First of all, a warm welcome to Mauricio, a new BN member from Ecuador. He read my review of EdH and wrote asking about similar fragrances. I did my best with the question but knew that many of you would have offered other perspectives and broader experience. Here's my first whack at it:
It's a hard one, aside from my limited knowledge even, since Eau de Hermes is a favorite of mine and seems quite unique possibly in part for that reason. Here's a first shot at an answer, however. It is an unusual combination of cool citrus notes and warm spice and understated woods notes, esp cumin. The spice/woods elements in Guerlain's Heritage remind me a bit of EdH, or say that drydown of Creed's Bois du Portugal. Both of them are much shorter on citrus and heavier on mossy and patchouli notes, though. On the other hand Annick Goutal's Eau du Sud is missing the warm notes--its basenotes are herbal instead. The one fragrance that I might suggest is another Guerlain, the old (1889?) and quite wonderful Jicky. Jicky has citrus grounded in much milder spice than EdH. It is also more floral and more animalic--a civet note that puts some people off. And it has sandalwood that becomes more prominent with drydown. Lovely stuff.
Mauricio will have to clarify further which frags are available there. Sadly Jicky is not at present. What do ya'all think?
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Bump!
Anybody willing to give this a shot?
It's a hard one, aside from my limited knowledge even, since Eau de Hermes is a favorite of mine and seems quite unique possibly in part for that reason. Here's a first shot at an answer, however. It is an unusual combination of cool citrus notes and warm spice and understated woods notes, esp cumin. The spice/woods elements in Guerlain's Heritage remind me a bit of EdH, or say that drydown of Creed's Bois du Portugal. Both of them are much shorter on citrus and heavier on mossy and patchouli notes, though. On the other hand Annick Goutal's Eau du Sud is missing the warm notes--its basenotes are herbal instead. The one fragrance that I might suggest is another Guerlain, the old (1889?) and quite wonderful Jicky. Jicky has citrus grounded in much milder spice than EdH. It is also more floral and more animalic--a civet note that puts some people off. And it has sandalwood that becomes more prominent with drydown. Lovely stuff.
Mauricio will have to clarify further which frags are available there. Sadly Jicky is not at present. What do ya'all think?
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Bump!
Anybody willing to give this a shot?
