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H24
Hermès H24 Eau de Parfum is built from two materials and nothing else, which makes it the shortest composition in this part of the catalogue by a wide margin. Clary sage is the first of them, and it is a strange and excellent choice to carry a fragrance. It is herbal and green with a slightly nutty, faintly warm edge behind the freshness, and there is a faint muskiness in it that stops it reading as a simple aromatic. On skin it is cool at first and gradually turns softer and rounder.
Oakmoss is the second. Earthy, damp and a little bitter, with a mineral quality like stone after rain, it anchors the sage and gives the whole thing a shadow it would otherwise lack. The contrast is between something cut and green and something dark and ground level, and that is the whole fragrance.
There is no point pretending this develops. It does not. What you smell at ten minutes is what you have, and a composition this spare is either going to strike you as modern and clean or as unfinished. It rewards trying before buying.
Christine Nagel composed it and it appeared in 2022. Eau de parfum strength gives it six hours or so with projection that stays moderate throughout, which suits the quietness of the idea. Two sprays. It reads as masculine, leans unisex, and works best in warm weather and in daylight, where green materials behave well.
Established in Paris in 1837 by a harness maker, Thierry Hermes, the house belongs to his family still, after six generations. Saddlery was where it started and 24 Faubourg Saint-Honore has been the address since 1880. Perfume came in 1951, when Edmond Roudnitska composed Eau d'Hermes, and the Hermessence collection is also its own.
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