When it comes to perfume, I’m not usually an impulse buyer, but for this one, I made an exception: I bought it the same evening I first smelled it. The only decision that took a few hours was: EDT or EDP? And while I’m usually a firm believer in perfume over Eau de Toilette (always), I found that in the case of Eau Duelle, the two were entirely different scents.

The EDT – which I ended up getting – was more unique and wearable. What really set it apart was that it’s vastly different from all other vanilla scents. Usually when it comes to vanilla I go for heavy gourmand fragrances. Eau Duelle is both far from being like that, whilst at the same time smelling very cozy. It opens herbal and spicy (lots of pink pepper), then softens into something like creamy milk tea and dusty vanilla. Diptyque itself lists its notes as vanilla, pink pepper, cypriol and calamus. On a side note: The EDT was first and the EDP only came out three years later.

Eau Duelle quickly became my go-to everyday scent, even replacing my previous favourite vanilla scent, Dior’s Vanilla Diorama.