Hermès will launch Un Jardin Sur Le Toit (garden on the roof) in April. The inspiration: the garden on the roof of the Hermès building at 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. The new unisex fragrance is the fourth in the garden series that already includes Un Jardin en Méditerranée (2003), Un Jardin Sur Le Nil (2005) and Un Jardin Après La Mousson (2008).
Jardin Sur Le Toit was developed by Hermès house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, and is described as an aromatic fruity floral. The notes feature apple, pear, rose, green grass, basil, magnolia and compost.
Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Toit will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette. (via parfum-femme.prime-beaute)
Update: see a review of Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Toit.
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OOOh! I’m the first to comment! (Tehe–I’ve spent too much time with my students! My 7th graders compete to see who can be the first in my room each day. Not sure the appeal, really, but it MATTERS to them!
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I don’t really have anything to say about the Hermes, since I haven’t sniffed any of these, yet. But the bottles are pertty!
They are worth a sniff…
compost, ehehehe : )
a must sniff!
ami,
In my enthusiasm to comment first, I missed the “compost” note at the end! I love Black March, which smells exactly like wet earth or fresh compost to me. I wonder if this will be at all reminiscent or if the fruits will overpower?
I love earthy notes…
Earthy gets my vote.
Love the Jardin series, especially sur le Nil ….earthy sounds great, hope it is not too fruity.
Black March is the only “earthy” fragrance I’ve sniffed (at least that I identified that way myself). Anyone wanna suggest other fragrances with earthy notes?
I’m still learning to identify notes, and I feel like many of them are hard for me to pick out because I don’t have a lot of experience with their originators (ie. not sure I’ve ever smelled a tuberose or burgomot in person), but “compost” I know!
Sorry about being so late to the game! I get a distinct earth note in the far dry-down of LesNez Manoumalia, which I adore. Anyone else?
I guess I’ll have to try it.. but so far none of Les Jardins has dissapointed me. not even mousson….
Now if only I could get one four-15 ml bottles “sampler” of these, I’d be in heaven!
As I posted on a facebook group before… Un Jardin sur Lemming!
They make them in 15 ml for GWP & gift sets, so they ought to do just that.
I also love earthy notes but I haven’t found the Jardin for me – a rooftop garden in Paris sounds very appealing, though.
I’m not crazy about the name.
I don’t like the name either.
All the other names evoke water. This one evokes dust for me. Still I will sniff it. Love the other 3.
I don’t like the name either, it sounds dirty. : P
I didn’t even get how it sounded in English until someone pointed it out to me.
My first thought was of the poem by Paul Verlaine:
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur ?
Ô bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits !
Pour un coeur qui s’ennuie,
Ô le chant de la pluie !
Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s’écoeure.
Quoi ! nulle trahison ?…
Ce deuil est sans raison.
C’est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon coeur a tant de peine !
Here’s the best translation I’ve found:
translation by Arthur Rimbaud
Like city’s rain, my heart
Rains teardrops too. What now,
This languorous ache, this smart
That pierces, wounds my heart?
Gentle, the sound of rain
Pattering roof and ground!
Ah, for the heart in pain,
Sweet is the sound of rain!
Tears rain-but who knows why?–
And fill my heartsick heart.
No faithless lover’s lie? . . .
It mourns, and who knows why?
And nothing pains me so–
With neither love nor hate–
A simply not to know
Thanks 4 posting + translation!
That’s really lovely and apt.
Sounds like a euphemism for a toupee.
And me. Funny, because fragrances houses do a lot of work usually to test how proposed fragrance names sound or look to people speaking other languages. Hermes must have decided to go with it anyway.
I’m a bit behind on these, I haven’t even sniffed Mousson yet. Compost sounds like an interesting way add a twist to a fruity floral.
You should! it is really gingery and refreshing.
I managed to sniff all of them but this one. Un Jardin Sur le Nil is the est to me. And certainly compost arose attention by me. I just hope it is not compost with lot of rotten fruits and flowers
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I’m sooooo excited about this one. I love UJALM. It has been my go to hot weather fragrance since its release. Not sure about the compost note though. It’ll be interesting.
I like all of the Hermes jardin scents, but haven’t loved any of them. They’re wonderful though – “it’s not them, it’s me.” I’ll try this one of course, but – compost? I’ve had a compost heap and it Was Not Pretty.
Compost could work, if done well, and seeing this is Hermes presumably it will be? There have been other fragrances I suppose that have included earth, rotting leaves, peat perhaps, and so on. What is interesting is that this is an urban interpretation of that idea. We are not out in the forest, we are in the city, where so many people actually live. So I’ll give this a go, to see how well the dreaded ‘fruitiness’ (ick) is balanced by the darker notes.
BEST news all week. Seriously.
Here’s hoping it smells nothing like melon – Apres La Mousson and Voyage, I’m looking at you two.
Sounds very interesting!
Mint compost? oooh, I’m so in!
Regular compost? I might be in for that too, we’ll see.
It’d be wonderful if Hermes did a coffret with all 4 as 15ml size… I’d buy that, providing Toit is as good as Nil!
having acquired Un Jardin en Méditerranée and Un Jardin Après La Mousson, and loving Un Jardin Sur Le Nil (but for some reason that not even I know why, I’m yet to get my hands on a bottle), this will be a must try for me. Isn’t this series lovely? Ellena has certainly done a great job on these!
NICE! I hope to try all of these. I love sur le Nil. The notes sound promising. I love basil and earthy smells. Compost though? this is funny. Why not just say soil? is it really going to have a decomposing air? I doubt it.
Good compost does not smell like decomposition. I look forward to smelling JCE’s interpretation of Vita Sackville-West’s “rich chocolate cake.” I’d go for the coffret as well.
Oh, great!!! I thought this collection was finished. Good news!! I hope Mr. Ellena do different than he did on Eau de Campagne and give the cut grass note a big longevity and sillage…
Always curious to smell a new Hermes Jardin as I really enjoy all the others.
So far Un jardin après la mousson is my favorite of the series.
I’m eager to try this one. Earthy is good for me.
But I dread hearing how the name will be pronounced in English.
I have it.
So the compost is none, fortunately, but it is the freshly cut smell of grass and herbs, that tends to be sour. And some aplle (swoosh!) some pear even (woosh) – both stuff that is rather uncommon for Ellena.
I have all Jardins and this one is very pleasent and special again (not so shocking like the Mousson,maybe because the has been some pear and applfe stuff around lately!).
I am very curious to read you opinions here on NST anyway, I have been looking for a review to match mine to it
if I do not get certain smells (what is the magnolia in tehre? do not get it!).
And – earthy I do not get out of it. Not at all. It’s blasting apple and pear and …sour!
Thanks for the review! It does now sound like I am going to adore it.