Eau de Pamplemousse Rose

These two Eaux de Cologne follow in the continuity of Françoise Caron's creation while offering beautiful illuminations around the raw material. Elegant and invigorating, fresh and refined, Ellena elevates the eau de cologne to make it a true fragrance of style...

With Eau de Pamplemousse Rose, Ellena marks a return to Hermès's fundamentals

Françoise Caron's creation built around orange and crushed mint, renamed Eau d'Orange Verte in 1997, is certainly one of the most successful Hermès fragrances. The perfumer managed to restore to the Eaux de Cologne their former popularity by giving them unprecedented raw materials such as fruity blackcurrant bud or powerful mint.

For two years already, we had been discussing [Hermès and Jean-Claude Ellena] the fact that the Colognes are a territory that resembles the fundamentals of the house. A simple yet elaborate fragrance, a gesture as masculine as it is feminine... In short, a certain aristocratic spirit.

Clearly, these Eaux de Cologne, fragrances designed to be as ephemeral as they are sophisticated, would be fully brought to light by the artist Ellena. Thus he embarked on this new experience in order to give Eau d'Orange Verte two fine successors that would renew the genre.

Eau de Pamplemousse Rose offers a tangy note that might be considered classic for a Cologne. However, this citrus facet joins a rose note that brings it softness and elegance, a breeze of modernity and allure.

Let's say that the one named Eau de Pamplemousse Rose has everything to seduce immediately. It has that scent of freshly sliced orange, that grapefruit peel completed by a natural rose, very radiant. It charms. Jean-Claude Ellena on Eau de Pamplemousse Rose.

When grapefruit is illuminated by the delicate and luminous rose flower

The singular accords offered by the new Hermès Eaux de Cologne collection could not do without the pretty, highly recognizable carriage-lantern-shaped bottle of Eau d'Orange Verte. However, the bottle is modernized for Eau de Pamplemousse Rose, taking on vivid green colors, joyful and sparkling with modernity.

How could one imagine that the alluring Eau de Pamplemousse Rose would open any other way than with an ultra-invigorating start of orange and grapefruit? Like a fresh fruit juice, we savor these top notes until discovering the gourmand character and sweetness of the rose set there, at the heart of this eau, as if to better wrap us in its floral sensuality. The rhubarb note adds its touch of sugar to this intoxicating blend, just as blackcurrant bud once did for Eau d'Orange Verte. Finally, vetiver and cedar, smoky and tinged with sugar, lend their woody depths to the smoothness of white musks.

Classic in its approach, which favors the liveliness and freshness of citrus, Eau de Pamplemousse Rose stands out through the modernity of its composition. The citrus theme of this new fragrance, embodied here by grapefruit, comes alive with a new brilliance through contact with the rose. Hermès on Eau de Pamplemousse Rose.