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Hermès beckons you to follow in the footsteps of Jean-Claude Ellena, perfumer to the house, to discover a new Jardin. From his travels the Garden-Perfumes are born, combining the soul of a place, the spirit of Hermès and the inspiration of their creator.

Un Jardin après la Mousson sees India in an unusual light and arouses new emotions. The monsoon sweeps aside preconceptions and stock images, whisking away a chaos of smells. By giving back what the sun has taken from the earth, it drives out the scorching breath of drought. Every year it marks India’s renewal.

Hermès and the Garden-Perfumes
After Un Jardin en Méditerranée, a visit to a secret garden, and Un Jardin sur le Nil, a walk along the banks of the river, Un Jardin après la Mousson offers an experience of that extraordinary moment when nature is reborn.
From the river to the sea, from the sky to the earth, from one Jardin to another, water flows like a link between each of the stories. A trilogy is emerging from this constantly renewed cycle, which gives nature a rebirth and new life.

After the monsoon, the inspiration
The story of Un Jardin après la Mousson has its source in Kerala, in the
heart of that network of rivers and canals known as the Backwaters, where earth and water become indistinguishable in a luxuriant natural setting. It is a living expression of nature itself breathing its fill, when the veil of clouds tears open to reveal the newfound sun, the earth saturated with water, the dazzling green of young leaves. A time when colours and smells are at their clearest, their sharpest, their purest.

The garden breathes…
On his travels in India Jean-Claude Ellena came across a plethora of fragrances, tastes, scents and savours. And in that apparent complexity, laden with signs and symbols, he chose the serene essence of nature being reborn.
In his quest for impalpable, transparent freshness, for tender and delicate emotions, he remembered a ginger-flavoured lemonade with a slightly peppery smell and taste, acidified with a few drops of lime.
He set aside hot, violent spices to bring to the fore smells of vegetation, impressions of water and cooler spices. Selected cardamom, coriander and pepper for their spontaneity and subtlety. He was seduced by the watery smoothness of Kahili Ginger like white butterflies. Then he toyed with the earthy green vetiver that the Indians weave together and attach in windows to perfume their houses.

Moist greenery, watery sweetness, grassy sap… He gathered together every expression of a garden after the monsoon!

Un Jardin après la Mousson, a vegetable, floral, spicy perfume for men and women alike.

… and nature smiles!
Something in the glass of this bottle may hold a memory of a stormy sky still hovering over dripping vegetation, but the way the perfume is presented - with its highly coloured naïve freeze almost dancing around the case - is a translation of India’s smile. Combining exuberant flora and fearsome creatures, it was conceived by Karen Petrossian who has collaborated with Hermès to design a number of carrès (Silk Scarves), and whose senses are inspired by the infinite palette of raw materials, shapes and colours offered by nature.

Un Jardin après la Mousson
Available Exclusively at Hermès Boutiques & Harrods

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