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Déclaration
Buying the big bottle of something you already know is the cheapest way to wear it, and Cartier Déclaration Parfum Refillable 100ml makes that cheaper still by letting you top it up rather than replace it.
The scent inside is the dark, spiced reworking of the house's best known men's fragrance. Bitter orange opens briefly and drily, more about peel than fruit, before cardamom and cumin arrive together. Cumin is a brave material to put this far forward, warm and savoury and close to the smell of skin, and cardamom keeps it clean with a green, slightly camphorous coolness. The pair of them hold the fragrance for a surprisingly long time.
Then it settles into the base, which is where most of the pleasure is. Leather reads dry and worn rather than new, cedarwood is crisp and splintery, vetiver bitter and rooty, and benzoin and tolu balsam pour warm resin over all of it, the first soft and almost powdery, the second darker and medicinal. Amberwood closes it with a smooth, dry warmth.
Composed by Mathilde Laurent and launched in 2018, it behaves exactly as a parfum concentration should: quiet in the air, long on the skin, still detectable at the end of the day. Men are the intended wearers, cold weather suits it, and it works best in company close enough to notice it. A refillable 100ml is the format for anyone who has already decided.
The house is a Paris jeweller and watchmaker that opened in 1847 and began selling from its own salon in 1853, and it belongs today to Richemont of Switzerland. Fragrance started in 1981 with Must de Cartier and has stayed an internal business; the first perfumer employed solely for Cartier, Mathilde Laurent, was appointed in 2005.
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