HERMESSENCE AMBRE NARGUILE - HERMES (GCMS CLUB COLLECTION)

Hermessence Ambre Narguilé – Hermès

📆 Launch Year: 2004
💧 Concentration: Eau de Toilette
🔥 Olfactive Family: Oriental Spicy
👃 Perfumer: Jean-Claude Ellena
📚 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni
🧮 Number of Ingredients: 41

A Warm Whisper of Honeyed Smoke

Jean-Claude Ellena’s Ambre Narguilé is a perfumed mirage — a swirl of golden tobacco, cinnamon, and sweet resins rising from a warm hookah bowl. This is not the dense amber of the Middle East, but an Ellena amber: weightless, transparent, and full of light.

Built around a backbone of Coumarin, Vanillin, and Benzoin Siam, the fragrance balances sweetness and warmth with the luminosity of Iso E Super and Galaxolide. The gourmand texture of Cinnamic Alcohol and Ethyl Maltol meets the spiced breath of Cinnamon Bark Oil and Pimento Berry Oil, evoking dried fruits glazed in honey and rum.

A trace of Patchouli, Muscone, and Cashmeran anchors the composition with sensual depth, while Helional and Linalool bring that airy, almost silky transparency that defines Ellena’s hand.

✨ The Result

Ambre Narguilé feels like liquid sunlight filtered through amber glass — warm, translucent, endlessly comforting.
It’s a whisper of sweetness in the air, a quiet luxury, and perhaps the softest way Hermès ever defined indulgence.