Perfume Wardrobe: Inside Diipa Büller-Khosla’s Comforting Scent Assortment

Your fragrance isn’t simply the way you odor—it’s how you are feeling. Normally, it is an adjunct to the way you current your self to the world, however today, it may function a supply of consolation and nostalgia throughout days spent at house. Within the upcoming weeks, we’re sharing a brand new model of Perfume Wardrobe, our sequence in collaboration with The Perfume Basis that highlights the rotating fragrance “wardrobes” of tastemakers by way of key factors of their life. On this new take, we’ll be asking them to share their favourite scents by way of the lens of consolation and their at-home routine. Get to know them higher through the scents they select to put on throughout this unsure time.

Diipa Büller-Khosla is an Indian-born vogue influencer who studied human rights regulation at college in London and is now based mostly in Amsterdam. With over one million followers on Instagram, Diipa makes use of her platform to share the causes which might be near her coronary heart. She based Put up For Change final yr along with her husband Oleg Büller, a social media collective that works to impress youthful generations to construct consciousness for social causes. The collective labored with UNICEF India on Menstrual Hygiene Day to finish the disgrace and stigma round durations, and extra not too long ago, she joined the #EndColorism marketing campaign to make modifications to the illustration of pores and skin colour in Bollywood and the media.

On her Instagram feed, Diipa seamlessly combines magnificence, vogue, and health content material with the causes that she believes in. She additionally occurs to be a perfume lover after our personal hearts. Forward, get to know Diipa by way of the scents that convey her consolation proper now.

How would you describe your perfume wardrobe? 

“Ahh, perfume! I like perfume. Truthfully, fragrances can evoke a lot within the thoughts due to reminiscences and nostalgia. I’ve all the time discovered that so fascinating. I might say my model actually modifications relying on the occasion and time of day.

For the evenings, I like heavy scents with notes of violet, amber, cedarwood, black orchid. My favourite scent of the second for evening is Byredo Bal d’Afrique or Jo Malone Darkish Amber & Ginger Lily. In the course of the day, I lean rather more in the direction of brisker scents. For instance, Jo Malone Wooden Sage Sea Salt is my go-to daytime scent. That is iconic Diipa!”

What was the primary perfume you ever purchased and why? 

“I keep in mind this 100%. Humorous sufficient, the primary perfume I wished to personal, I did not purchase. I stole it from my mother’s closet (oops!). It was the Hugo Boss Deep Pink. I used to be drawn to it as a result of it had this darkish, mysterious, candy odor and I did not have cash so I might simply sneak in and seize hers.

“However, to reply your query, the primary perfume I really each bought was CK Into You—it was the fashionable scent on the time and I beloved the freshness of it. After that, I used Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb for the longest—however truthfully, who did not?”

Do you continue to put on perfume even when you do not go away the home?

“To be trustworthy, no. My bathe gel and physique gel are fairly scented already, in order that’s adequate for a standard day given we aren’t going out a lot. If I do exit, I take advantage of Byredo Gypsy Water. In my thoughts, once I exit, perfume is like one other accent.”

Your WFH perfume: 

“All of the scrumptious Byredo bathtub stuff in Gypsy Water.”

Your cozy sweatsuit perfume: 

“Simple! That is undoubtedly Jo Malone Wooden Sage Sea Salt.”

The perfume that brings you consolation: 

“Hmm, I feel this one is the odor of Oleg—Bleu de Chanel.”

The perfume you spritz to convey again good reminiscences:

“Diptyque Phylosykos as a result of it jogs my memory of summer time holidays within the Mediterranean.”

The candle you are at present burning proper now and why:

“Jo Malone Wild Fig and Cassis. This simply smells like house to me, we’ve got all the time burned this in our house. It smells like consolation and heat.”

What you odor whenever you wish to unwind/destress: 

“I am going again to my roots right here—I like incense of sandalwood and lavender.”

The scent you will affiliate with this time: 

“This may increasingly or might not be a typical reply, given the circumstance, but it surely’s not a fragrance or room spray. We have been house and cooking a lot that I feel the odor of home-cooked meals will all the time now remind me of this era, the place we actually soaked up time in our house collectively, attempting new recipes.”