Fragrance Notes
Calèche Soie de Parfum
Hermès Calèche Soie de Parfum Eau de Parfum 100ml opens on aldehydes, and they set the tone for everything that follows: a cool, slightly soapy brightness with a waxy sheen that lifts the flowers behind it rather than sweetening them. The effect is polished and a little austere, more silk than petal. Nothing in it is sweet and nothing is loud; the aldehydes hold the whole structure slightly above the skin.
Ylang ylang, rose and jasmine form the heart. The ylang ylang is creamy and faintly banana-like, the rose keeps the blend upright and dry, and the jasmine adds an indolic richness that gives the floral centre its body. Iris holds the base alone, taking the composition into cool, rooty powder with a woody dryness, so the aldehydic opening and the iris finish bracket the flowers at either end. The aldehydic, floral and woody accords are what define it. Aldehydes, flowers and iris are the three movements and there is nothing else competing with them, which is why it reads as a floral built with restraint: the bouquet is never allowed to spread, and the iris gives the finish a cool mineral quality.
Guy Robert composed Calèche Soie de Parfum for Hermès in 1992. Hermès was founded in Paris in 1837 by Thierry Hermès as a harness and saddlery workshop, and its fragrances are still made in the house's own workshops at Le Vaudreuil in Normandy. Soie de Parfum is the name Hermès gives this version of Calèche.
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