Hermes Eau De Basilic Pourpre Review – Christine Nagel; 2022

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.

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

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