Hermès will launch Tutti Twilly d’Hermès, a new fragrance for women, in September. Tutti Twilly d’Hermès is a flanker to 2017’s Twilly d’Hermès, and follows 2019’s Twilly d’Hermès Eau Poivrée and 2021’s Twilly d’Hermès Eau Ginger…
In the morning, my nose is very precise
In the morning, my nose is very precise. Obviously by midday I can still smell very well but there’s an olfactory fatigue that sets in. This is something that I noticed early on in my career. Like an athlete, I’m trained now and my days can be much longer.
For me, there’s nothing worse than if I go to a dinner in the evening and people ask me to smell what they’re wearing; at the end of the day I really can’t smell anything anymore. When people ask me this question and I have to smell their neck, I smell them as much as I smell their fragrance. It’s very troubling.
— Read more in Hermès Perfumer Christine Nagel Takes Us Through Her Workday at The Kit.
You smell Coca-Cola
“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.
I decided to work a little bit like a painter might do
I didn’t give up on the idea. I decided to work a little bit like a painter might do. When a painter paints a landscape, he might stand in front of the landscape, with an easel, copying the landscape. But there’s a different way of going about it. Some painters might want to have a very intense look at the landscape, absorb it, and then go back to their workshop to paint it from memory.
— Perfumer Christine Nagel, on developing Hermès Un Jardin à Cythère during the Covid lockdown, when she could not travel to Kythira. Read more in Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel turns to memories to create new fragrance at Vancouver Sun.
Hermes Un Jardin a Cythere ~ new fragrance
Hermès has launched Un Jardin à Cythère, a new unisex fragrance (the seventh) in the brand’s Jardin series. The last was 2019’s Un Jardin sur la Lagune…