Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
If somebody already wears it, buying them more of it is not unimaginative but useful, and Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette Gift Set is bought in that spirit more often than in any other. The fragrance is built on a contrast between two materials and nothing more. Grapefruit is the bright half, dry and bitter rather than sweetened, with the sharp, faintly sulphurous quality that real peel has and that keeps it well clear of anything you would drink. Cedarwood is the dry half, clean and splintered, the smell of a workshop bench on a cold morning, and it carries the citrus well past the point at which a lighter scent would have faded away.
Two materials and no padding anywhere. The structure is plain and holds from the first spray through to the last hour of wear, which is why it suits men who would rather not think about what they have put on that morning. Bought boxed, it arrives finished, so there is nothing to wrap and nothing to apologise for. It is also the easiest kind of present to repeat year after year without it becoming a joke, since the bottle genuinely empties. In wear, the toilette strength is moderate, clear for the first hours and closer afterwards, and it suits offices, travel and any weather you care to put it in. Nothing about it is seasonal, so a box opened in December will still be in use the following August, which cannot be said of most presents bought on a counter.
The founding year is 1837 and the founder was Thierry Hermes, a harness maker in Paris. The business shifted to its Faubourg Saint-Honore premises in 1880 and is run today by the sixth generation of the same family.
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