Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
If you are buying a first serious fragrance for a man, or replacing one that has run out for the fourth time, Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette 100ml is the obvious place to start. What it smells like is simple enough to describe. Grapefruit does the opening work, bitter and dry rather than sweet, with the rind rather than the fruit doing the talking. Cedarwood follows immediately beneath it, clean and dry with a splintery, sawdust quality, and the two hold each other in balance for as long as the fragrance lasts.
Nothing about that is complicated, and it is the plainness of it that makes the fragrance so easy to wear. There is no sweetness to tire of, no heavy base to get in the way at close quarters, and nothing that marks it out as belonging to a particular age group or a particular decade. The toilette strength suits that use exactly. It is light enough to apply generously in the morning without thinking about it, holds clearly for the first few hours and then stays close through the afternoon, which is precisely what most men want from something worn five days a week rather than saved for an occasion.
It works in a hot office and on a cold platform equally well, and it is as acceptable at a wedding as it is at a desk on a Tuesday. Men of any age wear it, which is the main reason it ends up being recommended so often, and why so many bottles are bought as replacements rather than as experiments.
A workshop for harness and saddlery, opened in Paris in 1837, is what this house grew out of. The family has held it through six generations, and the perfumery dates from 1951 rather than from the beginning.
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