Cabriole Eau de Senteur Hermès

Cabriole Eau de Senteur Hermès

A cabriole is a leap the light, spontaneous, joyful jump of a child or a young animal who moves not because they must but because the sheer pleasure of movement is reason enough. Cabriole by Hermès is a 2022 Floral Eau de Senteur for women, men, and anyone young at heart conceived for children aged three and over, and composed by the house’s in-house master perfumer Christine Nagel with the same care, the same quality of materials, and the same creative intelligence she brings to every Hermès fragrance. It is a fragrance of complete, uncomplicated, luminous joy: honeysuckle-bright at the opening, softly osmanthus-warm at the heart, and gently sandalwood-settled at the close. Alcohol-free, water-based, and formulated for the most delicate skin a fragrance as gentle as it is beautiful, as playful as it is refined.

The opening is luminous, honey-sweet, and of a natural, immediately delightful freshness: Honeysuckle the climbing flower of the Lonicera genus, with its distinctive clean, sweet, slightly honey-like floral character that is simultaneously fresh and gently, warmly nectar-like, one of the most immediately and universally beloved of all natural floral scents opens Cabriole with a bright, softly sweet, airy floral freshness that is entirely, completely itself: the scent of a warm garden, of sun on petals, of the kind of beauty that needs no elaboration whatsoever.

The heart deepens into a gentle, peachy, warmly luminous floral: Osmanthus the small, intensely fragrant flower of the Osmanthus fragrans tree, native to China and one of the most beloved and poetic flowers in East Asian culture, with its distinctive apricot-peach, slightly leathery, honeyed floral character of great delicacy and warmth forms the warm, softly fruity-floral heart of Cabriole with a gentle luminosity that is at once entirely natural and extraordinarily refined: the osmanthus of Hermès in the hands of Christine Nagel, a material the house knows and loves with singular depth, here given its most tender, most joyful expression.

The dry-down is soft, warm, and of a quietly beautiful, lasting gentleness: Sandalwood with its signature creamy, warm, slightly milky woodiness of the greatest meditative comfort settles Cabriole into a soft, skin-close warmth that carries the honeysuckle and osmanthus into a dry-down of complete, enveloping, and entirely gentle beauty. At Eau de Senteur concentration in a water-based, alcohol-free formula, the sandalwood is soft and diffuse rather than projecting a warm, tender, close-to-the-skin comfort that is exactly what a fragrance for delicate, joyful, young skin should be.

• Fragrance Family: Floral
• For: Children (aged 3+), Women & Men
• Launched: 2022
• Perfumer: Christine Nagel
• Top Note: Honeysuckle
• Middle Note: Osmanthus
• Base Note: Sandalwood
• Concentration: Eau de Senteur (Alcohol-Free, Water-Based)
• Volume: 50 ml / 1.6 fl oz
• Suitable For: Delicate & sensitive skin
• Bottle: Iconic Hermès lantern bottle with illustrations by Alice Charbin
• House: Hermès

Cabriole is joy made wearable honeysuckle-bright, osmanthus-warm, and endlessly, gently radiant.