“
At Hermès, the horse is omnipresent.
They even say that he was our first customer
,” warns Christine Nagel, head of the saddler’s olfactory creation.
Since the first harnesses created in 1837, its allure has been regularly imprinted on silk twill squares, its buckles and Jewelry: chains, the bigger, the more beautiful, when racing saddles inspire shapes lying in a bag.
On the perfume side, it is the warm and animal smell of a chestnut mare encountered backstage at Saut Hermès which becomes, for Christine Nagel, the starting point for a new Hermessence.
With her unique creative freedom - no marketing department or market testing at the saddler - she summons, in a simple and direct composition, a powerful oud and an energetic rose.
Meeting in his Parisian workshop under the auspices of a gigantic sculpted metal horse.
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