Le Jardin de Monsieur Li
Le Jardin de Monsieur Li opens with a wet, green sharpness—kumquat peel and jasmine petals after rain.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Bamboo
By the editors · 2 min readLe Jardin de Monsieur Li opens with a wet, green sharpness—kumquat peel and jasmine petals after rain. The citrus here isn't sunny Mediterranean but something cooler, almost austere, backed by a faint medicinal edge that recalls osmanthus or green tea steam. It feels like stepping into a walled garden where stone and water matter as much as the plants.
As it settles, the jasmine grows warmer without turning sweet, and a soft plum note appears, more skin than fruit. The composition stays close, never loud, with a subtle incense-like quality that might come from the way the florals oxidize on skin.
This is Hermès at their most restrained—a fragrance for someone who wants to smell like they've been somewhere interesting rather than announce their presence. It suits contemplative moods and those drawn to the brand's quieter, more abstract garden series.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
