Parfums de Marly Herod Eau de Parfum 125ml

Parfums de Marly Herod — Dark, Spiced & Utterly Commanding

Launched in 2012 and created by perfumer Olivier Pescheux — one of the most celebrated perfumers of his generation, with an extraordinary portfolio spanning Givenchy, Guerlain, and Yves Saint Laurent — Herod by Parfums de Marly is a bold, dark, and deeply opulent Woody Spicy fragrance for men — one of the most iconic, most beloved, and most enduring fragrances in the entire Parfums de Marly collection. Named for Herod the Great — the ancient king of Judea, one of the most powerful and most controversial rulers of the ancient world — this is a fragrance of absolute authority, absolute confidence, and the kind of dark, commanding masculine presence that demands to be noticed and refuses to be forgotten.

The fragrance opens with a strikingly bold, immediately distinctive accord of warming cinnamon and Pepperwood™ — a proprietary IFF molecule of extraordinary dry, woody, slightly smoky pepper character, adding a unique, modern spice dimension of remarkable depth and originality — creating an opening of immediate warmth, spice, and quietly commanding masculine authority. The heart deepens with a rich, dramatically layered aromatic core of dark, cured tobacco leaf — rich, slightly sweet, and deeply evocative — sacred incense, delicate osmanthus — the apricot-like, slightly leathery Chinese flowering shrub, one of the most refined and most distinctive florals in all of perfumery — and ancient labdanum — the warm, animalic, honey-like resin of the cistus shrub, one of the most prized and most ancient raw materials in all of perfumery — creating a heart of extraordinary darkness, warmth, and deeply opulent, almost overwhelming masculine complexity. The dry-down reveals the composition’s most magnificent, most enduring character: creamy vanilla, Iso E Super — the legendary IFF woody-cedar molecule of extraordinary diffusive, almost metallic, skin-fusing sillage, one of the most prized and most widely used aroma chemicals in luxury perfumery — dry cedar, soft musk, smoky cypriol oil (nagarmotha) — the earthy, slightly aquatic distillate of the nagarmotha sedge grass of India, one of the most distinctive raw materials in Oriental perfumery — and smoky vetiver, creating a base of extraordinary depth, darkness, and the kind of effortless, skin-fused, magnetic longevity that makes Herod one of the most reach-for and most re-purchased fragrances in the Parfums de Marly collection.

• Top Notes: Cinnamon, Pepperwood™
• Heart Notes: Tobacco Leaf, Incense, Osmanthus, Labdanum
• Base Notes: Vanilla, Iso E Super, Cedar, Musk, Cypriol Oil (Nagarmotha), Vetiver
• Perfumer: Olivier Pescheux
• Fragrance Family: Woody Spicy
• Concentration: Eau de Parfum
• House: Parfums de Marly
• Size: 125ml
• Gender: Men
• Year: 2012