Terre d’Hermès Parfum, when man meets nature. The story of the Hermès house begins in 1837. At that time, Thierry Hermès is 36 years old and opens a small shop as a master harness maker and saddler. He makes and sells harnesses as well as equipment for horses.
Hermès fragrances have always managed, just like its leather goods lines, to present themselves as noble and elegant fragrances that nonetheless display a timeless originality. When Jean-Claude Ellena arrived in 2004, the house could already boast having offered great classics of perfumery, but the man would go on to offer many more, including the fabulous masculine fragrance Terre d’Hermès in 2006. In order to increase its emotional charge, he would not hesitate to condense its powers into a Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum in 2009.
When Terre d’Hermès concentrates on its strength to become, in 2009, Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum
The house of Hermès, although traditional and strongly anchored in its prestigious past, never stops delightedly offering its ancestral know-how paired with an unprecedented modernity. The same holds true for its fragrances, and the least one can say is that the arrival of the “painter of scents” Jean-Claude Ellena as the house's dedicated perfumer does nothing to contradict this marriage of contrasts—quite the opposite, it is proudly claimed!
This is how Jean-Claude Ellena, inspired by the native lands of his Irish wife, set out to compose a Terre d’Hermès as powerful and solid as a rock. A masculine fragrance that asserts its “earthly” roots and rises like a scented tree in fresh, spicy, floral and sensual accords.
I remembered a landscape of Irish moorland with just a stake in the ground, planted by man. The stake symbolizes human presence. I started from that idea of man standing on the earth. I searched for a vertical woody smell. Jean-Claude Ellena tells Challenges about the creation of Terre d’Hermès.
This vertical woody scent of Terre d’Hermès would be reborn a second time in a concentrated parfum in 2009, Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum. However, Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum is not designed to be solely an object of power but rather an object of even more striking contrasts than the first opus of 2006.
The striking encounter between mineral notes, citrus and sensual woods for Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum
Jean-Claude Ellena chose to work the composition of Terre d’Hermès under its boldest traits for Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum. He therefore prefers that the composition of Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum be judged as work based on contrasts rather than on power. Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum is not an intense version of Terre d’Hermès, it is a rewriting that sharpens the line, according to the perfumer.
Thus, the citrus notes of Terre d’Hermès were recomposed from a fine and powerful Asian citrus, shiso. The opening of Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum is therefore tangier than ever, and its heart drops the edginess of pink pepper and pepper from the original bottle to focus solely on mineral notes. Finally, this magnificent and deeply rooted Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum closes on woody depths that abandon the edginess of cedar to linger only in the mysterious, enthralling depths of patchouli, benzoin and oakmoss.
Terre d’Hermès Le Parfum thus offers an immediate, implicit and lasting density, according to Hermès.