Hermès · 2024 · Christine Nagel

Barénia

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Hermès asks $182 for 100 ml
30 ml$113
60 ml$147
100 ml$182

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright bergamot and soft miracle-berry fruit around a white butterfly lily, over dry oak wood and dense, earthy patchouli.

Hermès says

You’ll smell butterfly lily, miracle berry, oak and patchouli.

More from Hermès’s description

It also mentions Oakwood, Bergamot and Oak wood.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Barénia’s scent picture, a draft: lily, oak, patchouli, bergamot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Barénia, top notes: Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Barénia, heart: Lily, Miracle berry

Dry-downwhat stays

Barénia, dry-down: Oak, Patchouli

What’s inside it

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals2 spices

8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoateA light stabiliserPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

RemainAmouage · shares lily, patchouli and bergamot$475 for 100 ml
BeautifulEstée Lauder · shares lily, patchouli and bergamot$115 for 75 ml · about the same as Barénia’s $182
Turathi BlueAfnan · shares patchouli and bergamot$50 for 90 ml · about a third of Barénia’s $182
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.