La Panthere Eau de Toilette

(Comparison of the modern EdT and EdP by Mathilde Laurent) Cartier has never truly given much of a damn about their perfumes. They have always been lower priority than their jewelry and watches, but then again they’ve never needed to. When you have the likes of Mark Buxton, Jean-Claude Ellena, Alberto Morillas, and Mathilde Laurent helming your fragrance department you know that people “in the know” are going to be paying attention to what you release. Attention was certainly sparked when Cartier announced they were going to let Laurent “modernize” the Morillas classic Panthere, which had been long discontinued by that time. What Laurent achieved is nothing like what Morillas composed, and, just as curiously, the EdP and the EdT are quite different between themselves as well. The EdT and the EdP open the same way with very sharp, glassy, and sparkling aldehydes and neroli. It smells like inhaling citrusy and metallic glass. They are nearly identical, save for that the EdT smells a bit drier than the EdP - a difference to carry longer and even more strikingly through both perfumes’ lives. They diverge quite noticeably after this. The EdP pushes fleshy, ripened, saturated tree fruits of peaches, pears, apricots, nectarines, and bananas. These are all facades of gardenia, rose, and ylang-ylang with their fruit notes pushed far forward of their floral notes. It is quite sweet, jammy, and thick, but pleasantly so. In the EdT the fruity notes of the florals are far less significant compared to the floral notes of the... erm... florals. There is proper muskiness to the honeyed gardenia and the rose is fleshy and dark as opposed to jammy. Being drier than the EdP, the lack of fruitiness equates to a lack of sugary aromas. In the EdP the fruity side of things calms down quite quickly to let the animalic-honeyed-musky qualities of gardenia be more forward, but the fruits are still there, the starchy tropical banana ylang-ylang holding on hard as well but a bit more texturally than aromatically at this point. The ending of the EdP is more of the gardenia, this time flecking sour, thick and leathery musks at the final skin scent and more of an earthy character (patchouli-like) than the heart. The dry down of the EdT is virtually the same, except, still, drier, focusing still on the musky and leathery side of gardenia and a dry patchouli note. Longevity is as you’d mostly expect with the final skin scent holding on longer in the EdP, but they curiously arrive at their dry down stages at roughly the same timeframes. Whatever La Panthere is, it’s not a panther. There is no dark, slinky, sauntering cat wandering through the tropical underbrush to be found in either of these perfumes. And yes, sure, they are probably a bit safe. Typical. Mundane. But what sets them apart from the rest of the fruity floral pack in the genre is Laurent’s abilities to keep them well behaved. No, they do not smell like a jungle cat, but they do smell the way Cartier’s jewelry looks: full of various colors shifting away in bright light, throwing the rays in various directions with their myriad of fruits and florals. That is the best trick with La Panthere in both versions: its minimalism is somehow quite complex when all of the spectrum-bleeding light waves are overlayed with each other. All of this said, I feel that the EdT is better due to its greater juxtaposition of dry versus sweet, fruits versus florals, and textural musks versus the more deadpan-style musks of the EdP. But both are great. Just don’t go looking for anything resembling the Morillas original... or a panther for that matter.

I'm a hardcore fan of Cartier la panthere legere so I had to try this new edt.it has an obvious la panthere gene,one can immediately say that it belongs to that family with it's silky musky gardenia gene but it's lighter,more fresh and airy comparing to the original one so it's more wearable in spring and summer I can't detect much of green or citrus notes as it settles but I can smell some sort of fruity freshness even in it's drydown.it's not too much fruity but I can feel traces of pine apple and unripe pear which are very pleasant and give the overall musky floral scent a fruity,shampooyee undertone I thought I'm not going to add it to my wantlist when I first applied it,but now I see that I can't stop sniffing my wrist.it's such an easy to wear also classy scent,soft and great for office wear specially in warmer days Longevity is really good for an edt but sillage is soft to moderate Unfortunately dollar's price has become double in my country so nowadays we must pay an Amouage's price(or any other high quality niche fragrance) for a designer perfume.buying perfume is very difficult comparing to few months ago,so I don't think that I'm going to buy this soft,clean and classy babe اگه قصد خرید هدیه برای یه خانوم ۲۷ سال به بالا رو دارید و دنبال عطری هستید که هم نسبتا همه پسند باشه هم رایحه تکراری نداشته باشه،ملایم و تمیز و فرش باشه،متانت رو القا کنه،برای محیط کار مناسب باشه و رایحه ای شیک و سرشار از کلاس داشته باشه حتما لاپانتر ادوتویلت رو جزو گزینه هاتون قرار بدید ژن لاپانتر اصلی یعنی رایحه لطیف و فوق شیک و گرونقیمت طور و ابریشمی گاردنیا-مشک رو اینجا هم داریم،منتها تو لاپانتر اصلی این ژن با جیر و میوه های خشک و ملس همراه شده و عطر رو خاص تر(کمتر همه پسند) و کمی خشک کرده و سن عطر رو کمی بالا برده،تو لاپانتر لژره با آلدئید همراه شده و حالت صابونی طوری داره(که البته من عاااشقشم) و تو لاپانتر سویر با همراهی چرم و خزه گرمتر،تیره تر،بالغتر و سکسی تر شده..اما تو لاپانتر ادوتویلت که اینجا مورد بحثه گاردنیا-مشک ابریشمی ما،به همراه میوه های فرش و آبدار و تردی روایح سبز،حس و حال جوونتر،راحت تر،خنکتر،تمیزتر,بهاره طور و پرکاربردتری پیدا کرده.البته حاصل کار،یه رایحه زیادی میوه ای یا سبز نیست.،نذارید نت های این عطر شما رو بترسونه،حتما تستش کنید و بهش کمی زمان بدید

Very fresh citrusy opening, with fruity accent. After 30 minutes it becomes less fresh and the chypre is coming out in hand with delicious musky sweet powdery smell. After an hour its high quality light chypre fragnance with that lovely musky cleaness. It smells different on a paper, musk is less prominent and flower-fruity accord is more visible. I see the panther standing for the chypre sharp character, while the sweet musky tone wraps it into a soft fur. I definitely like it and when I want to get myself a floral chypre fragnance, this is a very strong candidate. Edit: Some time later I tryed it again from my sample, but I thought its the EdP. Here is what I thought for a second time trying it. Wow! This is the most seductive, sexy parfum I have ever smelled! It has teasing sweetness, charming elegant flowers and most of all that delicious sensual musk. I have smelled many musc parfums and I can tell this one is extraordinary. It is the best sophisticated sexy to me. Definitelly not for a casual wear. This calls for elegance.

Light Chypre-Floral with Gardenia & Lily of the Valley... First Impression: I just have a travel tester of this, but I've tested it a few times now. At first I though this was nothing like La Panthere EDP - it's much more floral than chypre, and the way the lily of the valley is done reminds me a little of Baiser Vole also by Cartier so I can see why they've been compared. The florals have an airy quality and the fruits read like apple-pear. After Aging: the longer this ages, the more similar to La Panthere EDP it becomes, and the more chypre-esque. The florals take on a creamy honey tone that's animalic, and the patchouli-leather comes more forward. The EDT doesn't have the characteristic oakmoss however, and the fruity tones don't go as jammy as the EDP. This is very wearable, and anyone who found the EDP too strong might enjoy this. I like them both for different reasons. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

I agree with Sirena78. It is beautiful fragrance all around. Floral yet not girly, chypre yet not aggressive or too mossy, sexy but not vulgar. It is for grownup woman, confident, alluring and attractive without putting much effort. Beginning bright and citrusy, then 5-10 min later all flowers pop up. Flowers merge together and I can’t really detect any individually, they are somewhat polished with green notes. I don’t smell pineapple either. It is all well blended into one harmonious serenade. I can see myself wearing it every day or on special occasion. It is not boring and not “loud”. I am sniffing my wrist now and can’t get enough of it. I disagree with someone below who said this panther is toothless and domesticated cat. What I see is a panther lying on the branch of the tree or somewhere on the rock basking in the sun after successful hunting.