Hermès
Elixir des Merveilles
Amber Gourmand · 2006 · Jean-Claude Ellena
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- Typical season
- Spring
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Reviewed profile
Amber and vanilla folded into a resinous caramel that reads warm and slightly unusual, never cloying. There is a faint salted edge that keeps the sweetness in check. It feels intimate and quietly indulgent.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Familiar Place
Found something that feels like home and never left.
Connection to yourself, your home, your people is what you are all about. The fragrance found you as much as you found it. May those connections remain firm.
How Elixir des Merveilles smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Elixir des Merveilles reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Elixir des Merveilles reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 95th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Elixir des Merveilles sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Elixir des Merveilles is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Elixir des Merveilles feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Elixir des Merveilles carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 78th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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