Rouge Hermes Eau Delicate Hermès for women

I bought a mini of what I thought was vintage Rouge d'Hermes but in fact it was a mini of the delicate flanker. I'm comparing the current formulation of Rouge to this older flanker and while they are similar there are some differences.

When the delicate flanker is first spray you get a real blast of galbanum and aldehydes. Very crisp and very icy in tone. As the perfume progressed the icy sensation stays with me. Like snowflakes made of roses oil. I get that sensation as well with the current formulation of Rouge but in the older eau delicate flanker it is much more pronounced. In fact the current formulation is the delicate one because the icy cold aldehydes are toned down. This eau delicate flanker really makes good use of the source materials. The galbanum is pitch perfect. Not to green just enough to give this perfume a lovely but stinging bite. It gives the impression of thorns on the deep red roses. These roses have been caught in an ice storm and are frozen in time. The ylang iris sandalwood and resins do there best to warm and melt the ice but it is to late. The spell has been cast and cannot be reversed. The current formulation loses that sensation and becomes much warmer and quite powdery. It is lovely but this eau delicate flanker is what I am looking for. A cold red rose perfume. A red rose with many thorns and frozen into ice. This will be absolutely beautiful in the height of winters cold grip. As much as I enjoy the current formulation this is hands down superior.

More aldehydes more cold roses and less woody than the current formulation of Rouge.

I have had this bottle for so many years now...I should be wearing this more often, I think today is the second time I have used it. It is very elegant and refined, the rose, the ylang-ylang, galbanum and aldehydes make it very classic, well it is a vintage scent. It is like the love child of Samsara and Chanel no5, in a light and diluted version.
Lovely drydown, I don't get the metallic note some people talk about. I just get a very fluffly, rich smelling cloud around me. Aldehydes can do that, it is a shame they are not used much in modern perfumery.

I try to love this but it’s non reciprocated love… the metallic note just ruins everything for me on my skin… very sad.

Rouge eau delicate was my signature perfume in the springtime of 2002, when it first came out. It will always remind me of this period of my life when I was looking for my first job. Great companion for job interviews. Eau delicate is indeed a delicate version of the more opulent Rouge Hermes. A powdery, yet classy perfume very much in the line of Escada by Margaretha Ley, the first perfume of Escada from 1990.

Like you open a metallic can with oil that has gone bad in it.

It's beautiful. Rouge Hermes Eau Delicate is the love of my life. It is such a good quality, strong and serious perfume; it is just my cup of tea. I feel very womanly, strong and confident, yet feminine and almost delicate in it. It's completely elegant and demure, and inward looking, deep and mysterious. The beautiful, metallic rose is made softer and sweeter by the perfect blending with the yang-ylang, which adds to the overall smell of rose right through the whole life of the perfume. At the beginning, it smells a little fruity, then moves into a more powdery, rose/ylang-ylang, and then beautiful warm resins become very dominant, and give the perfume a glowing, comforting feel. The dry-down is delicious - soft, rich rosy/resiny and sweet, with a lovely woodiness from the exquisite cedar.
It's the most wonderful perfume, it lasts for 24 hours, and projects to a few feet, which always leads to my receiving profuse compliments, especially from men. And it's one of my husband's favourites on me. I completely adore it. It's a real treasure.

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It was really bad was the smell of rusty iron

I would follow the lady, who is wearing this scent, to the end of the world (if I was a man, of course)))! I imagine the evening dry prairie, full of such smells as yellow, faded grass, and HER, standing on the edge of the break... Her silk dress is flowing with a wind, smelling like dead roses, dried by the sun, cedar, and incense, which will slowly make him crazy after she's gone forever. He's inhaling the traces of amber for a very last time. Afterwards he is going to be drawing roses on his wooden canvas. Or carve the roses on cedar woods... Catch the last breath!

Not sure what I was expecting but this is the weirdest smell ever....coffee with some greenery combined.....With a hint of rose.

Hermes Rouge Eau Delicate is a good example of old perfumery in light version. The original Rouge is much stronger and also more complex and nuanced, but the Eau Delicate is not so bad. This is no flanker as it goes now. It's rather a diluted and simplified version of the same perfume, which btw it's a beautiful monster!
This smells like a flanker should smell: simplified yet present and not too thin watery, otherwise it should be called "Eau Invisible" and priced as free ;-)
I saw a tester bottle on a street vendor's desk at local market, you know, those original old bottles that these crazy people insist keeping under the sun...
The initial burst is very green in an 80s style, sort of Cartier Must, CK Obsession, new Samsara or... Hermes Rouge! This stage is a little bit annoying for my taste because it is the more pungent, but rather elegant.
It takes about 1 hour for this Eau Delicate to unfold its beauty on my skin and after that time it becomes a very sweet and powdery scent, both vanillic and floral powdery, in a way similar to a few modern sweet&powdery, still there is a quality to it that make the newer ones bite the dust.
Not too complicated, easy to wear with a soft elegance. Longlasting but not very projecting, I only get whiffs as I move my hands.

This smells verymuch as the name says, a more delicate version of the opulent Hermes' rouge. I do like it very much. It smells very classical since the beginning. It is extremely powdery, like the original. I cannot believe it does not have plenty of iris. Like the original it is a very particular scent. The only minus side to me is that despite not being that dense this lighter version,I still find it too heavy in a certain way. I do get tired of it very quickly. But still I do find it a very very good fragrance, like the original.

This one was weird on me. I mostly got ozone and not separate notes. When it dried down, it was very green, with synthetic notees I could pin down. It was never bad, but it was always odd.

This one lives up to it's name. It's delicate!
Here we have a powdery opening mixed with a soft floral aspect, granted by a dominant smell of rose.

Rouge Eau Delicate passes a huge feeling of cleanliness in a smell that is almost like one of those classic soaps based on floral aromas. Very good longevity and projection, but too floral for me.

My GOD . This is very beautiful scent , I dont mind if it is for women or what so ever ,this is very nice and it has soooo delicate soft powdery drydown which i love love love .Thank you Jae for your nice review that made me pull this off , really you have a good taste.

I wasn't so sure that I'd enjoy this as much as Rouge Hermes. However, there is no room for uncertainty with Hermes. Enter Rouge Hermes Eau Delicate. I thought that this would be a weaker version, but it's actually a very nice, prim version of its predecessor. With less powder, a lighter base and more of an emphasis on the floral aspects, I find this one much easier to wear in warmer weather. I'd love this for Spring and Autumn. It's spicy and floral on my skin with restrained sillage. I love how Hermes perfumes are so well-mannered. This has excellent longevity, to my surprise. It's a definite keeper and an excellent sleeper for a guy to wear. I agree that this isn't an everyday fragrance. But I don't think ANY Hermes fragrance is an "everyday fragrance". Hermes is above that.

Very spicy and strong. After a while it becomes sweeter but the spices take a long time to evaporate in my skin. Not for everyday use, in my opinion.

Oh, Rouge Hermes... .
One of the perfumes I adore but find so hard to wear. I do like it when I spray it in the room, it gives a warm, cosy feeling. I do miss some more flower - or powerdy notes to 'finish' the scent. It's like something's missing. Spicy, woody, would fit as a men's cologne to. Since it's the 'eau' version, it doesn't have a great lasting power but it never overwhelmes eighter.

ohh , i like this parfum but cant wear every day.
furst i feel this parfum strong pepper and hard woods notes sekond come roses not sweet ,calm rich smell roses . long lasting sparkling, parfum realy delicate and beautiful.