L'Autre (1973)
by Diptyque

i think this is my first review :)

well, if this humble thumbs up saves this along with l' eau trois from being totally phased out from this earth then so be it..

if you hate curry-like spices you will most probably not like this

otherwise this is a warm comforting weirdly elegant scent

i dont wear it out but it is one of my favorite private comfort scents, or simply said one of my favorites

i ordered this unsniffed and asked my friend who went abroad to bring it home for me and when i opened it to smell, i immediately had two exclamations in my mind, "o shit she's gonna hate this!! <lol>" and the other was "damn, this is everything i read and dreamed and hoped it would be!!"

22nd August, 2011.

L'Autre could have been a good scent if just Mark Buxton and Comme Des Garcons didn't rich the perfection in this kind of perfumes with both CDG Original and CDG White. It's basically a very spicy one with tones of Cardamom, Coriander and Nutmeg but I can't consider it as part of my collection as it's a kind of rough prototype of the two above mentioned masterpieces. Even if this one came out first, go directly for a CDG one, if you're into this kind of scents.

15th March, 2011.

Declaration squared to the power of 10. I have Declaration on one arm and L'Autre on the other and the cumin note is quite similar but Dec is more muted while L'Autre is clearer, sharper and IMO fresher despite the many armpit comparisons. A great take on the scent of an Indian bazaar (bizarre) which I love the smell of, with no cloying or heavy notes to bog it down.

25th June, 2010.

I am very much in the minority....too.
I like this perfume that brings me back to my childhood among boiling French polish pots in furniture restaurateurs' laboratories (but more old and dark indeed), among smells of old woods sawdust and withe spirit. Than arises the cumin, the saffron (that my grandma put in her "risotto") and the woods become rounded, but still heavy, with a little of a week old shirt indeed...
any way I like it, brings me comfort and good remembrance for a while and then the perception of doing well.
(sorry for my rudimentary English, I would like to express more...)

2nd June, 2010.

PEE-YOOO!!!!! I ordered this as a sample. It smells exactly like B.O. Curry infused underarm sweat, to be precise. I love weirdness in perfume but this was just unpleasant. I just kept asking myself, "would someone really wear this??!!"

13rd February, 2010.

L'Autre smells too uncannily like the steam table lunch buffet at my local Indian restaurant for me to seriously consider wearing it.

23rd December, 2009.