Hermès Hermessence Muguet Porcelaine is so vibrant, vibrates after many hours’ wear – but it does. Green pours straight out of the flacon in one unfaltering stream. Limpid as an aquarelle, expressive as French chanson, touching as a billet-doux from lovers past and present.
“Quand viendra la saison nouvelle
Quand auront disparu les froids,
Tous les deux nous irons, ma belle,
Pour cueillir le muguet au bois.” ~ Villanelle, Théophile Gautier (immortalized by Hector Berlioz in his song cycle Les Nuits d’Été)
“When the new season arises, When the chills have vanished, We shall go together, my beauty, To the woods to gather lily-of-the-valley.”
ROMANCE. It commences as innocence only to emerge as worldly and knowing. One may seduce via many routes, and Hermès Hermessence Muguet Porcelaine elects not to cudgel the wearer with heavy woody overdosage, an excess of musks or cypriol as appears to be in fashion recently. It does not rely upon patchouli for earthy echoes. Yet one is fully aware of the sylvan nature of muguet, those tiny cloches that flourish in shady places. To my nose, it’s a madrigal made contemporary while retaining its loveliness. Modern love and courtly love are bound in joyous wedlock.
Pear is frequently combined with rose, but its marriage to green notes is a real coup. Lily of the Valley positively glows in the radiant presence of hedione and neroli: it’s an aromatic coronation. White musk is soft, cottony and whispers of skin. When it melds with definitively animalic hues, its olfactory profile tilts the prism and we experience other facets that growl softly beneath the floral diadem of Muguet Porcelaine. This beauty is brainy as well, and perhaps not perfectly well behaved…
is it beautiful? Does it give pleasure? How does it make you feel? Only you must choose. Speaking for myself, I adore Hermès Hermessence Muguet Porcelain and its expansively delightful nature. I treasure its evocative lyric olfactory voice.
Hermessence Muguet Porcelain by Hermès is a Floral fragrance for women and men. Hermessence Muguet Porcelain was launched in 2016. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Claude Ellena. Top notes are Green Notes and Pear; middle notes are Lily-of-the-Valley, Hedione and Neroli; base notes are Animal notes and White Musk.