Terre d'Hermès Eau de Parfum Intense

Hermès launched Terre d’Hermès Eau de Parfum Intense in 2025 and entrusted its creation to Christine Nagel, the house perfumer. After Eau Intense Vétiver in 2018 and Eau Givrée in 2022, it is the third variation she has signed around the original Terre d’Hermès, created by Jean-Claude Ellena in 2006.

Taking apart a monument

Having joined Hermès in 2014, Christine Nagel took over from Jean-Claude Ellena in 2016. She regards Terre d’Hermès as a monument: to understand it, she says, she took it apart material by material down to its core, found the signature of Terre there and stopped fearing it.

A fire beneath the earth

The idea of a volcano, she says, came very early. Hermès sees in it a deeper facet of the inner fire of the Earth and of man; the perfumer says she wanted an intense signature without forcing the concentration or the intensity of the materials.

Licorice and coffee

Christine Nagel says she was finally able to work with coffee the day a supplier brought her roasted beans. She uses it to give the licorice more grounding, without wanting the composition to smell of coffee, and sought natural extracts of both materials.

How it is presented today

Hermès describes it today as a deep woody fragrance, in which a fiery bergamot meets burning wood over the mineral notes of lava stone. The house singles out three materials, bergamot, burning wood and lava stone, and ranks it among its warm, sensual fragrances.