Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès Gift Set
Grapefruit is usually a supporting material, but in the Terre d'Hermès Gift Set it is half the fragrance, which is a large part of why the scent reads as clean rather than heavy.
The box holds the 75ml Eau de Parfum, a 15ml spray and a 40ml shower gel. It is handled bitter and dry, all rind and no juice, sharp for the first ten minutes and faintly dusty behind that. Cedarwood is the other half, and it does the lasting: dry, clean, a little mineral, with the sharpened pencil quality the material gives when it is not sweetened. Two materials, so this is a short composition and a single clear idea rather than a long development, and the fragrance is better for the discipline.
The composition is credited to Jean-Claude Ellena. In wear the contrast holds for five to seven hours, bright at first and increasingly dry as the citrus burns away, projecting politely rather than filling a room. It is wearable in every season, which few men's fragrances manage, and it never looks out of place at work. The dryness is the reason: there is nothing in it that becomes cloying when the weather turns warm.
The set is bought as a gift far more often than for oneself, and it is an easy one to give because the fragrance is widely recognised and rarely disliked. Boxed, it needs nothing added to it, and it arrives looking like the present it is rather than like a replacement bottle. For a man who wears it already, a set is simply a restock with rather better packaging than usual.
The house has been in Paris since 1837, founded by Thierry Hermes as a harness maker and still in family hands six generations on. It moved to 24 Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1880 and the perfume side of the business dates from 1951.
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