Paris trip for Hermes

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Last Paris update..
My appointment was @3 and it moved to 3:30 but anyways I went early and registered..
At 3:10 an lovely SA came to me and took me to a room then asked what I was looking for, I told her that I strictly want a birkin 25 as I only have one and have couple of Kellys and showed her the colors I’m interested in and showed her the colors I already have, then she told me let me go and see if I can catch you one before there gone.. after 15 minuets she came with 2 box’s one was a B25 in the new color vert amande and a Picotin 18 in etoupe..
Off course and got the B25 and rejected the Picotin as I already have it in gold..

Am so happy that on first trip in Paris I scored this beauty..
I’ll also post my sister and sister in law experience in the next post

Congratulations!! What a gorgeous, gorgeous bag! I think Vert Amande is so beautiful, and in 25 too, what a dream! Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
 
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Last Paris update..
My appointment was @3 and it moved to 3:30 but anyways I went early and registered..
At 3:10 an lovely SA came to me and took me to a room then asked what I was looking for, I told her that I strictly want a birkin 25 as I only have one and have couple of Kellys and showed her the colors I’m interested in and showed her the colors I already have, then she told me let me go and see if I can catch you one before there gone.. after 15 minuets she came with 2 box’s one was a B25 in the new color vert amande and a Picotin 18 in etoupe..
Off course and got the B25 and rejected the Picotin as I already have it in gold..

Am so happy that on first trip in Paris I scored this beauty..
I’ll also post my sister and sister in law experience in the next post
Wow that color is gorg!!! Major congrats
 
Had a great experience at FSH yesterday and bought a Evelyne in black. I got the gold hardware and am torn wondering if I should have gotten palladium.
I had the same dilemma when choosing my noir Evelyne. I ended up choosing palladium because it looked more modern and free. The gold seemed too mature. I've never, for a second, regretted my decision on the palladium.
 
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I had the same dilemma when choosing my noir Evelyne. I ended up choosing palladium because it looked more modern and free. The gold seemed too mature. I've never, for a second, regretted my decision on the palladium.
Thank you. I spent so much time deciding on this little detail and for some reason chose gold. I suppose I can change it or get another color later in palladium. I am sure you love yours!
 
Hi, Everyone!
I am not a good story writer, but here is my experience at FSH today.
In 2016 I got a Birkin 30 at FSH and since then I was in Paris 2 more times and wasn’t offered anything. (also in 2017 my husband got me Kelly).
This year I decided to apply for appointment again ( even though last year I told myself that I won’t do it again lol) and on my 4th try I got it. ( previous years I also got appointment on 4th and 5th times).
It was around 5.30pm (originally given time was 4pm).
I was assigned to a very nice SA this time. I told her my list:
Mini Evelyne
Or Kelly 25-28
Or Constance 18
In colors preferably Etoupe, Black or emerald type of green. And then any other color that they have, just not anything too fun: like hot pink. Cause Hermes has amazing colors that I don’t even know of so I like to be surprised )
My SA went to look for the bags and came back 10 min later and asked to follow her to another private room.
She said sorry I don’t have what’s on your list but I have Constance 24 in color Craie.
Even though I liked it, I knew it will become a bag that I just took from the store so I can keep it at my home lol Cause I don’t have that fun lifestyle where I go out with friends a lot and for everyday it’s too light, so I didn’t want to be extra careful with the bag every time I wear it. And it’s too short to wear crossbody.
(Also what I noticed is what you wear often determine what colors you will be offered and might be complimentary to your outfit.
So when I was getting ready to go for my appointment I wore light outfit without thinking much and on the way there was like:”I might get offered light color that I am afraid to wear lol».)
She said she also might have same bag in beige, even though I didn’t want beige, I asked to take a look.
She came back and said that it’s not there anymore.
I asked for a few minutes to think, called my husband, who was like: get it!!!
And then suddenly my SA came in with another box and said luckily beige reappeared.
It was Beige De Weimar, and to me it looks very similar to Etoupe, but a bit lighter.
I said I will take Beige De Weimar even though I was kind of hesitant in my heart cause I don’t wear that much any of my bags that are not crossbody.
SA asked if I want anything else but at that moment there were no items from my wishlist in the colors that I wanted. And if for Kelly I could choose extra crossbody strap, twilly, charm, here I felt like I can’t come up with any items and I felt bad cause I am not sure if they get commissions in FSH for non bags items and if she was expecting to sell more than a bag.
Anyway: below pictures of Craie and BDW Constance. I will add more pictures of BDW tomorrow with the same outfit and different lighting.

Congrats and I actually love the C24 in Craie on you!! Also unrelated but I really like your outfit, may I ask where are your trousers and sweater from? They look lovely!
 
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Since I’m new to the forum I will write about both my experiences in Paris.

In 2017 while on summer holiday in Cannes (south of France) I was secretly planning my husbands surprise birthday in Paris with 20 of our closest friends and family. I completely rented out the Buddha bar hotel which is next to the FSH store. In Cannes I had my hotel (majestic) make an appointment at the local Hermès for me. I went in asked for a few small items which were all out of stock. An Asian lady was next to me and asked for B/K/C and they said no quota bags for tourists, they could offer het a GP in etoupe. Than I was asked by the manager is there anything else you’d be interested in. I said if you’d have a Birkin in Blue Zanzibar that would be amazing. (Knowing that it was never going to happen) she laughed, I laughed she asked me anything else? So I asked for bracelets, belts, shoes etc. She was checking my shoe size and said follow me to the fitting room. She had prepared the room with a large box, she opened the box and there is was Birkin 30 Blue Zanzibar in Epsom.

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Over the moon that I scored my dream bag, i didn’t think about H and started planning my husbands surprise trip.

My husband was over the moon that I planned this entire Paris trip with his friends and wanted to score some birthday outfits at Hermès FSH. He bought some shirts. We partied for his birthday and at day 5 of our 5 day Paris trip my Husband wanted to go back to Hermès to shop some rtw. He picked about 10 items, I picked a silver ring and some scarves and that was about it. My husband than said, why don’t you see if you can get another bag, which was music to my ears, we asked the men’s rtw sa if there was anyway I could get a handbag and he said that The system changed and I would be needing an appointment but he said let me walk with you and see if they can give you one. So the leather department lady said no slots left. I saw another SA with the most gorgeous necklace and I asked her where she bought it. She gave me the website and asked me if I was looking for anything specific I told her I was hoping for a leather appointment, she told me she was a manager and fixed me an appointment at 4:30 that afternoon. I came around 4:00 and started browsing some other items. At 4:10 my SA was ready we met, she took me to a room placed me down and asked what I was looking for, I explained I purchased some items in the morning I gave her my specs, she said it’s a bit late so I’m not sure we have a lot of stock. Went away and came back with 2 boxes one was a Kelly 28 sellier Epsom in Malachite and Kelly 28 retourne in rouge H. I love the Rouge H but hate retourne. I said I wasn’t a fan of retourne but I wasn’t sure if the malachite color (now I know stupid me) she immediately took back the retourne and asked me if I’d be interested in a special Birkin and left the malachite in front of me.

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She came back with a gris mouette Birkin with blue agathe inside which is called a Verso Birkin. Immediately I said yes!

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I thanked her and we went on with the rest of our summer travels.

So I scored 2 bags in my 2017 summer trip.




Fast forward to summer 2019, I was in Europe with my daughter and husband and my husbands friend, and they said let’s drive to Paris tomorrow just for a day and come back the day after. I immediately tried for appointments from both my phone and my husbands phone and got declined. We drove to Paris and my husband had some appointments he had to attend to and we said that I’d try for an appointment again for the next day. Of course we both got declined. We went to Hermes anyway to buy RTW for my husband, we saw the SA that helped us 2 years before and asked if he could get me an appointment he said he could fix me an appointment at 4 but I had to decline since we had to leave at 14:00. He asked me to walk with him, the lady said well make an exception wait here, I was asked what I wanted to drink and with my coffee after 15 minutes a very nice young girl came to me she asked me what I was after, i told her black Kelly 25 sellier silver hardware would be my holy grail, the girl laughed and said that’s asking for a unicorn, what else, so I gave a few other options and we asked for a bag for my husband. She came back and asked to follow her into the high jewelry room. There were sitting a few people around tables. One beautiful Asian lady was offered a crocodile Kelly with diamonds. She told me I was quite lucky and openend a black Kelly 25 in Epsom sellier with silver hardware. IMG_0316.JPG
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I was over the moon and asked only for a twilly.
 
Since I’m new to the forum I will write about both my experiences in Paris.

In 2017 while on summer holiday in Cannes (south of France) I was secretly planning my husbands surprise birthday in Paris with 20 of our closest friends and family. I completely rented out the Buddha bar hotel which is next to the FSH store. In Cannes I had my hotel (majestic) make an appointment at the local Hermès for me. I went in asked for a few small items which were all out of stock. An Asian lady was next to me and asked for B/K/C and they said no quota bags for tourists, they could offer het a GP in etoupe. Than I was asked by the manager is there anything else you’d be interested in. I said if you’d have a Birkin in Blue Zanzibar that would be amazing. (Knowing that it was never going to happen) she laughed, I laughed she asked me anything else? So I asked for bracelets, belts, shoes etc. She was checking my shoe size and said follow me to the fitting room. She had prepared the room with a large box, she opened the box and there is was Birkin 30 Blue Zanzibar in Epsom.

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Over the moon that I scored my dream bag, i didn’t think about H and started planning my husbands surprise trip.

My husband was over the moon that I planned this entire Paris trip with his friends and wanted to score some birthday outfits at Hermès FSH. He bought some shirts. We partied for his birthday and at day 5 of our 5 day Paris trip my Husband wanted to go back to Hermès to shop some rtw. He picked about 10 items, I picked a silver ring and some scarves and that was about it. My husband than said, why don’t you see if you can get another bag, which was music to my ears, we asked the men’s rtw sa if there was anyway I could get a handbag and he said that The system changed and I would be needing an appointment but he said let me walk with you and see if they can give you one. So the leather department lady said no slots left. I saw another SA with the most gorgeous necklace and I asked her where she bought it. She gave me the website and asked me if I was looking for anything specific I told her I was hoping for a leather appointment, she told me she was a manager and fixed me an appointment at 4:30 that afternoon. I came around 4:00 and started browsing some other items. At 4:10 my SA was ready we met, she took me to a room placed me down and asked what I was looking for, I explained I purchased some items in the morning I gave her my specs, she said it’s a bit late so I’m not sure we have a lot of stock. Went away and came back with 2 boxes one was a Kelly 28 sellier Epsom in Malachite and Kelly 28 retourne in rouge H. I love the Rouge H but hate retourne. I said I wasn’t a fan of retourne but I wasn’t sure if the malachite color (now I know stupid me) she immediately took back the retourne and asked me if I’d be interested in a special Birkin and left the malachite in front of me.

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She came back with a gris mouette Birkin with blue agathe inside which is called a Verso Birkin. Immediately I said yes!

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I thanked her and we went on with the rest of our summer travels.

So I scored 2 bags in my 2017 summer trip.




Fast forward to summer 2019, I was in Europe with my daughter and husband and my husbands friend, and they said let’s drive to Paris tomorrow just for a day and come back the day after. I immediately tried for appointments from both my phone and my husbands phone and got declined. We drove to Paris and my husband had some appointments he had to attend to and we said that I’d try for an appointment again for the next day. Of course we both got declined. We went to Hermes anyway to buy RTW for my husband, we saw the SA that helped us 2 years before and asked if he could get me an appointment he said he could fix me an appointment at 4 but I had to decline since we had to leave at 14:00. He asked me to walk with him, the lady said well make an exception wait here, I was asked what I wanted to drink and with my coffee after 15 minutes a very nice young girl came to me she asked me what I was after, i told her black Kelly 25 sellier silver hardware would be my holy grail, the girl laughed and said that’s asking for a unicorn, what else, so I gave a few other options and we asked for a bag for my husband. She came back and asked to follow her into the high jewelry room. There were sitting a few people around tables. One beautiful Asian lady was offered a crocodile Kelly with diamonds. She told me I was quite lucky and openend a black Kelly 25 in Epsom sellier with silver hardware. View attachment 4575696
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I was over the moon and asked only for a twilly.

One absolute beauty after another!! Enjoy them all :biggrin::biggrin:
 
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Since I’m new to the forum I will write about both my experiences in Paris.

In 2017 while on summer holiday in Cannes (south of France) I was secretly planning my husbands surprise birthday in Paris with 20 of our closest friends and family. I completely rented out the Buddha bar hotel which is next to the FSH store. In Cannes I had my hotel (majestic) make an appointment at the local Hermès for me. I went in asked for a few small items which were all out of stock. An Asian lady was next to me and asked for B/K/C and they said no quota bags for tourists, they could offer het a GP in etoupe. Than I was asked by the manager is there anything else you’d be interested in. I said if you’d have a Birkin in Blue Zanzibar that would be amazing. (Knowing that it was never going to happen) she laughed, I laughed she asked me anything else? So I asked for bracelets, belts, shoes etc. She was checking my shoe size and said follow me to the fitting room. She had prepared the room with a large box, she opened the box and there is was Birkin 30 Blue Zanzibar in Epsom.

View attachment 4575668

Over the moon that I scored my dream bag, i didn’t think about H and started planning my husbands surprise trip.

My husband was over the moon that I planned this entire Paris trip with his friends and wanted to score some birthday outfits at Hermès FSH. He bought some shirts. We partied for his birthday and at day 5 of our 5 day Paris trip my Husband wanted to go back to Hermès to shop some rtw. He picked about 10 items, I picked a silver ring and some scarves and that was about it. My husband than said, why don’t you see if you can get another bag, which was music to my ears, we asked the men’s rtw sa if there was anyway I could get a handbag and he said that The system changed and I would be needing an appointment but he said let me walk with you and see if they can give you one. So the leather department lady said no slots left. I saw another SA with the most gorgeous necklace and I asked her where she bought it. She gave me the website and asked me if I was looking for anything specific I told her I was hoping for a leather appointment, she told me she was a manager and fixed me an appointment at 4:30 that afternoon. I came around 4:00 and started browsing some other items. At 4:10 my SA was ready we met, she took me to a room placed me down and asked what I was looking for, I explained I purchased some items in the morning I gave her my specs, she said it’s a bit late so I’m not sure we have a lot of stock. Went away and came back with 2 boxes one was a Kelly 28 sellier Epsom in Malachite and Kelly 28 retourne in rouge H. I love the Rouge H but hate retourne. I said I wasn’t a fan of retourne but I wasn’t sure if the malachite color (now I know stupid me) she immediately took back the retourne and asked me if I’d be interested in a special Birkin and left the malachite in front of me.

View attachment 4575692

She came back with a gris mouette Birkin with blue agathe inside which is called a Verso Birkin. Immediately I said yes!

View attachment 4575693

I thanked her and we went on with the rest of our summer travels.

So I scored 2 bags in my 2017 summer trip.




Fast forward to summer 2019, I was in Europe with my daughter and husband and my husbands friend, and they said let’s drive to Paris tomorrow just for a day and come back the day after. I immediately tried for appointments from both my phone and my husbands phone and got declined. We drove to Paris and my husband had some appointments he had to attend to and we said that I’d try for an appointment again for the next day. Of course we both got declined. We went to Hermes anyway to buy RTW for my husband, we saw the SA that helped us 2 years before and asked if he could get me an appointment he said he could fix me an appointment at 4 but I had to decline since we had to leave at 14:00. He asked me to walk with him, the lady said well make an exception wait here, I was asked what I wanted to drink and with my coffee after 15 minutes a very nice young girl came to me she asked me what I was after, i told her black Kelly 25 sellier silver hardware would be my holy grail, the girl laughed and said that’s asking for a unicorn, what else, so I gave a few other options and we asked for a bag for my husband. She came back and asked to follow her into the high jewelry room. There were sitting a few people around tables. One beautiful Asian lady was offered a crocodile Kelly with diamonds. She told me I was quite lucky and openend a black Kelly 25 in Epsom sellier with silver hardware. View attachment 4575696
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I was over the moon and asked only for a twilly.
Wonderful story!! Thank you for taking the time to share. Congrats on your beautiful bags!
 
Since I’m new to the forum I will write about both my experiences in Paris.

In 2017 while on summer holiday in Cannes (south of France) I was secretly planning my husbands surprise birthday in Paris with 20 of our closest friends and family. I completely rented out the Buddha bar hotel which is next to the FSH store. In Cannes I had my hotel (majestic) make an appointment at the local Hermès for me. I went in asked for a few small items which were all out of stock. An Asian lady was next to me and asked for B/K/C and they said no quota bags for tourists, they could offer het a GP in etoupe. Than I was asked by the manager is there anything else you’d be interested in. I said if you’d have a Birkin in Blue Zanzibar that would be amazing. (Knowing that it was never going to happen) she laughed, I laughed she asked me anything else? So I asked for bracelets, belts, shoes etc. She was checking my shoe size and said follow me to the fitting room. She had prepared the room with a large box, she opened the box and there is was Birkin 30 Blue Zanzibar in Epsom.

View attachment 4575668

Over the moon that I scored my dream bag, i didn’t think about H and started planning my husbands surprise trip.

My husband was over the moon that I planned this entire Paris trip with his friends and wanted to score some birthday outfits at Hermès FSH. He bought some shirts. We partied for his birthday and at day 5 of our 5 day Paris trip my Husband wanted to go back to Hermès to shop some rtw. He picked about 10 items, I picked a silver ring and some scarves and that was about it. My husband than said, why don’t you see if you can get another bag, which was music to my ears, we asked the men’s rtw sa if there was anyway I could get a handbag and he said that The system changed and I would be needing an appointment but he said let me walk with you and see if they can give you one. So the leather department lady said no slots left. I saw another SA with the most gorgeous necklace and I asked her where she bought it. She gave me the website and asked me if I was looking for anything specific I told her I was hoping for a leather appointment, she told me she was a manager and fixed me an appointment at 4:30 that afternoon. I came around 4:00 and started browsing some other items. At 4:10 my SA was ready we met, she took me to a room placed me down and asked what I was looking for, I explained I purchased some items in the morning I gave her my specs, she said it’s a bit late so I’m not sure we have a lot of stock. Went away and came back with 2 boxes one was a Kelly 28 sellier Epsom in Malachite and Kelly 28 retourne in rouge H. I love the Rouge H but hate retourne. I said I wasn’t a fan of retourne but I wasn’t sure if the malachite color (now I know stupid me) she immediately took back the retourne and asked me if I’d be interested in a special Birkin and left the malachite in front of me.

View attachment 4575692

She came back with a gris mouette Birkin with blue agathe inside which is called a Verso Birkin. Immediately I said yes!

View attachment 4575693

I thanked her and we went on with the rest of our summer travels.

So I scored 2 bags in my 2017 summer trip.




Fast forward to summer 2019, I was in Europe with my daughter and husband and my husbands friend, and they said let’s drive to Paris tomorrow just for a day and come back the day after. I immediately tried for appointments from both my phone and my husbands phone and got declined. We drove to Paris and my husband had some appointments he had to attend to and we said that I’d try for an appointment again for the next day. Of course we both got declined. We went to Hermes anyway to buy RTW for my husband, we saw the SA that helped us 2 years before and asked if he could get me an appointment he said he could fix me an appointment at 4 but I had to decline since we had to leave at 14:00. He asked me to walk with him, the lady said well make an exception wait here, I was asked what I wanted to drink and with my coffee after 15 minutes a very nice young girl came to me she asked me what I was after, i told her black Kelly 25 sellier silver hardware would be my holy grail, the girl laughed and said that’s asking for a unicorn, what else, so I gave a few other options and we asked for a bag for my husband. She came back and asked to follow her into the high jewelry room. There were sitting a few people around tables. One beautiful Asian lady was offered a crocodile Kelly with diamonds. She told me I was quite lucky and openend a black Kelly 25 in Epsom sellier with silver hardware. View attachment 4575696
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I was over the moon and asked only for a twilly.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and congrats on the amazing bags you scored!!
 
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