Voyage d’Hermès: Departure toward freedom... The Hermès perfume house has been creating strong, elegant fragrances since 1951, entirely tied to the ancestral values of the famous saddlery brand.
Since its beginnings in the 19th century, the saddlery and leather goods house Hermès has embodied travel, near or distant destinations, change, but also a certain spirit of escape. It was by drawing on these journeys that Jean-Claude Ellena carried us in 2010 toward his own journeys, scented journeys, ephemeral journeys that nonetheless know how to endure through the hand of the master, who has crafted for us a Voyage d’Hermès that will not be forgotten.
When Jean-Claude Ellena takes men and women on a dreamed Hermès Voyage...
Of course, the house of Hermès had already offered unisex bottles through its Eau d’Hermès or indeed through its powerful and magnificent colognes such as Eau d’Orange Verte. But this time Jean-Claude Ellena goes further by offering, for the first time at Hermès, a unisex fragrance, airy indeed but nonetheless so present, the beautiful and so delicate Voyage.
Voyage will therefore not only be a fragrance of escape, it will also be a skin fragrance, one that opens according to each person's skin, almost as if everyone had a Voyage d’Hermès tattooed onto their body.
Neither Monsieur nor Madame... yet not androgynous either. Like a clear but deceptive line, beneath which, once the fragrance has been left to settle on the skin, wisps of this or that ingredient are actually hidden. In short, a fragrance that takes detours and also travels on your skin... L’Express on Voyage d’Hermès.
Moreover, Voyage wonderfully represents the quintessence of Jean-Claude Ellena's very particular style. Between shadow and light, between discreet presence and impressionist olfactory painting, Voyage surprises and transports us. Yet it is silence and calm where others turn stormy, sweet, and gourmand, and that is the perfumer's magic. Voyage is, and will once again be, a timeless fragrance, just as the Hermès label has so aptly offered since 1951.
Voyage d’Hermès and its captivating tea note, so quintessentially Ellena
While Voyage d’Hermès is unique, it is nonetheless, as already noted, very representative of Jean-Claude Ellena's particular compositional style. Beyond its olfactory abstractions, it brings to mind numerous other works by this impressionist painter.
Thus the famous tea note of this Voyage is not without reference to one of the perfumer's earlier compositions, Bulgari's Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert, which was the first to showcase a tea note in a fragrance. As for the hedione at the heart of Voyage, it is likewise a signature of the impressionist perfumer, who uses it with delight in numerous fragrances such as Cartier's Déclaration.
However, while Voyage is highly symbolic of the compositions of this great perfumer that is Jean-Claude Ellena, it is nonetheless unique. Its departure presents itself as a bath of tonic, invigorating citrus, just barely warmed by a few spices. The heart, meanwhile, hesitates between floral notes, fresh hedione facets, or green notes. Finally, Iso E Super and white musks unfold in depth according to each person's own Voyage.
The fragrance lives up well to its stated intention: it can transport anywhere, as if the imagination of whoever wears it were invited to project their own destination onto it. Grain de Musc on Voyage d’Hermès.