Since its release in 2012, l’Ambre des Merveilles d’Hermès has become an emblematic fragrance for the brand. However, just a few weeks ago, the brand told us that its collection would soon grow. Hermès is currently presenting a brand new olfactory opus called Eau des Merveilles Bleue . This perfume, developed by Christine Nagel, plunges us into her childhood memories, not far from the sea. At the same time, it also retains its dreamlike side. So let’s see how Hermès chose to compile all of this for us through the design of its new perfume.

Hermès and its often minimalist designs

The house of Hermès is generally characterized by fairly sober designs in terms of perfume. Indeed, if some luxury brands tend to be embellished, this is by no means the ambition of the Hermès brand. This one prefers by far to go to the essentials and has very few different bottles. The most famous of them is inspired by a carriage lantern. It has a slender and refined shape, enhanced with a matte metallic cap. The brand’s other large bottle is that of the iconic Terre d’Hermès. A link between heaven and earth, this one is placed on an orange H. In fact, Hermès has chosen to use the first letter of its name as a support for one of its greatest perfumes. What is more, it forms a solid glass base and allows this juice to give off an impression of strength and solidity. However,

The aesthetic poetry of Eau des Merveilles Bleue

For once, Hermès has chosen to deliver a bottle with an absolutely fascinating visual. As if in perfect harmony with the fragrance it contains, Eau des Merveilles Bleue is designed like a pebble. Indeed, this case contains a very maritime scent. It is therefore totally appropriate to deliver it to us in a container that appears to have been polished by the waves. Its rounded body also makes it easier to grip and plays with light to reveal a bluish shade. No one can then say whether it belongs more to the sea or to the sky. Indeed, its visual is dotted with a constellation of spangled stars. A darker bluish ring encloses this container while the whole is surmounted by a silver cabochon. This gives this perfume more modernity. Finally, last detail which is important, the whole displayed a permanent instability. The Eau des Merveilles Bleue rests on a base similar to that of a tumbler. Thus, the Blue Water of Wonders never arises vertically. This marks all its originality, giving rise to both questions and fascination in the eyes of consumers.

Like a dive into a wonderful world, it was in 2012 that the Hermès house began to draw us into the heart of Amber of Wonders. Her perfume was then described as a “mysterious resin emerging from the depths of time and the bowels of the earth”. Also, following this first perfume, Hermès developed the Elixir des Merveilles. Ever more bewitching, this perfume seemed to push the limits of dreaminess to their paroxysm. As if to extend the enchantment of this collection, Hermès is offering us its brand new Eau des Merveilles Bleue . This juice is by far the most maritime of all …

Christine Nagel’s maritime inspiration

Born in Geneva, Christine Nagel is a renowned perfumer whose career has been marked by multiple awards: a Fifi Awards in 2005, a François Coty Prize in 2008…

And above all, the consecration: an exclusive perfumer position for the Hermès house, in 2014! Indeed, it is she whom Hermès has chosen to succeed the talented Jean-Claude Ellena. Cartesian and instinctive, this one is characterized by its irrepressible desire for freedom. Moreover, this is precisely what we feel in the Eau des Merveilles Bleue fragrance.

Since the launch of L’Ambre des Merveilles, Hermès has liked to assimilate its collection to a wonder similar to that of our fondest childhood memories. It is therefore at the border between childhood dreams and femininity that Christine Nagel has placed herself to make this new juice. She remembered her childhood at the sea. Have you ever seen the eyes of a child filled with stars when he discovers this bluish expanse for the first time? “I was amazed by the pebbles wet by the sea,” says Christine Nagel.

They had a particular color and shine and I discovered a salty, mineral taste in them. It is therefore from this memory that the Eau des Merveilles Bleue perfume was developed. This is an invitation to dream, a kind of ocean the color of the sky.

The scent of the blue water of Wonders

Eau des Merveilles Bleue is a fragrance with a fairly simple recipe mainly revolving around three main ingredients. The idea was to develop a recipe that is both woody and mineral, as if tickled by the sea spray but warmed at the bottom by a more solar and comforting presence. Thus, logically, the Eau des Merveilles Bleue contains a marine accord. This gives a real boost of freshness to this fragrance. As a result, Eau des Merveilles Bleue is an appreciable fragrance in all seasons, including on hot summer days.

Woody nuances give structure to this fragrance and give it more capacity. Thus, the Blue Water of Wonders appears to be a subtle link between the sea and the land. From then on, all that was missing was one final ingredient to bind everything together and give it a more velvety and determined warmth. It was done with patchouli. This also gives a profound elegance to the Eau des Merveilles Bleue.

In 2012, the Hermès house created a perfume conceived as an open door to the marvelous. This one was called the Amber of Wonders and brought a new outlook on the surrounding world, like the one we have during our first days of life and that we marvel at everything. Also, in the continuity of the development of its perfumed collection, Hermès decided to create a brand new section called Eau des Merveilles Bleue. If the Amber of Wonders was an earthly resin, the Blue Water of Wonders, on the other hand, takes us more to the maritime side. So, will you be one of those with sea legs?

The tender and magical bottle of Hermès

Usually accustomed to sobriety, it seems that the house of Hermès has this time opted for more originality. Indeed, the brand has chosen to present us the Eau des Merveilles Bleue in a round bottle with a particularly atypical base. In reality, this one displays the same silhouette as its predecessors from the Merveilles collection. This bottle is never placed vertically. It is cut like a tumbler. Its atypical shape only increases its appeal. Its bluish color, meanwhile, is absolutely intriguing. No one can say whether this bottle refers to the sea or the beautiful sky. Indeed, although it contains a maritime smell, this juice is dotted with a starry constellation. This mix of genres only reinforces its dreamlike aspect.

The aquatic and emotional scent of Eau des Merveilles Bleue

Eau des Merveilles Bleue is a perfume that we owe to the new exclusive perfumer from Hermès: Christine Nagel. She succeeded the talented Jean-Claude Ellena in 2014. Since that day, she has tried to perpetuate the heritage of Hermès while adding her personal touch. However, it is precisely in her childhood memories that Christine Nagel plunged back to make this perfume. Hermès’ ambition through this juice was to arouse wonder. Reading this lens, Christine Nagel recalled the moment she saw the sea for the very first time. She remembered in particular the pebbles wet by the sea and the mineral and salty smell they had. From then on, she decided to take inspiration from it to make this perfume. So even if the recipe for Eau des Merveilles Bleue is quite simple, it is nonetheless fascinating. This fragrance is loaded with emotions and gives rise to a real thrill with each of these breaths. Eau des Merveilles Bleue is a perfectly balanced juice, capturing the magical scent of the ocean against the immensity of the sky. It is an invitation to live a daydream.

The magical powers of Hermes!

When the Hermès house tells us its best stories, it does so in perfume of course! Eau des Merveilles would be a fairy tale described in powerful scents like fireworks and soft like the dawning light of a summer sun. Original and luminous, Eau des Merveilles is a fragrant “UFO” that you only meet once and if possible, with your eyes closed!

A touch of magic, a touch of daydreaming, here is Eau des Merveilles!

Hermès, the beautiful century-old leather goods house, has always known how to distill precious and almost artisanal know-how through its creations of leather or perfumes. In a time when industrial creations en masse are the masters, Hermès is still a legendary opposition. Against the tide of perfumes marketed to the extreme to make sales, Hermès offers us Eau des Merveilles as if to better offer us the most beautiful chapter of its fairy tale.

Because Eau des Merveilles released in 2004 is intended to be a perfume of dreams, a perfume that mocks trends to display its own, colorful and totally atypical. Eau des Merveilles is a feminine fragrance that asserts itself without flowers, a daring bet, but also a fragrance built around a rarely used animal raw material, even more at the heart of a fragrance, ambergris. Eau des Merveilles is different and affirms it in an absolutely intoxicating fireworks display of colors and scents.

We will therefore not be surprised by the fantasy and beauty of the advertising campaigns for Eau des Merveilles. Visuals like film are worked around a flamboyant fireworks display of warm and radiant colors where Eau des Merveilles becomes a magical elixir that transfigures its universe.

“From surprise to magic and from magic to enchantment, Eau des Merveilles takes us by the nose on a cloud of fantasy. »Hermès for Eau des Merveilles.

Eau des Merveilles, a feminine fragrance without flowers with a deep animal sensuality

Designed by the fabulous Serge Mansau, the Eau des Merveilles bottle looks like a marvelous glass magnifying glass where the entire Milky Way has landed. The stars and the amber of the juice merge to better create an orange and burning color like a summer sun.

With Eau des Merveilles, perfumers Ralph Schwieger and Nathalie Feisthauer had fun creating a fragrance that is totally unlike the usual olfactory pyramids. Thus the top notes are offered rather curiously under notes of sandalwood, vetiver, oak and Peruvian balsam as if to better bewitch us in our entry into this magnificent composition. Then ambergris, true star of the fragrance, takes us to the heart in its iodized and animal whirlwind, deeply sensual and somewhat masculine. Finally, the sparkling stars of the depths will be created by citrus notes of lemon and bitter orange punctuated by a magical and spicy touch of elemi and pink berries.

“A multi-faceted novel built on a woody amber accord that resonates even in the top notes, the fragrance, created in 2004 by Ralph Schwieger and Nathalie Feisthauer, succeeds in the bet of a scintillating femininity without apparent flowers. »Hermès for Eau des Merveilles.

You could not have missed the launch of the Eau des Merveilles Bleue version at the beginning of this year.