[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’ve been itching to write about this glorious Do Son limited edition but I’ve been on Dora duties so I’ve had to wait. She is very much on the mend but still a delicate little thing so I’ll do my very best for full content this week but watch this space :-). I’ve had plenty of time to think about what I’m going to say about Do Son and the first thing that occurred to me is that it’s such a perfect fragrance (of its type) that messing with it would be sacrilege so I’m happy to say that the brand has done nothing at all to the actual perfume. It’s the bottle that’s taken on a new, cinnibar red hue as an homage to tuberose and very striking it is, too.
I find it hard to get excited about limited edition packaging changes but I have the original Do Son at my side with the paper label at the front so can say the 2024 version is so superior and special that it would be hard to resist if you are a Do Son fan.
This version of Do Son is a tribute to the origins of the scent and to Vietnamese craftsmanship. The fragrance is named for a seaside resort near Hai Phong in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam where Diptyque founder, Yves Coueslant, spent his childhood with his French parents. His mother loved the flowers of the region, in particular the tuberose which features so heavily in Do Son.
Do Son is a truly heady fragrance – it’s intensely floral with notes of rose, jasmine and orange blossom that teeter on the brink of being too much but manage to nestle on the heightened sweet spot before the blooms tip over. It’s a joyous perfume that uses green notes to give it something of a narcissus accent at first, then a flood of blooming florals and finishing with iris (which I can’t detect), benzoin and white musk. The old pink pepper is there too but this mysterious note that appears in absolutely everything still eludes my nose! Do Son is spring and summer rolled into one – it’s flowers and bulbs and it’s both heady and fresh. Absolute bliss. It has amazing last and you only need the tiniest spritz to carry the trail with you all day. If you feel like splashing out, there is a beautiful lacquer and rattan set to keep your bottle in for £240 HERE (it’s very tempting), or EDTs start at £62 for 30ml HERE.
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I come from Haiphong the City where Do Son beach & town belong to and I have spent many summer holidays there when I was young. I will never stop to be amazed that there is one of the best loved perfumes in the world inspired and named after this place. So much hometown memories, so much emotion… Thanks for giving this perfume another shout We adopted a kitten last year and since then have been through quite a few health scare so the emotional taxing is real and we understand that now ! Wishing Dora a speedy recovery and its really lovely to see her every now and then on your site 😉
Thank you so much Lan – perfume can really touch the emotions, can’t it – nearly as much as animals! x