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An object and its secrets A word from the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: "The perfumed expression of a Mediterranean memory, a mosaic of olfactory, visual and tactile sensations". Like a travel diary, this perfume evokes the scents of a Tunisian garden full of trees and flowers. It tells of a heavenly universe made of shadow, water and light, with notes of fig imbued with Mediterranean touches.

The word to the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: "A new idea of freshness, rather unusual: green and vegetal scents, of water and sand." Un Jardin sur le Nil is an impressionist walk in the garden islands of the Nile in Aswan. Mango green, lotus, incense, calamus and sycamore wood characterize the heart of this fresh aromatic poetry. Olfactory strolls through the various themes of the Maison, Jardins fragrances testify to authentic encounters between the Hermès style, the soul of a place and the creator.

After the Mediterranean and the banks of the Nile, Hermès invites us to discover the rebirth of Indian nature after the rainy season. Un Jardin Après la Mousson is a creation of the perfumer of the house Jean-Claude Ellena. After the monsoon, says the perfumer, 'the leaves turn green, the water invigorates the cold aromas and the smell is reborn, alive, clear, moist'. A spicy and humid green citrus water.

The word to the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: “A garden in celebration, a spontaneous garden, flooded with light”. Un Jardin sur le Toit tells of a secret garden, nestled in the heart of Paris. A suspended garden that is hidden on the roof of the Maison Hermès building, at 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. An apple tree, a pear tree, a magnolia and grass, for a crunchy and laughing scent. Olfactory strolls through the various themes of the Maison, Jardins fragrances testify to authentic encounters between the Hermès style, the soul of a place and the creator.

The word to the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: "I remembered the smell of ponds, jasmine, wet stones, plum trees, kumquats and giant bamboos. A perfect picture, completed by centenary carp swimming placidly in the pond. " Le Jardin de Monsieur Li tells of a walk in a Chinese garden between reality and imagination. A place for meditation where every step frees the imagination. Olfactory strolls through the various themes of the Maison, Jardins fragrances testify to authentic encounters between the Hermès style, the soul of a place and the creator.

The garden of my dreams. I created a scent interwoven with memories, the trees and flowers that animated it and the nature that continues today. Christine Nagel. A Jardin sur la Lagune is a dream garden, enveloping and vibrant. Olfactory strolls through the various themes of the Maison, Jardins fragrances testify to authentic encounters between the Hermès style, the soul of a place and the creator.

The founding Eau de Cologne created by François Caron in 1979 is inspired by the smell of an undergrowth wet with morning dew. This fragrance, which has since established itself as a Hermès emblem, stands out for its unique life-giving freshness. Novel scent, imagined as an explosion of citrus notes, where orange is the protagonist, among peels, flowers and leaves, in harmony with lemon, mandarin, mint leaves and black currant buds.

The word to the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: “A bittersweet cologne: freedom in tradition”. Classic in its approach, which favors the liveliness and freshness of citrus fruits, Eau de pamplemousse rose stands out for the modernity of its creation. The citrus theme of grapefruit comes alive with a new splendor in contact with the rose. Hermès Eau de Pamplemousse Rose is a fragrance belonging to the citrus-aromatic group intended for both men and women. The fragrance is made up of a mix of notes of Grapefruit, Orange and Rose.

Eau de gentiane blanche: conceived by Jean-Claude Ellena as an irreverent on the traditional style of Cologne, the Eau de gentiane blanche revisits freshness with a mixture of audacity and delicacy. Complex and sophisticated, gentian offers its many facets sometimes bitter, sometimes smooth in an elegant vapor of white musks that source their sweetness away from sugary elements, thus offering the gentian component an unexpected olfactory counterpart.

The word to the perfumer, Jean-Claude Ellena: “A bittersweet cologne: freedom in tradition”. Classic in its approach, which favors the liveliness and freshness of citrus fruits, Eau de pamplemousse rose stands out for the modernity of its creation. The citrus theme of grapefruit comes alive with a new splendor in contact with the rose. The cologne collection expresses the Hermès lifestyle. Generous expressions of a simple and sparkling pleasure, with their olfactory vividness the Hermès colognes acquire the capacity of almost figurative evocations.

The pungent and explosive vivacity of lemons combined with the depth of the subtly smoky and woody notes of black lemon. Eau de Citron Noir leaves a singular and paradoxical trace, an extraordinarily persistent freshness, which resists to the bitter end: it is the cologne of day and night! The fragrance features lime, smoke, lemon, black tea, cedar and guaiac wood.

With Eau de rhubarbe écarlate Christine Nagel creates her first Cologne for Hermès. Unpublished and bold, more vegetal than her citrus, she gives the crunchy and acidulous freshness of rhubarb wrapped in the velvety touch of white musks.