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Pvikysika – :
October 3rd 2018 11h 49m
Weather: Mostly sunny with a high of 20°C
Location: West Village
Reading: “From Night Sky” by Joanna Klink in The Paris Review, Issue 226.
Listening: “Conceptions” by 4hero
Wearing: Issey Miyake SS18 (Look 4 of 56 for reference at vogue.com)
Charming, attenuate, intimate, coy. This fragrance brings me a memory in which I have never possessed. One from a previous life (or simply from reading Euripides’ “Medea”), of a mezzanine high above overlooking the Aegean Sea. It is hot. The evening sun blaring on the mosaic grounds, and everyone there is feeble. Suddenly, a beautiful tall woman with flowing hair as dark as anise sashays across the floor in a Vionnet dress that’s liquid to her alabaster skin and this scent comes to mind as it blows gently through the Meditteranean Sea breeze. The tones of soapy imortelle. The bitterness of citroen. The earthiness of fresh herbs from Folegandros. This special fragrance evoked such a detailed vision in my head as I walked down in the village this afternoon. I don’t know why…It just has that magic.
scull555 – :
This is amazing. Very refreshing. Citrus, Mint, Rosemary. Sometimes almost smells like maple syrup. Beautiful.
alexey_beynya – :
I wanted to love this scent because it was listed as a citrus. And it is. Technically. I guess, just not the citrus I was thinking. This has a HEAVY celery stalk scent. Or Celery powder. The kind you cook with that’s probably $0.99 at your local grocery store. It reminds me of the Burberry Summer for women (the first version with the rope that spells out SUMMER on the bottle with the clear liquid). I gave that one away. I couldn’t bare the celery scent. Am I the only one that gets this scent? I’m new to the fragrance world, so I don’t know my notes all that well. What is that note called? The celery smell? I know I can’t be the only one. Anyways, If anyone wants to swap, I have a 100ml bottle, I’d GLADLY swap out. I really wanna try Florabellio, Fleur d’oranger, or DoSon.
Vitaly2006 – :
this was a blind & deaf TRY 🙂 yep, sprayed it on
without sniffing it first, AND DIDN’T even read up
on it first. Verdict: Impressive! FRESH. but not
masculine. Zingy. Offers more than Irish Spring
(which happens to have been mY favorite soap bar
during the days of helplessness) and smells nice!
Let it settle 🙂 that’s when you’ll see. Too strong
upon first spray, but after the first few seconds-
it’s bliss. Zesty. I wore it 3 days in a row. Sad
to now run out of sample. Oh well life goes on!
vadimlazari – :
L’eau des Hesperides was a blind buy for me, and not along my usual spicy/oriental trajectory. The citruses in the beginning are heavily at the fore, but I also can smell the mint and other green accords. Other reviews here mention toothpaste or cleaner, but I never really got a sense of that. The odd thing for me is the drydown: more than 12 hours later, I can detect a soft citrus mélange, but I would almost swear I am smelling vanilla in the mix. From the beginning, it was never a loud fragrance, and now it’s almost an orange/vanilla skin scent. I think I would have like this combination of accords less if it had been bombastic, so I can see how someone who likes citrus-but-subtle fragrances might care for this one.
Py6JIb – :
I’m struggling to comprehend how this scent could hail from the same house and perfumer as my signature scent, Eau Des Sens. It’s truly awful on my skin.
L’Eau des Hesperides opens with a huge dose of caraway, which to me smells halfway between a spice shop and stale sweat. The only other note that can compete is woody, dry mint, which only serves to enhance the skankiness on my skin. Sadly, there isn’t anything remotely hesperidic about L’Eau des Hesperides; I’d sorely like some fresh, juicy or sour citrus notes to punctuate the funk, but they never do. It’s just sweaty caraway and mint through to the bitter end – and I mean bitter literally. L’Eau des Hesperides also follows the unwritten rule of perfumery that dictates all disagreeable scents must have outstanding projection and longevity. Go figure.
Before writing off L’Eau des Hesperides, I should add that my experience is likely a body chemistry issue. I love citrus aromatics, but have similar issues with a number of other well-regarded scents in this genre, including Dior’s Eau Fraiche, Annick Goutal’s Eau d’Hadrien, Rochas Homme et al. L’Eau des Hesperides is terrible on my skin, but could be wonderful on yours – this is one to test rather than blind buy.
falco23 – :
No, just no no no. Why would someone want to smell like a flower pot?
AbabBardimi – :
someone mentioned old dried up mint toothpaste and i thoroughly agree!
tus3779 – :
Got a tester of this and wore it this afternoon. The strong citric smell is not bad but there is also a strong Ayurvedic Marsala clinic stench too which overpowers the initial citrus smell. It is however very long lasting and has a pretty good silage range.
magan – :
Falling in love with L’Eau des Hesperides has been like falling in love with a woman who lights up a room with the joy and depth radiating from her body, but is afraid of commitment, high maintenance, and will disappear with a smile, sooner than you wish her to.
I’m going to have a really hard time not buying another bottle of this juice. If I do, I will think of it as an addiction, a co-dependent relationship with a graceful, elegant, distant sylph.
She opens with a magnificent bitter orange and mandarin, the feeling on the skin a light minty coolness. She is immediately refreshing, calming, and clean–but without covering up or disguising the body. She melts into the skin–that will be the purported musk, I suppose–and lingers for an hour as rosemary, lemon, and mint for those who come close to you, and then fades to a green like crushed grass after two, only for you to enjoy. By the fourth hour, there is nothing left of her but the memory, the feeling of Her on your skin.
Most appropriate for the hottest of days, it will be no surprise that this fragrance simply will not stick to the skin. It is far too expensive for a body spritzer, yet that is the end result. For me, the scent is moreish in the extreme–I could cover myself and my clothes in Hesperides, but it runs out faster than it should. If Diptyque could figure out a way to double the length of the experience, they would have a most dedicated customer–this could easily be my summer signature scent, if I didn’t have to spend $100.00 a month on keeping myself supplied.
L’Eau des Hesperides, you naiad, you zephyr, you’re breaking my heart.
innongePori – :
My husband’s thick, oily, warm skin makes L’eau de Hesperides a stunner. I far prefer this fragrance on a man than a woman, and when applied on a skin type that “jives” with the fragrance it smells strikingly from nature – not a hint of modern cough drops or medicine can be found.
The opening of L’eau de Hesperides is an overwhelming bitter-orange, herbal cold snap. The fragrance is so serious and somber at first that it would seem better suited to correlate with Caravaggio’s painting of pensive ‘John the Baptist in the Wilderness’ than Leighton’s dreamy ‘The Garden of Hesperides’.
After an hour the fragrance changes: The orange notes become floral, the herbs and mint smell “fresh cut”, and the woods feel warm and dry. The idyllic evening landscape with dancing, lithe nymphs readily fills the imagination.
L’eau de Hesperides is a good one.
vittorio – :
This fragrance of Diptyque I think a different and very interesting bet, but with a phase that spoils everything.
The fragrance is developed in two distinct phases with very good length and projection.
Open citrus with a powerful and pleasant note of bitter orange, once a burst of very soapy synthetic grass as it said the former partner is everywhere the fragrance getting cleaner or disinfectant field. Saves a little mint note that neutralizes partly created this scent so weird.
Drying more of the same with a touch musky very smooth and without losing the flavor described above.
If it were not for the disinfectant note drugstore fragrance it would be very good choice for use morning and hot days. Still the aroma is original and the idea of mixing citrus with mint with the almost polar freshness liked.
Rating: 4
empirepass – :
Opens with a gorgeous mint over an old fashioned classic citrus eau de cologne. Beautiful but the drydown is a bit too medicinal and powdery for my taste. It all around just smells old. Old dried toothpaste. Lemon cough drops.
KANONIR – :
Glorious opening, but when it dries down it smells like a methylated spirit….
26041984 – :
One of my warm weather go-to’s. I suppose it could be called a “European Eau de Cologne” type, except that its aromatic component is HUGE, far too prominent to be compared to any traditional citrus Eau. Easily unisex.
Wet, juicy, tart-sweet citrus is followed by an unexpected avalanche of chilling menthol, sage, rosemary, cedar and fir balsam. The mint component is not in any way “toothpaste”, “chewing gum” or “Christmas peppermint”; no, it’s just pure menthol of the kind that mentholated cigarettes or traditional men’s shaving creams receive. That aromatic surge is positively ICY… FRIGID… SNOWY… GLACIAL. There is no fragrance out there even remotely similar to it, I don’t think, so it stands as a real scent weirdo, almost in a league with ELD’O SM or SL MKK. The aromatic component subsides after about half-an-hour, as well it should: it’s so cooling you’d freeze to death if it lasted longer. A whisper of transparent skin musk and pencil-ly cedar sweetened delicately with immortelle lingers in far drydown. I happen to find this scent something of a masterpiece, and I hope never to be without a flacon of it.
bvt165Bessinepome – :
Opens in a beautiful herbal-orange chord. Hints of basil and licorice and sweetening on the shutdown. Then too the immortelle emerges. Sophisticated and classy, and a tad reserved.
f91 – :
This is one of the best spring/summer fragrances I’ve tried so far. The comparison to John Varvatos Artisan is what prompted me to get a decant of this one. I love bitter orange but the Varvatos is notorious for its poor longevity.
Well…Artisan doesn’t even come close to L’eau de Hesperides (obviously). The orange note is where the comparison stops. Hesperides has far more depth; it’s more interesting as it plays out through the day.
Imagine a cross between freshly cut grass and an herb garden right after a spring rain. This is more “earthy” than “minty” to my nose and is definitely a unisex scent.
evaevd – :
UPDATE: Just noticed Colin Maillard’s review. I have to say I disagree, that I don’t get a prominent “artificial” impression. I wonder if it’s due to a prior association he has. And the start isn’t sharp for me. It’s a little on the menthol-minty side when it starts, but I find it very pleasant. A “touch” bracing.
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I wasn’t going to buy this after reading a number of neutral and negative reviews on another site. People said it conjured up associations with toothpaste, mouthwash, and other pedestrian toiletries. But a few positive reviews pushed me to give it a shot. I bought a bottle without sampling first.
I LOVE THIS!
When you think of orange as a prominent note, you’d expect it to be “too predictable” for a fragrance. Not so with Hesperides. The blending of bitter orange, mint, lemon, grass, petit grain and rosemary results in a wonderfully soft and semi-sweet aroma. It’s not your usual orange forward scent. The mint and lemon is almost as strong as the orange. A perfect spring time or summer fragrance, but even nice in the cooler months as a day fragrance when you just want to feel fresh. It’s blended in such a way as to be smack dab in the middle of unisex, easily worn by either gender.
Sillage and longevity seem to be pretty good. The bottle is very well crafted and the sprayer is smooth and precise. The cap is machined to fit perfectly to the top, so when pulled you get an air sucking “pop”. In a niche Diptyque fragrance lineup of EdT and EdP bottles costing $150 and more, the “L’Eau” line comes in just under $100. And if you shop around, you can get it even cheaper on an occasional sale or partially used bottle (cheapest I’ve seen it was $49 shipped). Even at $98, it’s a good buy. 9.2/10.
blin4ik – :
This is amazing on very, very hot days. You feel like you have bathed under a cold shower of mint, citrus fruits, flowers and leaves. It’s very refreshing, mouthwatering at first and has a cool effect on skin. It driesdown to a quiet scent, but you can use it in big doses that it won’t get offensive. Also, if you spray on clothes it seems to last and project more. It’s delicious, a straightfoward and very well done citrus fragrance.
dimaaasex91 – :
Diptyque has become one of those fragrance houses for me which is highly dangerous to the wallet. How unsurprised am I to find yet another gem from them.
And this truly is a gem. L’eau de Hesperides opens with a delectable bitter orange note, like the smell of fresh orange rind clinging to the skin. This hooked me immediately. It holds its own for a while before the herbs start growing and a wonderful maple sweet immortelle – the component which encouraged me to try the scent – builds beautifully. The immortelle wears on me like a heart note, it’s very dominant. But it’s flushed with citruses and aromatic herbs, to me mostly rosemary and sage and even a bit of fresh mint – that however isn’t a cooling note here – so that it has this great balance between sweet and herbal. L’eau de Hesperides I find plays with the luminous and sweet aspects of immortelle as a note, where L’Occitane’s Immortelle de Corse to me highlights it’s more resinous side. The result here is that I’m left with a fragrance that makes me think instantly of late summer: of sunshine burning down on bales of freshly cut hay; the wafting scent of herbs hung to dry; sweet lemon ice tea and fresh oranges. After a while the immortelle dies down, the sweetness receding so that my skin smells like I’ve rubbed the orange peel and herbs directly on it. It’s just lovely. This also lasted a solid eight hours on my skin and was still there, though sillage fell after about five hours.
A fantastic golden aromatic fragrance perfect for late summer and early autumn or for any time you want to remember the sunshine.
ablc193 – :
Very refreshing citruses with herbs, mainly rosemary and some grass – a perfect scent for really hot summer days when the sun heat burns everything and there is no wind – this will help. Besides, it is really good.
Yriiss – :
I love this …so refreshing love to mix it with diptique eau neroli…reminds me of my morning showering, nice and fresh..just brushed my teeth,smelling whiffs of my orange shampoo in my hair and im ready for my day! It does have a typical minty green tone…but that fades down and you just smell natural and fresh…great hot weather scent.
Gortegoz – :
A nice aromatic offering from Diptyque. Very high on rosemary and grass on my skin. Citruses mingle around only on the background, so it is all about herbs.
Unfortunately there is nothing much else here, it has almost zero depth and what you get at the opening is what you get all the way. As it is cologne like longevity is not so great. Might work ok as a body spray in hot summer day, but then a decreased price tag would be clearly necessary.
oksana_nex – :
supercolonia maschile modello baby johnson di ottima qualita’…inizialmente vicksinex e a tratti rimembra acqua di parma essenza di colonia.
non per me ma’ perfetta per gli amanti del mandarino che qui’ e’ IMPERIALE.
longevity: max 4 hour
PSIX_CS – :
I know that most of the Dyptique scents are made for layering with one another. This one almost smells “pre-layered”
Whether or not you like this one, it seems to me, would be dependent on whether you like “Oyedo” and “Eau de Lierre” either separately or together. It has the green notes of “Lierre” and, on this wearer, a very similar drydown. It has the mandarin of “Oyedo”, and a bit of the carraway undercurrent.
bambull73 – :
Lemon-mint cough drops!:D
Lively bitter orange opening with a bunch of mint.Energetic, uplifting mix of citruses dilate the airways.:)Astounding composition. In the heart herbal notes comes, thyme and cedar join to this unique aromas.
The final result:this is a scent with full of life but with measured, discreet individuality.
оборотень – :
I love the balance of citrus and mint with spice.
This cologne smells like my rescue agent!
kucherenko2006 – :
This is a lovely, citrusy-aromatic. I can almost imagine I smell a honey-sugar lemon cough drop or lollipop. A sugary herbal dance of perfection.
Not overwhelming or cloying like some aromatics which could open stuffy nasal passages of a person with a head cold. This fragrance wraps itself around you like a soft cashmere sweater. The rosemary and caraway are used quite artfully not biting and harsh but gently nipping at the edges of the flowers. The drydown makes me think there are more woody notes but perhaps thats what cedar does when it encounters musk.
How interesting that ‘fotolux’ mentioned “..celery (salt) note..” I get that but it doesn’t take anything away from the beautiful smell of this Diptyque gem. I wonder what flower notes are specifically used. I think I detect lilac.
RedUNS – :
First spray reminded me of Lush’s “Big” shampoo. This time, on paper, I smelled Light Blue for women. There’s the orange and lemon and something else. What is that? It is definately aromatic, smells outdoorsy, fresh. Nope, that orange. This is nice and worth and sample but it’s not for me.
VolodyaSovyak – :
L’Eau des Hesperides opens with a burst of dry orange and as it dries down, herbs enter the scent. With notes of bitter orange, mandarin, lemon, petitgrain, red thyme, rosemary, mint, cedar and white musk. The scent is beautifully made, interesting, and lively, but I wished that the celery (salt) note was toned down significantly.