Parfums-Jardins

Le Jardin de Monsieur Li Hermès 2015

Bottle Design Fred Rawyler; Box Illustration: Li Xin

7.4 / 10 560 Ratings

A perfume by Hermès for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Floral

Green

Fruity

Fragrance Notes

Kumquat

Bergamot

Jasmine sambac

Stone

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

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Ratings

Scent

7.4560 Ratings

Longevity

6.2438 Ratings

Sillage

5.6443 Ratings

Bottle

7.7422 Ratings

Value for money

6.7135 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 23.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Parfums-Jardins" collection.

Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/19/2020

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Ajfe
32 Reviews

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Ajfe

Top Review 12

The little joys of life

At the moment, probably everyone has his daily difficulties to get through the day well and above all healthy.
Yesterday morning I made a detour to our little town perfumery.

After 6 fragrance tests, 3 of them on both my arms, I was 'fed up' So I went out into the fresh air and walked up the street
The scents now had time to develop.

One too sweet, the other too pungent, the third gave off a washing powder-like smell.
Nothing for me
Pooh, so once again into the perfumery and let it be known that these fragrances do not bring the right one with them.
The saleswoman had bottled two more samples for me and gave them to me with.
I should test this at home in peace.

All right, I couldn't smell myself anyway with all that jumbled smell!

Off to the shower :)

After the shower I did not put on any scent for the time being.
It was afternoon Hmm, one could look at the scents.
No sooner said than done A fragrance by Salvatore Ferragamo " Emozione"
and the Hermés fragrance I like the Salvatore Ferragamo fragrances partly quite well, but they are also a bit more powerful.
I didn't feel like it yet, so I smelled the specimen of Hermés.
"Oh, interesting "- slightly tart note.

Let's see what Monsieur Li's garden looks like and smells like
Hmm, fruity to orange, slightly tart (kumquat, as I researched), a little bit sourish.
Then I did the housework; among other things I already put some autumn decoration on the table.
Laundry washed and hung outside.
With the light wind yesterday, the smell of kumquat rose again and again into my nose while hanging up the laundry.
Very pleasant, no stabbing, no sweetness.

Slowly the jasmine scent also developed and was integrated.
In the evening there was something cuddly warm - soft in the fragrance remained.

For a long time I could still warm the scent on my skin
I'd say Monsieur Li has a beautiful green garden with kumquats and jasmine. Dense vegetation.
A stream with a pond, a lounger stands under a large lush tree.
It's best to lie on it and close your eyes.
Through the leaf canopy of the tree the sun's rays blink through and fall on the face.
The light breeze blows around your nose and you breathe deeply and calmly the scents of the surroundings.

09/03/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Marilyn25
48 Reviews

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Marilyn25

Very helpful Review 9

Citric Summer Garden

Le Jardin de Monsieur Li is my second team with the Le Jardin series from Hermès. Does my mother have the scent Un Jardin for Le Nil? I found it somewhere between delightful and strange, between lime green and muddy grey. Today I received a wonderful miniature of Le Jardin de Monsieur Li.
by post Kumquat, jasmine. Just these two scents. Very simple in itself, but the result is a beautiful summery, sparkling jasmine scent. Kumquat dominates and smells sour, fruity and fresh as if wetted by dew. Jasmine is discreetly in the background and rounds off the fragrance. I can well imagine Le Jardin de Monsieur Li during the day and in the office, because you don't step on anyone's toes with it. It spreads good mood and sunshine, it changes colour between - again - lime green and orange-yellow. A tingling, citrically bubbling scent, full of kumquat. Very elegant and fast.

Conclusion: If you are looking for a refreshing fragrance for the summer, you can't go wrong with Le Jardin de Monsieur Li.

08/01/2020

6
Bottle 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Nycteris
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Nycteris

Very helpful Review 6

Familiar longing - mysteriously homely

Quite profane: There was a sample of him (Mr.Li's garden) in a magazine in the dentist's waiting room. My first impression: nanu, I have never smelled anything like that before, just an unusual smell.
Days later, when the scent could still be smelled in the 'naked' aluminium foil letter, I researched 'the garden'.
Unbelievable: only 2 scented essences and this resulting third:
like an ingenious duet of 2 voices that create a completely new sound experience.
And it is (for me) not alone:
this fragrance has something never smelled before: familiar longing or it is mysteriously homely
and has quasi a 'third gender' - ;-) as if he had composed for me

07/26/2021

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Lisa1509
5 Reviews

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Lisa1509

Helpful Review 10

Refreshing good mood maker

A well-groomed, attractive woman in an airy, beautiful summer dress sits on a bench in her garden and reads a book. One sees and smells many flowering plants. Only a few rays of sunlight come through the well overgrown garden. The grass is lush green. Various citrus fruits are growing. The woman values her appearance but is never overdressed. She loves the outdoors and cooks with fresh ingredients from her garden.
This is the image I have right in front of my eyes when I smell the fragrance. For me, the fragrance radiates self-confidence. But the wearer does not want to stand out too much or even get on the nerves of others in her environment with the fragrance. Monsieur Li is individual and special, yet pleasing.
The kumquats give the fragrance a very pleasant tangy tartness, somewhat acidic without smelling citrusy. I also perceive green and notes and a slightly woody base. For me, a great new discovery for summer. Floral, green, fresh, but also slightly creamy, fine...
Wear "Le Jardin de Monsieur Li" currently very happy also at work. It is perceptible for several hours without radiating too much.

03/24/2015

6
Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Top Review

Hermès wanting Cartier best-sellers or a scent with amusing things

Besides being extremely wearable, in line with the silky and minimalistic aestethic of the maison, there are some things really amusing on this perfume that finishes the Hermés Jardins saga and which also works as a baton pass between the oficcial perfumer, Jean Claude Ellena, and his substitute Christina Nagel.

The first amusing thing for me here is that is very clearly how Hermés is on eye on its luxury neighbour of other segment, Cartier. After all, now they have two of the perfumers that created the biggest sales sucesses of the line, the two fragrances that most generated flankers inside the brand: Declaration Cartier (Ellena's work from 1998) and Eau de Cartie (Christine Nagel's work from 2001). If you look for those two creations, it's clear that when the style is transparent and minimalist Ellena and Nagel work in different ways but in similar forms and the impression that i have is that on Monsieur Li you see a joint work of both minimalist styles.

The second amusing thing for me here is that how this imaginary garden of an imaginary Monsieur has such a delicated and luminous floral aura that many would associate more with a Madam Li than a monsieur. In this sense, Le Jardin is, after Un Jardin Sur Le toit, a fragrance that works on the edge of the genres, a unissex creation almost going into the feminine direction.

The third amusing thing for me here is that i notice more and more that to achieve a luxury aura, delicate, without any rough edges, perfumers seems to use considerable synthetic compound amounts and the synthetic word is seem a lot for the common user as something cheap. So, there is a contradiction, the fragrances that you think are luxury might be loaded with the things you consider cheap. Altough this garden is a jasmine inspired one, one of Ellena's favorites, i would say that is an immaginary garden of the molecule most used to emulate jasmine in fragrances, Hedione. Certainly there is other jasmine molecules extending its smell and giving it creamier nuances, but Monsieur Li seems to me basically a vegetal musky fragrance with hedione at its center. The opening is interesting, of green citrus aura, with fruity nuances, something that reminds me of bergamot, grapefruit and slightly of papaya too. The luminous jasmine influence of creamy and fruity nuances come next and accompanied with some molecule or base that also makes me think of orchids. From this moment is that the Christine Nagel influence starts to be very clear to me in the the composition, with a base that seems like a recap of the woody, musky and transparente base found in Eau de Cartier.

In the end, it's as if this one were an Eau de Cartier Essence de Jasmine, which incidentally would be an excellent addition to the Cartier line if they decided to retribute the kindness of the clear and direct inspiration in one of their most succesful commercial creations.

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