Eau des Merveilles 2004 Eau de Toilette

Eau des Merveilles (Eau de Toilette) by Hermès
Bottle Design Serge Mansau
7.7 / 10 623 Ratings
A popular perfume by Hermès for women, released in 2004. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

Main accords

Woody
Spicy
Citrus
Fresh
Fruity

Fragrance Notes

AmbergrisAmbergris Bitter orangeBitter orange Elemi resinElemi resin Woody notesWoody notes BenzoinBenzoin

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7.7623 Ratings
Longevity
7.2453 Ratings
Sillage
6.4444 Ratings
Bottle
8.2457 Ratings
Value for money
7.5149 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 21.04.2024.

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McConren

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Top Review 45  
Winter is coming
I guess I'm a late bloomer when it comes to perfume. After a few young girlish experiments I had put the subject aside for years. Until that day, when my mother returned a borrowed scarf while walking after a visit. Later I wanted to put it away and hesitated - because it smelled! Every movement of the fabric filled the room with a wonderful magic.

Until then I had often perceived perfumes as annoying, intrusive or headache-prone, but with this fragrance it was different. Something has clicked into my mouth at this moment, with a satisfying, full-sounding KATSCHUNNKK! - this scent was MY! Where's the phone?
"Oh, you like this one? I just got it for free, but it's not my case. You can have it!"

What is it about this fragrance that appeals to me? I don't even want to try to crumble the individual scent elements, others can do that much better here. And especially in this case I don't want to analyse that at all, here I prefer to preserve the overall effect that this fragrance has on me. A scent in which I still find the heat of an almost past summer, but early in the morning there is already a mysterious fog on the fields, it smells a bit like autumn. Winter is coming. Wonderfully unsweet and free from non-binding flowering. Seriously, but not harsh or rude, a melancholic scent. And somehow right. It's for me.

Meanwhile, I wear the scent less often. Not because I like it less than before, on the contrary. If I wear it daily, I take it was less clear, it "disappears" then for my nose, and I still want it to remain something special. Hach. Enough raving. Thanks for reading.
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FrauMieze

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Top Review 22  
A day at the sea
As a big fan of Hermès, I had to test of course also the Merveilles - series.
"Eau des Merveilles | Hermès" has pleased me very well.
This particular fragrance, awakens longing for the sea in me, I do not know why, he has in the fragrance pyramid no aquatic notes.
But I spray it on, I feel this pull in the stomach, this longing for the beach, the view of the sea. I want to go back, sit in the sand and enjoy the tranquility.
There is dry driftwood everywhere, scattered dried seaweed and shell casings. I look out to sea, It is slightly cloudy and not hot. The seagulls fly their rounds over the foaming sea.
Eau des Merveilles - water of wonder. Yes, that fits. It is a miracle.
This fragrance gives me peace and serenity, it grounds me and gives me peace.

Rinse it on, I smell first fresh, delicately citrus impacts, but not like freshly cut citrus fruit but ehr like their abrasion, slightly sweet and not bitter.
Likewise, I immediately perceive a slight woodiness. Dry, like the driftwood on the beach. The pepper is very well perceived, brings a small, peppery kick that is also present for some time.
The woody base is so nicely tuned, tart, slightly herbaceous, woody and needley but neither too woody nor too dry.
The durability is really good, the base is even after 10 h still delicately perceptible the sillage thereby is not very strong, however, at a distance of 1m well smellable.
Eau des Merveilles is something special. Certainly not a fragrance that pleases every woman. No florality, no sweetness. For me, however, just right.
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KB609

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Village pharmacy
I smell that scent and I'm catapulted back to my childhood... in the small village pharmacy. Frau Klee, the friendly, but for me as a child in Bavaria always somewhat stiff-looking pharmacist, due to her High German expression, stands perfectly permed behind the counter. Behind Mrs. Klee are neatly lined up big brown pharmacy glasses with Latin inscriptions. What essences has she hidden in them? Why does it smell so strange here - so "healthy"? Actually not important, the main thing is that she gives me a portion of delicious dextrose as a farewell gift. Orange and lemon is my favourite :)
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Phoenix40

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My ever walker
I have tested this fragrance in midsummer and had to think of him again and again.
This perfume richt mach sun on the skin! After security, after vacation in Tuscany. It has enchanted me.
Tangy-citrusy, resinous-almost sweet.
I think I can judge every single fragrance note out and I love them all.
Now it is November and the perfume goes even in wet cold dirty weather. It has become for me the signature scent and I trace him even to sleep on. Just for me.
I have also been asked several times by colleagues what I wear to repurchase it.
I like it that the fragrance does not contain floral notes, because I do not want to reach like a bouquet.
So I hope that now the specified number of letters is reached because more does not occur to me with the best will in the world.
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Awesomeness

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A minority opinion -- Skip it & sample the flankers
Eau des Merveilles opens quite nice, nicer than I remember in fact. I get a bit of pepper immediately and sweet florals. Pretty for about 15-30 minutes. Then, Eau des Merveilles presents herself as what she is ... a boring, sweet woody.

Inverted? Maybe. I'm picking up citrus about 2 hours out, provided that I close my eyes and think real hard. But at this price point, I was expecting a lot more. A lot.

I know that Eau des Merveilles is loved in the fragrance community, and perhaps its a good entry point into the Hermes range for many. However, I am a dissenter. On me, EdM is a boring, sweet woody that wears like any dreadful little thing in the mass market. There's plenty of fragrances at a third of the price that already have charted this territory.

I generally love Hermes for its uniqueness and it quality, and I own a good handful of full bottles of Hermes scents. I don't believe Eau des Merveilles is among Hermes best work. However, some of the flankers in this are "Must Sample" - the Elixir & L'Ambre, both by JC Ellena, immediately come to mind.

Check out the flankers in this line.
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KuraiKurai 3 years ago
5
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7
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5
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A soft spicy-woody scent with orange and amber nuances. It balances between fresh and warm. Completely anonymous
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RisingChaosRisingChaos 3 years ago
4
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4
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8
Scent
Effervescent lemon-orange opening, like a "clean" Terre d'Hermes but different from Eau Tres Fraiche. Gets woody and mossy in drydown.
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 3 years ago
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Something smells very artificial in this scent. I get a sweet peppery orange with a dominant woody note. It's soapy, ambery, salty and musky
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 5 years ago
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7
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7.5
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zesty with warmer touches , it has an average sillage and it's perfect in the good season. Pretty the spherical bottle like a magic ball.
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1Banane1Banane 2 months ago
To put it plainly, good start, bad finish.
Not sure if it is the note combo or just elemi that I don't like.
Scrubber.
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