Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel’s first time designing a scent with oud, one of the most luxurious fragrance ingredients on the planet, wasn’t for an official Hermès fragrance. She was tinkering with ...

Part of the Fleur de Peau series, the fragrance retails at $465 USD through Hermès boutiques and online ...

There’s no nose like Christine Nagel’s nose. The in-house perfumer for Hermès has been tasked with distilling the ethos of the storied luxury house into scent since 2016 and she takes the job ...

In the world of fragrance, a chypre—a combination of crisp, floral, and woody—is not for the faint of heart. Just ask Christine Nagel, the renowned Swiss nose and head perfumer at Hermès, who spent ...

Concurrently floral, fresh and woody: such is the unconventional olfactory cocktail of the latest bud from the Garden family of Hermès’ fragrance collection. The scent’s name – Un Jardin sur la Lagune ...

"To put oud in a fragrance is not Hermès: it's a marketing approach to perfumery for those who follow the money," says Jean-Claude Ellena, the legendary French brand's in-house perfumer, with disdain.