum instantly.
The dry down than gives away that strong olibanum picture and other polite resins come to play and soften the smell. And than we are, where the problem with conifer perfumes start for me: How to end them. I’m a basenote type of girl, I love me a good basenote, but you cannot add an oriental base, it simply doesn’t fit and you also cannot add a mossy base, if moss is not a part of start and ongoing before, and you also (thank god) cannot add a designer base.
I find the bases in all the “green conifer” perfumes I’ve smelled flat and uniteresting, as if what you had in the beginning is just fading out.
nuantyspath – :
L’eau trois reminds me of ….. 100% Mastic Gum. I think this is a beautiful, incensy smell (the incense you smell in the Greek orthodox church with tons of that mastic)
Highly disappointing in projection, this is a type of close to the skin personal scent. To enjoy for oneself!
If you are into quiet and mysterious…this is the one for you, unfortunately this one ain’t for me. I like loud scents (not to kill people, but the type to turn heads)
medis81 – :
I’ve to apologize with anyone who loves L’Eau Trois but I don’t get it. To me it’s (almost) all about rosemary, pine and oregano with a tenacious citrusy note. Myrrh and frankincense are sort of restrained and toned down to my humble nose. Surely unique but I don’t like it (I beg you pardon).
Rating: 6/10
tritochki_3 – :
I have no idea how it was created, but this is exact smell of Greece coast (especially Crete) during the summer. All herbs and air from the sea mixed together with warm dusty mix. Just perfect and I’m very very very disappointed that this creation is no longer available.
Ogurec_27 – :
This is a wonderful scent of midnight mass for those of you who are familiar. This perfume is much weaker than the real smoke in the the air- however- just as dry. Woody like bark, and a stump, almost with a hint of green moss growing there– spicy like the kitchen cupboard of they who yearn to live in far off places. It seems to have Frankencense in it. I really do love it, I do really wish it was longer lasting, with a bit force, a bit more flesh on it’s bones if you will.
4800605 – :
This is a unique masterpiece.
It smell like church on mediterran coast, somewhere in middle Dalmatia (Croatia) where i grew up…church and all herbs that you can find around, sharp, bitterly, rich, aromatic, natural, sunny and cold in same time…
Many of Diptyque perfumes i can’t call perfumes, they are ambiental compositions that takes you to other place, like olfactory photo…this one is calming, meditative, but not sad (ok, maybe just a little).
I don’t like this scent, i Love it from first smell.
cgfdgab1ql99 – :
Although this is a very interesting composition i do’nt find it wearable. it’ smell a bit like a good indian food or a strange ambiance spray.It starts with a rosemary note and slowly melds in a burn caraway phase before turns oily and resinous, but always subtle. Cutting edge scent for the brave at heart.