As a child, Yves Coueslant, one of diptyque’s founders, spent his summers at the seaside in the pagoda that his father had had built in Do Son in the Along Bay. Far from the sticky heat of the large port in Haiphong, the air was cooler. The sea breeze carried with it the intoxicating and slightly spicy scent of tuberoses that his mother so loved. Do Son has both the delicateness and persistence of a memory from a childhood in Indochina. A memory of flowers, hovering between lightness and voluptuousness.
