One year after the launch of Barénia Eau de Parfum, Barénia Eau de Parfum Intense makes its entrance, combining recollection with invention – because there is no creation without memory.
For this olfactory variation, Christine Nagel wanted to intensify the original composition of Barénia by reworking her creation. The essence of patchouli present in the Eau de Parfum is here enriched with a different patchouli in the form of an absolute. Leathery notes complete a palette created around butterfly lily and miracle berry. Oakwood gives subtle structure to the whole. Transformed by a roasting process that accentuates its warm, rum-like notes, it becomes a reed, forming the supple, vertical backbone of this Eau de Parfum Intense.
With this even more powerful and captivating fragrance, a new facet of the Hermès woman becomes clearer. The imprint of a woman shrouded in a heightened air of mystery, her deepest instincts revealed by the bewitching, sensual presence of leather.
The fragrance is transformed – from a metaphor for Hermès’ beloved Barénia leather into a physical, almost tactile presence. “When you touchBarénialeather,” explains Christine Nagel, “a kind of fusion happens between the texture and your skin. The leather returns your caress.” This intimacy, this incomparable harmony between strength and softness, is illustrated by the dialogue between lily and leather, the sweetness of the one tempering the unsettling animality of the other.
This duality is reflected in Philippe Mouquet’s design for the bottle. Coloured with a light lacquer in graduated shades of amber, it becomes perfectly transparent at the base to reveal the Hermès signature. And although the metal plate inspired by the Collier de chien bracelet and the cap remain unchanged, the box for the Eau de Parfum Intense, while still hot-stamped in silver, is now sumptuously decorated in rouge H. This emblematic red hue expresses the intensity and ardour of a unique composition that heralds a hitherto unsuspected version of the Hermès chypre.
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Lane Crawford, G/F-1/F
