When it comes to designer purses, Hermès Birkin bags are considered the creme de la creme. Owning a Birkin may just be the ultimate symbol of wealth, and realistically, a small pool of people get to ...

Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel’s first time designing a scent with oud, one of the most luxurious fragrance ingredients on the planet, wasn’t for an official Hermès fragrance. She was tinkering with ...

Christine Nagel thinks she has the best job in the world. To hear her talk about it, you might think so too. The in-house perfumer for Hermès has complete creative freedom at the storied house to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For a decade, perfumer Christine Nagel had a secret: a fragrance she just couldn’t get out of her mind.

When you hear the word Hermès, a few things come to mind. Vibrant orange boxes that house the littlest of luxuries. Silky scarves that are more like detailed works of art. And, perhaps most famously, ...

Twilly d’Hermès was created to evoke the free-spiritedness, playfulness and sense of mischief in young women. No brand, it seems, is impervious to the vast potential of the millennial consumer market.

Christine Nagel, Hermès’ in-house perfumer, is a synesthete and a storyteller. I met her for the first time in person earlier this year (2024) to discuss ‘Oud Alezan’, a warm and heady scent inspired ...