Cartier has launched Oud & Menthe, a new fragrance in their luxury Les Heures Voyageuses oud series…
The daily lemming
Cartier's Carat in a travel set with two 15 ml sprays. "Reveal the carats that shine within you. A bouquet of fire, a thousand points of light both luminous and floral created by Mathilde Laurent, perfumer at the Maison Cartier. Explore your inner light with this elegant discovery set that's perfect for touch-ups on the go." $50 at Macy's.
Cartier Declaration Parfum ~ fragrance review
Men: do you have a party shirt — a shirt you throw on to fancy up your jeans and sneakers for a night out? Autumn and winter party shirts often have a sheen; silk, satin and velvet are popular cool-weather party-shirt fabrics. To make a party shirt ‘sexy’ (too many) men unbutton them to the area halfway between the pecs and navel. You can buy party shirts at Target, Macy’s…or Dolce & Gabbana, where party shirts abound. Check out (wear sunglasses) warm-weather party shirts at Robert Graham; the shirts have all the hallmarks of summery party tops: chest-showcasing fabrics (part cotton/part polyester), bold patterns (!flowers!, graffiti) and contrasting fabrics on upturned cuffs and collars.
Cartier’s new Déclaration Parfum is the fragrance equivalent of a party shirt…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2019, part 2
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes special edition bottles from Hermès, Zadig & Voltaire, Cartier, Givenchy and Yves Rocher.
From Hermès, the Charming edition of Twilly d’Hermès. “Choose the limited edition Charming Twilly, the Hermès girls’ lucky charm. A pretty horseshoe dangles from the silken ribbon as a distinctive sign, a liberty of expression.” In 85 ml Eau de Parfum at John Lewis in the UK…
Mille Facettes
The installation, called Mille Facettes—A Thousand Facets of Olfactory Lights, was presented as an artistic interpretation of the new fragrance, purporting to take the visitor for some 90 seconds inside a diamond, or more accurately inside a Plexiglas box in which a white light was diffused into a million facets of colors, plunging the visitor into the creative mind of the perfumer.
— Cartier's pop-up installation for Carat can be found at the Cartier pop-up shop on Wooster Street in NYC, or at rue Vieille du Temple in Paris. Read more in At Its ‘Rendez-Vous’ Experience, Cartier Mines the Past and Present to Reinvent Classic Luxury at ArtNet.