Fragrance Notes
Twilly d'Hermès
The house's first serious attempt at a perfume for young women was Twilly d'Hermès Eau de Parfum, and it has outlasted most of what the big designers have aimed at the same buyer since. Three materials are recorded and the contrast between them is the whole trick. Ginger comes first, hot and dry and genuinely sharp, nothing like the sweet spiced version of the root that turns up in most perfumery. Tuberose answers it, thick and creamy, a white flower with a faint rubbery quality that gives it body rather than prettiness. Sandalwood sits underneath, soft and low, smoothing the pair out and keeping the ginger from scratching. Hot, then creamy, then smooth, and that progression is why the perfume reads as confident rather than sweet.
It is a short note row and the perfume does not pretend otherwise. There are no hidden stages and nothing emerges after four hours that was not there at the start. The eau de parfum strength buys real presence for the first hour or two, after which it settles into something closer to the skin that holds most of the day. Two sprays will do it. The year recorded is 2017. It is made for women and suits almost any occasion short of a formal evening, working as well on a weekday as at a party, and it is as good a first proper perfume as the house makes. Those who find tuberose too much in other perfumes often get on with it here, because the ginger keeps it in line. Nothing about it feels like a committee decision, which is rare in this part of the market.
The house dates its start to Paris in 1837 and to a harness maker named Thierry Hermès, and the sixth generation of his family still owns it. Perfume came in 1951.
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