# Hermann À Mes Côtés Me Paraissait Une Ombre

**Brand:** Etat Libre d'Orange · **Perfumer:** Quentin Bisch · **Year:** 2015
**Rating:** 3.7 / 5 (6 ratings) · **Popularity:** #157

## Notes
**Top:** الكشمش الأسود, الجلبانوم, بيبروود بيبروود™
**Heart:** جيوزمين, اللبان \(اللبان\), روز
**Base:** أمبروكسان, كاليبسوني, باتشولي, نجيل الهند

## About Etat Libre d'Orange
Etat Libre d'Orange هي علامة عطور جريئة تحتفي بالفردية والجرأة. يشتهر كل عطر بخلطاته غير التقليدية وأسمائه المستفزة، حيث يحكي كل عطر قصة فريدة من نوعها، ويدعو مرتديه إلى احتضان ذواتهم الحقيقية والاستمتاع بالتعبير الشمي.

## Top reviews
- ★4/5 — Spring — Casual — "Futuristic, masculine cold damp earth and rose done in a clean, modern way. Bladerunner 

A bit peppery with a little synthetic sweetness in the opening. Quickly a slight grayish, mineralic, damp earthiness appears, casting a kind of veil over a fairly prominent rose and a cold, slightly plasticky incense note in the mid. A synthesized patchouli derivative woody base with ambroxan. This is a fairl…"
- ★4/5 — Spring, Summer — "Just to say I think the reviewer below was smelling something different to me, I get no rose or patchouli in here? I'm a fan of Ambroxan for the record, although obvious and seemingly flavour of the month at the moment, it's a versatile base for fragrances to go in any direction. It can be clean and masculine, the base for a citrus/aquatic (as it is here) or even warming, underneath more oriental…"
- ★4/5 — Spring, Fall — "The overall profile of Hermann is deeply up my alley: damp earth with green elements (galbanum, black currant, vetiver), an unusual rose oil, incense, and a mysterious sheer, glassy, watery quality that’s obviously synthetic and hard to describe. Like a lot of ELdO scents, it’s challenging and paradoxical: it smells simultaneously very natural, even dirty (wet soil, decaying leaves, crushed and wi…"
- ★4/5 — Spring, Summer — "Opens as a lovely peppery rose, and dries into a woody acquatic floral. A very light damp earthy Petrichor supports.

After some hours the darkness of the aquatic settles and the rose appears again.

Lovely scent, akin to a lighter ADP with more floral."
- ★3/5 — Spring — "Maybe it's my nose, I think it is, but when a perfume contains ambroxide, I can't usually get past it, with one or two exceptions. Sadly this falls into the broader category of aggressive ambroxide nightmares. I can see why it might appeal, and it's certainly less obnoxious than Sauvage, but it has the heacachey, chemical mire I've come to detest in designer and niche fragrances alike."
- ★3/5 — Fall, Winter — "Melted menthol pastil covers roses and Patchouli One perfume more which was a random sample for me and I didn't know anything about it before trying it for the first time. Because of that it surprised me with the powerful opening and the overall feeling of uniqueness which, however, subsided a bit after a few wearings. The reason why it's so unique to me is, that this kind of scent profile is not…"

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