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Hedera L'Erbolario 2012

7.6 / 10 84 Ratings

A popular perfume by L'Erbolario for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is green-fresh. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green

Fresh

Citrus

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Grapefruit leaf Lemon

Lemon

Bergamot

Orange blossom

Heart Notes

Ivy

Damask rose

Lavender

Orris butter

Water jasmine

Pineapple

Base Notes

Java vetiver

Mastic absolute

Cedarwood

Coconut

Ambrette seed

Cashmere wood

Ratings

Scent

7.684 Ratings

Longevity

6.759 Ratings

Sillage

5.960 Ratings

Bottle

6.169 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet · last update on 04/07/2023.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/17/2014

10Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Inger
112 Reviews

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Inger

Top Review 33

I am a child of the sun

We live in a very old house surrounded by a very old garden.
This garden is my refuge, and I spend many hours there on my knees or bent over, weeding, pulling, and tinkering.
In the shady parts of the garden, ivy also grows, climbing over walls and little stone steps.
I really like these spots; in winter, the ivy leaves are green and defy snow and ice, and in the warm season, it is pleasantly shady, cool, and refreshing there.

Hedera is my latest L'Erbolario acquisition. After several tests, the dark green glass bottle with the delicate golden inscription was allowed to accompany me home.

Hedera is a fresh green fragrance, lighter than the glass bottle might suggest. It is probably the fresh light green ivy leaves, as they sprout in spring.
At the beginning, I can clearly smell the orange, which significantly tempers the lemon and bergamot.
The ivy leaves mixed with pineapple and rose join in, and as the fragrance develops, Hedera becomes a bit woodier. I can sense the lavender - but only very faintly.
I was very pleasantly surprised by the delicate fig note, similar to Fico di Amalfi or Un Jardin en Méditerranée, even though no fig is listed among the fragrance notes. This makes Hedera lightly warm-sweet besides the fresh green note. It is a beautifully rounded, soft, and yet refreshing fragrance. The longevity is good.

Hedera reminds me of a warm summer day - when I like to seek out the shady spots in the garden, sit on a low wall, and take a deep breath. I can feel the entire glory and warmth of summer down to my toes. The pleasant coolness and tranquility refresh me instantly. The trees shade and protect me. In the shimmering sunlight, I see the blooming roses; I can smell lavender and jasmine from here. When it gets too cool, I can stand back in the bright sunlight in just a few steps and warm myself.

On the ivory-colored outer box with the ivy vines, the following fragrance notes are listed:
Top notes: bergamot, lemon, orange
Heart notes: ivy, pineapple, jasmine, rose petals, lavender oil
Base notes: cedarwood, wild pistachio (mastic shrub), essential oil of vetiver, coconut powder

06/19/2014

10Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Shogun
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Shogun

Top Review 25

the incredible story of mrs.b.

today I was at the planetarium.
the topic of the lecture I attended: "are we alone?"

it is a fascinating thought that in this infinite darkness out there, other beings besides us might exist. yet in the lifespan that remains for me, I will probably never find out, based on my newly gained insights from this afternoon.

with the awareness that I now have to come to terms with confining myself to my microcosm, I remembered a film that I loved dearly as a child: "the incredible story of mister c."

in short:
mister c. is unfortunate enough to become a victim of an atomic test and shrinks to ever smaller dimensions, so that in the end he must fight for his life against a giant-looking house spider. he ultimately accepts his fate, that he is now, becoming smaller and smaller, venturing into a new, unknown universe.

with hedera, I can also mentally experience such a fantastic journey:

...now, having become very small, I am in a beautiful garden

...I wear a dress made of jasmine flowers

...the tree root of a cedar offers me shelter

...my bed is a tuft of moss, soft and fragrant

...above me a canopy of ivy provides me with shade

...I drink the dew drops from a rose leaf
hedera starts off with a fresh citrusy opening.

as the scent warms on the skin, the ivy dominates, a dark green, mild-spicy ivy.

jasmine and roses enhance the impression of being in a dewy, shady garden. you can even smell the damp earth.

in the base, the scent becomes woodier and I believe I can also recognize moss.
a truly wonderful olfactory experience!
I don't know if there is anything out there in the cosmos waiting for me, but my fantastic scent journey with hedera gives me the feeling that even the smallest microcosm can be a whole universe...!

02/17/2018

10Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Shamis
47 Reviews

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Shamis

Very helpful Review 16

The Snake in the Ivy

In elementary school, one day we were shown live snakes - harmless creatures that we admired with childlike innocence. I found them incredibly exciting. Their stillness and total lack of expression made them hardly seem like breathing beings, and yet there was this subtle liveliness. From then on, I wished to discover such a snake in the wild. Without any scientific knowledge, but equipped with a vivid imagination, I was particularly drawn to a specific spot in my search: an old garden wall, under which plenty of ivy grew. In spring, I often looked for a snake on my way to school, though without success. I could not associate snakes with sunshine, summer, or heat. For me, they belonged quite naturally in the damp shade, in the earthy green. In my mind's eye, I could see it, the dark snake, moving almost imperceptibly through the thicket of ivy.

This image of a dark snake slithering through the ivy in the shadow of an old wall had completely faded from my memory for years. The fragrance with the absolutely fitting name "Hedera" has brought it back. It starts with an almost piercing citrus note and quickly develops into a distinctly herbal scent. A scent one might find in the wild. Herbaceous green, juicy, but also with sweet undertones (which come from pineapple and coconut here). A blend that reminds me very much of shady, densely vegetated green spaces in spring. A few freshly broken leaves and twigs, grass, somewhere a tree or bush is already blooming... And it smells damp, like after a rain shower. Here there is dark green old ivy, there are birds and insects.

Hedera is a scent that I find very intense. It lasts for several hours on me, but has no overly strong sillage. However, when I sniff my skin, it is immediately there - and has something penetrating. It feels subtly alive. As I was told in the store, it has unfortunately been discontinued. All the more fortunate I feel to have gotten a small remaining bottle.

04/09/2016

7Scent 5Longevity 4Sillage

DonJuanDeCat
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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 11

With a Good Mood into Spring!

Ah, spring is here. Not only is the time being changed (someone here surely missed that :D …), but it is also finally getting noticeably warmer. The sun shines a little more outside every day, birds can be heard everywhere, my cat stays outside longer (so I can have some peace from him!), and many people have a generally better mood.

With Hedera comes a fragrance that fits perfectly into this beautiful springtime! Fresh, citrusy, green, and simply pleasant. Although it is a bit weak, it has become a pleasant scent that one could take a look at.

The fragrance:
The scent starts off very fresh and citrusy with grapefruit, lemon, and a bit of orange. However, the almost tea-like scent of bergamot is the most noticeable. The fragrance notes smell natural and green, already creating a feeling of good mood.
The scent remains fresh in the heart note but becomes a bit more floral with slightly sweet jasmine, some rose, and lavender. I wasn't quite sure if I could even perceive the iris butter and pineapple notes. The lemon seems to become a bit stronger in the heart note, causing the overall green to remain somewhat in the background.
In the base, the sweetness becomes slightly darker due to the amber, and it becomes woody, which fits well as a base for citrusy and green scents. I could smell less of the coconut and vetiver.

The longevity and sillage:
The longevity is short, with the scent lasting only four to five hours on the skin.
The sillage is also somewhat weak. Despite the citrus notes, the fragrance will not leave a large scent trail but may still be perceived in the immediate vicinity. It will make you feel fresh, and that is somewhat what matters here.

The bottle:
L’Erbolario usually has beautiful, or rather colorful bottles, which can be debated in terms of design. I didn't have the bottle in my hand, but from pictures, it looks like a shampoo bottle or something of that sort. It is green with a bronze, cylindrical cap. The name and brand are printed on the front, along with a nice plant image. All in all, quite okay.

Hedera is a lovely fragrance for spring. It combines the citrusy freshness of citrus fruits with the green notes of plant (juices) and floral (but also slightly stuffy) notes.

Since the scent comes across as herbaceous and the floral notes are not too strong, it is suitable for both ladies and gentlemen. It can be well used as a fragrance for leisure. A bit short-lived for work, definitely not suitable for partying or going out, but good for hiking, grilling, sitting by the lake, petting cats (uh okay, that might not be easy with citrus scents…) and everything else you do in your free time. Overall, it seems to spread a good mood!

Not particularly expensive to acquire, it could definitely be worth a look and a test!

09/07/2019

7Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Ninchen
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Very helpful Review 11

The Secret

Everything about this fragrance is mysterious.

It all started with how it found its way to me. I had never heard of the brand before, but it was recommended to me in my search for a green-fresh scent in the forum. However, it was quickly kicked out of my shortlist - due to the info "no longer in production" - such things only cause headaches; it's better not to know what you might be missing (or not).

Then, in the souk, I discovered a completely different scent that the lovely Parfuma only wanted to sell as a duo. In combination with one that I absolutely did not want. I searched the souk hopefully for other candidates - and bam. "Hedera" - recognized immediately. That's no coincidence - the duo was allowed to be reconfigured, and soon both were mine.

The mysterious packaging. Inside the pale yellow box adorned with beautiful ivy leaves - and there is no flacon waiting, as expected. No, there waits a second, this time round box, wrapped in dark green velvet. Like a narrower, taller hat box - very elegant and beautiful. Only then do you hold the flacon in your hands.

The scent test itself was a complete surprise. It was recommended to me as a green-fresh-summery fragrance with a minty, cold note. What can I say? I was taken aback.

After spraying, there’s a citrus-herb "bomb" - so intense that it truly tickles the nose, making you instinctively step back a bit, as it’s just too much; presumably, bergamot is in charge here... A few moments later, the orange blossom appears - a radiant orange that seems to bathe the scent in dazzling bright light and brings a blissful smile to your face for a few minutes.

From then on, the fragrance pyramid does what it wants and no longer adheres to protocol. Hints of coconut are already peeking through (even though listed in the base), and from now on, I have a scent that is in no way fresh and certainly not cold. It "sweetens," it "thumps" (quite a bit), it "AUTUMNS," it is lush. It hardly gets more opulent. At least on my skin.

I smell no trace of jasmine, no rose, no lavender, no pineapple, no woody notes throughout the entire scent progression.

Dominant throughout is the ivy note, and in between, a coconut-buttery, very pleasant, but also quite special note flickers up. Even though not listed, I occasionally think I smell grapes - lush, fully ripe, juicy grapes.

All in all, this scent is not uncomplicated and casual to wear for me. It is dominant and noticeable. In my opinion, it is also a scent that polarizes and could provoke an "ew, that stinks" reaction in some people. Similar to "Fig" in perfumes, which sometimes also elicits different reactions.

I would categorize its longevity as average; towards the end, it becomes tamer, and the description "green-creamy" probably fits it well.

My better half judged it as "strange," and when asked what it smells like, I heard "tea/fruity tea/a tea bag mixture" three times in different scent phases.

And here we come to perhaps the biggest secret of this fragrance. It seems to do whatever it pleases on different skin types. And it seems to evoke completely different associations in different people. When I read fresh-minty, when I read summery and hear about use at 30 degrees, I am inclined to believe we are talking about different scents.

But no, it is probably always the same. "Hedera." The one that refreshes some in summer at 30 degrees, that reminds others of a fairground visit, that seems minty-cold to some, and that reminds me on a wet-gray autumn-like late summer day (which, in my opinion, it fits perfectly) of sweet, juicy grapes and coconut butter.

How the same scent manages this, how it is capable of doing so, and how something like this is even possible - that is probably its secret - and will always remain so...

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