Hermès
Terre d’Hermès
Woody Spicy · 2006 · Jean-Claude Ellena
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Summer
Bright orange and pepper over flinty vetiver and cedar, the mineral woody-citrus that made its name. It reads clean, dry and grounded, sparkling up top and earthed below. Confident and easy, with an even trail.
Taste Profile
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See your own Taste Map →How Terre d’Hermès smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Terre d’Hermès keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin.
Terre d’Hermès reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 13th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Terre d’Hermès 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 14th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Terre d’Hermès is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Terre d’Hermès arrives seamless, as a single impression rather than parts. That is 11th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Terre d’Hermès keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is among the lowest in the catalogue for sweetness across 5,322 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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