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does terre de hermes have too much rose in it?

post #1 of 52
Thread Starter 
does terre de hermes have too much rose in it?, my girlfriend says thats all she smells and its too rosey for me
post #2 of 52
Does it have any rose in it?
post #3 of 52
Rose...? Um, not that I can tell.
post #4 of 52
haha rose? this stuff smells like dirt and orange peels to me.
post #5 of 52
No rose to my nose.
post #6 of 52
Thread Starter 
there are some flower note in it right?
post #7 of 52
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Originally Posted by DavidBee456 View Post

there are some flower note in it right?

Supposedly it has bay rose and geranium....
my nose only detects the grapefruit, Cedar an pepper....but then again I get no cat pee in Kouros so take my two cents with a grain of salt.
post #8 of 52
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Originally Posted by scentaddiction View Post

Supposedly it has bay rose and geranium....
my nose only detects the grapefruit, Cedar an pepper....but then again I get no cat pee in Kouros so take my two cents with a grain of salt.

Your nose sounds right to me - on ALL accounts.
post #9 of 52
There must be some unusual smelling roses growing where you live!

I don't get rose from TdH, nor any other distinct floral element. I do think it contains some floral notes, but they are deeply submerged in the overall blend. Perhaps there's a bit of geranium in there, which may evoke rose, but I think anyone would be hard pressed to pick it out.

I don't know what your girlfriend is smelling, but she is smelling something that most of us do not!

noggs
post #10 of 52
Notes of Terre d'Hermès:

Top note: Grapefruit, Orange, Flint

Middle note: Pepper, Pink Peppercorns, Geranium Leaves, Patchouli
Base note: Cedar, Vetiver, Benzoin [from parfyym.pri.ee]

No rose. The geranium might simulate a rose note to some people. Geranium is often used to simulate or supplement rose notes in perfume. Scentaddiction's reference to "bay rose" is probably based on the French "baie rose," which means pink peppercorns; "rose" can mean rose in French, but it's also the word for pink and "baie rose" means only pink peppercorns.
post #11 of 52
I can only suspect there may be some mistake. Do *you* distinctively smell rose in TDH? But not that it really matters right? If your GF finds it too rosy, then you will have to consider wearing something else when you are around her.
post #12 of 52
Sounds like your wife needs a "nose job", ha ha!
post #13 of 52
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Originally Posted by Armor King View Post

haha rose? this stuff smells like dirt and orange peels to me.

I can't stand TDH on (my) skin, since I got panic with it's overdose of Iso E Super. An everlasting boring to death 'woody basenote' resembling a choking "uorks", ehm: "smoked bean curd", lekker! The initial smell is a fully loaded and forgotten waste can at the Mediterranean coastline in the summer heat. That very second You open it.

On blotter it smells like compost, may be potting soil. It's rotting vegetable of all kinds. So why not rose?
post #14 of 52
Rose? To me it smells more like rotten orange..
post #15 of 52
Wasn't aware that it had any at all.
post #16 of 52
I smell no rose. Just a manly burning orange peel, it's brilliant! I love it because I find it dirty and earthy and orangey and burnty...
post #17 of 52
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Originally Posted by merry.waters View Post

I can't stand TDH on (my) skin, since I got panic with it's overdose of Iso E Super. An everlasting boring to death 'woody basenote' resembling a choking "uorks", ehm: "smoked bean curd", lekker! The initial smell is a fully loaded and forgotten waste can at the Mediterranean coastline in the summer heat. That very second You open it.

On blotter it smells like compost, may be potting soil. It's rotting vegetable of all kinds. So why not rose?

You make it sound more delicious than it already is!
post #18 of 52
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Originally Posted by petruccijc View Post

You make it sound more delicious than it already is!

I like to be fair. There are several fragrance around that have lots of potential. Comme Des Garcons #2 Men is an other one. Beside the American English Slang "No.2" is being crap literally - the iso E super ruins it. CDG2M resembles a campfire with burnt potatoes, the debris of it in the cloths the other day. Every guy should know this, great. But as with Terre D'Hermes it ends up after an hour or so in a monotone booooooooh of that iso stuff. And one can not wash it away, to bad.

Maybe the odors in question need that hyper dimensional smoothing as if they were fixated in aspic to make them at least wearable. But that's a wrong direction, I'm afraid. Don't like to eat through pounds of gelatine in order to get my teeth on a gherkin either.
post #19 of 52
a thousand times no............
post #20 of 52
Seems to me your lady has an issue over men wearing rose scents... What does she love on you anyway? AdG??
post #21 of 52
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Originally Posted by DavidBee456 View Post

does terre de hermes have too much rose in it?, my girlfriend says thats all she smells and its too rosey for me

Did you punch her in the nose recently? I know they can get rowdy sometimes.
post #22 of 52
I think she's confusing it with the cannabis note.
post #23 of 52
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Originally Posted by merry.waters View Post

I can't stand TDH on (my) skin, since I got panic with it's overdose of Iso E Super. An everlasting boring to death 'woody basenote' resembling a choking "uorks", ehm: "smoked bean curd", lekker! The initial smell is a fully loaded and forgotten waste can at the Mediterranean coastline in the summer heat. That very second You open it.

On blotter it smells like compost, may be potting soil. It's rotting vegetable of all kinds. So why not rose?

You know what's funny? After all this time, I thought the reason I hated TdH was the Iso E Super. In the end, it's something else, in combination with the Iso E Super that bothers me. I realized this when I wore Kyoto by CDG 4 days in a row without getting annoyed (and it's got almost as much Iso E Super as TdH!)

If TdH makes you nauseous by it's chemical sharpness, try the Parfum version - it's much smoother, without the chemical edge.
post #24 of 52
Are you sure it's a genuine bottle you have??
post #25 of 52
No rose here.
post #26 of 52
"Baies Rose peppercorn" does not equal 'Rose"
post #27 of 52
Hmmm...I've never even thought of Terre'd D presuming such notes...:S...She may have a hidden talent...if she can snicker into the deepest notes :P

- Balava -
post #28 of 52
I'll be adding a bottle to my rotation soon .
Its Flint note is unique , anyone know much about it ?
post #29 of 52
no rose in that scent, must be some kind of mistake
post #30 of 52
Contrary to the consensus here, I smell a LOT of rose in it. Rose + (Dirt, orange peel and gunflint). If it weren't for the dirt and gunflint, this would easily have been a female fragrance or unisex at best.

But I DO smell a lot of rose in it. If I remember it right, the rose note in this one was called as "Bay Rose" or something like that.

Overall, it's an excellent fragrance.
post #31 of 52
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Originally Posted by HammerFist View Post

Contrary to the consensus here, I smell a LOT of rose in it. Rose + (Dirt, orange peel and gunflint). If it weren't for the dirt and gunflint, this would easily have been a female fragrance or unisex at best.

But I DO smell a lot of rose in it. If I remember it right, the rose note in this one was called as "Bay Rose" or something like that.

Overall, it's an excellent fragrance.

I think you are also referring to the Baie Rose, which JaimeB pointed out that it means Pink Peppercorns.

No rose to me either. It sounds like your girlfriend doesn't like something in it, but doesn't either know what it is, or isn't able to identify what she's smelling. It's like when people who aren't really into fragrance think everything is "musky," regardless of any actual musk presence.

She probably just doesn't like a certain note in it and can't quite put her finger on it.
post #32 of 52
To jrd4t: I have a tough time accepting it isn't rose in tdh. But I'll accept that if you guys say I'm wrong though because I still have a lot to learn in this arena.

But, there is a rose note in this fragrance according to FX: http://www.fragrancex.com/products/_..._products.html

This is slightly off topic, but I do want to be better in this and do you have any recommendations for me to know what exactly rose for men smells like? Thank you.
post #33 of 52
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Originally Posted by merry.waters View Post

I like to be fair. There are several fragrance around that have lots of potential. Comme Des Garcons #2 Men is an other one. Beside the American English Slang "No.2" is being crap literally - the iso E super ruins it. CDG2M resembles a campfire with burnt potatoes, the debris of it in the cloths the other day. Every guy should know this, great. But as with Terre D'Hermes it ends up after an hour or so in a monotone booooooooh of that iso stuff. And one can not wash it away, to bad.

Maybe the odors in question need that hyper dimensional smoothing as if they were fixated in aspic to make them at least wearable. But that's a wrong direction, I'm afraid. Don't like to eat through pounds of gelatine in order to get my teeth on a gherkin either.

Declaring a desire to be fair and then actually going ahead and doing just that are 2 different things IMHO. There is a clear lack of objectivity in your appraisal of TdH.

To answer the OP: No rose in TdH. It is too dry and mineral in character for any floral accord to come to the fore.
post #34 of 52
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Originally Posted by merry.waters View Post

I like to be fair. There are several fragrance around that have lots of potential. Comme Des Garcons #2 Men is an other one. Beside the American English Slang "No.2" is being crap literally - the iso E super ruins it. CDG2M resembles a campfire with burnt potatoes, the debris of it in the cloths the other day. Every guy should know this, great.

Again, "you make it sound more delicious than it already is!"
post #35 of 52
Thread Starter 
i really couldnt pick it up at first but i do smell the rose in it now...so i guess i am not crazy if other people smell it
post #36 of 52
According to this article it does have rose in it:

http://www.basenotes.net/threads/168...-d-Herm%C3%A8s.

8th paragraph the ingredients are noted as "woody notes, including Atlas cedar. It's also a mix of grapefruit, effervescent orange, gunflint, silex, pepper, baies roses, geranium leaves, patchouli, vetiver and balm of benzoin."

Sorry for the thread dig have just been searching through the forums and thought this might be of interest
post #37 of 52
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Originally Posted by drew959 View Post

According to this article it does have rose in it:

http://www.basenotes.net/threads/168...-d-Herm%C3%A8s.

8th paragraph the ingredients are noted as "woody notes, including Atlas cedar. It's also a mix of grapefruit, effervescent orange, gunflint, silex, pepper, baies roses, geranium leaves, patchouli, vetiver and balm of benzoin."

Sorry for the thread dig have just been searching through the forums and thought this might be of interest

"Baies roses" means "pink peppercorns"... There is no rose in Terre d'Hermes.
post #38 of 52
Furthermore Baies Roses smell nothing like roses.
post #39 of 52
I'd be curious to know what she thinks when you actually do wear a rose scent.
post #40 of 52
No, it has too much iso-e-super in it.

most boring, uninspired, and insipid fragrance ever. defines "overrated".
post #41 of 52
Did you ask her why she thinks it's too rosey for you? To me it sounds more like it is too rosey for her tbh.
post #42 of 52
Nay, no rose.
post #43 of 52
No rose to my nose either.
post #44 of 52
Good Lord, no rose, TDH is the driest least floral fragrance I can think of, cedar, cedar, more cedar and some flint. Keep her away from DC 1913.
post #45 of 52
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Originally Posted by drseid View Post

"Baies roses" means "pink peppercorns"... There is no rose in Terre d'Hermes.

Hmm, slightly off topic: could it be the same with The Different Company - Rose Poivre? There's some rose in it, but people complained about it being less than expected. With the reformulation the rose issue was fixed. People complained again, less than preferable stink besides the too generic rose ... .
post #46 of 52
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Originally Posted by petruccijc View Post

no rose to my nose.

hahaha!
post #47 of 52
No rose, just putting an orange in a corpses mouth burying it along the mediterranean. Letting it sit and rot for a couple of weeks, digging it back up then throwing it into an industrial grinder, dirt and all. Grinding that sucker up and decanting them as we speak!
post #48 of 52
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Originally Posted by petruccijc View Post

No rose to my nose.

None to my nose either!!!
Gary
post #49 of 52
it might be the strong grapefruit accord.
post #50 of 52
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Originally Posted by davedude11 View Post

Does it have any rose in it?

Exactly.
It does have a full helping of Citronellol, and a small bit of Geraniol, but no overt Rose note that has any substance or heft to it ain any way.

Gonna try layering it with No. 88 .....now.
post #51 of 52
I've found that benzoin can, combined with certain other notes, actually simulate the presence of rose. It's far from a rose replica, but there are facets present in it that are shared with rose and it can help extend the perception of rose with a bit of 'olfactory sleight of hand.'
post #52 of 52
As far as I know this scent, not rose at all in either of its concentrations
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