Durability and sillage are not too pronounced. But the perfume is an Eau de Toilette, which just works in these delicate tones, otherwise there would certainly be a EdP to it long ago. The ponderous waters glide slowly along, putting you in a trance-like, dreamy mood. You feel the strength and serenity of the Nile. Everything is peaceful, calm, relaxed. Well, that will have to wait a little longer, but I wear this scent again more often now and like to spray it with 4 or 5 also on my clothes. I want to feel it on me for a long time. On my clothes it also keeps fresh and fruity for a very long time. On myself also fresh and fruity even after hours. With the time it becomes more flowery, but keeps the freshness. For me it is wearable in everyday life, as well as in the evening and also in every season Thank you Mr. Ellena Once again, as so often, I wanted to do something for my health and went to my favourite studio, when suddenly a fragrance floated past me. He looked so familiar. Citrusy and flowery, carried by a companion in his prime. I thought, it can't be, the scent looks so familiar, but here in the gym?

With Sarah Jessica Parker's perfume Lovely, Jardin sur le Nil was one of two scents whose development Chandler Burr chronicled in his book The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York (2008). This period marked a turning point for Hermès and the perfume industry more generally as the "noses" behind scents gained prominence beyond industry insiders: Hermès named Ellena its first in-house perfumer, responsible for Jardin sur le Nil and all subsequent Hermès fragrance releases during his 12-year tenure. And then - pardon, I have to call it - the shit happens: no 5 minutes are over and the "Nile" transforms into a skin-less, lifeless and soulless monster from the house of "Ambroxiso-e-super".

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Un Jardin sur le Nil (French for "A Garden on the Nile") is a 2005 perfume created by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena for Hermès. A unisex eau de toilette, the scent was inspired by the green mangoes Ellena smelled while walking through a grove of mangoes during a visit to the Nile. The fragrance is complex and spans its arc from summery smoothie over fruity notes and cool-looking flowers to the gentle, relaxing finish, which still remains spicy. All in all, this gives a light green, sometimes radiant, sometimes rather white-green veiled scent that is difficult to grasp, and because of the strong homogenization and the clearly perceptible synthetic, also a somewhat one-dimensional, sometimes almost exhausting scent impression. Occasionally a slightly soapy accent is added, the origin of which I cannot identify. The fragrance is by no means room-filling or forcibly powerful, but it adheres very effectively to the skin and recalls itself even after eight, nine, hours again and again clearly perceptible in memory.

a b c d e f g h i Burr, Chandler (March 7, 2005). "The Scent of the Nile". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020 . Retrieved November 21, 2020. Seen this way and seen from close up, "Un Jardin sur le Nil" can't really inspire me. Surely a fresh summer scent, not unoriginal by this vegetable Alexandria all sorts of things in it, sometimes really beautiful, but at least on a man, or at least on me, not really striking, not really balanced, not particularly inspiring. Now I only hope that I still like the scent on Mrs. von Spee and that I have not destroyed this innocent spell by all the analytics. The perfume's concentration is eau de toilette. Inspired by Ellena’s walk through a grove of mango trees with green fruit in an island garden on the Nile (a scouting trip in search of possible ingredients around which to construct the fragrance), [5] the final version of Jardin sur le Nil contains notes of green mango, lotus, hyacinth, grapefruit, bulrush, calamus, sycamore, and incense. [6] It was marketed as a unisex scent [1] and continued to draw "best of" recommendations as a fragrance for men and women years after its first release, [7] particularly for wear in the summer. [8] [9] In the Los Angeles Times, Denise Hamilton described it as "The fragrance that catapulted green mango into the olfactory mainstream" with a "mouth-watering tart fruit note set noses everywhere aquiver." [9] The perfume’s green-tinted glass bottle was also inspired by the green mango. [1] The Perfect Scent [ edit ]

In the heart note join other elements that bring something new, but fit harmoniously into the whole: Cob reed, for example, a touch of orange, barely perceptible, hyacinth and peony. Designed by Fred Rawyler, the emblematic “lantern bottle” is inspired by the lanterns of horse-drawn carriages. Its glass is in a delicate green gradient, evoking the banks of the Nile. The box is illustrated with a lotus flower by artist Veronique de Mareuil. At the beginning of May it is not yet so hot in Egypt. A good time to travel. Jean-Claude Ellena did not choose this month by chance for his visit to Kitchener Island, home to one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world. The small islet was given to Lord Kitchener for his services as commander of the Egyptian army - in particular for his victory against the Mahdists in 1899 - and he began cultivating rare exotic plants there. Jean-Claude Ellena began the Hermès "Jardin" series of fragrances in 2003 when his brief was selected from a call for proposals on the theme of the Mediterranean Sea. [1] This resulted in the fragrance Un Jardin en Méditerranée, commissioned through Ellena's employer at the time, German fragrance firm Symrise. [1] The next brief in the series called for a fragrance on the theme of "river". [1] Its development represented a turning point for Hermès and the perfume industry as a whole. [2] Ellena came on board as an in-house perfumer, [1] reflecting a rise in the marketing of the artist behind the scent: just before joining Hermès, Ellena had created L'Eau d'Hiver for Éditions de Parfum Frédéric Malle, which distinguished itself as the first company to place the perfumer's name on the bottle, positioning the brand as an "editor" and the perfumers the true authors of the scents. [3] Where previously these "noses" would function as a "famous ghost", in New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr's description, known (and revered) in the industry but generally unknown to the public, with Ellena's new role at Hermès, along with his fragrance for Malle and the publicity of Burr's book, he took on a newly public role. [4] For the brand, creating its own perfumery laboratory and naming a top-tier perfumer like Ellena to head it gave Hermès the chance to develop a new aesthetic cohesion to its collection and new credibility with consumers. [1] Instead of licensing its name to outside fragrance firms in a process functionally no different from celebrity scents, [3] now the whole of the creative process was conducted by Hermès. [1] Fragrance [ edit ] Schillinger, Liesl (November 16, 2011). "Jasmine, Tuberose and Power (Published 2011)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021 . Retrieved November 21, 2020.

a b "In Search of 'The Perfect Scent' ". All Things Considered. NPR. January 21, 2008. Archived from the original on January 10, 2018 . Retrieved April 15, 2018.Perrotta, Kristin (October 17, 2014). "Hermès Un Jardin sur le Nil". Allure. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020 . Retrieved November 21, 2020.