Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche
At 200ml, Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche Eau de Toilette 200ml is the bottle for somebody who already knows this is their summer scent and would rather not run out in August.
Jean-Claude Ellena composed it in 2014, and the structure is simple and well judged. Orange opens it, round and sweet without turning into squash, and it carries the first ten minutes almost alone. Geranium takes the middle, green and rosy with a slightly metallic snap that cuts the sweetness and gives the whole thing a crispness the citrus could not manage by itself. Cedarwood and patchouli make the base, the first dry and sharp, a pencil sharpener smell with no sweetness in it, the second darker and more earthy, and between them they stop the scent evaporating into nothing.
This is the lightest of the Terre readings and it is meant to be. It goes on bright, settles within the hour and then stays as a clean, dry trace on the skin. Four or five hours is a fair expectation, which is normal for a toilette built around citrus and no cause for complaint at this price. Toilette strength keeps it comfortable in heat, where the stronger versions can feel like too much. Apply it generously, since this is a scent that benefits from being worn properly rather than dabbed, and a bottle this size is priced to allow that. Daylight, warm weather, travel and office summers are its territory, and it reads as a men's scent without excluding anybody.
Hermès opened in Paris in 1837 as a harness workshop under its founder Thierry Hermès and the shop at 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré has been its home since 1880. It has been a perfume house since 1951 and is still run by the founding family.
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