Hiris by Hermes

selinum28

It's been a long time since I first knew Hiris and haven't tested it later; I was a young girl then and my friends hated this perfume. I remember it as great, warm, very dry, yet feminine. Not fresh.
I associate it with optimist serenity;
maybe some melancholy, but not sadness or despair.

hapa

Hermes Hiris, you are what I want to be: subtle, understated, minimalist and elegant. Unfortunately, you smell like a freshly dug carrot. We just cannot be.

Today, I am wearing you but this is well and truly our end. I have used two samples of you but cannot justify buying a bottle and for this I'm very sorry.

Your frosted blue glass bottle and tasteful gleaming gold cap call to me and I really want you to join my perfume collection but it is very clear we just do not work well together. I smell iris in all its delicateness. A bit of green, the flower and even the root. Indeed, I feel like we are outside together sitting in the earthy sweetness of top soil and I'm drinking some weak vanilla tea sweetened with honey. Unfortunately the carrots in the adjoining vegetable patch have managed to overpower you and whilst I like carrots in soup, with a roast and with hummous, I do not like them in my fragrances, especially an Hermes one.

I am sure I will still entertain thoughts of us together and when in Hermes spray some on or even look for a sample. However, I must accept there just isn't enough for us to work together in terms of a long term commitment in me buying a full-sized bottle. Apologies because it seemed so promising.

Malegria

I want to add to my review. I am positively falling in love with this scent. It is very evasive...I know that it reminds me of something nostalgic and very important for me but I can`t just nail it. Was it the scent of bearded irises in the garden of my childhood? was it the herb cabinet of my medicine woman grandma? I can`t tell for sure. But the more I try it the more I want this on my skin. It feels like I am carrying something very special with me when I wear it.

kastehelmi

I love Hiris, because I thought I could never appreciate the soapy iris note enough, and the curling arc of the petals seemed to mock me in the past-"We are a coveted ingredient in fragrances, and you can't smell our beauty, ha!"

I adore Infusion D'Iris by Prada, and it is very irisy, very orrisy, but it has enough wood and incense to be not a puristic ode to the iris.
Hiris is very irisy, but the rose blooms subtly on my skin, and the coriander is a great counterpoint to the vanilla-not strong, but solid.
Natalia78 must be right, I have rather oily skin-and it must be thick too? I don't know, I've never considered that.

Hiris blossoms on me because there is something warm and soft about it, even if there is a very clean overall quality, and a definite coldness.

Hiris is the fragrance that helped me to realize how interesting the iris note can be-it's very much a bold iris that defies the description "powdery".

Malegria

When I tested it, it smells like something very clean and sanitized.An iris that was laundered and hung out to dry outside in the cold of November!!! A sterile white starched nurse coat!

Nevertheless, i like it despite of the fact that it is completely not my style. But it brings a certain feeling of sadness out of the person wearing it and maybe has an ability to age it`s owner`s soul...

logicmuppet

This was the scent that really got me interested in perfumes. I have a strange relationship with Hiris. It is very green at first whiff, not unpleasantly so, but maybe surprising to someone who was expecting something flowery. While I'm wearing it, I alternate between "wow, this is great!" and "Hm, not sure I like this so much now." But I keep wearing it. It is fresh and pretty, not overpowering, and above all, different.

Noelia

I love Hermes.Reminds me Of nature,earth..Hiris is a sharp floral green fragrance that i love.Long lasting on my skin,smells like pop-corn!Great bottle color and package!

allexa27

it reminds me of a perfume called B.U(the yellow-blue one).They are like twins :) lol

Mals86

Many facets of iris, from its petals to its roots to the earth that it grows in. I was really enjoying this one, until about halfway through the heart when a musty, powdery odor -- reminiscent of my great-aunt's heavy 1940's era face makeup -- showed up and haunted me for about half an hour, before leaving a lovely drydown. I found that so unpleasant that I have to scratch this one off the list.

(Bvlgari Pour Femme did the same thing: 4 hours of pleasant scent, interrupted by half an hour of gosh-awful stale closed-up room smell. I don't know what that note is, but boy, it's horrible on me.)

Auguszta

This is the purest iris scent I know and the one I love most. It is incredibly clean and clear, like a veil almost, and veeeeery sophisticated. I don't smell any soil, nor do I smell anything metallic, which often bother me in iris scents. I detect something cardboardish here but funny as it may sound, that only adds to the whole experience. Perhaps it really is a bit melancholic but not to the point where I wouldn't want to wear it. I actually feel very positive and utterly comfortable wearing this.

Cyberlady

I was doing some fragrance training at one time and that is when I first heard of this fragrance and smelled it. I was surprised that I liked the iris scent .... I would love to try this.

Montie_M

A very subtle, dry, powdery, woody Iris bottled in a blue flacon. Every notes scream,"I am successful, elegant, and classy. I am mature and ready to face the world!"

PolarBear2

Smells sad.

tessture

Woody iris fades to a faint scent like hairspray. It's not a floral and it's not actually pretty. It is different and the woody/plant combination are fresh in the way that spring time is.

jillsy

Beautiful fragrance, feels a bit depressed and melancholy to me though.

Mitsouko

Quiet, discreet, velvety, sweetish, restrained. Beautiful, magic, sweetish smell of iris, but for me it is sad...but fine, so, I fluctuate: to have or not to have it.

Natalia78

Apparently smells better on people with oily and thick skin.Distinctive vanilla in head base.very elegant fragrance.

Suseken

Dry,clean,fresh.Classic for every day.
I love iris scents.

takemyhusbandplz

The notes sounded like it might work on me, but alas, it was horrid! The green orris overtook every other note. Not for me.