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Happiness can be very close to us

Posted by Robin on 23 March 2011 12 Comments

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.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: hermes, jean claude ellena

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  1. kristinacologne says:
    23 March 2011 at 9:55 am

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      23 March 2011 at 10:21 am

      Sounds like it is maybe apple & pear and I won’t love it, but I’ll always try anything by Hermes.

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  2. Nile Goddess says:
    23 March 2011 at 10:22 am

    Now he’s in Asia, so he can take a visit to Japan and next year we’ll smell Un Jardin Apres le Tsunami …

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    • Robin says:
      23 March 2011 at 10:31 am

      Oh dear, how sad. Wish he would make a nice cherry blossom scent instead.

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  3. moore says:
    23 March 2011 at 1:13 pm

    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.

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  4. moore says:
    23 March 2011 at 1:27 pm

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      23 March 2011 at 3:31 pm

      Oh, no worries — I will give it a shot and keep an open mind!

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      • moore says:
        23 March 2011 at 11:27 pm

        I’ll be waiting for your impressions…

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  5. Thalia says:
    23 March 2011 at 1:46 pm

    I’ve been excited about this since they announced it would have a compost note. Compost smells WONDERFUL!

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    • Robin says:
      23 March 2011 at 3:31 pm

      The description (by someone who had smelled it — sorry I don’t remember where!) I read did not make it sound earthy at all.

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  6. breathesgelatin says:
    23 March 2011 at 3:38 pm

    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.

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  7. Thea S. says:
    24 March 2011 at 12:14 am

    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”.

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