Fragrance Notes
Magnolia
PittosporumUn Jardin sur la Lagune
White flowers are usually sold as glamour, and Hermès Un Jardin sur la Lagune Eau de Toilette uses three of them to do something considerably cooler than that. Magnolia leads, bright and creamy at the same time, with a sharp edge to the petal that keeps it from turning rich. Pittosporum follows, a small white flower with a sweetness that stays thin and green rather than spreading, and it is the material most people will not recognise and will remember anyway. Madonna lily closes the trio, cool and waxy with a dusty, pollen like quality that gives the perfume its slightly melancholy air. Three flowers, no fruit and no sugar, which is a harder thing to pull off than it sounds.
Three materials is all we hold, and the perfume keeps one mood throughout rather than developing. What it does do is change temperature slightly as it dries, going from sharp to powdery over the first half hour. Two thousand and nineteen is the year on it. At toilette strength it is light, stays near the skin and lasts a moderate few hours, which suits a composition this delicate. Two or three sprays and a second application in the afternoon is the way to wear it. It reads as unisex, though it will find more women than men. Spring and early summer are its season, daylight its time, and it suits anyone who likes flowers in perfume but not the sweetness that usually comes attached. Nothing in it is trying to be charming, and that is the reason it lasts on a shelf.
Hermès began in Paris in 1837 as a harness workshop under its founder Thierry Hermès and is still owned by his family six generations on. It has made perfume since 1951, and the Jardin series is one of the collections it has added since.
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