Hermès
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Hermès Barénia
Barénia by Hermès is a Chypre fragrance for women - a modern reading of the genre by Christine Nagel, named after the house's celebrated leather. Miracle berry and bergamot open bright and slightly tart, white ginger lily fills the heart, and patchouli, akigalawood and oak carry it down into earth and wood. The berry keeps it from turning severe; the patchouli keeps it from turning sweet. "A single lily over deep patchouli and oak - bright at the top, dark underneath."
$8.99
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Hermès Terre d'Hermès Eau Givrée
Terre d'Hermès Eau Givrée by Hermès is a Citrus Aromatic fragrance for men built around the idea of frosted citrus - crystallized freshness with a mineral edge. Icy citron sharpens into juniper berries and tingling timur pepper, resting on the signature Terre d'Hermès bed of mineral and woody notes. "Frozen citron over warm stone - crisp, mineral, and quietly powerful."
$8.99
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Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Nil
Un Jardin Sur Le Nil by Hermès is a radiant Floral Fruity fragrance for women and men, composed as a stroll through a garden on the banks of the Nile. Crisp grapefruit and green mango open with an unexpected vegetal twist of tomato and carrot, while lotus, hyacinth, and peony drift over a soft trail of iris, incense, and musk. "Green mango and lotus on the morning Nile - fresh, sunlit, and quietly poetic."
$7.99
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Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Toit
Un Jardin Sur Le Toit by Hermès is a crisp Green Floral fragrance for women and men, inspired by the secret rooftop garden above the Hermès flagship on Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Dewy grass, red apple, and pear mingle with rose and magnolia, freshened by a whisper of rosemary for a scent that feels like spring in the heart of Paris. "A secret Parisian garden - cut grass, crisp apple, and roses swaying above the rooftops."
$8.99
Hermès has been a Paris house since 1837 and a perfume house since 1951, and it approaches scent the way it approaches leather - with restraint, precision and an unmistakable lightness of hand.
The house keeps an exclusive in-house perfumer, a rarity in modern perfumery: Jean-Claude Ellena from 2004, and Christine Nagel since. Their work is luminous and sketch-like rather than dense - Un Jardin Sur Le Nil with its green mango and lotus, the grass and red apple of Un Jardin Sur Le Toit, the frozen citrus of Terre d'Hermès Eau Givrée, and Nagel's modern chypre Barénia.
These are fragrances that sit close to the skin and read as quality rather than volume. Made in France, and built to be worn every day without ever becoming ordinary.
