Name: Parfum d’Hermes Hermès
Brand: Hermès
Rating: 4.27 (321 reviews)

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Hermès Parfum d'Hermès is a floral chypre fragrance for women. Launched in 1984, this composition was created by Akiko Kamei and Raymond Chaillan. The top notes reveal aldehydes, hyacinth, galbanum, and bergamot; the heart unfolds a harmony of Bulgarian rose, ylang-ylang, iris, and Egyptian jasmine; while the base notes settle on myrrh, incense, sandalwood, spices, amber, cedar, vanilla, and vetiver.

Espartaco July 9, 2019

Chanel No. 5 with sweet myrrh, or a Samsara if they’d given birth to it in the late seventies. Parfum d’Hermès is one of the house’s most obscure creations, hardly surprising since it was a fragrance that could be mistaken for two hundred others. It wasn’t bad—it smelled luxurious and refined—but it suffered from being somewhat plain. To try to understand it without testing it yourself, just think of the magical accord of traditional French perfumery, the kind that hadn’t yet embraced dark or artistic concepts, that typical talcum-and-flowers haze that made you instantly think of a French perfume. Parfum d’Hermès revolves around the stars of these compositions: lily, rose, and ylang, as one would expect. The aldehydes and hyacinth added a bit of lively sparkle, while the sandalwood and myrrh leaned more toward a sweet, narcotic, and sensual resinous quality. The king here was an old-school iris, mired in the rest of the notes, with a seventies vanity-room finish and a lovely sweetness that set it apart from older, harsher talcum-based scents. If I had to define it in one phrase, it’s Guerlain by Hermès; it has an aroma very similar to the brand’s famous makeup powders. A must-have for lovers of romantic perfumes and luxurious, feminine talcum scents. P.S. Editing to add that the original bottle isn’t the one shown in the product sheet—that’s the generic version from the Jardines reissue. The authentic bottle is the small photo on the right in the sheet, which they later modernized to present Rouge.

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Espartaco July 9, 2019

Chanel No. 5 with sweet myrrh, or a Samsara if they’d given birth to it in the late seventies. Parfum d’Hermès is one of the house’s most obscure creations, hardly surprising since it was a fragrance that could be mistaken for two hundred others. It wasn’t bad—it smelled luxurious and refined—but it suffered from being somewhat plain. To try to understand it without testing it yourself, just think of the magical accord of traditional French perfumery, the kind that hadn’t yet embraced dark or artistic concepts, that typical talcum-and-flowers haze that made you instantly think of a French perfume. Parfum d’Hermès revolves around the stars of these compositions: lily, rose, and ylang, as one would expect. The aldehydes and hyacinth added a bit of lively sparkle, while the sandalwood and myrrh leaned more toward a sweet, narcotic, and sensual resinous quality. The king here was an old-school iris, mired in the rest of the notes, with a seventies vanity-room finish and a lovely sweetness that set it apart from older, harsher talcum-based scents. If I had to define it in one phrase, it’s Guerlain by Hermès; it has an aroma very similar to the brand’s famous makeup powders. A must-have for lovers of romantic perfumes and luxurious, feminine talcum scents. P.S. Editing to add that the original bottle isn’t the one shown in the product sheet—that’s the generic version from the Jardines reissue. The authentic bottle is the small photo on the right in the sheet, which they later modernized to present Rouge.

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