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I've been looking forward to the arrival of a bottle of Dyptique Tam Dao over the weekend. It just turned up and has thrown me into a quandary of self-doubt! It doesn't smell of anything!
So either Tam Dao has a very subtle fragrance and is not the woody, spicy, balmy, powdery, floral nose-bomb I have been expecting - or - the bottle sent to me is without the necessary ingredients, sans sniff, defunct and has definitely fallen off its perch!
In spite of the evidence - total lack of niff - I'm doubting myself. They can't have got it this wrong, it must be me. But it plain don't smell! Nada! Zero! Nothing!
The sample they sent with it is gorgeous! but I don't know what it is! Its little box has the same logo as Tam Dao but has a big '34' in the middle instead. So you'd guess it's called '34'. Well and good but I cannot find any reference to Diptyque 34 anywhere! Oh! not unless I Google with a 'y' and not two 'i''s - scrub this bit. But does this mean I can't smell as well as can't spell?
Question is - how strong a perfume is Tam Dao?
So either Tam Dao has a very subtle fragrance and is not the woody, spicy, balmy, powdery, floral nose-bomb I have been expecting - or - the bottle sent to me is without the necessary ingredients, sans sniff, defunct and has definitely fallen off its perch!
In spite of the evidence - total lack of niff - I'm doubting myself. They can't have got it this wrong, it must be me. But it plain don't smell! Nada! Zero! Nothing!
The sample they sent with it is gorgeous! but I don't know what it is! Its little box has the same logo as Tam Dao but has a big '34' in the middle instead. So you'd guess it's called '34'. Well and good but I cannot find any reference to Diptyque 34 anywhere! Oh! not unless I Google with a 'y' and not two 'i''s - scrub this bit. But does this mean I can't smell as well as can't spell?
Question is - how strong a perfume is Tam Dao?