Un Jardin sur le Nil

Hermès describes Un Jardin sur le Nil as a green and woody fragrance: a tangy green mango, a delicate lotus, an elegant sycamore. Ellena adds, in his words published by the house, incense and calamus, the fragrant rush that grows by the water.

The house does not divide these materials by stage. Its Swiss page pairs mango, lotus and fragrant rush with incense and sycamore wood; Persolaise places the fruit in the top and the incense in the base, and Robin of Now Smell This a wood beneath the green.

Mango thus holds the top, lotus and calamus the heart, incense the base, together with the sycamore wood that the house names among its three main materials and that accompanies the incense at the base of the fragrance.

Green and fruit

Wikiparfum ranks the fragrance among the woody scents and also cites tomato, grapefruit, carrot seeds, hyacinth and peony. Robin and Persolaise mostly smell a bright grapefruit in the opening, which Persolaise compares to that of Cologne Bigarade, signed by Ellena for Frédéric Malle.

What the label declares

The ingredient list published by Hermès has twenty-two entries. After alcohol, water and fragrance comes tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, a synthetic wood, followed by a bitter orange peel oil, limonene, hydroxycitronellal, citronellol, hexyl cinnamal and pinene.

It lists three UV filters, ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, ethylhexyl salicylate and butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, terpenes such as beta-caryophyllene and terpinolene, and the regulated allergens geraniol, linalool, citral and farnesol. No colorant appears.

What stays out

Grapefruit, tomato leaf, hyacinth and vetiver, often attributed to the fragrance, are mentioned here but not listed as notes: the house does not name them among its materials. The peony and carrot seeds cited by Wikiparfum are treated the same way.