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Olive Wood
PistachioUn Jardin à Cythère Refillable
Anybody tired of the same four materials in every summer fragrance should look at Hermès Un Jardin à Cythère Refillable Eau de Toilette, which is built from two that almost nobody else uses.
Pistachio is the first, and it is handled dry rather than sweet: nutty and powdery, with a trace of salt and none of the sugar the word suggests. Olive wood is the second, pale and faintly bitter, the smell of old timber left out in the heat, and it gives the pistachio a hard surface to work against. Two materials is all that is recorded and all that is needed, and the perfume behaves like the short composition it is, holding one clear idea from start to finish. It is a quiet piece of work and the quietness is deliberate rather than thin.
Christine Nagel composed it in 2023 as part of the Jardin series. It is one of the more experimental entries in a line that exists for exactly that purpose.
The toilette concentration keeps it light and close. Three or four hours of real presence is the honest expectation, after which a second application does no harm, and it survives heat far better than heavier scents do. The refillable bottle is the practical choice for anyone who expects to wear it every summer. It reads as unisex, it suits daylight, holidays and hot cities, and it is a pleasant change from citrus without being difficult.
Hermès began in 1837 in Paris as a harness and saddlery workshop under Thierry Hermès and is still in family hands after six generations. It has made perfume since 1951, two generations after the saddlery, and the Jardin series is one of the collections it continues to extend.
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