Hermès Eau des Merveilles Eau de Toilette 30ml Spray

Hermès Eau des Merveilles Eau de Toilette 30ml is the founding chapter in the maison's celebrated Merveilles constellation — composed in 2004 by Ralph Schwieger and Nathalie Feisthauer. A radical women's fragrance for its era, Eau des Merveilles was launched without a single floral note: instead it builds an airy, zesty, salty-amber composition around bitter orange, Italian lemon, elemi, peppers, and a vibrating base of ambergris, oak, cedar, vetiver and balsam. The 30ml format is the travel-and-handbag-friendly size for keeping the fragrance with you wherever the day takes you.

About Hermès

Hermès is the Paris-based luxury house founded as a harness-and-saddle workshop in 1837 by Thierry Hermès. The Merveilles family began in 2004 with this fragrance, and has since grown into a constellation of flankers including Elixir des Merveilles (2006), Eau Claire des Merveilles (2010) and Eau des Merveilles Bleue (2017). Each interprets the original salty-amber signature in a different direction.

Fragrance notes

• Top: Elemi, Bitter Orange, Italian Lemon, Indonesian Pepper, Pink Pepper
• Heart: Ambergris Accord
• Base: Oak, Cedar, Vetiver, Balsam of Peru, Tears of Siam

Olfactory family: Woody Amber (Salty Citrus-Amber)  |  Launched: 2004  |  Perfumers: Ralph Schwieger, Nathalie Feisthauer

Who it's for

Eau des Merveilles suits women — and shareable with men — drawn to refined, slightly unusual woody-amber fragrances over traditional florals or sweet gourmand styles. It is wearable year-round, ideal for office wear, weekends and warm-weather travel. If you wear Hermès Voyage d'Hermès, Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Mandorlo di Sicilia, or Diptyque Eau Duelle, Eau des Merveilles sits comfortably alongside them with its salty-amber signature.

How to use

1. Spray onto clean, moisturised skin from around 15 cm away.
2. Apply to pulse points — wrists, neck, behind the ears and inner elbow.
3. Two sprays of an EDT is plenty; the ambergris-balsam-oak base anchors the fragrance through the day.
4. The 30ml format is hand-luggage friendly — useful for travel.

Size: 30ml. Presented in the Merveilles family's distinctive flattened-orb flacon in warm amber-orange glass.