Tutti Twilly d’Hermès by Hermès

Liked it, but I feel it needs more testing. Honestly, I was expecting something better.

First: test it on your skin; the difference from paper is drastic. Yes, it starts with a sweat-like scent, nothing unpleasant, but if it lingers as ‘cat pee’ it’s hard to shake that image. It’s not delicate; that’s just the opening. For those who can’t move past typical sweet scents, this could be a rough journey. Over time, that initial note fades, leaving a pleasant tropical, fruity, and fresh aroma. It’s not madness, it’s decent… it doesn’t deserve all the hate either. It lasts well, evolves, and you can really notice the notes. It’s worth a try; everyone will see if it suits them.

For those who have enjoyed a good wine… do you remember the first time? Did you never think all reds tasted the same? Did you not see crazy sommeliers spotting exotic notes when others only detect tannins and alcohol? One day, without knowing when, everything changes. You start giving the wine time, letting it breathe to oxygenate, and you feel its fruity, woody, and spiced nuances more clearly. You feel the wine changing, but in truth, it’s your sense of smell evolving with experience. Why am I telling you this? Because Hermes, Lalique, Trussardi, Comme des Garçons, and Diptyque are my favourite houses, and they share two things: photorealism (if that fits in perfumery) and originality. To understand them, you need PATIENCE and let the perfume ‘work’ on your olfactory bulb. You know what? As I enjoyed my colleagues’ reviews, I confessed that when I arrived I thought: how do I say this can’t be judged in 5 minutes in a shop? It needs to be aired and rested. I decided to wait, and how satisfying it was to read how others also realised it in a jiffy. Good heavens, long live Hermes for not boring us! I recognise another merit: creating something complex and mutable with few notes. It’s HARD work, like excelling in MasterChef with a French omelette. Either you’re technically brilliant or you’re left with… C… O. This TUTTI has a complicated lychee opening with ginger that seems to get in the way but doesn’t. The perfumer plays with evaporation times to lift the lychee up to the cortex and then let it fall into a bed of velvety musk, like a rollercoaster. We go from horror at the height to the pleasure of safety below… A nearly silky and beautiful finish for the nose. What a wonderful scent, simple but not for everyone because it is very its own. Longevity? 10 hours. Projection and trail? Two hours and a medium sillage. Not bad, you can’t expect less at these prices. Buy it! 🍷 And remember: PATIENCE, just like when you meet someone special or stop in a park to breathe, because patience is the mother of sciences and ESSENCES. 😉 If you like my reviews, follow my TikTok: Chuliá Parfum Reviews @chulia.my13parfums

I just came back from the perfumery. I hated the sales assistant who urged me to try it on my skin, saying I should ‘give it time’. It smelled of cat pee (I have cats, I know exactly what that smells like) for half an hour. In the meantime, I had to do some errands, and the only thing I thought about was people smelling my trail like a cat breeding farm… but here I am, sitting and laughing at everyone’s comments because, despite the poor treatment at first, I can say that now it smells exquisite. I really don’t understand how someone can make a perfume that smells so bad at first and then undergoes such a mutation. It’s not suitable for anxious people, and above all, you must remember to put the perfume on an hour before and hide it in some inhospitable place. I remember the same happened with Un Jardin en Méditerranée: I felt it came from a vegetable shop bathed in parsley and celery smells, and then, oh surprise! Hermes’ humour is all that is good (after a while).

Wow, a perfume that, as the reviews indicate, has spicy, even unpleasant, top notes, in my case it smelled like sweat. But after letting it settle, it left a sweet, fresh, soft, and pleasant scent. In my opinion it’s a subtle fragrance and highly recommended for those who prefer the feminine and girly side. Perfect for a hot summer day.

From the original Twilly, which stole my heart, to the ginger one, which I find precious and addictive… comes Tutti, without knowing what to expect, because I can’t handle the pepper… I only did one test, on skin. I have to go back and repeat it, with nothing else. But it smelled of ‘dirty’ watermelon and I couldn’t stop smelling myself all the way home. Between liking and disliking. I don’t know what to make of it. But it has personality, it does. Edited. I’ve smelled it again, this time without smelling anything else, on skin. It smells wonderful to me, better than the original (which I like a lot) and better than the ginger one (which I’m passionate about). This time I do smell the ginger and licorice. I don’t know the sillage, but if you want it to feel like you’re in an exotic garden and a bit sweet and fresh, it’s perfect.

A friend has it and I tried it. She said it was exquisite, so I went to read the reviews; I couldn’t help laughing, everyone hated it. Exquisite certainly not. At first, I felt the strong lychee, thought ‘ok, I’m not a fan but it’s not bad…’ but after five minutes it no longer smelled of lychee, it smelled of horror. Someone said it smelled of cat urine and seemed exaggerated, but no, it’s similar. As the saying goes, taste is subjective.

The worst thing I’ve ever smelled. They gave me a sample and it’s foul; I wouldn’t gift it to my worst enemy, it goes straight to the bin. It’s not tutti frutti; it’s sweat and pestilence.

Edited 30/04/25: I tried it again and my judgment is confirmed. Although they say it’s just initial or due to being accustomed to the sweetness, they’re wrong. I’m a fan of powerful, woody scents, and this one drives me to despair from 8 until 9:55, begging to take a shower. It doesn’t improve; it gets worse: it smells like my cat’s urine mixed with sweat, as if I’d put on dirty clothes to cover it up. The pleasant notes arrive late, but that stench doesn’t go away. It’s the most horrifying perfume I’ve ever smelled.

Just tried it in-store and thought it would be like Poivree, but what a letdown! IT SMELLS BAD. Smells like sweat, as if you haven’t had a shower in days with equally foul clothes, DISGUSTING. To the point where I ran to the bathroom to wash my hands where I atomised it, terrible.

One of the worst scents (in my opinion). Smells like tutti frutti deodorant after sweating. At first it seems to pass with the lychee and talc, but when you give it time it’s fatal. The ginger isn’t anywhere to be seen, what a shame as it’s a note I love.

Just tried it and until half an hour passes and it starts to dry down, it smells like sweat just as the previous review says. Now that phase has passed and it smells musky, quite better, but that first phase… there’s no getting around it.

Bad thing.