Hermes Paprika Brazil
Har tidigare skrivit om mina favoriter bland parfymer, men glömde nu nämna en stor favorit (som jag sällan använder)bara på special occasion som det heter och det är Hermes doften Paprika Brazil. Priset för 4 små flaskor ligger på runt800 kr.,men flaskorna har varsin fodral och passar utmärkt både om du reser eller i en kuvertväska.Smart tänkt här!:)
Och så här står det om doften:
Paprika Brasil is the latest fragrance to join the Hermessence Collection at Hermès. Like the others, it was developed by Hermès house nose Jean Claude Ellena. Paprika Brasil was reportedly inspired by the 1955 Claude Lévi-Strauss book Tristes Tropiques, which recounted his travels in the Brazilian interior. The fragrance notes include pimento, clove, paprika, iris, green leaves, reseda, ember wood (aka Brazilwood or Pernambuco) and woody notes.
My initial trials of Paprika Brasil cannot be described in any way other than disappointing, and the experience points to the dangers of building up expectations based on the fragrance name, back story and notes. I suppose what I was expecting was a deep woods scent with exotic spices, something that would evoke the jungles of Brazil before the impact of globalization, where Lévi-Strauss was said to have found “a human society reduced to its most basic expression”.
I wouldn’t necessarily know such a thing if I smelled it, mind you, but Paprika Brasil certainly doesn’t call up any such picture. It is first and foremost an iris fragrance, and a sheer one at that. The top notes have the same feel of rooty carrot that you find in Hermès Hiris, but without the sharp metallic twang. There is a slight whisper of green, and a dusting of dry paprika, and yes, there are woods, but the whole is extraordinarily muted, and easily has the least presence of any of the Hermessences so far.
Är du nyfiken på doften kan du känna den hos mig eller besöka NK - huset i Stockholm och Hermes butiken där!
Imorgon blir det annat!
Nu ska jag softa igen framför TV-n och "Desperate Housewives"
Ciao!:)
