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03/09/2023
BrianBuchanan
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BrianBuchanan
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Eau Deliberate
This was a strange venture for Hermès. They were straying away from leather scents and casting around for a new style, which Ellena would supply with his water colours.
This was 2002, a year before he was appointed, and Akiko Kamei was the creator, a perfumeuse with a typically Japanese signature; smelling this blind you could imagine it was done by Shiseido, not Hermès.
The odour is present but elusive, something like dried cherry blossom, and salt plums in oil that have sat in the tin for too long.
It has the same kind of watery penetration as l'Eau d'Issey (1992) but here it's much more restrained (thankfully) and the theme vaguely recalls the red pepper fruitiness of Xeryus Rouge (1995).
Stylistically unsuited to Hermès, I guess they were glad to drop this sword slash of a scent once Ellena got going with Méditerranée, and the Hermèssences.
This was 2002, a year before he was appointed, and Akiko Kamei was the creator, a perfumeuse with a typically Japanese signature; smelling this blind you could imagine it was done by Shiseido, not Hermès.
The odour is present but elusive, something like dried cherry blossom, and salt plums in oil that have sat in the tin for too long.
It has the same kind of watery penetration as l'Eau d'Issey (1992) but here it's much more restrained (thankfully) and the theme vaguely recalls the red pepper fruitiness of Xeryus Rouge (1995).
Stylistically unsuited to Hermès, I guess they were glad to drop this sword slash of a scent once Ellena got going with Méditerranée, and the Hermèssences.
