Declaration d'Un Soir

Cartier Declaration D’Un Soir EDT opens with a moderate projection of sweet, floral, spicy, and green notes. The opening is fresh, delectable, mature, elegant, bright, and inviting. The black pepper, cardamom, caraway, and rose are the opening prominent notes. The black pepper, cardamom, and caraway create a spicy note that feels slightly bitter, green, earthy, minty, and woody, it and creates a unique, different, masculine, and pleasant opening with a vetiver-like accord. The rose is also noticeable, but it isn’t the intense and overly feminine note found in female fragrances, the rose in this fragrance is mild, sweet, floral, and evocative of white fresh roses. As time passes, the sandalwood develops adding a sweet, creamy, and warm note. At this point the fragrance becomes dry and mildly powdery. The fragrance has a noticeable opening to dry down change, the opening is very spicy, and sharp, the most noticeable sweetness is the rose. Towards the dry down, the sandalwood makes the fragrance creamy, dense, powdery, and it replaces the sweetness of the rose with its own. Once Cartier Declaration D’Un Soir EDT has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, sweet sandalwood, rose, spicy black pepper, and caraway fragrance. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, classy, creamy, delectable, diurnal, dry, earthy, elegant, exotic, floral, formal, fresh, gentle, grassy, green, high-quality, intimate, inviting, masculine, mature, mild, natural, nicely-blended, office-ready, playful, professional, sharp, sophisticated, spicy, sporty, sweet, versatile, warm, white, woody, zesty, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2019 (#81AB). WOW RATING: 9/10. A great, and elegant sandalwood, spicy and rose fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The fragrance contains a vetiver-like accord, it presents itself as classy, ideal for mature men. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The combination of notes creates a unique fragrance. MASS APPEAL: 6/10. Sweet elegant fragrance for mature men, not a crowd-pleaser. PROJECTION: 3/10. Moderate, about 3 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 3/10. Moderate, about 3 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 6 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 hours, it projects within a personal space for over 3 hours. SEASONS: Winter, spring, summer, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, gym, sports, office, business, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 10/10. A versatile fragrance, ideal for any weather or occasion. GENDER: Masculine. The noticeable spices lean the fragrance to the masculine side. AGES: 30 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Declaration D’Un Soir EDT can be purchased for about $40. Although its performance could be better, it is unique, and blends masterfully rose with spices and sandalwood creating a masculine and very professional fragrance. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. • Aramis EDT Men is a great, mild, classy, leather, woody/mossy, herbaceous, and spicy fragrance. • Calvin Klein Obsession EDT Men is a classy, mildly sweet, myrrh, amber, spicy cinnamon, woody, and musky fragrance. • Caron Pour Homme EDT is a great, classic, musky/mossy/green fragrance. • Cartier Declaration Essence is a great, vetiver, woody, citrus, floral, and spicy fragrance. • Creed Original Santal EDP is a unique, mild, sweet tonka, sandalwood, juniper, spicy cinnamon, and ginger fragrance. • Dolce & Gabbana The One Intense EDP Men is a fantastic, strong, very sweet spicy cardamom, and leathery fragrance. • Lancome Hypnose Homme EDT is a mildly resinous, cardamom and lavender fragrance. • Pasha De Cartier EDT Men is OK, a mild, lavender, spicy, mint, caraway, anise, woody, and mossy fragrance. • Versace The Dreamer EDT is a good, classy, mid, tobacco, floral, powdery iris, resinous amber, herbal artemisia, and juniper fragrance. • Cartier Declaration D’Un Soir EDT is a very good, mild, sweet sandalwood, rose, spicy black pepper, and caraway fragrance SUMMARY: A moderate projection, sweet sandalwood, rose, spicy black pepper, and caraway fragrance. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, classy, creamy, delectable, diurnal, dry, earthy, elegant, exotic, floral, formal, fresh, gentle, grassy, green, high-quality, intimate, inviting, masculine, mature, mild, natural, nicely-blended, office-ready, playful, professional, sharp, sophisticated, spicy, sporty, sweet, versatile, warm, white, woody, zesty, and very pleasant.

Use case: Preferred season: Spring/Fall, but can work any season. Preferred time of day (daytime, night time): Personally, I prefer evening/night time but it is also versatile in this manner. Special events: Absolutely. Dates, black tie events, you name it. Fragrance: 9.5/10 Perfumer: Mathilde Laurent - very impressed in her work with this house Top notes (subjective): Easily the best and most natural rose you will get in a masculine fragrance. No syrupy gimmicks. @ManicMonkey84 said it best. This is a natural rose with the stems and leaves. With the background peppery spice, its akin to fresh rose thorns stimulating your olfactory senses (in a positive manner). I can see why people say earthy and bring up soil, but to me this is more reminiscent of fresh flowing mountainside water trickling down the stems. It doesn't help that I am an absolute sucker for cardamom which I do indeed sense. Interestingly, not all sources list cardamom as a note.... Drydown (subjective): Nice dialed down woody base, although I disagree with many reviewers below in that I still get a beautiful lingering rose. In dry-downs, I don't always look for uniqueness. I want a daring but equally safe fragrance aura. There is nothing to critique here. Structure (linear or complex): Complex Unique (yes or no): Yes. I am a rose junkie and although people like the gentleman below me think this may be common, I would be hard-pressed to name a niche rose fragrance that smells similar. I have tried many and they don't to me. Versatility (poor, average, great, phenomenal): Great/phenomenal Compliments (below average, average, above average, insane): Insane !!! Overall thoughts: I have had various male friends want to order this immediately after smelling it on me. I have had ladies in cafes or various other environments ask me what I'm wearing - typically for their partners. I think the "daring" part of this fragrance is that outside of the fragrance community (what most of the general population is) it is extremely difficult to hit the nail on a rose fragrance that doesn't lean feminine or doesn't have too much nonsense going on. What we consider unisex is often considered by the general population to be feminine. Performance: 8.5/10 Sillage (low, medium, high, extreme): high Projection (low, medium, high, extreme): high Projection duration (hrs): Up to 3 hours Longevity (on skin): ~6hrs Longevity (on clothes): +7hrs Heat compatibility: Not tested and although initially I would have considered this an usual time to wear this fragrance, I am more inclined to wear on hot summer days this year for testing. I am also experimenting with signature scents, and Declaration d'Un Soir is at the top of my list. Overall thoughts: Performance is great, especially considering it maintains the character of the rose throughout. Easy to become nose-blind, but rest easy, others can smell the presence of this elegant yet daring fragrance. Overall: 9.5/10 Value for money (poor, average, good, great): GREAT Recommendation (skip, test, buy, strong buy): Strong buy - while you can. This is one of my favorite fragrances on the market (I own around 100 after recently downsizing, but have tested in the thousands). This fragrance is not confused about it's goal, nor is it a messy byproduct of perfumer entropy (which I find many niche or niche-quality fragrances to be - in fact, many niche fragrances have such a positive bias towards elements of chaos, although they suffer to be enjoyed by most people due to this very fact). This fragrance is exactly as advertised and stunning at that. If impressions are your thing, then very few fragrances have garnered so much positive attention. Cheers, FragranceYYC New tiktok: @FragranceYYC

This is my signature fragrance, not necessarily because of the scent itself, but because of the presence it carries. There’s something refined and distinct about it that feels completely in sync with who I am, and although the scent profile is not for everyone, I think it's absolutely beautiful. Declaration d’Un Soir is incredibly classy, polished, and approachable. It has this clean yet charismatic character that’s rare to come by, and the uniqueness is undeniable without ever being loud or flashy. The opening hits with a dazzling wave of icy black pepper which is pleasantly sharp, attention-grabbing, and elegant. It instantly creates this cool sparkle across your skin before giving way to a dewy, almost "wet" rose. This isn't a soft or powdery kind of floral; it’s more like a light pink rose with water still clinging to the petals. People often describe it as green, but to me, it’s much more about that watery brightness than any stemmy or grassy impression. Very quickly, the spices begin to rise. The rose remains the centerpiece, but black pepper steps forward, adding texture and a little bit of sharpness. In the background, there’s the cardamom and caraway give the pepper some depth while easing the transition into the base. It’s subtle, but it makes sure the sandalwood doesn’t just fade into the background. I can't pick up any nutmeg at all in this, and it makes sense why it's the lowest-voted note on here. The drydown is where it really becomes something special. The sandalwood is smooth, sweet, and extraordinarily velvety, blending beautifully with the now-muted rose and those warm lingering spices. It’s very elegant and expressive without being cold. Performance, for me, is not so bad. I get 2-3 feet of projection in the first hour or so, then it gradually settles in closer to the skin. It lasts a good 8 hours, easy, before it turns into more of a skin scent. To me, this scent is completely unisex. If people tend to classify it as masculine, I think that has more to do with how it’s marketed than how it actually smells. It might just be a case of framing bias influencing perception. There's nothing overtly gendered about the way this wears. It’s just beautifully balanced. If I had to sum it up: Cartier Declaration d’Un Soir is refined without being uptight, charming without trying too hard, like someone who’s naturally well-spoken, polite, and impossible to dislike. And that's why it's my signature scent. Scent (on skin): 8/10 Scent (sillage): 8.5/10 Projection: 6/10 Longevity: 7/10 Value: 10/10 Originality: 10/10 Mass appeal: 7.5/10 Versatility: 9/10

What an amazing perfume. A completely blind buy for me, I had no idea how Declaration d'Un Soir smell - I actually had no idea even how the original Declaration smell - but I stumbled upon a huge discount online which was hard to ignore. Using rose for a scent marketed as "masculine" is quite hard, men are not very used to smell roses on them, moreover it is quite a difficult task to make a remarkable rose perfume in general - the best "masculine" rose perfume has been Azzaro Acteur, a forgotten discontinued masterpiece which unfortunately failed to make any impact during the "Cool Water" mania era and did terribly in sales. Declaration d'Un Soir uses rose a bit differently than Acteur, here we have a "dirty" rose, full of thorns and soil, the "Turkish delight" comparison is on point, when it reaches the dry down it indeed reminds me of the smell of turkish delight. That beautiful rose is accompanied by lots of pepper and some tones of sandalwood - I even detect bits of citrus notes as well. It's not as peppery as Toy Boy by Moschino, it feels absolutely unisex to my nose (all scents are unisex for me whatsoever but I get the marketing pushing certain scents to certain gender) and it is so well composed that it feels like a niche release. Hard to believe it is now discontinued - I can understand why it didn't sell well, especially in a world where aggressive and fully chemical messes thrive commercially - but available with huge discount online, though I'm not very sure how long it will still be available. A huge love from me, I think I will stock up with this one, I am quite addicted to its unique smell and niche quality. Well done Cartier!

I've got this one for 5-6 years, long before I got really into fragrances. So it is from a period when my taste was formed not by trying lots and lots of scents, picking and choosing then sticking to a particular direction, curating a collection, but rather by whether a fragrance evoked a strong feeling in me, regardless of its scent profile. I was captivated by how different this is from anything I have ever smelled. Typical Cartier... Now I prefer classics, fougeres, woody rugged manly scents that radiate masculinity and to be honest - I wear them for myself, these are rarely compliment getters and that's OK. All I care for is that they match my style and personality. Declaration is different, sticking like a sore thumb in my collection - it's more sensual, tender, spicy, the rose is uncommon for a men's fragrance. It's a bit too cloying for hot weather (but thick enough for cold days) and also I'm not always in the (gentle & romantic) mood for it. But when I do wear it...boy, is that a compliment magnet! Ladies love that scent, probably because they connect easier to it, rather than to even the finest fougere (they generalise fougeres as "eau de cologne" or "aftershave"). Therefore, almost every time I choose it for my scent of the day, I get complimented and appreciated for it's quality and radiance. I don't go to dates, but my wife loves it and I believe Declaration d'un Soir would make a perfect date scent. I wouldn't call it seductive, but it is kinda romantic. Too bad this gem got discontinued, so lucky to still have 2/3 of my 100 ml bottle full.