In the eau de toilette, the tuberose is more enduring. Its scent brings to mind the sunset hour, when the white flowers stand out against the darkness of the wooden pagoda. This fragrance was inspired by Yves Coueslant, one of diptyque’s founders, who as a child spent his summers at the seaside in pagoda that his father had built in Do Son, close to Ha Long Bay. Far from the humid heat of the large port in Haiphong, the air was cooler there. The sea breeze carried with it the heady and slightly spicy scent of tuberoses that his mother loved so much. Do Son has both, the delicateness and the persistence of a memory from a childhood in Indochina.