Hermès will launch H24, a new fragrance for men, in February…
Hermes L’Ombre des Merveilles ~ new fragrance
Hermès has launched L’Ombre des Merveilles, a new spicy woody oriental flanker to 2004’s Eau des Merveilles. L’Ombre des Merveilles follows 2017’s Eau des Merveilles Bleue…
A delicate custom scent
This includes Bali Barret, overseer of all the house’s women’s offerings, to consult on the colors. (She and Touron have Hermès’s library of 75,000 silk swatches and 900 leather shades, complete with pigment formulas, some around a hundred years old, to play with.) Christine Nagel, Hermès’s perfumer, created a delicate custom scent for the lipsticks. And Pierre Hardy, creative director of jewelry and shoes, designed the graphic packaging, which is made of lacquered metal and Hermès’s “permabrass” hardware (the same that is used on its handbags).
— Hermès moves into makeup with the Rouge Hermès lipstick (24 colors, $67, refills $42). Read more in Is This the Birkin Bag of Lipstick? at Wall Street Journal.
Hermes Twilly d’Hermes Eau Poivree ~ new fragrance
Hermès has launched Twilly d’Hermès Eau Poivrée, a new flanker to 2017’s Twilly d’Hermès…
Hermes Un Jardin sur la Lagune ~ fragrance review
A bit of background: The sixth in the Hermès Jardin series, and the first from perfumer Christine Nagel, who took over as the house perfumer in 2016.
The inspiration: The Jardin series perfumes generally find an inspiration, however manufactured it might be (remember The Perfect Scent: A Year Behind the Scenes of the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr?), in some exotic garden someplace else — that is, not in New Jersey (which really does have lovely gardens, but you know what I mean), or your own backyard…