Up to Ellena’s arrival, the scents were created by different established perfumers. Roudnitska, who taught Ellena, created Eau d’Hermès in 1951 to capture the smell of a Hermès handbag. This scent somewhat sets the tone for the next fifty years of Hermès, with Equipage (1970), Bel Ami (1986) and Rocabar (1998) all following suit in that they are elegant and restrained, leathery, complex, masculine scents.
Category: <span>perfume</span>
This post is somewhat ill-placed on this blog, but while I’m trying to get my writing about all things flavour, not just bartending, running again and the respective sites set…