Kelly Calèche (2007)
by Hermès

It opens with *sigh* my love, tuberose, so I'm already done for. But THEN... oh, yeah, wait for it...I get LOTS of spicy leather fairly quickly. It's a very different leather than I'm used to smelling, it has sort of an oriental spice quality to it. I'm not typically into the spicy scents, but this is luuuuuurrrrrve.

Have you ever had chocolate with cayenne in it? The sweet + spicy is bizarre at first, but you very quickly love it. I'm totally experiencing the same thing here. (That's an analogy folks, there's not really any chocolate or cayenne pepper notes in this perfume.)

I get decent enough sillage, interestingly enough, because I'm usually a total sillage slayer.

I feel like this is leathery/spicy enough that a dude could totally pull it off. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop wearing it!

Oh, Hermes, Hermes, why do you do this to me? I'm yours forever.

23rd January, 2012.

Wearable and wonderful. A floral leathery scent with a touch a sweetness. Ver clean and a compliment-getter.

22nd December, 2011.

Should be a beautiful scent on a woman; clean, fresh, lilly floral. I don't really get the leather, though. What I do sense, is a realy nice tea....

14th May, 2011.

Really love this. Opens very fresh, almost harsh - no problem. Leather is there from the getgo and actually becomes more prominent as time goes by, unlike CdR but it's silly to compare the two because they are very different ladies indeed. Some florals, can't pick out the individual notes, but the overall effect is classy, unaffected and elegant. I much prefer the EdT in this over the EdP which I can barely detect and has very little leather. As with all Hermes, performs best on cloth, has good sillage and I'm really looking forward to trying it in the warm weather, bet it really shines! May have to get a small decant of the parfum to try. Heart Hermes!

2nd April, 2011.

At first the scent is very green and bright, but it dries quite quickly. As it dries the florals begin to come to the fore, I can identify rose and iris very clearly but no others. The flowers are very well balanced and soft without being powdery, overall the rose is clearest to my nose but its very well behaved and not lush or distracting. The leather is present from the first, and I thought it was the bright top notes making it smell so 'clean' but the sanitized leather is pretty much the only leather. It does strongly remind me of a new high-end leather purse, which is no accident I suppose, and surprisingly I really loved. Once the flowers and greenery dies the leather warms up a bit and takes on a slightly darker (lightly salted?) scent but to its end the fragrance is very clean and lovely, very wearable.

There's is almost no silage but on the skin its noticeable for 4-5 hrs before I would re-apply. There's nothing wow-ing about this scent but its so lovely and perfectly balanced without being boring or generic that I can't help but think if added to my collection it would get plenty of use. I can see it becoming my perfect interview, or business meeting fragrance.

8th February, 2011.

I completely agree with Diamondflame's review of Kelly Caleche: this should not be considered a floral leather with greens. It is more of delicate, sheer floral, which happens to contain a combination of floral and green notes that give the illusion of something a little waxy and leathery. I do enjoy this strange rendition of leather, which takes some time to appear.

However, the overall synthetic/handsoapy feel of the scent keeps my enthusiasm at bay, and I sort of wonder how many aromachemicals this shares with Un Jardin Apres La Mousson, which I do not like at all.

14th December, 2010. (Last Edited: 21st March, 2011.)