Comments on: Hermes Eau de Pamplemousse Rose & Eau de Gentiane Blanche ~ fragrance reviews

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:04:56 +0000

Drat, wish you had not told me that! I paid full price. Sigh.

By: boojum

boojum — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Beauty Encounter has them for $60-65, plus through today, they have a 20% off sale going….if you’re going to do it, now would be the time. Wish I’d been able to find a tester before now.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:28:25 +0000

I am going to do myself a favor and not even go look at the price!

On the Hiris: Hermes removes things from their website when they’re out of stock, and Hiris has been removed & then reinstated before. So hopefully that’s all it is, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed too.

By: Dzingnut

Dzingnut — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:31:23 +0000

Very late to the party as usual, but both of these are now on fragrancenet.com – I am battling my “oh, just buy it” urge … I also went to the Hermes website, and they no longer list Hiris as one of their women’s fragrances – panic! It’s such a beauty, what are they thinking??
Loved the comments about Moxie: we used to drink this when my family lived in Buffalo, and a local (male) Airedale in our neighborhood was named Moxie. He was a sweetheart, and was deeply in love with our collie (Scotand’s Bounty, named after an article in “Gourmet” magazine). He would lie on our driveway with his nose under the garage door, hoping for a whiff of her scent. Fragrance ruled his world too!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:17:42 +0000

Aha…I think you have found a musk you can’t smell!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:17:17 +0000

Do go back and try them on skin…I found both of them quite different than I expected after trying on paper. Gentiane esp. changes after 20 minutes or so.

I like the packaging too…and of course they can just redo it again later

By: Carlos BFL 319

Carlos BFL 319 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:54:50 +0000

Well…I finally was able to sample these at Bergdorfs…while RETURNING…yes RETURNING…a bottle I really didnt love. Anyhoo…what a potent blast of grapefruit from the PR…drydown nice too! I don’t intend on buying it…but it was nice. Chandler raved on his blog recently. GB on the other hand…smelled NOTHING! Literally nothing! Hmmmm. SA gave me a sample, maybe I will try it again.

By: kaos.geo

kaos.geo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:37:36 +0000

Hi there, I smelled these two yesterday.

Pamplemousse Rose is very nice, but at the same time a little too “Synthetic” to me. You say fresca, I say “some grapefruit scented floor cleaning product that I smelled at the gym”.
Unfortunately that kills it for me. Although I only smelled them on paper, and being an Ellena creation, I’ll give this the benefit of doubt and will try them on the skin later.

On the other hand, gentiane smells DRY! and GREEN! (yes, in CAPS and exclamation points ) very nice. When you say “flowering herbs” I totally agree. I don´t get lavender, but probably the gentiane itself smells vaguely lavender-like.

I liked the packaging redesing, It looks very “au courant”
Let’s hope it doesn´t look dated in a couple of years!!
The previous Eau d’Orange Vert packaging was good enough for me, and looked very classy IMHO, I wish they had went that way with these two..

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:28:14 +0000

Thanks! I’ll have to try some of those combos.

By: markolomeu

markolomeu — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:29:45 +0000

Okay, I eventually caved and bought them both. And with all this talk of layering, I started doing the same, but within the trio itself… first with PR and GB… it is vry different, and after a couple of tries at it, I feel kind of silly not wearing them together, almost as if JCE may have missed out in a bigger seller if he had mixed the two and sold it as one… the herbacious green in GB is tempered nicely against the bitterness of the grapefruit and semi-sweetness of the rhubafix in PR, while GB’s incense dances quietly aganst the rose notes of PR… it is a wonderful experience.

Don’t get me wrong, I love them individually, but together is a fragrance experience that is very exciting; I’ll have to try mixing up EdOV with the other two and see what I get!

For those interested, I sprayed GB first, and then layered on PR…