Eau de Lierre Diptyque 2007

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7.3 / 10 208 Ratings

Eau de Lierre is a perfume by Diptyque for women and men and was released in 2007. The scent is green-fresh. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Green

Fresh

Woody

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Galbanum

Brazilian rosewood

Cyclamen

Pink pepper

Perfumer

Fabrice Pellegrin

Ratings

Scent

7.3208 Ratings

Longevity

5.8176 Ratings

Sillage

5.2177 Ratings

Bottle

7.7150 Ratings

Value for money

6.238 Ratings

Submitted by DirkDS, last update on 16.04.2024.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/21/2020

10
Bottle 4
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Gaukeleya
3 Reviews

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Gaukeleya

Top Review 44

Twenty-one

My first contact with Eau de Lierre was through Hervé le Tellier in his book "Kein Wort mehr über Liebe" (Not a word more about love), which I admire very much.
Even if I do not want to delve too deeply into the literary work at this point, I naturally cannot avoid at least presenting this framework here.

One of the protagonists, a Parisian writer, Yves, begins a relationship with a married woman, Anna, to whom he gives a small booklet for her 40th birthday at the end of their relationship. There he has compiled 40 different memories of moments with her and of her in an unchronological way.

His memory number twenty-one is dedicated to her fragrance, her perfume, which she wears as her signature. Eau de Lierre.
The words are short, but like his other, almost soberly listed memories, they hit straight to the heart. The art of forming a wonderful poetry with clear, almost matter-of-fact words touches me very much in other places in this book as well.

Of course, you can't blame a perfume lover for the fact that she made me curious about Eau de Lierre in particular. Nevertheless, it took me a few years - astonishing even for me in retrospect - before I set out for a more intensive test.

Hervé Le Tellier speaks - basically quoting the perfumer here - of "deep green notes", "vegetal elegance", "dry wood", "stone". And above all, and this is how the fragrance of Anna, his beloved, is "warm tones of spice and musk At least superficially - the rest is poetry, love, longing, this woman
What about me, for me? After an over-green, grassy start, the sharpness soon evaporates, giving a soft, juicy, cool green a lot of space. But not only the green, but also a gentle skin note, which gives the fragrance, the skin itself, a delicate sensuality, a shimmering, an oscillation between coolness and warmth. Not strong, but always present: the durability is surprisingly good on me. I smell myself again and again, even after hours, an aura of fine, gentle, slightly tart freshness wafts around me, always present but not tangible.

Protagonist Yves does not manage to reproduce the scents exactly, these are his own words. He can only describe the feelings that the scent evokes in him. For him, eau de Lierre will always be Anna and what he feels for her.

Even if there is no happy ending for their story: as the poet that he is, he takes this fleeting love, the longing, the lived moments of beauty and sensuality, as a gift of life and breathes them forever in Eau de Lierre.

03/26/2021

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Pinkdawn
67 Reviews

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Pinkdawn

Top Review 23

Fragrant green

Galbanum! There it is, the scent of young green leaves... On which the early summer sun paints yellow squiggles. If it had a colour, it would be green, as its name galbanus, Latin for green-yellow, suggests. The aromatic smell of the resin of this beautiful, bright yellow flowering Oriental is said to be reminiscent of spruce needles or cypresses. Others think of resinous, woody, camphor and spicy, bitter, even pungent. Not to me. Green yes, a mild, light green with slightly citrusy nuances at first and floral-sweet ones soon after. I'm thinking powdery mimosa, but it's not in there at all.

Galbanum has been smoked since biblical times. In ceremonies to drive away demons and mental illness and embalming dead Egyptians. Probably the oldest incense mixture with galbanum comes from - YHWH himself. "And the LORD said unto Moses, 'Take thee spices: balsam, and staves, and galbanum, and pure frankincense, of the one as much as of the other, and make incense of them, blended according to the art of the maker of ointments, salted, pure, for holy use. And thou shalt pound it to powder, and shalt bring some of it before the ark of the law in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee. It shall be a most holy thing unto you. But such incense ye shall not make for yourselves, but it shall be unto thee as sanctified unto the LORD. Whoever makes it, that he may delight himself in the smell, he shall be cut off from among his people.'" (Ex. 30:38)

Gulp. So the mortal must not delight in the fragrance of the galbanum mixture. On pain of death! The God of the Old Testament is just a strict, punishing.

Quickly sniff away to avoid falling into the very highest disfavor? Too late. At best, I can try not to enjoy the scent now. Easy for you to say.

But the days of the Old Testament are long gone. By now, even YHWH probably won't be angry if mortals enjoy the scent of galbanum. I hope so. Anyway, the resin is a popular ingredient in perfumes... Especially as a top note. Anyway, Diptyque seems to have seen the writing on the wall. No, perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin, or Diptyque in Paris Saint Germain, where apparently they don't just play football, was clearly ahead of his time. This is shown by the EdT's rating on the popularity scale. Dammed the women's fragrance from 2007 for years unspectacular before itself, the trend from 2020 suddenly shot up to unimagined heights.

Suddenly they all wanted to smell green. Leaves, sweet grasses, young foliage, woodsy nature with a few little flowers, now there was money to be made. Myself, always curious about where perfume fashion is going, now that I think about it, I have to say that in the last few months I have acquired a few green scents with forest or grassy nuances, all of which I still love and use more and more instead of citrus scents in the summer and also otherwise when I want a fresh scent, cooling and natural.

Eau de Lierre, the "ivy water", I got to know through several "reviews", as it is now often called here. I love ivy. A fragrance that is supposed to smell like ivy, of course, immediately caught my attention. I imagined this scent to be green, cool, leafy, soft and cuddly. And was not disappointed. Finally a blind purchase that was worth it!

What makes Ivy Water so appealing is its subtle blend or melange of green, leafy with flowers that smell sweet but remain delicate and subtle like cyclamen that likes to grow in shady woods.

The floral sweetness here comes across very subtly, but still clearly noticeable. Geranium contributes something sunny that gives the fragrance a little warmth, but not so much that it couldn't be worn in mid-summer.

Geranium as well as Galbanum are supposed to give harmony and inner peace. You can also tell that from the fragrance. Here it is not about loud, screaming, about "Here I am! Look at me!" The attention comes, so to speak, on quiet soles, but emphatically and memorably. You could say, Eau de Lierre suits women who are not concerned with a fragrance for quick, screeching attention that quickly fades again.

People have compared the fragrance to the freshness of a waterfall. I find it less dynamic, more tender, feminine, soft and - in a modern way - romantic.
Its genesis is reminiscent of Diorissimo. Because also from ivy no fragrance can be extracted - as also from lily of the valley. This means: one had to recreate the ivy scent, to approximate the appearance of the beautiful climbing plant, which is known to stand for fidelity and eternal life. Such synthetic constructs often come closer to our illusion than reality. However, it also takes creative intuition to create such a compelling fragrance image.

Fabrice Pellegrin has succeeded in this. He has created from a lot of galbanum, cyclamen, rosewood and pink pepper - some suspect geranium - an artificial ivy fragrance that reproduces the soul of this plant in idealized form. Ambergris and woody notes contribute a touch of dry warmth.

For me, this popular eau de toilette is most suitable for spring and summer because of its fresh green but not sharp scent. I would rather wear it during the day.
The durability is not so bad, considering that Eau de Lierre is not a very intense fragrance overall - which is not to say that it is short-lived and does not develop sillage.

Fabrice Pellegrin is no stranger to me. In my collection there are already some good fragrances from him like Oud and Patchouli N' Roses, both from Réminiscence.
And more recently, the Eau de Lierre EdT, 100 ml, currently priced at around €120. I can recommend this pleasing, but by no means banal fragrance - for ladies who want to wear something other than citrus fragrances in the summer.

By the way: Another similarity with Diorissimo: Just as the protagonist Verena wears Diorissimo in Mario Simmel's melodramatic novel "Liebe ist nur ein Wort" (1962) - nowadays difficult to read - the fragrance of Anna, one of the main characters of the novel "Kein Wort mehr über die Liebe" (No more talk about love) - note the similarity of the titles - by Hervé Le Tellier is Eau de Lierre. This summer comedy is also about cheating - out of love, passion or the longing for a new beginning. Personally, the theme - the inability of one person to be faithful to another - doesn't appeal to me. I believe in monogamy. Besides, the motif has already been dealt with quite extensively in 3 hour-long full-length plays by none other than Wolfgang Amadeus in Così fan tutte.

Had I known about this "product placement" in Tellier's novel, it might have put the brakes on my desire to own the Eau de Lierre. It's a good thing I didn't find out until later, or I might have missed out on getting to know this perfume, which I don't think is appropriate for a "change of trees" romance novel. Because Eau de Lierre is quite sophisticated, and in addition to its friendliness and charm, it definitely has something mysterious, deep-shaded, cool that draws you in and makes it unforgettable.

12/19/2020

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

Sommernacht
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Sommernacht

Top Review 28

Does the scent leave a memory or the memory leave the scent? Who was there first?

It was, as always, a freezing, snowy winter in Timisoara, a big city in Romania. Here the winters last a little longer, are much colder and snowier. It was March 1991 and I had just turned 4. Almost 30 years ago my parents decided to leave the country with me and my grandfather, to emigrate. To flee from a communist country, where regular uprisings caused unrest among the population, even in a western-style city like Timisoara. Food was rationed, people queued up to get milk, butter, pork fat and meat. If you were unlucky, you went empty-handed and had less to eat, as was often the case. The black market was large, so one came if necessary for few LEU or better German Marks at specialities, e.g. tobacco, Adidas (so one called all sport shoes in the 90's), alcohol etc.. Shots in the middle of the old town were not uncommon. Back then my father patrolled as a soldier. Not an easy time. They took their 5 belongings, including some cutlery, a few LEU (the Romanian currency at the time), exchanged them for about 100 DM and the clothes on their bodies and set off on a long journey, about 1200 km from Germany, with me in their arms. The future on shaky legs, but with the certainty that the future could only get better. A feeling of hope for a quiet life, at the same time the oppressive fear of not finding a foothold in the new country. Time has passed and luck was on our side.

The memories of that turbulent time are faint and I have to dig deep. However, I remember the first spring in Germany, we lived in the country. As a child I was always outside, nothing kept me indoors. Every plant that grew interested me, not a millimeter escaped me. I had to smell everything too, even if I suspected it might stink, once it had to be. Spring smells unique in itself, incomparably beautiful. The fresh stem greens of freshly picked wildflowers beguiled me on the way home from kindergarten. My mother was always delighted with my little bouquets of flowers, which I collected at the edge of the path and forest.

Eau die Lierre is just that scent. Green, tangy, herbaceous, full of life force and juice, optimistic, invigorating, independent, authentic, open to everything new, carefree and light, pure, close to the skin, constantly linear, only to the base a little woodier and the tangy gives way to a green delicate woody creaminess.

Eau die Lierre is special and yet so natural and genuine. No artificiality, no pretense, no opulence, no pretentiousness. The ingredients are carefully selected and finely tuned to each other. Nothing stands out, nothing screams.

Eau de Lierre is a timeless fragrance, because incomparable. It was not made to please. It's niche, that's how niche is supposed to be. It was a master at work and it has also succeeded 100%, no his mission he has even exceeded.

March 2021 - Eau de Lierre moves in.

03/12/2021

5
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Mörderbiene
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Mörderbiene

Top Review 24

Ivy

Ivy is the name of a minor character in Max Frisch's probably best-known work - Homo faber, as it is called - whose fame is based not least on the fact that it has been introduced to countless generations in the form of school reading, where it has always been one of the more accessible works presented to young people. Accessible indeed, and yet with countless reference points peppered ample space for literary study.

Ivy, as Max Frisch named the main character's lover, was intended to illustrate the clinging nature of the lover herself, on the one hand, and the main character's general image of women, on the other. Ivy - ivy - as a poisonous creeper, a debilitating parasite, according to the broad consensus.
Stupidly, however, ivy is neither a parasitic nor a creeping plant.
Even back in school, I associated the image of ivy more with Walter himself, the main character, than with his lover Ivy.
Ivy is a self-climber, forming a stable shoot axis that could theoretically support the weight of the plant itself, so it is not necessarily dependent on a supporting base.
Meanwhile, the majority opinion in biology is also that an ivy growth is basically harmless to trees and only small trees and large shrubs can die by overgrowth if they are deprived of light.
Ivy, then, which, if left to it, will conquer nature around it, just as modern technology, with Walter's cooperation, is conquering the world.
Ivy as a shade plant, suited to the cool, calculating mind of the technician.
Ivy, which, if not kept in check, can destroy more delicate plants.
Ivy, which, depending on the dose, is poisonous.
Ivy to a rational, rootless, yet ultimately dependent citizen of the world.

Eau de Lierre, what a wonderful name for a perfume, by the way. Melodious, yet somehow simple, and at the same time giving space to the imagination of the smeller - and thus excellently matching the fragrance itself.
Like the ivy itself, the calculating beauty and simplicity of this diptyque works on both the rational technician and the young lover.
Eau de Lierre, nestling green and cool against the clinker walls of New York.
Eau de Lierre, winding lightly and elegantly around the columns and statues of Roman ruins.
Eau de Lierre, either gray three-piece or light summer dress, each worn under the soothing shade of light foliage.

But I don't want to give the wrong impression, Ergo's Eau de Gartenabfälle kind of hits the spot too.

03/29/2019

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
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Augusto
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Augusto

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Marble with ivy

A very cool fragrance, from the first spray on. Cool melancholy, dew drops, dark green foliage, a wall covered with ivy, cold. A marble statue with a little of the ivy around its feet.
Bitter of galbanum and spicy-aromatic in the course. The coolness fills with life, but remains intact.
There is such a dark green, which changes between blue parts and some golden yellow, depending on the incidence of light. That's how I see the scent when I smell it.

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