Un Jardin sur le Nil is the second of the Hermès Jardins, composed in 2005 by Jean-Claude Ellena after a trip to Aswan. The house describes it as a green and woody fragrance in which a tangy green mango, a delicate lotus and sycamore wood answer one another, along with incense and calamus. Its bottle, in glass shaded with green, evokes the banks of the Nile.
In 2005 Robin of Now Smell This called Un Jardin sur le Nil an absolute must-have, less sweet than the Mediterranean Jardin; in 2013 Persolaise praised a sunny grapefruit and, above all, a serene incense base, the true star in his view.
Olfastory’s review
Robin, Now Smell This
In February 2005, Robin discovered the fragrance on its release and judged it an absolute must-have. She smelled a fizzy citrus opening, perhaps grapefruit or lime, very green notes and a fruity mango that is never too sweet.
The citrus fades, leaving a high-pitched green over a woody base; she could not make out the lotus. She found it considerably less sweet and less fruity than Un Jardin en Méditerranée, and likened its fizz to that of Diptyque’s Oyédo.
Dariush Alavi, Persolaise
In April 2013, Dariush Alavi admitted that Chandler Burr’s book seemed to have said everything about the fragrance. He praised the burst of citrus in the opening, focused on grapefruit without heaviness, as sunny as that of Cologne Bigarade.
For him, the true star lies elsewhere: the incense base, clean and serene, quiet and persistent, which in his image carries the stroller by felucca into nightfall on the river. He concluded that it is great work.