Robin Here at NST® has a PhD in Hermès Eau de Merveilles and its spawn: she’s reviewed all seven perfumes. I have an easier assignment; Hermès has launched just three Terre d’Hermès flankers: Terre d’Hermès Eau Très Fraîche, Terre d’Hermès Parfum and the new Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver.
Hermès in-house perfumer Christine Nagel developed Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver, and its description is pretty straightforward…
A quick spot for Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver.
Once deconstructed, the vegetable, green notes of the perfume stuck out the most (terre does translate to earth, after all). She leaned into this—amping up the vetiver factor to keep the fragrance warm, swapping out the original’s black pepper notes for bright, almost spicy Sichuan pepper, and finishing it off with Queen of Hesperidia bergamot, picked just before maturity specifically for Terre.
— Perfumer Christine Nagel takes Terre d'Hermès apart, and puts it back together as Terre d'Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver. Read more at Hermès Reimagines One of its Most Iconic Fragrances for Fall at Robb Report.
Hermès will launch Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver, a new flanker to 2006’s Terre d’Hermès fragrance for men (see also: 2014’s Terre d’Hermès Eau Très Fraîche and 2009’s Terre d’Hermès Parfum)…
I should have written this post weeks ago, when we had a brief period of glorious summer weather. Other than that, it’s been a rather odd summer, weather-wise, after a rather odd spring. At the moment, we’re having the usual heat and humidity you’d expect in August, but far more gray, gloomy days than usual for this time of year, and we seem to be on a daily thunderstorm schedule. But onward and upward: this is the last of my seasonal vanilla posts, since I’ve already done fall, winter and spring. As always, do chime in with your own picks in the comments!
Diptyque Eau Duelle: The vanilla martini top notes are perfect, and even though I don’t love the dry down (a quiet hum of tea and spice) quite as well, Eau Duelle would be my first choice for a vanilla that can take the heat of high summer…