Hermès’s latest addition to the Jardin series of perfumes, Un Jardin sur la Lagune, is an ode to a magical green oasis set on a Venetian lagoon.
Picture a scene. You are far from home, in a gloriously beautiful, ancient city, that in its wisdom has replaced all roads with canals, and cars with boats. You are travelling in one of them, slowly navigating the glass-green waters until you arrive at an unprepossessing wooden door set in an ochre-coloured wall. It is oddly familiar, not because you’ve been here before but might have dreamed of it. You walk through the door and straight into a parallel world: A garden unlike any other. Large, awash in gentle light, sea breeze, and the scents of nature.
For perfumer Christine Nagel, the discovery of the garden followed a long search for just such a space, one that could provide her the inspiration for the sixth part to what is arguably Hermès’s finest and most loved collection, its Jardin series, introduced in 2003.
This story is from the April 2019 edition of Harper's Bazaar India.
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