Hermès Eau de Merveilles
4.1
Overall
Accords
woody
amber
citrus
fresh spicy
aromatic
conifer
Notes Pyramid
Top
OrangeElemi resinLemon
Heart
AmberPepperPink PepperViolet
Base
FirCedarMadagascar VetiverOakmossBenzoin
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ Southern Bloom: Scent associations are so powerful. Many people think this smells like Christmas. But to me, this smells like the beach. There is, in fact, no more perfectly realistic beach fragrance than this one. I can smell the heat in the air, the sea foam, ocean spray in the air prickling your skin. I smell the heat of skin itself having been in the sun and salt all day long. I put this on, and I can feel the sun kiss my face. It's sensual, but not overtly so. It's also a celebration of nature. This is, for me, what Pacific Rock Moss, Wood Sage and Sea Salt, and Sel Marin could never quite capture about my personal experiences of the beach. It leaves a beautiful, gauzy scent trail.
- ✅ sunnyhill43: I’ve received more compliments while wearing this perfume than any other. It’s extremely remarkable, posh, and beautiful. I’ve been asked by three different women in a short time frame what it was. Some thought I was wearing Baccarat Rouge or Jo Malone, which makes sense, as it definitely shares a lot of the notes as those famous fragrances. But it’s unique. I was told by another woman that I should make this my signature scent.
- ✅ PaulieDoodle: Hermes Les Merveilles edp: Two Little Word's - 'Pure Magic'!! When Hermes Invented Les Merveilles edp, I Personally Don't Think They Realised Just How GOOD, And How Successful, And Well Loved This Stunning Fragrance Would Actually Go On To Be!! As I Said In My Opening Remark - To Me Anyway, I Find This Perfume To Be 'ABSOLUTELY PURE MAGIC' In Such A Stunning Bottle!! In My Mind, It Conjures Up How A Little Fairy Would Smell 🧚♀️ 🧚♂️ Flying Around In Amongst All The Wild Beautiful Flower's In An Undiscovered Secret Garden, Sprinking Her Sparkling Magic Fairy Dust All Around!! It's Simply Gorgeous 😍!! Never Has Any Fragrance I Own, Brought Me So'ooooooooo Many, And Wonderful Compliments As This One Has!!
- ✅ I’ve received more compliments while wearing this perfume than any other.
- ✅ An uplifting and elegant ambery scent, with fresh, spicy, orange and woody nuances.
- ✅ Sparkling, efervescent magic in a bottle!
- ❌ BeccaMFV: Someone recommended this to me because I was looking for a clean, unique fragrance- but this ended up being a huge disappointment. Most of the listed notes I love, but this literally smells like pine trees and hints of outdated cologne. I was expecting to love this after doing some research. It has amazing reviews and sounds like something I would typically go for..but this one just wasn’t for me. I only got a travel size decant (thankfully) but I highly recommend getting a smaller sample and testing this first. I hardly smell anything other than fir and cedar. Maybe a powdery slightly dated amber. Such a bummer.
- ❌ RGH01: Eau des Merveilles was a scent I was really looking forward to trying, but sadly has not lived up to expectations; in fact it smells rather weird. Upon first spray it transports me to swimming pool toilets, particularly the smell of chlorine reacting with the old floor tiles. It’s a little unpleasant to begin with, but thankfully this settles and transforms into some kind of dull olive smell with a bitter orange and airy surface cleaner. Doesn’t sound like a nice mix does it? Its not awful, but it certainly doesn’t smell how I was expecting it to. Sadly not a love for me which was a shock as I usually love Hermès creations.
- ❌ Smells very masculine
- ❌ this ended up being a huge disappointment... literally smells like pine trees and hints of outdated cologne.
- ❌ I do not smell what the other reviewers seem to smell. It just smells like a generic pine cologne on my skin.
