DREAM SEQUENCE
IT WASN’T A TEXT, an email or an Instagram message, but a handwritten letter from Hermès’s director of olfactory creation, Christine Nagel, that caught the attention of the Garden of Eden’s gatekeeper. Nagel had been dreaming about creating a fragrance inspired by an Italian garden. “I’ve been left completely free by Hermès to do whatever I wanted,” she says. “The only thing I discussed with Pierre [-Alexis Dumas, Hermès’s artistic director] was that it was quite time we did something to do with a garden. I wanted to try
