Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
Two materials are all we hold for Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette 100ml, and rather than pad that out it is worth saying plainly what they do. Grapefruit comes first and it is not the sweet reading of the fruit. It is bitter, dry and sharp, closer to the zest scraped off a rind than to anything poured into a glass, with a faint sulphurous bite that gives it grip. Cedarwood is the counterweight and it arrives almost immediately, dry and clean, like a newly sawn plank or the inside of a wooden drawer, and it provides the structure that the citrus sits on.
A composition described by two materials is a short one, and this is a fragrance that behaves accordingly: what you smell in the first ten minutes is what you will smell in the fourth hour, with the citrus thinning and the dry base taking more of the weight.
The eau de toilette concentration is light enough for daily use and generous application. It projects clearly for an hour or so and then keeps closer, lasting a working day on skin and longer on a shirt collar. It is sold as a men's fragrance and worn as one, suiting offices, travel and ordinary days rather than occasions, and it has the useful quality of working in both hot weather and cold.
The 100ml bottle is the practical size for something worn this often, and at this strength it does not need rationing. Anyone expecting a complicated fragrance should look elsewhere, and anyone who wants one thing done properly should not.
Harness and saddlery were the first products when the firm opened in Paris in 1837. It has been making perfume since 1951, has never left family control, and moved to the Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1880.
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