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Friday scent of the day 11/21

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2014 195 Comments

Carthusia Profumi

It’s Friday! Unsniffed Friday, no less. Our community project: wear a perfume you bought before you’d smelled it, and tell us how it worked out for you.

If you’ve never bought anything unsniffed, congratulations, and do chime in with your scent of the day anyway.

I’m wearing Carthusia Mediterraneo, the first fragrance I ever bought unsniffed. I loved it right away, and I still love it (I’ve had to replace the original bottle), but I’ve since learned the hard way that I’m really not very good at buying unsniffed (the first unsniffed bottle I laid my eyes on when I went searching through my cabinet was the barely touched 100 ml bottle of Hermès Un Jardin après la Mousson)…

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Cartier La Panthere ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 4 March 2014 68 Comments

Cartier La Panthère bottle trio

The panther is the symbol of Cartier femininity: divine, exquisite and rebellious simultaneously. In a word: free. Free to love and live life to the full, with passion, eye to eye…an unexplored, almost paradoxical accord: a feral floral. Cartier perfumer Mathilde Laurent began with a gardenia. From this fresh flower she set out to create a fragrance that would leave pure, mesmerising tracks of a colour pushed to its animalistic limit.1

To quote Angie’s review of Ys Uzac Satin Doll yesterday, hey, sign me up! A feral floral pushed to its animalistic limit, with gardenia no less, sounds perfect. I haven’t always been a Cartier fan girl, but Baiser Volé started me on the road to conversion, and the stunning panther bottle for the new La Panthère finished me off. So when the fragrance went up for sale on the Cartier website, and I saw that they’d made the 30 ml bottle available at the outset (often, they’re hard to find, or never appear in the US until much after the launch, if at all), what did I do? Well, I bought it of course…

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