LayerLab

Layering matches for

Diptyque Philosykos

Every fragrance in the catalogue is evaluated against this one on its own merits. Each answer is a trajectory over a wear day, not a single score, because two sprays are two films on skin with different evaporation curves rather than one blend.

Recommended

Both fragrances stay present through the day, something in the pair actively works, and no material is pushed far enough past its dose threshold to damage the blend. Any threshold that is crossed at all is still listed on the card.

Jo Malone

Wood Sage & Sea Salt

Recommended
  • citrus peel lifts dry cedar and keeps it from reading dusty
  • milky fruit and cut stem are the two halves of a fig
Spray first Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Spray second Diptyque Philosykos

Ratio: 1 spray each. Neither is loud enough to need holding back.

How it moves over the day

  1. 10 minutes Both, roughly even

    Both openings are still present and roughly balanced.

    cut-stem (flipped) dry-amberwood milky-fruit mineral-salt
  2. 1 hour Both, roughly even

    Both openings are still present and roughly balanced.

    dry-amberwood cut-stem (flipped) milky-fruit pencil-wood
  3. 3 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    dry-amberwood pencil-wood skin-musk milky-fruit
  4. 6 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    dry-amberwood pencil-wood skin-musk creamy-wood

Dose thresholds crossed

  • cis-3-hexenol — caused by layering. Combined load 0.55 against a threshold of 0.45. Above this it reads acrid metallic grass, nauseating green.

Shared materials: cis-3-hexenol, cedarwood, iso e super.

Rests on at least one placeholder material value. Treat this verdict as weak.

Diptyque

Eau Rose

Recommended
  • citrus peel lifts dry cedar and keeps it from reading dusty
  • milky fruit and cut stem are the two halves of a fig
Spray first Diptyque Eau Rose
Spray second Diptyque Philosykos

Ratio: 1 spray of Diptyque Eau Rose to 2 sprays of Diptyque Philosykos.

How it moves over the day

  1. 10 minutes Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Diptyque Philosykos is still readable.

    rose-petal cut-stem (flipped) skin-musk sulfurous-bite
  2. 1 hour Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Diptyque Philosykos is still readable.

    rose-petal skin-musk cut-stem (flipped) milky-fruit
  3. 3 hours Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Diptyque Philosykos is still readable.

    rose-petal skin-musk milky-fruit pencil-wood
  4. 6 hours Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Diptyque Philosykos is still readable.

    skin-musk rose-petal pencil-wood creamy-wood

Dose thresholds crossed

  • cis-3-hexenol — caused by layering. Combined load 0.56 against a threshold of 0.45. Above this it reads acrid metallic grass, nauseating green.

Shared materials: cis-3-hexenol.

Rests on at least one placeholder material value. Treat this verdict as weak.

Not recommended

Listed with the reason, because a rejection you cannot inspect is indistinguishable from a bug.