Declaration Essence

Cartier Declaration Essence EDT opens with a moderate projection of citrus, floral, and sharp green notes. The opening is mature, elegant, intense, classy, and versatile. The vetiver, tea, orange blossom, lavender, and lemon are the opening noticeable notes. The vetiver is by far the most prominent note, it comes across a freshly cut grass, dry, green herbaceous, earthy, pure, fresh, intense, and sharp. One step behind is the tea which supplements the greenness of the vetiver with a slightly sweet, green, and herbaceous note. The flowers, sandalwood, and musk are two steps behind and work as support notes, the lavender adds a soft clean-like, purple floral accord; the geranium a sweet, warm, lemony, and green note; the orange blossom is a white floral with a citrus touch. The sandalwood and musk are faint notes in the back of the fragrance, they contribute with a pinch of sweetness and a musky earthy note. The opening to dry down transition is relatively linear, the lemon is noticeable during the opening but just for a brief moment, then the notes of the fragrance line up as described earlier and continue into the dry down. Once Cartier Declaration Essence EDT has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, intense green vetiver, tea, sandalwood, white-purple floral, and musky fragrance. The fragrance feels bold, casual, classy, cold, dated, dry, earthy, elegant, exotic, expensive, formal, fresh, grassy, green harsh, high-quality, intense, invigorating, masculine, mature, musky, natural, nicely-blended, office-ready, persistent, professional, pure, refreshing, rich, sharp, slightly sweet, versatile, white, zesty, and pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#8HBE). WOW RATING: 10/10. A very intense and pure vetiver fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 3/10. The intense vetiver, and a mild musky earthy note, are noticeable. UNIQUENESS: 9/10. Vetiver fragrances are common, the intensity of this one makes it unique. MASS APPEAL: 5/10. Vetiver fragrances are suited for mature wearers, not a crowd-pleasing fragrance. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 6/10. Very good, about 6 hours, it projects well for over 4 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, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 10/10. Vetiver fragrances are highly versatile, any occasion, any season. GENDER: Masculine. The vetiver is a masculine note. AGES: 30 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Cartier Declaration Essence EDT can be found discounted for under $40. The collection of every mature man requires a solid, masculine, green, classic, and fresh office-ready fragrance like this. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first, the vetiver is intense, also a mild musky earthy note. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. • Alfred Dunhill Pursuit EDT Men is a good, mild, vetiver, green, woody, cedar, and spicy fragrance. • Bentley Infinity Rush is a great sweet orange, vetiver, spicy, woody, and soft musky fragrance. • Escentric Molecules 05 EDT is a good, woody green cashmeran, juniper, cypress, ISO E-Super, and musky citrusy ambroxan fragrance. • Montale Red Vetiver is a great, vetiver, and cedar fragrance. • Parfums De Marly Shagya EDP is a very good, mild, green vetiver, fresh cedar, guaiac wood, and bergamot fragrance. • Terre D’Hermes Parfum is OK, a mild, slightly sweet, woody, mossy oakmoss, citrusy, orange, and grapefruit fragrance. • Versace The Dreamer EDT is a good, classy, mid, tobacco, floral, powdery iris, resinous amber, herbal artemisia, and juniper fragrance. • Cartier Declaration Essence EDT is a great, intense, green vetiver, tea, sandalwood, white-purple floral, and musky fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, intense green vetiver, tea, sandalwood, white-purple floral, and musky fragrance. The fragrance feels bold, casual, classy, cold, dated, dry, earthy, elegant, exotic, expensive, formal, fresh, grassy, green harsh, high-quality, intense, invigorating, masculine, mature, musky, natural, nicely-blended, office-ready, persistent, professional, pure, refreshing, rich, sharp, slightly sweet, versatile, white, zesty, and pleasant.

i have been looking for a great and pleasant sandal wood fragrance and i think i have just found it.. something that isn't TdH's cedar scent!! it has quite a captivating woody spiced freshness about itself. i know people are going to compare the two so let me just put it out there it's not as obnoxious as TdH to my nose. it has a great quality and long lasting freshness the ebb's and flows between a woody smell and fresh/spicey. very strange yet captivating. if i had the chance and would have tried this first TdH would not be in my cabinet. however as a collector i will have to add this to my collection soon. sooo if you are looking for a subtle yet refreshing woody type scent i suggest you try this one. after spending a half hour with the cartier rep i understand the perfumers objective. i think mathilde laurent hit spot on with this one. this fragrance gets a big thumbs up from me. 8 out of 10. all around good fragrance and good sillage and longevity * side note if you have a moment read up on Les Heures de Parfum.. or try and find a place to sample it.. there are only 13 stores that carry the 13 hours line... as for ordering one of the 13 scents i'm sure you can from a certified online vendor.

Terre D'Hermes has been one of my favourites, and is chimed to have the same Ellena DNA. Probably so, but I find Declaration Essence to be an interesting, natural, herbaceous, complex and elegant composition. Blending is first class and this is one of my favourite vetiver-combos ever. The notes project stronger than in the original Declaration EDT, especially the prominent vetiver, which is why I like it a lot.The tea-note adds a special touch. Performance is better as well, though, the EDT is fresher overall. Projects a polished, intense, aromatic, invigorating, distinctly accomplished and masculine personality; very versatile and perfect for office and social occasions. If TDH is professional, DE is distinguished. I like them both. This is one classy and stylish scent, and like TDH, signature worthy. I don't get any BO at all, it's just zingy. For anyone who doesn't have this issue either, this ought to be a top-shelf recommendation. I prefer DE over many, including more expensive scents. Update: Got confirmation that Essence is officially discontinued, very disappointing to me as it was a favourite and signature as well. Have some test bottles on stock but still a shame it's officially gone.

After reading piyux's review about Cartier Declaration Essence EDT, I decided to buy a full bottle. He was dead on accurate in his assessment of this fragrance. If you really want to know about Essence please scroll down and read the review by piyux. That guy is utterly amazing in his detailed analysis of fragrances and I always try to read his reviews when I am looking on blind buying anything even if it is just a sample size of a particular scent! To nutshell it for you, if you like the original Cartier Declaration EDT but want something with a little more vetiver, musk and citrus kick then grab a bottle of Cartier Declaration Essence EDT and you will be happy wearing it for the Spring, Summer and Fall. It is a very clean, professional, classy and elegant fragrance that you can wear confidently to work, but has enough sex appeal to wear it after hours.

I am a woman, but I love wearing this fragrance. Then again, I love the naughtiness of blurring gender lines, and I don't really believe that there is such a thing as a male or female fragrance. At first spray, this fragrance definitely has some bite. Very peppery, some of that "BO" note that a lot of people have mentioned. After about ten minutes, though, it settles down to somewhere in between spicy tea and a winter forest. Towards the end of the day, it smells soft and floral with a hint of lime. It lasts me for about a work day, and it's subtle, not overpowering. Beautiful evolution, truly for the days when you have something to elegantly "declare." :)