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My favorite designer and the reason I got into niche.
I have been wearing Terre D'Hermes for quite some time. I can't remember when I bought my first bottle. What I do remember is that at one time, I bought a new bottle of it and it had changed. I did know nothing about perfumes at the time, about niche, about batch variations, about reformulations...
But I noticed that Terre was not the same. It lost complexity, power, it was less exciting, more 2 dimensional. It was for this reason I started to look elsewhere, to niche fragrances. I started doing research. Was it possible that the fragrance had changed? Then I fell into the rabbit hole and got to know niche, and reformulations, IFRA, batch variations...
I still have a 2018 batch of Terre. You know what it is if you read all the other reviews, you get the orange, vetiver, woodsy, earthy... It is so elegant, masculine, classy... It still is my favorite designer scent. A far cry from all the ambroxan bombs that'll blow your head of, or extremely sweet nuanceless fragrances. I guess if I could keep one designer fragrance for life, Terre would still be a good contestant.
Nowadays I'm getting to know vintage fragrances, and I understand more what happened. Fragrances are reformulated, a lot of beautiful raw materials have gotten restricted, or too expensive. Capitalism is also deciding that fragrances should get big companies more money and I think it shows.
I would really like to smell an older batch of Terre, to verify if I'm not going crazy, or becoming an old nostalgic, but I'm quite sure it's not just me.
At the end of the day, Terre is still a beautiful fragrance I would recommend to anyone above 25 that likes classic, masculine, original, timeless French class. I like the bottle, it has the same timeless elegance and class. The performance is still quite good but beware of olfactory fatigue. If you spray anywhere near your nose, you'll lose the scent pretty quickly. I do one spray on each wrist and one on the back of my neck and I get a pleasant scent bubble for at least a working day long.
But I noticed that Terre was not the same. It lost complexity, power, it was less exciting, more 2 dimensional. It was for this reason I started to look elsewhere, to niche fragrances. I started doing research. Was it possible that the fragrance had changed? Then I fell into the rabbit hole and got to know niche, and reformulations, IFRA, batch variations...
I still have a 2018 batch of Terre. You know what it is if you read all the other reviews, you get the orange, vetiver, woodsy, earthy... It is so elegant, masculine, classy... It still is my favorite designer scent. A far cry from all the ambroxan bombs that'll blow your head of, or extremely sweet nuanceless fragrances. I guess if I could keep one designer fragrance for life, Terre would still be a good contestant.
Nowadays I'm getting to know vintage fragrances, and I understand more what happened. Fragrances are reformulated, a lot of beautiful raw materials have gotten restricted, or too expensive. Capitalism is also deciding that fragrances should get big companies more money and I think it shows.
I would really like to smell an older batch of Terre, to verify if I'm not going crazy, or becoming an old nostalgic, but I'm quite sure it's not just me.
At the end of the day, Terre is still a beautiful fragrance I would recommend to anyone above 25 that likes classic, masculine, original, timeless French class. I like the bottle, it has the same timeless elegance and class. The performance is still quite good but beware of olfactory fatigue. If you spray anywhere near your nose, you'll lose the scent pretty quickly. I do one spray on each wrist and one on the back of my neck and I get a pleasant scent bubble for at least a working day long.
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