The best luxury fragrance launches for autumn, from Diptyque’s travel-inspired 60th anniversary collection, to Aesop’s new Hong Kong boutique

Oct 29 , 2021

Diptyque’s limited edition, travel-inspired Le Grand Tour fragrance collection. Photo: Handout

Parisian brand Diptyque’s Le Grand Tour collection features perfumes and scented candles inspired by Venice, Kyoto, Milies in Greece, and more travel destinations

Jeweller Graff’s Lesedi La Rona collection is based off of a 1,109-carat rough diamond of the same name from Botswana, the third-largest gem quality diamond ever

Beauty brands continuously amaze us not only with the functionality of their products, but also their abilities to create a pleasant ambience. This is particularly true with the latest fragrance and skincare launches. Brands like Diptyque and Aesop take you on a journey, allowing you to experience a refreshing change of atmosphere from the comfort of your own home.

Here are STYLE’s picks of the latest products that guarantee both beauty and an immersive experience.

Graff Lesedi La Rona collection

Graff’s complete Lesedi La Rona collection. Photo: Handout

Diamond is an incredibly hard substance with no discernible odour – so obviously Graff has based a range of perfumes on it. To be fair, it’s quite a gem that’s inspired the scents in question: the headline Graff Lesedi La Rona diamond is a 302-carat monster – and it’s just one of 67 stones that the jeweller spent 18 months crafting from the original Lesedi La Rona, a 1,109-carat rough stone, the third largest gem-quality diamond ever, discovered in Botswana in 2015.

Lesedi La Rona is also the name of the collection of six fragrances, a name which translates as “our light” in Botswana’s official language, Setswana. Each is intended to reflect an aspect of the rocks, with characteristics including refined, timeless, transparent, mesmerising, romantic, opulent, mysterious, magical, captivating, addictive, solar, radiant, hypnotic and sensual. They presumably also smell nice.

Diptyque Le Grand Tour collection

Diptyque’s Le Grand Tour collection. Photo: Handout

Most of us are still very much missing travel – or at least travel sans quarantine – so the themed Le Grand Tour collection from posh Parisian perfumier Diptyque is, depending on your point of view, either a chance to travel the world with your nose, or just rubbing your nose in it.

To celebrate the company’s 60th anniversary this year, the brand has released a collection of products based on five different locations special to the brand’s three founders, and based on the concept of the Grand Tour that wealthy young Europeans used to undertake as they entered adulthood.