“This is lime limette. It smells like a lime, but it’s a bit aggressive, like a cleaning product. And this,” Nagel says, handing me another strip, “is cinnamon. You can smell the cake, the spice. Cinnamon is warm; lime is cold. And if you do this,” she says, twirling the two sticks in front of my nose at once, “you smell Coca-Cola.”

— Perfumer Christine Nagel, in ‘You smell Coca-Cola’: the scent secrets of Hermès’ top perfumer at Financial Review.