Fragrance Notes
Equipage Géranium
Clove is an uncompromising material and Hermès Equipage Géranium Eau de Toilette 100ml opens with it, which immediately sets this apart from almost every other masculine fragrance on a shelf. Clove is hot, dry and faintly medicinal, with a numbing quality to it and a sweetness that never becomes sugar. Used generously it can smell like a dentist's surgery. Used like this, against a green floral, it smells like something a man would have worn confidently forty years ago and can wear confidently now.
Geranium is the material in the name and it does the balancing. Crisp, leafy and distinctly rosy in its greenness, it brings a cool sharpness that cuts straight through the clove's heat. The pairing of a hot spice with a cold leaf is the entire idea of the fragrance. Sandalwood is the third and final material, and it is what makes the whole thing wearable for hours. Creamy, soft and quietly warm, it sits under the other two and smooths the join, giving a drydown that is comfortable where the opening is bracing.
Three materials and no more. It is a short composition, it does not develop in stages, and it is all the better for having nothing extraneous in it. As an eau de toilette expect five hours or so with moderate projection, and three sprays will not be excessive. It is a men's fragrance, it belongs to autumn and winter, and it suits evenings and cold afternoons.
This house goes back to 1837 and the Paris workshop of a harness maker, Thierry Hermes, and six generations of the same family have kept hold of it. Saddlery came first, then the premises at 24 Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1880, and fragrance from 1951 onwards with Edmond Roudnitska's Eau d'Hermes.
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