Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

You can always rely on Hermes to bring some much-needed colour into our lives: their counters tend to be the brightest, happiest and most eye-catching corners of any department stores they grace. True to form, they’ve just added a new hue to their successful range of colognes… or should that be two new hues? Christine Nagel’s Eau De Basilic Pourpre contains a note of purple basil, yet it’s housed in a richly green bottle. Perhaps the marketing bods thought a purple flacon would be too on the nose. Or maybe there were some difficulties around producing purple glass. Chromatic questions aside, the juice itself was the subject of a recent review over on YouTube. Here’s a link: Hermes Eau De Basilic Pourpre review.

This new little bowler-hatted chap won’t alter the olfactory firmament, but it does what it sets out to do with minimal fuss and considerable charm. The metallic edge of the central basil note is softened by bergamot and geranium without being made to lose its distinctive bite. And in the base, a mercifully quiet patchouli keeps things purring away long after the herbal facets have faded. The whole is light and insouciant, but it sports a trendy, razor-sharp haircut, or perhaps a pair of space-age trainers, as a nod to somewhat edgier, more modern aesthetics. After the disappointingly heavy-handed Eau De Citron Noir, this is a return to form for the Hermes colognes and a useful reminder that not every composition needs to be an everlasting mushroom cloud of scented domination.

Persolaise

[Hermes Eau De Basilic Pourpre review based on a sample provided by the brand in 2022.]


If you’ve enjoyed this post, please consider supporting my work
by ‘buying me a coffee’ using the panel below.

Thanks very much indeed.

Hermes Eau De Basilic Pourpre review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise, 2022

Discover more from

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

I love hearing from my readers, so please feel free to write a comment or ask a question.