Kelly Caleche L`Eau de Parfum by Hermes

efm

I agree with Julia and her liking the fragrance to sheep. I found an unpleasant animalistic note, I was most reminded of cooked lamb.

I love the original Caleche, it is one of my all time favorites so I was disappointed with the Kelly. I wear Bandit and Montana so am not afraid of leather or unconventional scents.

Furthermore,I understand that I am not in the 20 - 25yrs demographic the marketers have targeted but I wonder does any woman really want to smell like a butchers shop ?

I own 4 other Hermes scents, I will stay with them and leave Kelly to those who admire it.
As I find it hard to believe that the House could get it so wrong, it may be a matter of body chemistry. I advise try before you buy.

Iulia

It's indeed very original, but I would never wear it.First I just thought it smelled like a leather bag with some citrusy cocktail spilled over it, but after a while, all that I could smell was an animal skin (sheep). No matter how much I like them, I don't want to smell like a sheep:D...

mymlan

This edp is a stunning gem! I agree with Robert though, that it has citrusy top notes. I cannot really believe that the notes above are complete. A further investigation will be needed. I cannot make up my mind what I like most about KC. The rose in the heart supported by the sweet violet, or the milky sweet drydown? Maybe the truth is just in between? Unfortunately I can't wear Kelly Caleche. I got a rash in my face when I tested it. Especially around my nose. It looked really funny even if it wasn't. Still I highly recommend it as a classy day wear.

Robert White

Strange...am I the only one who smells the green notes in this? The top is a vague citrus-y thing, changing almost immediately into a strong tomato-stem note. I like the vegetable note in perfumes like this and L'Artisan's Piment Brulant. Then this settles down into a soft, powdery leather that seems to bear no relation to its vegetal top. As Lucan Turin says, this is two perfumes in one. I like the top notes better, and would have preferred this if it had been a linear perfume. Still, very good, and well worth buying.

nathalieZ

Well I really like Eau de Toilette, and I expected EDP to be softer, more fruity..I do not get that at all..on me EDP has a sharp leather note, the leather of the stables, a real turn off, when in EDT the leather note is soft and subtle...so I guess skin chemistry plays a big part..the drydown in EDP is nice though..but still the leather note remains sharp!

Adiro

I tried it several times before buying, because of its price. It is absolutely wonderful!!!
For the first minutes, it opens with a smell of red berries, sugar, even chocolate. It is the same kind of sweetness like in Elixir de Merveilles versus Eau de M. A sweetness of fruits in heavy syrup, but in Elixir the fruits are candied citrus peel.
In the middle and base notes, the fruits are gone, and the perfume becomes soft lather and flowers, with a touch of vanilla, but the leather is special, it's actually suede. It's velvety and soft, like the softest creamiest chamois.It makes me think exactly of a piece of chamois used to blend pastels. The perfume is contiguous in my mind with the colors of the sky at down. Pinks, oranges, yellows over blue. Like the sky in early morning, the perfumes becomes brighter as times passes.
On a less positive note, its projection is quiet and soft, not much noticed. Lasting power on my skin is not very good, but then none of the Hermes perfumes ( that I tried) last very well on me.

I may have been too long winded here, but in summary the perfume is wonderful, classy, unique, romantic, soft and a great pleasure to own and wear.

Biliana

My favorite fragrance of all time.
So delicate, tender, warm, and different. I could never give it up.

hathor

oh dear!! i think i must have tried the eau de parfum, because my first impression was a very overpowering leather smell reminiscent of old horse saddles. i think i was surprised by this because i expected another sickly sweet pink smell to match the colour of the perfume. i had a squirt of this at the airport on my way to italy, and had to suffer it for the rest of my journey. after a while i noticed some roses but the most dominant note remained leather. i really did smell like an old sheep. i will try it again sometime, perhaps it's just an acquired taste. but i am relieved to smell something original with a bit of character which stands out from the crowd of pink sweetness which i'm tired of.ps, i'm summing this up with a picture of an old sheep with a rather dirty bottom blundering it's way through a rose garden!!

Miss_Nightingale

A light, frankly uninteresting opening left me wondering why anyone would actively reach for this to spray on any given day. It began as a watery, vaguely citrus-tinged floral that did nothing for me at all... and yet I stayed with it, fighting with my preconceptions and giving it time to mature on the skin.

I'm SO glad I did have patience - the eventual drydown is really lovely. A very milky, slightly sour vanilla (which I know sounds horrid, but is actually fabulous to experience) mingles with the mimosa and jasmine to become quite flirtatious and subtly sexy. The leather is expensive smelling and sweet, the butter-soft leather of a vintage pair of gloves, seemingly delicate yet ultimately hard-wearing.

Staying power is very good, I sprayed this on first thing this morning and the drydown notes are still blooming on my skin some 13 hours later.

Perhaps I am not enamoured with this enough to purchase a bottle, but it's certainly worth trying and a fantastic payoff if you can be bothered waiting. It's like sitting through a quite dull but pretty looking film just to get to the emotionally charged ending. How I wish for a fast-forward button!

Italo_Wolff

Hermes the French brand that was recognized in the whole world by the quality, elegance and refinement of your leather goods. As if it just was not enough to work with leather Jean-Claude Ellena, he tries to translate that glamour of the french store in an aroma modernized in the Classic it perfumes Caleche, inspired in one of the bag sold at the store with the same name.
Ellena comes with Kelly Caleche to modernize the perfume of years ago, bringing an smell leather base and roses, the perfume gives the impression of a young one dressed of black leather with details of silvered metal, lewd ready to massacre men, as your devastating whip, a fetish adapted in the century XXI, where the pain, the submission to the powerful smell of Dominatrix is exciting and irresistible, who sits down won't get him it to support the consequences.
Behind that whole image fetishist they hide the softest and sweet notes of violet and vanilla, that besides they increase the dark beauty of the perfume they do with that the aroma becomes more gourmand. In whole the perfume the animal and strident aroma of the leather solitarian reigns it joins the rose, only in the end the most sweetened notes are apparent, for that reason the image Dominatrix extends during a lot of hours, the violet and vanilla they are only coadjutant in that perfume.
Done exclusively for women that he/she is not afraid if they are lewd, that feel pleasure in submitting a man your wills, the cybernetic vampires endowed with a black and magnetic breeze.