Fragrance Notes
H24
Clary sage is the first thing you meet in the Hermès H24 Eau de Toilette Gift Set, and it sets the tone for a fragrance with no sweetness in it anywhere.
That sage is sharp and herbal with a cool, almost metallic clarity rather than the dusty quality the material often has. Daffodil follows and is the unusual choice: a green flower that smells of stem and sap, with a dry hay sweetness that reads more vegetal than floral. Rosewood sits underneath, smooth and dry with a faint spiced warmth, holding the green materials together. That is three materials in total and the fragrance behaves accordingly, direct and clear from the first spray without a second act to wait for.
Christine Nagel composed it. At eau de toilette strength it gives five or six hours, projecting moderately at the start and then staying close, and it is one of the better choices for warm weather because nothing in it turns heavy as the day goes on. Two sprays is the right amount and a third is wasted on a fragrance this transparent.
It suits the office, the gym bag, travel and spring and summer generally, and it is marketed to men and reads that way, modern and clean rather than traditional. Boxed as a set, it is a good present for a man who dislikes being given something sweet or old fashioned, and it carries enough of the house's character to feel like a considered choice rather than a default purchase made in a hurry.
The house goes back to 1837, when Thierry Hermes set up as a maker of harnesses in Paris, and it has stayed with the family through six generations. Saddlery was the trade, the Faubourg Saint-Honore shop opened in 1880, and perfume joined the list in 1951.
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