![]() ![]() Her newest fragrance is Un Jardin à Cythère, the seventh instalment of Hermès’ Jardin collection. Before joining Hermès, she created hits such as Armani Si and Miss Dior Cherie. Nagel is herself a trailblazer Swiss rather than French a former chemist instead of an apprentice in France’s perfume capital, Grasse. Her perfumes push boundaries the scent of ginger gives Twilly an androgynous twist H24 eschews the woody notes that dominate men’s fragrances for a vegetal, metallic scent. She’s the nose behind Twilly, Eau des Merveilles Bleue and H24. ![]() Nagel, 63, is one of the world’s most influential perfumers and has overseen Hermès fragrances since 2016. “I put it in my mind and I said ‘I’ll do something with this fragrance one day’.” ![]() Un Jardin à Cythère is inspired by how Christine Nagel remembers the scent of olive trees and sun-toasted grasses. “But when you get experience, you begin to know what the result is going to be.” “When you’re a young perfumer, and you write a formula, you are often surprised by the outcome,” she says. Which is indeed what I smell intensely familiar and utterly strange to think that Coke can be evoked from just two scents. And if you do this,” she says, twirling the two sticks in front of my nose at once, “you smell Coca-Cola.” And this,” Nagel says, handing me another strip, “is cinnamon. It smells like a lime, but it’s a bit aggressive, like a cleaning product. Wearing no-nonsense blue jeans and a sand-coloured turtleneck, she passes me a small strip of scented paper. “Let’s do a little exercise,” says Nagel, sitting in her atelier on the top floor of the headquarters of Hermès’ perfume division in central Paris. Christine Nagel has a neat trick to demonstrate the surprises that await the perfumer when mixing scents. ![]()
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