Hermès · 2023 · Christine Nagel

Un Jardin à Cythère

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VersionEau de Toilette

Sunny citrus over dry golden grasses and tender fresh pistachio, resting on smooth olive wood.

Hermès says

You’ll smell grasses, olive wood and fresh pistachio.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Un Jardin à Cythère’s scent picture, a draft: green notes, olive wood, coumarin (tonka) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Heartas it settles

Un Jardin à Cythère, heart: Green notes, Olive wood, Pistachio

Dry-downwhat stays

Un Jardin à Cythère, dry-down: Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What Hermès names

What the label names

11 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 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

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

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholA light stabiliserDisodium EDTAPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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