This Is the One Diptyque Candle That Should Be a Permanent Pass

The Diptyque lavender candle: considering it? 

Diptyque is iconic. Feuille de Lavande — less so. This is not a straightforward take on lavender, to their credit — it’s meant, instead, to recall “a summer sky and lavender bushes on the hills of Haute Provence.” You can smell the heat, the aridity, the almost-desert dryness of the landscape. If you want succulence, try Jasmin. 

The Diptyque lavender candle doesn’t offer the sometimes cloying, traditionally sweet smell of lavender — so incredible cut fresh, so middling in packaged form, so nostalgic when dried and tucked into drawers — but lavender leaf. Slightly austere? Slight austere.

This is a serious candle, and miserly as well. Lavender leaf, at least in this iteration, is a delicate scent, so I didn’t go into this thinking it would throw like Baies, truly a room-filling fragrance if ever there was one. But Feuille de Lavande is the sort of candle where you have to go stand over it and sort of waft the hot scent into your nose if you’re going to get a whiff. Seriously, mine is burning right now and it’s so unobtrusive as to be non-existent. I found this so perplexing that I conducted a brief test and found I could smell it from two feet away, and perhaps from four, but no farther. If you’re looking for scent that will transport you to Provence, this will do it, as long as you’re standing right up top of it. 

Boo! This is a skip for me.