Eau de Cartier was composed by Christine Nagel, today the official nose of the house Hermès. Fresh and luminous, it opens on grapefruit, bergamot and lemon, unfolds a heart of neroli and jasmine enhanced with violet leaf, and settles into amber woods, patchouli and vanilla.
Christine Nagel had already composed an Eau de Cartier for Cartier in 2001, sophisticated in its simplicity, authentic and unisex. Mathilde Laurent, the house nose of Cartier, would give it a fine successor, Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum. Still just as fresh but gilded by a few ambery rays of sunlight, Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum this time becomes a feminine fragrance while preserving the beauty of its original accords.
When Mathilde Laurent revisits L'Eau de Cartier with Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum
When Christine Nagel, the perfumer of a thousand colors, imagined L'Eau de Cartier in 2001, she gave it the pure, natural image of a rock crystal. In the end, Eau de Cartier exhales aromatic and citrus scents accompanied by an unprecedented violet that powders the whole with a touch of sophistication so characteristic of Cartier creations.
Mathilde Laurent, a passionate and instinctive perfumer, worked on Christine Nagel's original composition to make it into a water that is still just as fresh but more sensual, more feminine overall. Yet to believe that Mathilde Laurent wanted to feminize and add sensuality to L'Eau de Cartier merely to “follow the trend” would be a mistake — she does not compromise with creativity. What she loves above all at the house of Cartier is being able to create scenarios for her fragrances, not to follow briefs and commercial creative rules. Only intuition counts, and it is a safe bet that the blend of Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum was born from one of her finest instincts.
Intuition, however, is not a whim. It builds itself little by little through life. One must understand one's era while respecting the spirit of the house for which one works, Mathilde Laurent tells us.
L'Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum, the beauty of fresh simplicity married to the warmth of precious ambers
Mathilde Laurent thus simply sought to modernize and feminize L'Eau de Cartier by giving it deeper, more sensual depths. Yet the composition of L'Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum is, in the end, not very different from the original fragrance.
L'Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum thus retains the bergamot, grapefruit and lemon notes of its predecessor. In the heart, however, Mathilde Laurent's fragrance dresses the pretty powdery violet with sun-kissed flowers, jasmine and a touch of sharp galbanum. As for the ambery depths, they are built around the scents of patchouli, vanilla, amber woods and Peru balsam. But this ardent sensuality is propelled by the surprising presence of fresh, powerful notes of evernyl, iso E super and white musks, entirely in keeping with Christine Nagel's original bottle.
The sensuality of an ambery freshness, built on the original accord of L'Eau de Cartier, an evening water with vanilla, balsamic and ambery accents, paired with the freshness of a citrus accord, according to Cartier for Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum.