For the latest fragrance in Hermès’ Jardin series, Christine Nagel conjured up a memory of the Greek island of Kythira.
Christine Nagel has a neat trick to demonstrate the surprises that await the perfumer when mixing scents. “Let’s do a little exercise,” says Nagel, sitting in her atelier on the top floor of the headquarters of Hermès’ perfume division in central Paris. Wearing no-nonsense blue jeans and a sand-coloured turtleneck, she passes me a small strip of scented paper.
Un Jardin à Cythère is inspired by how Christine Nagel remembers the scent of olive trees and sun-toasted grasses. “I put it in my mind and I said ‘I’ll do something with this fragrance one day’.” “I remember a field of olive trees and under the trees was tall grass, toasted from the sun and moving in the wind. I put it in my mind and I said ‘I’ll do something with this fragrance one day’.”
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