HERMESSENCE OSMANTHE YUNNAN - HERMES (GCMS CLUB COLLECTION)

Hermessence Osmanthe Yunnan – Hermès
📆 Launch Year: 2015
💧 Concentration: Eau de Toilette
🍑 Olfactive Family: Floral Fruity
👃 Perfumer: Jean-Claude Ellena
📚 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni
🧮 Number of Ingredients: 38

Tea, Light, and the Peach of Dawn

Osmanthe Yunnan is Ellena’s ode to tea and translucent fruit — an impressionist watercolor of osmanthus petals steeped in golden Yunnan leaves. It unfolds with the weightless poise of a whisper: warm, luminous, and endlessly refined.

The heart rests on Methyl Dihydrojasmonate and Ionone Beta, which together shape a floral transparency that evokes apricot and tea blossom. Hydroxycitronellal, Helional, and Linalool add a dewy, petal-like softness, while Guaiacwood Oil and Patchouli DM provide a barely-there grounding — a trace of smoke rising from a teacup.

The fruity glow of Mandarin, Sweet Orange, and Cedrat lifts the scent into sunlight, while Muscone and Muscenone Delta round it with a gentle skin warmth. Everything seems suspended between steam and air, wood and light.

✨ The Result

Osmanthe Yunnan feels like a sip of warm tea in a glass pavilion at dawn — fragile, radiant, and perfectly serene.
A fragrance where fruit becomes light and tea becomes texture, crafted in the purest Ellena style: transparent, intelligent, and quietly sublime.