Eau D`Hermes Hermes for women and men

This is quite the experience so far...it went from skanky with loads of cumin to smoky with nice, rich animalic and leathery undertones. It also happens to be fresh because of the bergamote.

A must try if you are into that sort of fumes.

I am sure it would smell super sexy on a man's skin but I also like it on myself. Truly unisex.

This is pure luxury. It smells like nothing else.

Ahh, I love Hermes!

According to Hermes, this original cologne is available everywhere, but I've only ever seen it inside Hermes boutiques, even in Paris. That said, it is worth searching out, especially if you like being the only person around wearing your scent.

Eau d'Hermes has been described as sexy, skanky, dirty, reminiscent of body odor, even a sweaty man's crotch— and it is all of these things, cumin and cardamom and civet, especially on paper or clothing. But Ed'H, like many older fragrances, needs to be smelled on skin.

Sprayed on skin and allowed to settle for a few minutes, it's a warm, deep, mildly powdery holiday pastry, bready not sweet, eaten over a cookstove after a morning of chopping wood. A single drop of Ambre Narguile under your navel fresh back from a winter morning's jog.

On my skin in particular, Ed'H becomes cinnamon and butter and warm skin, like eating snickerdoodles in bed after sex. A warm spiced wine poured over the body of your lover, bergamot and cloves and first-flush armpit.

And perhaps it is just the image of Roudnitska modeling this after the smell of a worn Hermes bag, but I detect some leather and lipstick in there, too. Powerful stuff.

This was the only scent I could stand when I was pregnant. My nose refused all the smells and of course I could not use any perfume. But this was a therapy for my senses. A very elegant scent the philosophy of which has not continued in the recent green cologne creations of Hermés, a masterpiece from the past where hesperides, spices and woods are mixed in a way only Monsieur Roudnitska could do. As modern today as it was when it came out, trés trés chic both on a lady and on a gentleman. The only cologne I would dare on an elegant soirée.

It takes me a lot of time, at least five visits in Amsterdam’s, Barcelona’s and Madrid’s Hermes boutiques to decide whether this one is for me or not. I love kumin in fragrances but I’m always afraid that after application people around me would think that I didn’t get a shower for many days. The kumin must be perfectly balanced with other ingredients to show its real spicy face with slight dirtiness not like Indian kitchen or smell of dirty sweat. Here we have this kind of perfection. Kumin is present and last for long time in the beginning, heart and the base of fragrance. But this kumin first is fresh perfectly surrounded by citruses, than is sweet and spicy because is dancing with tonka beans, jasmine and vanilla and finally is sooooo woody, balanced by sandal, cedar and birch of course. After checking and checking whether this is my kind of smell every time I was more and more surprised how amazing is this creation. This is unbelievable how it evolves. When the temperature outside is high you feel dry and fresh nuances. When is chilly the fragrance creates warm sweetish blanket that cover you. I think that in a perfume schools creators would be able to write master or even PhD thesis about this composition. This is never ending story. From one application to another you are opening a new chapter in the perfect perfume book. This is what I feel wearing this perfume. Today I know that the nose behind Eau d’Hermes is the master of masters – Roudnitska. I understand how mystery of fragrances can make you feel special.

I wore eau d’Hermes today. Eau d’Hermes is my favorite eau de cologne. I think I wear edc for different reasons than most men. If I want simple, fresh and bracing (what I think most people want or expect from a cologne) I’ll rub on a little tea tree or lavender oil out of the shower. I turn to my colognes for a timeframe and a progression that grabs your attention when you pour it on, excites you as it fills the air around you for a few moments, then quickly quiets down to Something Else. Mugler’s cologne’s something else is that odd nose equivalent of a tuning fork crossed with a dog whistle. CdG’s Anbar’s something else is that hint of amber that would take you 12 hours to reach in an amber-oriental but you find 15 minutes after applying Anbar.

Eau d’Hermes’s something else is funk. I enjoy the decadence of stepping clean from the shower and inducing that wonderful skin scent that might otherwise take some sweat and a good few hours of ripening. I love the fact that skin smells. EdH just gets me there faster.

(note: I only know the copper cap version.)

I've been through bottles and bottles of this. I love it and I never found it hard to take because of cumin or anything else. I always found it incredibly soft and smiling and pink, with no hard edges, rather like Marilyn Monroe. I am surprised that something so easy to wear has the reputation it does; I am also trying to get my mind around the Turin/Sanchez caveat on this, ie too middle-aged male. This one has been overanalyzed to death I think.

I'm usually into edgy, challenging, very challenging, almost stinky animalic leathery fragrances but I can't stand Eau D'Hermes. Please, don't blame me. I've been trying this fragrance countless times but there's something that really disturbs me in Eau D'Hermes. I don't know if it's the cumin or the incredibly noticeable retrò feel, but as a matter of fact my olfactory nerves transmit to my brain the wrong impulses and the feeling I have is of an aged citrus cologne that smells like bad breath.

Now I'm ready for flogging!

Note: It's me, it's surely me. Eau D'Hermes deserves its status as a classic, but I still don't like it.

Rating: 4/10 (personal)
9/10 (objective)

You have to own this if you regard yourself as a perfumista. That's also because you need a trained nose to enjoy this.

I had a huge question mark over my head when I first wore this. If you've ever been to an Indian restaurant, you know that when you leave your hair and clothes all end up smelling spicy and food-like. I felt like a walking piece of chicken tikka masala! Cumin is definitely present and is laced through all stages of the perfume's development. My DH is Indian and he thought I made him a nice Indian dinner! I haven't had the nerve to wear this again, but I'm going to break it out in the cooler weather and hope that I get all these other lovely notes that are listed.

Launched originally in 1951 by famed nose Edmond Roudnitska as a “unisex” scent. (Read: Safe for straight men.)

EdH does two extraordinary things and it does them extraordinarily well. Clove, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, geranium leaf, they are all there. Cumin, coming through loud and clear.

What settles in when wearing EdH on the skin is the most sublime and subtle spicy aura rising up like heat waves above sun-baked asphalt.

THAT is very good. Now comes the second part. I smell just beneath the peppery cloud the cleanest and private parts imaginable. As in fired up, ready to go: leather, salt, ammonia, musk.

I love this stuff, and I find it VERY useful. EdH smells like potential to me: potential power, potential space. Of dilation. Of hungry beast. When I first smelled EdH, it had the same effect on me as drinking a glass of red wine: I felt my cheeks flush, and I felt the lines between myself and the world blur.

I don’t think this stuff is safe for ANYONE. But I don’t mind. I have another name for “Eau d’ Hermès”: (En français, s'il vous plait-->) “Danger Sans Peur.”

Just purchased a 15 ml bottle from Ebay to test before buying larger quantity. Intriguing and complex scent. Definitely animalic. I love it; found myself smelling my hands throughout the day. I also find my nose appreciating different aspects of its complexity as the day proceeded. BUT: Weak! Fades. I have several perfume-loving friends of whom I ask their opinion. All had trouble smelling it. Will probably purchase larger bottle, perhaps use layered.

YES it DOES smell like sex! and thank you!

One of the classiest, smoothest Eaus ever. One that keeps its kinky thigh-high, spike-heeled leather boots in the closet and nobody knows.
The sweetish citruses mingle with cumin and cardamom, the light scent of geranium, the woods, mainly cedar, and just a hint of leather. The lavender is present at all stages, but it's very subtle, very discreet. The vanilla even more so, as I was surprised to see there's supposed to be some in there in the first place. As for the infamous slight sweaty note, oh yes, it's definitely there. But it's more like a sweet suggestion, a naughty idea that suddenly pops into your head for no apparent reason.
The blend is perfection. It's the definition of understated, casual elegance with an edge that only a few will notice. It's dicreet. It won't scream for attention, but it will whisper the right words into the right ear. For all its suggestivity I find it to be very cosy and relaxing. For an Eau it has pretty decent presence and staying-power. Do try it before someone somewhere decides that people don't care for scents like this anymore and it gets discontinued!

I recently bought a bottle of Eau d'Hermes (EdH) after reading as much about it as I could online, but having never smelled it. EdH was described as 'animalic' 'citrus', and 'spicy.' Several reviews described it as the smell of sweaty sex. Despite having read as much as possible about it, including everything Jean Claude Ellena had ever said, I was unprepared for EdH's dynamism and most mesmerizing qualities. The first thing I thought after smelling it was that it was the weirdest fragrance I had ever smelled: laced through-and-through with cumin, dandied up with dried flowers, and sparkling with hints of citrus, it was quite a surprise. The top notes of clover, cardamom, lavender, and cinnamon quickly subside to a delightfully warm skin scent predominated by cumin, but wearable in all seasons; A true Roudnitska masterpiece. I look forward to wearing it frequently. One cautionary note, though: Cumin is not listed on this site under the fragrance notes, and it is most definitely very present.