l'ombre dans l'eau

This is the only perfume I own from Diptyque, was featured in one of my recent Instagrams and one of my favourite summer perfumes. It seems fitting, since L'Ombre Dans L'Eau translates into "Shadow in the Water". I fell in love with this sort of rose-y, fruit-y green scent when I burned my Baies candle; I've never been so incredibly in love with a scent in my life, that candle was phenomenal. 

This was supposedly created in 1983 by Serge Kalouguine, a famous French perfumer. It's the equivalent of the Baies candle, which is why I made the dive to purchase it. It smells very green, slightly fruity, with a hint of rose in the back. When you first put it on, it's almost overwhelming with the strength of the scent, but with a day of wear, the green leafy-ness disappears and it becomes muskier. It pretty much makes you feel like you're in some sort of beautiful field of flowers and freshly cut grass - I love it.

Baies

This candle came into my posession quite randomly -- it was a free gift from a shopping mall. I'd heard about Diptyque being awesome but to be honest, when I first peeled the plastic off the packaging, my nose felt like it was on fire from the overwhelmingingly strong berry fruity slightly nauseating scent. So I put it away in a drawer where I forgot about it for most of the summer.

One day, I decided on a whim, why not whip this out, give it a go and if it stinks I'll put it somewhere far, far away from my room. But I was very pleasantly surprised when this started burning that my room was filled with a sort of amazing warm and wholesome fruity summer smell and I couldn't get enough of it. I'm sad to say I burnt the whole thing up through the last month of my summer but I've happily reused the jar as a holder-of-things and if anyone can't think of what to get me for my birthday or Christmas -- this is it.