Un Jardin sur le Nil Hermès 2005 Eau de Toilette

When I read a book by Jean-Claude Ellena, I became curious. He wrote about his inspiration. The moment he reached for a mango in an Egyptian garden and inhaled the delicious scent right after picking it.

And indeed, the fragrance presents a wonderfully creative green mango. However, you only perceive it for about 30 minutes in the top note. After that, the scent remains citrusy-green and personally reminds me of soda powder, followed by a rhubarb note that lasts for several hours.

Now, neither soda nor rhubarb is listed in the fragrance notes, but grapefruit is. Jean-Claude Ellena mentions in another book that he likes to combine grapefruit notes with orange and a synthetic fragrance ingredient called Rhubofix. I assume that the rhubarb note comes from that.

All in all, a creatively fresh scent, unfortunately with only average longevity. And not quite as fresh as some colognes, yet still more of a summer fragrance.