Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
What makes Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette Gift Set worth giving is what is missing from it: there is no sweetness in this fragrance at all, which is rarer in men's perfumery than you might think.
The two materials we hold for it do absolutely everything. Grapefruit supplies the bitterness and the lift, dry and sharp and all peel, with none of the sugared quality that the word citrus usually carries with it. Cedarwood supplies the dryness underneath, clean and splintery like freshly cut timber, and it is what gives the scent both its backbone and its length on the skin.
The result is austere in the best sense of the word. It smells expensive without smelling rich, and it is as suitable on a man of twenty five as on one of sixty five, which is why it so often ends up being bought by people who are not sure what else to choose. There is no risk in it, and in a present that is worth more than originality.
A set takes the fuss out of the transaction entirely. It arrives boxed, needs no wrapping, and contains a fragrance the recipient is likely to recognise even if he has never owned a bottle of it himself. At eau de toilette strength it is light enough for daily wear and generous application, holding well through a working day and leaving a dry trace behind it on a shirt. For a present, that practicality counts for more than novelty: this is a bottle that will be finished rather than admired and forgotten.
Thierry Hermes founded it in 1837 and made harness for a living. The Faubourg Saint-Honore address followed in 1880, the family has kept hold of the firm, and fragrance became part of the business in 1951.
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