Parfum d'Hermès 1984 Eau de Toilette

8.3 / 10 80 Ratings
A popular perfume by Hermès for women, released in 1984. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
Pronunciation

Main accords

Floral
Spicy
Woody
Powdery
Chypre

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
AldehydesAldehydes GalbanumGalbanum BergamotBergamot HyacinthHyacinth
Heart Notes Heart Notes
RoseRose IrisIris JasmineJasmine Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang
Base Notes Base Notes
SpicesSpices VanillaVanilla CedarCedar FrankincenseFrankincense MyrrhMyrrh SandalwoodSandalwood VetiverVetiver AmberAmber

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Ratings
Scent
8.380 Ratings
Longevity
8.561 Ratings
Sillage
7.761 Ratings
Bottle
8.271 Ratings
Submitted by Sani, last update on 04.04.2024.

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BrianBuchanan

355 Reviews
BrianBuchanan
BrianBuchanan
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Still Tugging the Heart Strings
After decades in the doldrums, the rose-violet gained a new lease of life with Paris.
And then, a year later, Hermès made their riposte thanks to the adept Raymond Chaillan and Akiko Kamei.
A wistful rose-iris, with almondy gourmand and lush creamy base, Parfum d'Hermès is a product of its time; but it wears the years lightly, and it's still beautiful, still tugging the heart strings...
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9
Bottle
8
Sillage
7
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Jubilation
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Jubilation
Jubilation
Top Review 23  
Hermes' Masterpiece
Hermes' masterpiece
It was in 1984, when this wonderful fragrance was launched in the Hermes House, whose texture and texture are typical of the brand.
The great perfumer Raymond Chaillan composed this monument of olfactory art together with the mythical Akiko Kamei. The idea was to produce a perfume of the highest quality that could represent the house all over the world and break away from the Hermes genre.
And so this wonderful chypree arose from the heap of innumerable attempts, in which the flowery heart revolves around the absolute of the rose.
The opening is lemon yellow (bergamot) dense and aldehyde almost metallic, a freshness typical of female chypreas, with aldehydes bursting into the scene. After this very fresh and metallic phase, the green aspect of the perfume emerges, with galbanum and hyacinth giving a very hard, stiff and floral fragrance. Followed by the beautiful iris dipping a red and bloody rose that is the master in the entire composition.
The rose is accompanied by an indol jasmine and ylang-ylang, which form a dusty flower.
The rose is also well built with warm and smoky myrrh, which makes the flower warm, bloody and seductive, the sandalwood together with cedar wood also forms a woody background that is remarkable even after the first hour. The result is a magnificent flowery chypre, in which the rose is the undisputed protagonist of the whole composition.
A rose with many faces: Sometimes it is cold (pink and aldehydes), while the other is very hot (pink and hyacinth), but the base is certainly an Oriental rose with lots of myrrh resin and sandalwood.
This composition is similar to the Guerlain Chamade (which does not become warm and velvety like the perfume d'hermes) in the early stages of development, so there is a very strong association with the mythical Guerlain Chype. This similarity is very pronounced because they have many common notes: Bergamot, Hyacinth, Rose, Jasmine, Galbanum and Sandalwood.
The combination of pink and sandalwood has in many places similarities with another great guerilla: samsara. It is a sweet and velvety powderiness, a warm appearance that is conveyed by the large amounts of sandalwood expressed in both perfumes.
The result is a fragrance with luxurious luminosity, a powdery warmth that warms and bewitches, the idea of the velvety vermilion color that turns into warm and seductive skin.
This fragrance expresses everything that elegance and refinement can be represented by the fragrance. Because that is luxury in one word: Parfum d'Hermes.
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Pricing
7.5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Cumulnimbus

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Cumulnimbus
Cumulnimbus
Helpful Review 2  
A lost treasure
Parfum d'Hermes is a lost treasure. I would love to have a full bottle of this one but it has become too difficult to find for a reasonable price. It deserves the admiration, it is a truly timeless beauty. The blend starts with a spectacular hyacinth plus green notes top, followed by a bright and powdery combination of classic flowers which leads to a warm smoky and resinous dry down supported by spicy sweet woody solid base. It is a chic classic, not too bold still distinct. Easy to wear on daytime, long lasting enough as perfumes of the era used to be. It just makes my heart ache the fact that such a wonder has disappeared forever.
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HermeshHermesh 1 year ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Resins and woods ghost in the background, the honey-like intense flowers place themselves in front and together form an imposing splendour.
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 2 years ago
8
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
9
Scent
A magnificent Chypre. The combination of warm spices and a green, bitter galbanum. A floral bouquet, slightly powdery, ambery, smoky, woody.
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