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Slightly sweaty at the sea
I just happened to see that there is a new fragrance from the Hermès Garden range (okay, "new", by now it's already two years old again) and, after cross-reading the reviews here, was very curious: "romantic but weird", "warm", summer but not typical summer and "for people who (...) maybe like a bit weird fragrances"? Please yes!
My everyday fragrance for over eight years is "Un Jardin sur le Nil". It almost always goes, also "Voyage d'Hermès" (eau de toilette and perfume). The other garden fragrances were all not my cup of tea, too woody-crass (Méditerranée), too light-dusty-crass (sur le Toit), too cardboardy (Monsieur Li) and so on. So I was a bit skeptical, but had a good feeling at the same time. And have not been disappointed!
Trying fragrances in pandemic times is also such a thing: I went with FFP2 mask in the perfumery around the corner and asked for a spray on the arm and one on a test strip, I smelled both afterwards in a side street around the corner (probably looked a bit strange). What I smelled matched my suspicions that we might be in for something, although (or because) sur la Lagune is so different from my previous scents, very floral-body-warm, not at all as cerebral-green-grassy as, say, Nile Garden.
When I got home some time later, the scent had already arrived at a very physical-salty-woody base note that somehow smelled slightly sweaty, someone here described it as a "lived-in scent" and that sums it up very well. I was so flashed by the scent that I bought it immediately, only to keep sniffing it skeptically (does it really fit?) (Yes!).
For me, sur la Lagune is definitely a Hermès garden scent, giving a woody (but slightly softer-woody) hand to Méditerranée and a slightly dusty one to sur le Toit. It smells familiar and foreign at the same time, which is probably what makes it so exciting to me.
It's a truly unisex scent, for brave people of any gender, it starts with very distinct florals and ends with equally distinct sweated saltwood. It lasts eight hours or more on me, and I'm very happy to have discovered it now (the beginning of summer 2021) of all times. It fits perfectly. Thanks to the reviewers here, without you I would have neither noticed nor tried it.
My everyday fragrance for over eight years is "Un Jardin sur le Nil". It almost always goes, also "Voyage d'Hermès" (eau de toilette and perfume). The other garden fragrances were all not my cup of tea, too woody-crass (Méditerranée), too light-dusty-crass (sur le Toit), too cardboardy (Monsieur Li) and so on. So I was a bit skeptical, but had a good feeling at the same time. And have not been disappointed!
Trying fragrances in pandemic times is also such a thing: I went with FFP2 mask in the perfumery around the corner and asked for a spray on the arm and one on a test strip, I smelled both afterwards in a side street around the corner (probably looked a bit strange). What I smelled matched my suspicions that we might be in for something, although (or because) sur la Lagune is so different from my previous scents, very floral-body-warm, not at all as cerebral-green-grassy as, say, Nile Garden.
When I got home some time later, the scent had already arrived at a very physical-salty-woody base note that somehow smelled slightly sweaty, someone here described it as a "lived-in scent" and that sums it up very well. I was so flashed by the scent that I bought it immediately, only to keep sniffing it skeptically (does it really fit?) (Yes!).
For me, sur la Lagune is definitely a Hermès garden scent, giving a woody (but slightly softer-woody) hand to Méditerranée and a slightly dusty one to sur le Toit. It smells familiar and foreign at the same time, which is probably what makes it so exciting to me.
It's a truly unisex scent, for brave people of any gender, it starts with very distinct florals and ends with equally distinct sweated saltwood. It lasts eight hours or more on me, and I'm very happy to have discovered it now (the beginning of summer 2021) of all times. It fits perfectly. Thanks to the reviewers here, without you I would have neither noticed nor tried it.
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