Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
The strongest version of a famous scent is usually the interesting one, and Hermès Terre d'Hermès Parfum is where the range gets its weight. Three materials are recorded, and one of them is the reason to pay attention. Grapefruit opens it, tart and bitter at the rind, with the sting that keeps citrus from reading as sweet. Cedarwood follows, dry and clean with the sharp quality of cut shavings. Shiso is the third and the unusual one: it is a leaf, minty and green with a faint anise edge, and it gives this version a cool, slightly peppery lift that the ordinary readings of Terre do not have. The three sit tightly together and the result is drier and more concentrated than the eau de parfum.
Parfum strength means more oil and less alcohol, so it goes on quietly, sits very close to the skin and lasts a long time at low volume. That is the opposite of what people expect from a stronger concentration, and it is the main thing to understand before buying. Loud it is not. Persistent it very much is, and it rewards anyone prepared to let a scent come to them. Jean-Claude Ellena is the perfumer and 2009 is the year recorded. One spray is genuinely enough, two is the maximum, and it holds all day. Cold weather suits it best, evenings better than mornings, and anyone who wears the standard version in summer will find this is the winter answer. It is aimed at men.
Founded in Paris in 1837 by the harness maker Thierry Hermès, the house is still in family hands six generations later, with 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré its address since 1880. Its first perfume appeared in 1951 and was composed by Edmond Roudnitska.
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