Almost seven years after Terre by Jean-Claude Ellena, finally a new line by Hermès and a new perfumer, Christine Nagel!
The note breakdown is clary sage, narcissus, rosewood and sclarene molecule. Actually a lot more complex than it seems!
Let's start with sclarene. This is the responsible of that warm mettalic smell we gonna get throw the fragance. The molecule evokes the smell of the Hermès clothing factories, wich is a pretty original idea.
The open is frutty, floral and mettalic of course. I get citrus vibe's too.
Nothing new, or exciting. At some point I knew this will remind me of "Bleu de Chanel" or even "Y" because of the sage. Actually I was wrong and happy!!!
H24 is a modern take on the fougére, but maintains that green, herbal, earthy, nature vibe DNA that they used to. I must say it has nuances of "Terre", or "Jardin" or even "Voyage" line, keeping loyal to their previous success and roots.
As it drys that shower gel vibe pops out, but the combination of fruitty sweetness with the warm mettalic it's so well blend you will not even notice. Original and creative, I loved that at some point it reminds me of that Solero ice cream (exotic), the orange one!
After all this is a calm, relaxing, feell good tipe of fragance, not to loud or to sweet. Versatile with a good projection and a Ok sillage.
The drydown is the classic fougére tipe (lavender, oakmoss and coumarin) with that warm soft mettalic note.
I don't recomend the blind buy, but I guarantee you that they maintain the title of the most creative designer Maison!
"Un fougère high-tech!"
H24 may not have the success of "Sauvage", but it will open doors to a more creative designer world we are waiting for years.
This is Hermès saying "we are back".
