You beauty! Diptyque Philosykos perfume oil roll-on

Annabel Rivkin's cabinet of wonders
Annabel Rivkin22 January 2015

I love scent, fragrance, perfume. I think about it perhaps too much. I love the stories it can tell, the memories it can conjure, the feelings it can ignite, the loyalty it can inspire. It’s magical. I don’t like to see it compromised.

So I would venture that there is something inelegant about a bloody great bottle of scent banging around a bag. Something desperate. Like carrying a spare pair of knickers. And ‘bag’ includes those infuriating plastic airport security nonsense bags. Shove a £60 bottle of something delicious in one of those and somehow… never the same again. Which is why I travel — to work, to a party, to Mexico, to hospital — with a Diptyque eau de toilette roll-on. A slender black glass cylinder, it looks like an expensive pen. Oil-based, it can be used on the beach as it won’t discolour the skin in sunlight.

The eau de toilette roll-on comes in Philosykos, a mirage of woody fig; and L’Ombre dans l’Eau, a stroll through blackberry bush-lined Bulgarian rose groves. The roll-on Cologne (even gentler) comes in many of Diptyque’s peerless concoctions. And they’re all perfect for mid-evening (you know I mean mid-date) top-ups as they don’t evaporate off the skin in the same super-keen way as an alcohol-based spray. You stay tantalisingly scented rather than brutally perfumed. Which, believe me — at home, en route or abroad — is better.

Diptyque Philosykos perfume oil roll-on, £32 for 7.5ml (diptyqueparis.co.uk)

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