Hermes Hermessence Collection New fragrance @ Épice Marine

Hermes Épice Marine is  the eleventh fragrance in the Hermessence collection, Épice Marine takes its place in a field of expression that Jean-Claude Ellena has been exploring since 2004, but also outlines new shores for this collection. Épice Marine tells the story of a meeting between two men: Jean-Claude Ellena and Olivier Roellinger. A meeting between the perfumer from the south and the “cuisinier corsaire” (the pirate chef). From smells to tastes,

connections were established and they sustained the creative process of these two lovers of spices. Inspired by this long term meeting of minds, Jean-Claude Ellena brings us Épice Marine, an accord of spices, sea spray and ocean waters. Épice Marine is a wave of spices in northern seas. A blast of air that is as brisk as it is warm, that is stimulating and exhilarating. An incisive poem, a messenger of sea spray but also of feverish heat. A bottle and “saddle stitched” leather: every fragrance in the Hermessence collection has its own corresponding livery drawn from the infinite variety of in-house leathers. For Epice Marine the spirit of the open seas lends its colour to the bottle and the case thanks to a new combination: on the outside Thalassa blue Swift calfskin, evoking the North Sea; on the inside slate Mysore goatskin, an echo of mist and wet pebbles.