Twilly d'Hermès vs H24
Side by side. Scored honestly.
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No shared notes — these two land in very different territory.
Side by side
Comparing the originals — price, breadth, listed-note depth.
Bright ginger and bergamot snap open with some genuine bite before the bitter orange softens the edge within minutes. The heart blooms into tuberose and orange blossom, creamy but not heavy — jasmine keeps it from going full bridal. Sandalwood and vanilla ease into the dry-down, adding warmth without tipping into gourmand territory. Projection is modest and close-sitting; sillage is light but persistent, leaving a clean floral-woody trail for hours — best worn in warmer months when skin heat does the amplifying work for you.
Opens with a sharp, almost medicinal clary sage that's more herbal bite than lavender-adjacent softness, quickly joined by a synthetic greenness from the sclarene that reads as crushed stems and cool air rather than anything from a garden. The rosewood smooths the heart without going creamy, keeping the composition lean and slightly metallic. Narcissus adds a quiet floral cool — present but never loud. Dry-down is clean, restrained woody musk with moderate sillage that stays close to skin by hour three — A warm-weather office or smart-casual daytime fragrance for someone who finds most aquatics too obvious.
How they overlap
Twilly d'Hermès and H24 share no notes in common — these two fragrances target very different olfactory territory, and the comparison is a question of which direction you want to go rather than which version of the same accord.
The buying decision
H24 is the cheaper original at $130 compared to $155 for Twilly d'Hermès — about 16% less. Both wear best across the same spring/summer/fall — they're interchangeable on weather fit. Heads up: Twilly d'Hermès is marketed feminine, H24 is marketed masculine — they target different wearers, though plenty of buyers cross those lines.
Recommendation
These two land in genuinely different scent territory — there's no "better" answer, just which direction you want to go. Read the scent descriptions above and pick the one that sounds like you'd want to smell.