L'Eau des Hespérides 2008

L'Eau des Hespérides by Diptyque
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7.3 / 10 159 Ratings
L'Eau des Hespérides is a perfume by Diptyque for women and men and was released in 2008. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
Pronunciation
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Main accords

Citrus
Fresh
Green
Spicy
Woody

Fragrance Notes

PeppermintPeppermint ImmortelleImmortelle Bitter orangeBitter orange LemonLemon

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.3159 Ratings
Longevity
7.0111 Ratings
Sillage
6.1112 Ratings
Bottle
7.7102 Ratings
Value for money
6.029 Ratings
Submitted by DirkDS, last update on 08.04.2024.

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5 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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8
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9
Longevity
9
Scent
Fittleworth

21 Reviews
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Fittleworth
Fittleworth
Top Review 31  
Dit is Frühsomma vont Feinste!
Take a seat, Mr. Jeheimrat!
Well, it is an exorbitant pleasure for me to welcome you once again to my small salongk!

What shall it be then? Like imma? Fassongk? Shaving every year?
Aba jern, aba jleich ...

Coffee?
Cream...? Zucka?
Feel at home!
I'll put them in front of the neese, but I'll also put pieces of Trudchen's gooseberry pie in front of the neese. Hatse janz freshly baked. I know it already. Jreifense unscheniert zu!
How popular?
Yes, dit jehört here to the Sörwiss. All for our valued customers!
Now I want you to wear your tablecloth around your neck like this... no need to spill your fine white shirt.
If I may be allowed to say so, Mr Jeheimrat looks like a nice chap today. How he is dressed for a real racketeer! Compliment!
The sides bite shorter...?
Aba jern, aba jleich ...

What do you mean, Mr. Jeheimrat? Yes, you are quite right. It really is a little bit of weather, just like a real spring day. Could we have some rain, but it is already killing Jroße and Janze I'll drive out afterwards to Trudchen in unsan Jarten in Hohenschönjrünkohl. Oh, yes, such intimate nature in the middle of nowhere...
It is so refreshing for the soul to be able to sweat from the heart When the little pipits scream around in the trees and in the bushes as if they knew that the people would fall for it ...

Whatever you say, Mr. Jeheimrat ...?
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you there. So in the middle of the sun you get the different scents in the Neese.
Very rich, dit fresh green and because so a light scent of cool Wassa ...
Lovely! Br /> What does man want but more?
Corianke, saach ick imma, Corianke, you have to condense on the really important things in life.
And in addition to that, you can still feel the beauty of the awakening nature of the immense springtime Then the person is happy, and the neese clicks their tongue before Vajnüjen, so to speak, if I want to take the small joke from them.

So I think that you shouldn't let such moments in life pass by just like that. No, but that's what a person has to hold on to and pour it on, and burn it into the ainnarungk, so that it will stay there forever! That is important, but for darker times int life.. What do you mean?
Yes, yes, yes, Mr Jeheimrat is absolutely right. I have a small camera, and I use it even more often Aba dit is one thing - the picture does not give the impression of Jesus as it did, and it is the one that matters Agree with me there?

See, and because of that I am so immaculate to me, Corianke, I am so immaculate, and must add to such slick impressions, and yet another kind of the Ainnarn.
And that is now, Mr. Jeheimrat already has an idea of what I am aiming for, a suitable fragrance Mister Jeheimrat jestatten, I'm already riding my kleenet Steckenfehrd..
So if I may ask Mister Jeheimrat to take the noble head of the polecat to the other side ... because I can have a good time here .. Where was ick?
Oh - Steckenfehrd and Duft.

Yeah, see, I'm just sort of speaking a big neese. I take the impressions of the senses but above all I take the neese with me. That's what they call in unusually uniformed circles, but also ollfacktohrisch, as I was told
For this reason I am of course, but also that which I have so much nature and my little garden, with all the fragrances that I have come to know over the years
Now it was so common that a fragrance came before the neese, which immediately put me into my little garden in the middle of spring I still thought so with me, Korianke, I thought so with me, dit is aba jenau as if you were standing in the middle of your little Jarten. Oda is sitting. I am sitting there on the hollyhound swing and let my mind and soul dangle ... and Trudchen comes with a large piece of gooseberry pie and a small coffee.. A popo little coffee table, may ick mister Jeheimrat nochn coffee table offariern ...?
Aba jern, aba jleich ...

Where was l...? I see, fragrance and spring So this set of waters, which came to me before the Neese, jingk yes with a citric Aöffnungk loose. Lemon and Bittaorangk... So far, so green, you know that Aba denn!
Then janz züjich rinjemengt himself into the Bittaorangksche and the lemon with a bit of mint. Hamse dranjekkippt there, and dit gets the scent very jut, as ick state.
Fresh, that's all I can say Very fresh!
It pleases, it makes you happy, it's good for someone, it's not unusual in itself.
Aba then... . as I have been told by a whisperer, who must know that, apart from that, Immortelle has been stirred up
How do you like ...?
Yes, I thought I knew Mister Jeheimrat. Yes, that's right, strawflower will be named after you Is son bite a brittle, dry Jeruch. I'm sure they're honest, so it wouldn't be for the old coriander alone.
It's all a bit like a composite son of a bitch.
It's a celebration of the reese! See, there's no wood in it. Aba by the old straw flower, it looks as if there is a wooden fence in the yard, on which the sun shines in full force Kennse dit? The jeruch from some old wooden fence that gets warm in the sun? Then they bite dry, then they bite bitta, like after early summer, after discovering the mystery and childhood?
Right dit isset!

What do you mean? No, I can reassure you.
There's nothing sweet about the perfume, but there's nothing sweet about it. It's been around like this until the old coriander.. It is so herbaceous and bitty, as if sitting in a nice warm table in the garden and from the flowerbeds brings a small refreshing breeze with the scent of flances and cool water No, it's not me, it's so green, a little bit herbaceous and fresh I find it astonishing, how they collect water with only four ingredients sooooo much water ...

Yeah, well, it's gonna last, because you have my word on it. I've had some for a long time However, if I only take a dash, the brew is strong Is aba int Jroße and Janze discreet and not obtrusive.

I haven't really got the knack of it. it's unusual. I didn't know you So I would like to call dit ma janz brisk as bittafrisch No, it's still so untajekomm at keen andane perfumes... I can only recommend you!
Well, have you got a good mouth to feed, mister Jeheimrat ma wieda ...? Aba muttering to myself, I have this noble brew at hand! I won't recommend you a fragrance that I can't even blow on the schemisett, Mr. Jeheimrat! Wollnse ma ...?
Aba jern, aba jleich ...

Naaaaa ...?
Does it...?
See, I've seen it all. It's a fragrance so right for early summer.
Fits her like a glove, Panama hat, if I may take your permission to say so ...

Aba imma yeah! Yes, sir! Thank you very much, Mr Jeheimrat! Come and see me soon Un Jrüße an die Frau Jemahlte!
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7
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8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Augusto

164 Reviews
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Augusto
Augusto
Top Review 18  
Summer sunbeams, straw dry
Blue sky, swallows, a brook babbling nearby. The herbs are already beginning to dry, along with lemon, fresh and sour. Strawflowers are here in their most beautiful and natural habitat, if that can be a bottle. The warmth of summer stored in a very dry-seeming cologne that becomes increasingly spicy. It extends the summer sunbeams into autumn and winter without ever seeming inappropriate for him and her and all who like it.
12 Comments
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Rickbr

190 Reviews
Rickbr
Rickbr
2  
Perfect for Summer
This is amazing on very, very hot days. You feel like you have bathed under a cold shower of mint, citrus fruits, flowers and leaves. It's very refreshing, mouthwatering at first and has a cool effect on skin. It driesdown to a quiet scent, but you can use it in big doses that it won't get offensive. Also, if you spray on clothes it seems to last and project more. It's delicious, a straightfoward and very well done citrus fragrance.
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
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Negliglible green
Eau des Hesperides by Diptyque starts off with a sharp, almost acrid minty-citrus-grass accord, which smells as much green as really pungent and balsamic. Invigorating and bracing on one side, quite artificial on the other, ending up in smelling a bit like a nasal decongestant – balsamic for sure, but also decidedly “medicinal” in a literal, non-fascinating meaning. The musky base, subtle but substantial, doesn’t help in minimizing this plastic feel. Still if it’s smashing green freshness what you are looking for, regardless of quality and charm, then this will probably suit your needs. Personally I find this a bit too loud and artificial, with way too much acrid-synthetic stuff going on - speaking of contemporary green citrus scents I tend to prefer more discreet, natural refined stuff like some Hermès “concentrés”, but to each his own. Like many other Diptyque fragrances, a nothing bad-nothing good quintessence of negligibility.

6/10
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6
Bottle
8
Sillage
10
Longevity
6
Scent
GoldenDew

5 Reviews
GoldenDew
GoldenDew
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Bitter–fresh herbs
When I've read in reviews that L'eau des Hesperides has strong medicinal dry down, I've been astonished. I didn't think about it in this way. I can say – it is true, but for me it reveals rather herbal notes. Bitter fresh, just cut herbs. ready to use. I've found Hesperides quite interesting, especially wearing by women who would like to escape from mainstream sweetness. Fit to every season, elegant and misterious. Sharp, like perfect tailored geometrical dress without ornaments.
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HeavensScentHeavensScent 5 months ago
this is one of the 10 best fragrances I ever smelt in my life. Simple but right to the point. Fresh - but in a unique green way. Masterpiece
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