Hermès · 2006 · Jean-Claude Ellena

Terre d'Hermès

VersionEau de Toilette

Hermès says

You’ll smell grapefruit, cedar and flint.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Terre d'Hermès’s scent picture, a draft: grapefruit, cedar, wet flint, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Terre d'Hermès, top notes: Grapefruit

Heartthe first hours

Terre d'Hermès, heart: Wet flint

Dry-downhours later

Terre d'Hermès, dry-down: Cedar, Oakmoss

On the label

What’s inside it

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 earth & moss

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals5

HydroxycitronellalCitronellolHexyl cinnamalGeraniolFarnesol

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoate

Named by Hermès, never on a label

GrapefruitCedarFlint, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 9 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.