After we launched the first Garden perfume, other companies came up with the same approach. We wanted the fourth perfume to be a surprise. Also, no one could come up with a perfume like Un Jardin sur le Toit because we drew inspiration from our very own garden. This reflects why we don't really need to find another world when happiness can be very close to us.
— Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, quoted in Familiar scents close to home at the Bangkok Post.
Happiness can be very close to us – says the man who traveled the Nile…I can’t wait to try this because even if I don’t love any of the jardin fragrances Hermes is a house which regularly comes up with decent stuff.
Sounds like it is maybe apple & pear and I won’t love it, but I’ll always try anything by Hermes.
Now he’s in Asia, so he can take a visit to Japan and next year we’ll smell Un Jardin Apres le Tsunami …
Oh dear, how sad. Wish he would make a nice cherry blossom scent instead.
One More Un Jardin from the serie. Sounds exciting. Un Jardin Sur Le Nil and Un Jardin En Mediterranee are gorgeous!!! Both are so uplifting. Le Nil makes me feel like I’m on like an aromatherapy.
Robin, maybe you’ll like it. Hermès perfumes are so well-balanced and maybe the notes you don’t like will be only coadjuvants.
Excelent link and topic.
Oh, no worries — I will give it a shot and keep an open mind!
I’ll be waiting for your impressions…
I’ve been excited about this since they announced it would have a compost note. Compost smells WONDERFUL!
The description (by someone who had smelled it — sorry I don’t remember where!) I read did not make it sound earthy at all.
There is a nice interview with him about the perfume in W magazine this month, that I’m sure will be covered in the monthly magazine roundup.
From that interview, sounds like he’s tiring of the Jardins, unless he can come up with unique concepts like the roof garden.
I think if anyone could recreate the smell of a tomato on a vine in the sun, it would be jean claude-ellena and I hope that someday the Jardin series can “go there”.