Pasha Noire
Anyone deciding between the sizes in this part of the Pasha range should know that Cartier Pasha Noire Eau de Toilette 50ml holds a deliberately short composition, and 50ml is the right amount of a fragrance with so little to discover.
Cedarwood does the heavy lifting, listed twice across the structure so that it is the first thing you smell and very nearly the last. It is arid and clean here, like a freshly sharpened pencil, with no sweetness and no resin about it. Violet is the counterpart, cool and powdery with that faint tin like edge violet always carries, and it keeps the wood from reading as austere. Amber rounds the ending with a soft, glowing warmth, balsamic and a touch sweet, and that is the end of the list.
There is no development worth describing, which is a fair thing to say plainly rather than dress up. What you have is a dry wood and a powdery flower, held steady, and whether that is enough depends entirely on how much you want from a fragrance.
It dates from 2013. In eau de toilette form it is modest in the air and lasts an afternoon rather than a day, so it suits reapplication. It is aimed at men, it is comfortable in any season because it is neither heavy nor sharp, and it is a genuinely easy thing to wear to work.
The house opened in Paris in 1847 as a jeweller and watchmaker and took its first sales salon in 1853; today it sits inside the Richemont group of Switzerland. Perfumery began in 1981 with Must de Cartier and has stayed an in house activity rather than a licensed one, a commitment the firm underlined in 2005 by employing a perfumer to work for Cartier alone.
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