Carat

Now I’m gonna tell you about my Unbeatable Top 1 Signature Scent of all time. That is Carat EDP by Cartier. It was launched in September 2018, and I owned it since then. My love story with this fragrance was that it was not a love at first sniff but a love at first shift. The very first spray of Carat in my life, I was mehhh, I thought it was too soft and too green, it was like I sprayed nothing. However, after about 10mn, I seriously felt like “oh no! I’m sorry baby, I wronged you, please forgive me. You’re the love of my life. Would you marry me? I will never go off your hand, and we gonna live happily ever after.” The smell is just amazing, it’s a spring in the bottle. It develops so well after spraying, no longer green, it’s like a plant full of leaves starting to produce flower buds then blooming larger and larger until there’s no more leaves and left with full of flowers, and it projects so well. It’s a very smooth and well balanced blend of citrus and sweetness, it also contains a hint of warm and cozy yet very fresh and clean. The most special part is that it gives off a very shiny feeling, it’s like there’s something bling bling around you, it’s like diamonds under sunshine. Despite being fresh, the longevity is great, I can still smell it from morning till late afternoon. I may own more than 40 fragrances, and they are competing with each other for my attention, but this one is in different league, it has no enemy and it stays on top of the throne.

Smells like a fresh bouquet of flowers. It's a feminine, formal fragrance. I found this in a perfume shop while looking for something else and the moment I smelt it, something in me calmed down. It reminded me of the childhood where I ran to the garden to play every morning, the combined smell of beautiful flowers and grass; it also reminded me of the beautiful parks I have sat in to decompress from a day's stress. Such a happy and peaceful memory to be reminded of! This smell is very unique, the florals are fresh, unlike the concentrated floral scents in other perfumes. The flowers show up one after the other when you move around. They smell like actual flowers still on the stem of their plants, unlike other floral perfumes which are obviously flowery, this is a very intelligent blend of what nature smells like at its prettiest. For a person with sensitive skin and allergies, I have found this to be hypo-allergenic. I can smell the flowers on me when I was my face the next morning, although the sillage fades in a few hours. It causes smell numbing very fast and the one wearing it can barely understand how powerful this fragrance is. 2-4 sprays are enough to last a day. One may want to top up with 1-2 sprays to bring back the top notes again after 6-8 hours.

Carat is, fittingly, a bright, sparkling green floral. Its radiance is achieved without aldehydes, which is impressive. It is a light, fresh floral bouquet infused with fruity sweetness and with a dewy green undertone. Carat opens with a fresh green accord, dewy and sap-like. Realistic, juicy pear adds aquatic fruity sweetness. Sheer and refreshing, it forms the perfect backdrop for the floral accord that follows. A heady hyacinth note leads the way, a flower that really says springtime to me. Grassy narcissus follows, and clean white florals round it out. The lily note is a lovely inclusion here, light but realistic. The greenness adds a stem-like effect. As it develops further, the white florals become honeyed, giving a pollen-like effect. Powdery, shimmering mimosa enhances the effect beautifully here. It fades to a sweet, musky skin scent with the florals remaining until final fade. Sillage and longevity are moderate. A sophisticated springtime scent, this is fresh, floral femininity at its best. Elegant and beautifully crafted, this is an excellent everyday scent for warm weather. Another gem by the inimitable Mathilde Laurent. 4/5.

I always have a thing for cartier perfumes for the beautiful bottles... they are not fancy, but timelessly classy, elegant. However I tested a couple of them and they all have an old lady feel... maybe my nose doesn’t agree with the woody notes. This newly launch perfumes makes me go to the cartier boutique to have a try. Unlike duty free or department store, the cartier boutique services is always excellent. I m trying the carat perfume n they make me feel I m trying a carat of diamond ☺️ My judgement maybe affected by the whole environment but I do like this perfume at first sniff. My husband likes it too. It’s a boutique of flowers, wit a hint of sweetness. The right amount of sweetness against the sea of syrup perfumes in recent years. It doesn’t have the old lady feel issue like other cartier perfume. This one is like a young woman in pastel color maxi dress holding a bouquet, romantic n fairy like. It reminds me of a less fruity n more floral jo malone blue bell. I do agree with other reviewers that it belongs to spring. I still but it right away. Can’t stand missing this beautiful bottle n beautiful scent.

I think I must have sampled Carat three times before finally settling on getting a bottle of it. Upon testing it in the store, the longevity just didn't seem promising, but I kept going back to it, thinking about how lovely it smelled. With that said, this is one of the prettiest florals I have found in quite awhile - even the lily, a note that doesn't often compliment me, is beautifully blended with the other floral notes. The green-ness provides an added sparkle and it eventually dries down to a very light and sweet powder. I find this fragrance so girly and ethereal (as though she's the fun little sister among the more powerful Cartier florals). It's sparkling, fresh, and an overall happy fragrance - one that makes me think of an early Spring morning as the sunshine hits the crisp and dewy blooms. As for longevity, it's the only thing Carat could improve on, but with the decent projection and the 2-3 hours longevity, I really don't mind respraying this more; it's truly that beautiful.

I received a sample of this fragrance and when I first smelled it I thought it was a basic white floral. However, the fragrance really grows as it is a cold, green and fresh fragrance. I love the smell of hyacinth and this is a green hyacinth that isn't too overwhelming. I agree with other reviews that say this fragrance smells like frozen/refrigerated flowers and I find it absolutely lovely. This fragrance does not smell 'mature' or 'old' to me. I am a 29-year-old female and find it really fresh and youthful. I do own other floral fragrances that are a bit mature than this. It should be noted that I love floral, white floral and musky scents. I avoid woody scents so this is right up my street. There is something so clean and fresh about this so if that sounds up your street I'd recommend it. Because this fragrance has such a specific scent I would really only recommend it for Spring/Summer and daytime wear and for these 'times' it is perfect!

LOL, my wife picked this up for me as a Christmas stocking stuffer at a rack store discount bin. She had no idea what it smelled like or that it's designated as a "feminine" fragrance. It came packaged as a 15 ml roll on. I don't really pay much attention to the male / female labels on fragrances. If I like it, I'll wear it. So being clueless about it myself I slapped it on. It smells great but too floral / sweet for my taste. So I gifted it right back to her and she loves it. With that stuff said, this is a very inoffensive fresh scent with moderate performance that should be very "safe" just about anywhere or any time of day. And that's exactly what my wife likes. It's very floral. I didn't get much of the Bergamot, Pear, or Green notes up top. But it smells really nice. It's a keeper, but for her, not me.

Those early days of spring, when it is still cold outside, maybe even some traces of snow here and there, yet it is very sunny and you can see the early spring flowers peeking through. Crystal, cold, clean and bright. This perfume is strikingly similar to La Tulipe from Byredo, which is the most realistic tulip scent encaptured in a bottle. I sprayed Carat on one hand and LaTulipe on the other, and it was maybe 90% similar. The subtle differrence is that I can definitely also smell a prominent hyacinth note and a white (non sweet, but rather green smelling) lily in Carat. In fact, I much prefer the lily note here than in Baiser Vole. It is way more realistic in here. Very elegant and sophisticated. It appears to be a borderline vintage kind of a scent amongst endless patchouli/fruitchouli or tuberose bombs.

I have an interesting story about this one. I was in Nordstrom yesterday, and finally got to sample Cartier Carat. Well, immediately I knew it reminded me of something I had smelled before, but knew inside that it was a perfume from a while ago. The sales associate sprayed it on my inner arm for me. After a minute or so, I mentioned to the sales associate that it reminded of a lighter version of Liz Claiborne from the 80's. The sales associate didn't seem too happy about my revelation. She chimed in that maybe they did smell alike, but the Cartier was of much higher quality. Interesting, huh? Anyway, I did enjoy Carat. I do really like it, because it is very different from current day perfume offerings. What I did notice, is that it had a bit of a retro smell, which is really up my alley.

I was scared of green note because sometimes they are bit masculine on me, but this perfume is very feminine and soft. It’s sort of creamy soft green note with very soft semisweet bergamot and prominent mimosa (I’m surprised that mimosa is in the base, I can smell her whole time) I think pear helps smooth down whole opening. Hyacinth and mimosa are start of the show, dry down is beautiful too, very soft honeysuckle with ylang ( I don’t get any violet, which is good, but maybe it’s just masked by ylang)). It is easy to recognize majority of notes, but it is still very rounded and well blended, beautifully crafted. Reminds me of 90s fresh/flower perfumes.

This, like the name, smells RICH. This smells classy and like money. First sprayed it, you get the coldness and the sharpness which reminds me of a metallic flower and over time, it transforms and becomes more soapy as it dries down. Longevity is pretty good, it starts off sharp and quite metallic within the first 2 hrs and then dries down soapy after 6 hrs or so and lingers. In the winter time, it's more sharp and in the summer, you can smell the sweeter floral notes more. The name is very fitting, and the bottle is absolutely stunning. Cartier knocked it out of the park with this one and I find it pretty unique in the scent.

Carat is a very fresh Spring green floral scent. It feels as if I rolled down a dewy grassy hill on an early Spring morning and landed in a bed of wild flowers. A hint of green mint gives Carat a cool feeling. The flowers seem to be blended in equal amounts so it's hard to pick out individual floral scents. I can detect hyacinth sweetening the cool green grass. Powdery mimosa floats like a smooth silk ribbon spinning in the air above my head. Naturally sweet, shimmery, uplifting and beautiful, Carat is strong, lasting easily on my skin for 10 hours with consistently moderate projection. I love it !

This is very beautiful, unique and feminine. Signature worth it. -in beginning I was scared because it was green and bitter, exactly what I do not like -after around 10 min, it turned into a very pleasant and calming tulip scent. It turned creamy, a little sweet and very floral and very feminine. -The dry down reminds me of my favourite soaps Camay that a I can not find them anywhere anymore -this parfum has something in it that I can’t explain my self, but really makes me think at diamonds too -after I’m done with my “no buy parfum period “ I’m going to buy this. Memorable femini scent!

Very pretty scent. It smells like an old-money woman in her mid-twenties at a gala. Her hair is in an updo and she's wearing a black silk Paco Rabanne dress accessorized with lots of diamonds. She smells fresh, clean, and wealthy. There's a confident ease about her. It's admittedly a cooler scent and I tend to prefer warm scents but I still like this one. The lasting power is phenomenal. It literally lasts 48 hours on me. I am not exaggerating in the slightest. Stellar performance. Can be worn all year round, in my opinion.

Blind buy, just because I like to explore Cartier fragrances, 30 ml bottle from Cartier website US. It's an airy, delightful, joyful and pleasant floral, for me without any seasonal restrictions. . Easy to wear with moderate sillage and longevity. It isn't a love but a definite like. The notes ( 7 florals) are blended expertly by Mathilde Laurent to create a bright feminine fragrance. Edit: I've been wearing this lovely for 3 days in a row and it's a huge love for me now. It's an uplifting fragrance and makes me very happy.

Totally lovable and adorable spring fragrance, where I was able to discover the best sweet-freshly-cut narcisses along with crispy-stemed early spring tulips. Touch of nectarous honeysuckle, fruity tone of ylang-ylang, - overall it is heady-dewy, spring-signature worthy juice. Lasting power and projection are superb, really, really pleased to be able to find out about this beauty! Carat has that uniqueness and romanticism that I was looking for! The breeze of the fresh wind from the flower fields!

i have to be honest, the projection is weak. longevity on cloth is 5-6 hours. but the smell is very pretty and luxurious. i would suggest this to everyone who wants comforting scent to be worn at home. you can definitely smell the lily being combined with pear sweetness. the smell is like a delicate and fragile glass, but it continues to shine like a diamond. 10/10 for the smell. 3/10 for projection. however if people smell you, they will surely compliment you and think it is an expensive perfume.

The scent is like winter sun faces all the cold flowers. It's for someone who adore clean perfumes. It's a very sophisticated, romantic, clean, slightly musky perfume. The hyacinth and violet are quite modern here because of the combination with the musk and I love it. If it was a girl, she was an innocent, pure, effortlessly beautiful girl. If it were colors, it would be colors of aurora dancing swiftly in the sky. If it was a stone, definitely a diamond

After going through a couple samples of this perfume and deciding I enjoyed this very much, I ordered I full bottle and sent one to my BFF for her birthday. Carat is not groundbreaking, she is simply a sparkling, very fresh, slightly clean musky symphonic floral beauty that works very well in warm weather, is safe to wear just about anywhere, will not offend sensitive noses and seems to garner many compliments.

I really enjoy wearing this scent. Although not hall of fame worthy, this gem is a dumb reach for me. Smells like the month of May. Although filled with early spring flowers, Carat has a warmth that I associate with a late spring or early summer. I mostly smell the hyacinth and the pear with a bit of a green-wet background. Strong and long lasting enough to be a good everyday fume!