Cartier has launched Oud Radieux, a new fragrance in their luxury Les Heures Voyageuses oud series (see also: Oud & Oud, Oud & Rose and Oud & Musc).
Oud Radieux was developed by perfumer Mathilde Laurent, and promises "unexpected freshness". The notes include ginger, Sichuan pepper and oud.
Cartier Les Heures Voyageuses Oud Radieux is available in 75 ml, €334.
I love Laurent’s work, but pepper is always off-putting to me in a scent.
I have not smelled any of this oud series…
Sichuan pepper is a different animal, err, plant. It is spicy and floral, sort of like a combo of coriander, chrysnathmeum, and a weird menthol-y numbing sensation.
If that is the case, then the cooling sensation of the Sichaun pepper may account for the ‘freshness’
All the same- €334, my friends, €334.
Ha, true…the price is really all I need to know 🙂
Well, this collection is made of pure parfums and there a few at this size that cost less than this.
I have tried the three original ones and two of them were very interesting – of course, you have to enjoy oud to appreciate them.
I think Sichuan Pepper is not exactly so much of a different animal. The minty part is also similar to the one you find in Black Pepper Absolute. I can see how Mathilde might work this with ginger and oud. Ginger has a subtle animalic nuance that is more evident when you combine it with a earthy and woody material like an oud accord.