Hermann à mes Côtés me Paraissait une Ombre 2015

Hermann à mes Côtés me Paraissait une Ombre by Etat Libre d'Orange
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Hermann à mes Côtés me Paraissait une Ombre is a perfume by Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men and was released in 2015. The scent is spicy-synthetic. It is still in production. Pronunciation
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Main accords

Spicy
Synthetic
Fresh
Woody
Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Black pepperBlack pepper BlackcurrantBlackcurrant GalbanumGalbanum
Heart Notes Heart Notes
FrankincenseFrankincense GeosminGeosmin Rose absoluteRose absolute
Base Notes Base Notes
VetiverVetiver AmbroxanAmbroxan PatchouliPatchouli

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Scent
7.5237 Ratings
Longevity
7.8186 Ratings
Sillage
7.1188 Ratings
Bottle
7.6176 Ratings
Value for money
7.075 Ratings
Submitted by Michael, last update on 29.09.2023.

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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8.5
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TonkaTommy

34 Reviews
TonkaTommy
TonkaTommy
3  
Floaters.
Anybody else have little floaters in the bottle? I'm guessing it's the incense, or synthetics clumping up. Still smells great, and has borderline beast mode performance for me. Easy go to on a fall, casual day. Great walking around scent! The incense really shines, small rose hints, and almost dryer sheet like smell. It's a... dirty cleany??? Lol good stuff.
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Theo1995

4 Reviews
Theo1995
Theo1995
2  
The Green Patchouli of all green patchoulis

Hey, patchouli can also have a green take-on, foresty, fresh, or maybe like a shadow. Victor Hygo's poetry fits this sent incredibly well. Not offensive at all, reminds me a bit of Perles de Lalique because of the rose-patchouli combo, but way more masculine. I would disagree with it sillage rating here: it has an above rating sillage for a spring-summer scent that it really is. This and portrait of a lady would be my ideal late-spring & summer scents. They smell like freedom, class, modern, chicness, coolness, and inviting.
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8
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8
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8
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Annarosa

93 Reviews
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Annarosa
Annarosa
Top Review 13  
The shady existence of Hermann:)
This Hermann is a little fruit!
He hates everything vulgar and loves the opposite of it: instead of bright skies and sunny nights and cool shadows; instead of exuberant laughter-silent mourning, instead of flower meadows-moist, black earth covered with ivy... He is just an original, a romantic of the old school.
And he also smells to match his macabre disposition: I notice a load of cool mint, gothic medical patchouli and incense again and again when I stroll with him in the shady avenues of an old Gothic complex. Yes, he himself, with his pale complexion, his sunken eyes, his thin stature and dark clothes seems to me like a shadow among many other shadows in this eerie avenue : like a shadow from the underworld, like a ghost.
Its dark, cool, fresh presence is constant and long-lasting. I smell its macabre scent for hours until the evening falls. It hangs on my clothes, shines like a dark, mysterious aura around me.
Its scent is macabre and beautiful at the same time: a cool, lonely, meditative shadow in the flickering heat of summer.
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5
Sillage
6
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Silverfire

130 Reviews
Silverfire
Silverfire
Very helpful Review 5  
Aphasia With My Alternate Self
The notes listed for Hermann a mes Cotes me Paraissait une Ombre are not what show up on my skin; I don't get a synthetic vibe at all. For me, it begins as a sweetened guiac wood mingled with frankincense and a faint fruity aroma. The sweetened guiac note recedes, swapping places with pepper. The silage starts at and remains at 6" through the life of the fragrance. Aside from the quick change to a fruit-laden incense, the scent is linear. I enjoy the aroma and it garners compliments from the opposite sex, but the four synthetic notes give me pause. I'm not against synthetics per se, but I am aware that they are being created and launched into a void created by the IFRA and other busybodies.

The Lynchian product video suggests a multiplicity of spiritual tensions in its stark blacks and whites. The fragrance name translates as "Hermann to my sides / Seemed to me a Shadow", which is from Victor Hugo's Poem "What Two Horsemen Were Thinking in the Forest". Apparently I was supposed to get a brooding, dangerous, and yet charming vibe, but I did not.

I am left with a faint sense of loss, a missing the mark, perhaps on the part of Libre Etat D'Orange, but perhaps on my part. I am unable to detect the notes listed and I cannot participate in the effect this was designed to create. I find it appealing nevertheless, but question the need for synthetic elements.

Perhaps I am experiencing aphasia with my alternate self?
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ZleoZleo 1 year ago
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Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Great petrichor scent. It brings the feeling after the rain well.
Like a coldish foggy rose garden after rain at dawn.
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ToniocTonioc 3 days ago
6
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7
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7
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Nice wet spicy rose scent, with earthy accords that make it more masculin. After some time, a beautiful airy incense comes in.
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HugoMontezHugoMontez 28 days ago
7
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6
Longevity
7.5
Scent
A spicy rose scent with a strong galbanum note in the opening. Love the opening but it dries down a bit flat and without muche presence.
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GeorgeReidGeorgeReid 7 months ago
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7
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8
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7.5
Scent
The smoke and freshness evoke a resemblance to marijuana rolling papers before someone lights up. Not terrible, but not my cup of tea.
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ScentwitchScentwitch 2 years ago
6
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7
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7
Longevity
4.5
Scent
A sneezy patchouli. Nothing that interesting or inviting. In fact, boring.
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