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Hermes Eau d'Hermes:
Oh, this is nice; basically, it's as if someone took the gorgeous slightly filthy leather note from Cuir de Russie, stripped out about half the infrastructure, turned the filth up to 11, and added spices and bergamot. I am vastly in favor, although I think I'd have to kind of work up the nerve to wear large doses of it in public, because the filth is filthy particularly on the opening. It does, in fact, strongly remind me that traditional leather-tanning processes involve all kinds of bodily fluids, but in a really awesome way; it doesn't ever quite stop being very classical and pulled together in its underpinnings. (I think the absolute least crude descriptor I can apply here is "nymphomaniac Grace Kelly." Everything else coming to mind is sort of... NC-17.)
It's also one of the few perfumes I've encountered so far that goes through really distinct stages on me -- it leads with the leather note, goes to warm-spicy (almost too spicy -- I was briefly worried I was about to have a scrubber on my hands) and then to citrus-and-jasmine over leather, and finishes up leather again, only dryer and fainter and slightly more civilized. The only problem is that it does all that in a slightly shorter timeframe than I'd really like; it's basically gone within six hours.
Which is, I think, a really good excuse to go put some more on.
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Oh, this is nice; basically, it's as if someone took the gorgeous slightly filthy leather note from Cuir de Russie, stripped out about half the infrastructure, turned the filth up to 11, and added spices and bergamot. I am vastly in favor, although I think I'd have to kind of work up the nerve to wear large doses of it in public, because the filth is filthy particularly on the opening. It does, in fact, strongly remind me that traditional leather-tanning processes involve all kinds of bodily fluids, but in a really awesome way; it doesn't ever quite stop being very classical and pulled together in its underpinnings. (I think the absolute least crude descriptor I can apply here is "nymphomaniac Grace Kelly." Everything else coming to mind is sort of... NC-17.)
It's also one of the few perfumes I've encountered so far that goes through really distinct stages on me -- it leads with the leather note, goes to warm-spicy (almost too spicy -- I was briefly worried I was about to have a scrubber on my hands) and then to citrus-and-jasmine over leather, and finishes up leather again, only dryer and fainter and slightly more civilized. The only problem is that it does all that in a slightly shorter timeframe than I'd really like; it's basically gone within six hours.
Which is, I think, a really good excuse to go put some more on.
This entry was originally posted at http://thatyourefuse.dreamwidth.org/438575.html. Please comment there if you can.