Terre d'Hermes Flacon H 2016 Parfum
Orange and grapefruit spark together, yielding a bright, slightly bitter citrus flash that feels more pith than juice.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Mossy80
- Citrus70
- Earthy50
- Aldehydic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Oakmoss
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and grapefruit spark together, yielding a bright, slightly bitter citrus flash that feels more pith than juice. The absence of heart notes lets the opening linger bare, so the bitterness stays crisp while subtle aldehydic lift keeps it airborne. Oakmoss soon creeps in, replacing citric snap with cool, earthy verdancy; its damp mineral facet mutes sweetness and tilts the scent austere. Benzoin warms the base, adding a quiet, resinous sheen that softens moss without adding sugar, leaving a dry, flinty skin scent. Projection stays polite, hovering just inside personal space for about six hours, ideal for office days or close-quarter travel in spring and fall.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
