Graceful, serene and unlike anything else on the market, Un Jardin sur le Nil is part of the Jardin series of fragrances the French luxury house of Hermès created as season-inspired novelties meant to stay the course. Un Jardin sur le Nil is echoing both a previous china pattern of lotus flowers and an exotic trip along the Egyptian river, all the way up to Aswan where the arresting smell of green mango (a dead-ringer for grapefruit) took the perfumer by surprise and inspired him to put it into an aquarelle of a scent such as this one. The tartness and freshness of the top is deepened by cedar wood and in turn softened and warmed by sycamore and a hint of incense. Unisex by definition, Un Jardin sur le Nil is the embodiment of elegance in that it never tries too hard.