Barénia Gift Set
Hermès Barénia Gift Set solves a particular problem, which is what to give someone who already owns a good deal of fragrance and has no obvious gap in the collection.
The box holds the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 25g soap and a 15ml bottle. The scent itself is built from four materials, and the one people remember is miracle berry. It behaves like a tart fruit at first and then turns quietly sweet underneath, which is an odd trick and the reason the opening does not smell like anything else on a shelf. Butterfly lily is the floral heart of it, cool and green stemmed, a white flower without any of the heaviness that usually implies. Below them, oakwood provides a dry, barrel-like steadiness and patchouli supplies earth and a cool, mineral darkness that keeps the whole composition from drifting into prettiness.
Short compositions age well as presents because they are legible. There is no long development the recipient has to sit through and no awkward middle stage, and what they smell on the first wearing is what they will get every time.
The fragrance is unisex in character, which widens the field considerably when you are buying for someone whose taste you cannot fully predict. It suits work and evenings equally, and it is more at home in cooler weather than in heat. Presented as a set, it needs no wrapping, it arrives looking like an occasion rather than an errand, and it carries the weight this particular name on a box still carries.
Paris, 1837, is where this starts: a saddler named Thierry Hermes serving the carriage trade. The firm took its Faubourg Saint-Honore address in 1880, has never passed out of the family, and did not begin making fragrance until 1951.
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