Fragrance Notes
Tiare FlowerUn Jardin Sous la Mer
Fifty millilitres is the right size for an experiment, and Hermès Un Jardin Sous la Mer Eau de Toilette 50ml is an experimental perfume by any reasonable standard.
Two materials are recorded. Tiare flower is the warmer of them, a creamy white flower with thick waxy petals and a softness that reads as skin rather than as a bouquet. Tamanu nut is the odd one and the better reason to try this: it is oily and green with a cool, slightly medicinal edge, nothing like a roasted or sweetened nut, and it drags the flower sideways into something salty and strange. The two of them produce a perfume that smells of air and water as much as of a plant. With a note row this short there is no second act to wait for, so treat it as a short composition and judge it on the first ten minutes.
Christine Nagel composed it for the Jardin series, the collection the house uses to write about places rather than to assemble ingredients. This one sits at the cooler and quieter end of that line. Several of its neighbours in that collection are warmer and none of them is as odd. Toilette strength keeps it light, close to the skin and moderate in length, which is exactly right for something built to be worn in heat. Apply it properly rather than carefully, and reapply after a few hours if you want it to last the day. It wears as a unisex scent. A 50ml bottle will see out a summer or two of occasional wear without sitting half full for years, which is the sensible way to buy a perfume this specific. Hot weather, bright daylight and holidays are its natural setting, and it is wasted indoors in February.
Hermès has been a Paris house since 1837, when the harness maker Thierry Hermès founded it, and six generations later the family still runs it. Perfume became part of the business in 1951 and now covers several collections.
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