Fragrance Notes
Terre d'Hermès
Terre d'Hermès is a fragrance about the ground rather than about flowers, and it says so from the first minute. Orange and grapefruit open it, bright and slightly bitter, and that brightness is the only concession it makes.
Black pepper and geranium sit in the middle, dry and a little metallic, carrying the citrus down rather than softening it. There is no sweetness anywhere in the structure, which is unusual and is the reason it has aged so well.
The base is where the name comes from. Vetiver gives it damp earth, cedarwood and patchouli give it dry wood, and benzoin adds just enough warmth to stop it being austere. It smells like soil and stone and citrus peel, and nothing else on a department store counter smells quite like it.
How Terre d'Hermès wears
It lasts a long time and projects moderately, which is the right combination for something worn daily. It suits an office as readily as an evening, and it works in every season. If you want one fragrance that is never wrong, this is a serious candidate.
Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette, sold here as a gift set, from Hermès, the Paris house founded in 1837.
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