Hermès · 2024 · Christine Nagel

H24 Herbes Vives

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Hermès asks $137 for 50 ml
50 ml$137

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Parfum

Fresh herbs and sweet, icy pear granita.

Hermès says

You’ll smell Fresh Herbs, Pear Granita and physcool.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

H24 Herbes Vives’s scent picture, a draft: fresh herbs, pear, oakmoss, coumarin (new-mown hay), citral (lemon), geraniol (rose) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

H24 Herbes Vives, top notes: Fresh herbs, Citral (lemon)

Heartas it settles

H24 Herbes Vives, heart: Pear, Physcool, Geraniol (rose), Eugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

H24 Herbes Vives, dry-down: Oakmoss, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Hermès names

Pear GranitaPhyscool

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 & lavender4 florals1 sweet1 spices1 earth & moss

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral (lemon)

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals4

Benzyl salicylateCitronellolGeraniol (rose) (rose)Farnesol

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

Eugenol (clove)

Earth & moss1

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

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterDipropylene glycolOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Triethyl citratePentaerythrityl 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

BritBurberry · shares pear$130 for 100 ml · about half of H24 Herbes Vives’s $137
English Pear & Sweet Pea CologneJo Malone London · shares pear$175 for 100 ml
Kashmir MuskArabian Oud · shares pear$190 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.