Hermès · 2023 · Christine Nagel

Un Jardin à Cythère

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Toilette

Sunny citrus over dry golden grasses and tender fresh pistachio, resting on smooth olive wood.

Hermès says

You’ll smell grasses, olive wood and fresh pistachio.

The drawn Un Jardin à Cythère bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Un Jardin à Cythère’s scent picture, a draft: green notes, olive wood, pistachio, coumarin (new-mown hay), citral (lemon), geraniol (rose) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Un Jardin à Cythère, top notes: Green notes, Citral (lemon)

Heartas it settles

Un Jardin à Cythère, heart: Pistachio, Geraniol (rose), Eugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Un Jardin à Cythère, dry-down: Olive wood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Hermès names

What the label names

11 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholA light stabiliserDisodium EDTAPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Fortuitous FinleyPenhaligon's · shares pistachio
Angel StellarMugler · shares pistachio$190 for 100 ml · about the same as Un Jardin à Cythère’s $113
Soleil BlancTom Ford · shares pistachio$460 for 100 ml · about twice Un Jardin à Cythère’s $113
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.