Hermes

Jour d'Hermes

2013
White flowers in pure light — Ellena's translucent take on radiant femininity, subtracting where others add.
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Sensory Profile

Sweetness Freshness Woodiness Intensity Longevity Complexity

Composition

Concentration Eau de Parfum
Style Designer
Notable Ingredients
gardenia sweet pea tuberose white musks bitter orange

Olfactory Structure

Family Floral
Evolution Dramatic
Sillage 5/10

Character

Moods

luminous delicate sophisticated fresh

Season

Spring Summer

Occasion

All

Thematic Territory

A Parisian morning flooded with light — white flowers opening in a glass-walled atrium, dewy petals catching the first sun through gauze curtains

Era & Context

Modern

Jean-Claude Ellena's final creation for Hermes before retirement — a white floral that subverts the genre's typical heaviness with translucent layering. Proves that white florals can be radiant without being overwhelming, embodying Ellena's philosophy of subtraction.

Spiritual Links

Diptyque Do Son
7/10
Floral Abstraction Mood Convergence
Frederic Malle Carnal Flower
6/10
Floral Abstraction Compositional Parallel
Le Labo Lys 41
6/10
Floral Abstraction Textural Kinship
Prada Infusion d'Iris
6/10
Minimalist Ethos Powdery Nostalgia
Amouage Reflection Man
6/10
Floral Abstraction Mood Convergence
Chanel No. 5
5/10
Floral Abstraction Era Defiance

Influences

Absorbed from

Frederic Malle Carnal Flower White floral boldness — tuberose and gardenia as statement rather than background
Dior Miss Dior Floral elegance tradition — the heritage of French feminine florals

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