TERRE D'HERMES - EAU GIVREE

🧊 Terre d’Hermès Eau Givrée – Hermès 📆 Launch Year: 2022 💧 Concentration: Eau de Parfum 🍋 Olfactive Family: Citrus Aromatic Mineral 👃 Perfumer: Christine Nagel – Hermès 🧪 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 58

A new frost carved into stone — Eau Givrée is not a flanker. It’s a reboot in cold blood. Christine Nagel didn’t reinterpret Terre, she re-sculpted it: stripping it down to mineral bones, then icing it with citrus and steel.

💨 Creative Intent Nagel described it as “a handful of earth, a handful of ice.” This is Terre without nostalgia — crystalline, vertical, and dry. The DNA is still there (vetiver, cedar, patchouli), but it’s refracted through a lemon-glass prism, sharpened with ginger and red berries, and diffused by a molecular storm.

🧪 The Architecture

• A radiant chassis of Iso E Super, Hedione, Ambroxan, Exaltolide, and Dihydro Ambrettolide
• Citrus and aromatic lift from Sicilian Lemon Oil, Methyl Pamplemousse, Citral, Mandarin, and Red Berries SFE
• Earthy tension from Vetiver Haiti, Patchouli, Nagarmotha, Cedarwood (Virginia & Atlas), and Oud 10760 Firmenich
• Spiced and green inflections via Ginger Oil, Cardamom, Elemi, Galbanol, and Cis-3-Hexenyl Esters
• Floral and aldehydic shimmer from Florol, Rose Acetate, Magnolan, Styrallyl Acetate, and Triplal
• Trace molecules like Rhubofix, Nootkatone, Veloutone, and Tinogard TT add mineral sparkle and dry lift

🌫️ The Signature Eau Givrée is not warm, not soft, not nostalgic. It’s a mineral-citrus blade, diffusive and dry, with a sillage that hums like cold air over stone. The vetiver is stripped of smoke, the patchouli is clean, the musks are sheer. It’s Terre in negative — and it might be the most radical version yet.

✅ GC-MS analytical insight ✅ Structural fidelity to 58-material breakdown ✅ A citrus-mineral reboot — sharp, modern, and glacially elegant