Carat, the olfactory jewel by Cartier Cartier this name alone is enough to transport us into a particularly luxurious world. Renowned for its sumptuous jewelry and luxury watches, the house is recognized worldwide for its unequaled craftsmanship and innate sense of refinement.
Carat by Cartier, the fragrance with 7 flowers
As if to echo its prestigious past as a jeweler, the house of Cartier chose to present a fragrance named Carat. In industry jargon, the carat is a unit of measurement used to quantify the purity of precious metals. It is very often used when speaking of gold. Thus, this fragrance already promises us a luminosity, a freshness and a sparkling purity from the moment its name is seen. This feeling is only confirmed upon discovering its bottle. A true jewel, it reflects light in a fragrance as limpid as crystal. So, what about its scent? Does it live up to all our expectations?
Carat, a fragrance designed like a luminous prism
As if to echo the purity and luminosity of a diamond, the house of Cartier crafted its fragrance like a luminous prism. Carat captures light, diffracts all the colors of the prism, makes the reflections of its sharply cut glass facets shimmer. […] Like a diamond, Carat, the house's new fragrance, brings together the seven colors of light into a single white, pure and limpid scent. From then on, it is akin to a rainbow. As a result, it is endowed with a very rich and complex formula. Its femininity is absolute and emerges from 7 main ingredients.
The 7 major ingredients of Carat
Cartier's perfumer, Mathilde Laurent, explains her creative approach thus: The idea came to me to apply to the fragrance the same optical phenomenon as the diamond: the diffraction of colors. I therefore chose seven beautiful fresh flowers, which could be brought together to form a new one, abstract but alive, like the light of the diamond. Violet unfolds a powdery breath reminiscent of the smell of a candy. Lily, for its part, appears more spicy and sun-kissed. Hyacinth is greener and lends more tenacity to this fragrance. It is an excellent fixative here. Ylang-ylang brings us a touch of exoticism. Its scent is at once floral, fruity, spicy and almost leathery. Narcissus, in turn, is more chypre and echoes all of Cartier's refinement. Indeed, it is one of the noblest flowers in the perfumer's palette. Honeysuckle, with its sweet breath, brings all the sensuality to this scent. Finally, tulip lets a very spring-like scent float through. The result is a very floral, complex and infinitely feminine fragrance. With Carat, Mathilde Laurent signs a composition akin to an enormous bouquet of flowers, to be offered to the most beautiful of women. Carat remains a fairly accessible fragrance, crafted for all women in search of elegance and freshness. It therefore lends itself perfectly to any occasion.