Un Jardin sur le Nil

A true ode to the fragrant nature of Egypt's earth and water where warmth and freshness merge, Un Jardin sur le Nil illuminates our noses with its sparkling, light scents. A summer stroll entirely in scents “painted” by a talented perfumer...

The second opus of the Jardins d’Hermès illuminates Ellena's dreamed-of Egypt

In the world of perfumery, Ellena is a kind of impressionist perfumer, I am a watercolorist he tells us, as if to better enchant us with his olfactory paintings. A painter who finds inspiration only within a certain freedom. A freedom that begins first with creative freedom, which the house of Hermès offered him in exchange for his talents starting in 2004.

I have never been comfortable with marketing and its concepts, which began poisoning the profession in the mid-70s. I need connection, irrationality, spontaneity to create, he confided about his now-exclusive partnership with Hermès. And Hermès knew how to make the most of this poet of scents by entrusting him with only an annual theme, with no briefing, no commercial overload.

The magnificent Jardins d’Hermès collection was born from this freedom and this mutual trust, first through Un Jardin en Méditerranée and now through Un Jardin sur le Nil. Un Jardin sur le Nil offers fresh, aquatic and green scents that are showcased through the work of watercolorist Véronique de Mareuil. The lotus, elegantly drawn as if drifting along the water, goes on to conquer our screens, then the visuals of Un Jardin sur le Nil, then the fragrance's packaging. What could be more fitting, in short, for a painting-perfume than to be depicted through a watercolor?

A green, aquatic citrus fragrance for a stroll through Un Jardin sur le Nil

A new idea of freshness, rather unusual; green and plant-like odors; odors of water and sand. Hermès on Un Jardin sur le Nil. Thus, the elegant bottle of Un Jardin en Méditerranée will now, for Un Jardin sur le Nil, reflect green plant-like lights and the sandy beige shades of the banks of the Nile. The impressionist painting even lives within the bottle.

Un Jardin sur le Nil first offers a fresh, powerful grapefruit around an unprecedented green mango, as if to plunge us into a very refreshing green odor somewhere between tomato leaf and carrot. At heart, aquatic and green scents carry us into their exotic swirl between lotus flower and calamus, that tender reed of the Egyptian riverbanks. Hyacinth and peony bring softness from the riverbanks to better capture us with their delicacy. Finally, incense, rendered through balsamic olibanum, warms us to better draw us into the woody depths of sycamore and vetiver.

Un Jardin sur le Nil is an impressionist stroll through the garden islands of the Nile at Aswan, the starting point of a new olfactory wandering. According to Hermès on Un Jardin sur le Nil.