{"product_id":"parfums-de-marly-herod-eau-de-parfum","title":"Parfums de Marly Herod Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat It Smells Like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParfums de Marly Herod is a tobacco and vanilla fragrance, and one of the reference points for that style. It smells like sweet pipe tobacco and cinnamon in a wood-panelled room, with enough smoke and dry wood underneath to keep it from becoming a dessert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens on cinnamon and a peppery wood note, warm rather than sharp. The heart is the reason people buy it: tobacco leaf, which smells honeyed and slightly fruity rather than like cigarette smoke, joined by incense, labdanum (a leathery, ambery resin) and osmanthus, a flower with an apricot-and-suede character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base brings vanilla together with cedar, vetiver and cypriol, an earthy, smoky root also called nagarmotha. Iso E Super, a smooth cedar-like material, and musk give the whole thing air, so the sweetness radiates instead of sitting heavily on skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFragrantica's community ranks tobacco as the leading accord, then vanilla, warm spicy, amber and cinnamon. It holds a rating of 4.42 out of 5 from more than 11,000 votes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho Made It\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/olivier-pescheux\"\u003eOlivier Pescheux\u003c\/a\u003e, the Givaudan perfumer behind several Diptyque fragrances and one of the three authors of Paco Rabanne 1 Million, composed this one. His work shows how a rich, sweet structure can be made to feel clean rather than heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerod is for people who want a sweet fragrance with a serious, grown-up backbone. Fragrantica lists it as a masculine, though tobacco and vanilla are worn happily by anyone who likes them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have tried tobacco-vanilla scents that felt syrupy, this is the drier, smokier alternative. If you dislike sweetness altogether, look at Greenley or Castley instead. Compared with Layton it is darker and has none of the apple freshness; compared with Oajan it is less honeyed and more woody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to Wear It\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a cold-weather fragrance, and the votes say so clearly: winter and fall lead by a wide margin on Fragrantica, with summer almost absent. Heat makes the vanilla and tobacco feel thick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvening suits it best. Wear it to dinner, on a date, or under a coat and scarf on a winter night, when the smoke and spice have room to open. One or two sprays are plenty indoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the House\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParfums de Marly was founded in Paris in 2009 by Julien Sprecher. The house takes its name and its imagery from the royal château of Marly and from the perfumed court of Louis XV, an era when fragrance was worn lavishly and horse racing was a royal passion. That is why every bottle carries a crest of two rearing horses, and why several of the fragrances, Herod, Godolphin and Darley among them, are named after celebrated horses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe style is generous and easy to like: rich, long-wearing compositions, each built around one clear idea and usually signed by a well-known perfumer. Parfums de Marly is a boutique-only house at Redolia. It is sold at our perfumery at 92 West Main Street in Somerville, New Jersey, and not through the website. Read \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/boutique-only\"\u003ehow our boutique-only houses work\u003c\/a\u003e, then come in and try it on skin before you decide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parfums de Marly","offers":[{"title":"4.2 oz (125 ml)","offer_id":67660862161212,"sku":"3700578502353","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/parfums-de-marly-herod-eau-de-parfum-white-1.jpg?v=1791928133","url":"https:\/\/redolia.com\/products\/parfums-de-marly-herod-eau-de-parfum","provider":"Redolia Perfumery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}