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Déclaration Refillable
Cartier Declaration is Jean-Claude Ellena's 1998 breakthrough, offered here in a refillable 100ml bottle so it can be topped up rather than replaced.
The opening is its most unusual feature. Bitter orange, bergamot, mandarin orange and neroli provide citrus, but caraway, birch, coriander and artemisia arrive alongside them. Caraway gives a cool, bready, almost rye-like strangeness and birch adds a thin thread of tar, so the first minutes smell nothing like a conventional cologne.
The heart is built on spice: Guatemalan cardamom, black pepper, ginger and cinnamon, softened by iris, orris and jasmine. It runs hot and dry with no sweetness anywhere.
Tahitian vetiver, tea, cedarwood, leather, oakmoss and amber finish it. Vetiver and leather do most of the work, dry and faintly dusty, while the tea keeps the base light enough that the fragrance never feels heavy despite everything in it.
How Declaration wears
It lasts a long time and projects moderately. It works in any season, suits an office as readily as an evening, and the refillable bottle makes it economical to keep in use.
Cartier Declaration Eau de Toilette, 100ml refillable, created by Jean-Claude Ellena in 1998 for Cartier, the Paris jeweller founded in 1847.
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