Hermes H24 edp, Byredo Eyes Closed, Parfum D’Empire Vetiver Bourbon and other reviews – 2022

I delved into my vials of new releases again in a recent episode of Love At First Scent, which began – finally! – with a sniff of the new eau de parfum of Hermes H24. Here’s a link to the video: Hermes H24 edp, Byredo Eyes Closed, Parfum D’Empire Vetiver Bourbon, Pierre Guillaume Tonka Bodykon, Bogue 10 edt and 20 edp, MDCI La Ravissante reviews. And here’s the usual timestamp list:

Hermes H24 edp (Christine Nagel) 2:10
Byredo Eyes Closed 11:44
Parfum D’Empire Vetiver Bourbon (Marc-Antoine Corticchiato) 19:58
Pierre Guillaume Tonka Bodykon (Pierre Guillaume) 28:15
Bogue 10 edt and 20 edp (Antonio Gardoni) 35:54
MDCI La Ravissante (Bertrand Duchaufour) 44:37

My views on H24 remain unchanged: I consider it to be one of the most commendable mainstream masculine releases of recent years, and I’m glad that Hermes have given us this edgier, more tooth-tingling eau de parfum. Of the others on the list, I’d recommend checking out the Byredo (an iris that conjures Julie Christie standing by a fire in Doctor Zhivago) and the Parfum D’Empire, for the admirable manner in which it restrains the less palatable aspects of vetiver and gives us one of the most quietly authoritative (think: Atticus Finch) takes on the material we’ve had for years.

Persolaise

[Samples of all of the above were obtained by me in 2022.]

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