Un Jardin à Cythère Hermès 2023 Eau de Toilette

Well...this is new.

Normally when I smell a Hermes fragrance I am instantly rushing to come on to forums, subreditts, Instagram, comments sections to slavishly-simp for the Designer brand I believe to greater than Tom Ford, Dior and Gucci.

But not this time. I am stumped. The opening of this I like and it would get the right kind of response from me, but the mid and dry down just leave me disappointed. I am not a fan of it. I don't like the scent of Pistachio, I like to eat them, but the smell...nah

For me the transition from the very clean very juicy and mouth-watering citruses that Hermes seem to capture and utilise. Beautiful. But then along comes the pistachio, drowned in olive oil trampling through this garden with its shit covered boots.

I really don't get the use of the pistachio, it has a weird tangy-musty three day unwashed stank that I cannot get over. I wish I could place this beside the other Hermes fragrances that I like.

I can see why others like this and I don't think they're wrong, its a fragrance that I wished I liked. I don't.