Must de Cartier Parfum 2015

I have owned this for over a year and I just adore this! I had to hunt down a bottle and get the correct one the red and gold and it's soo worth the try! If you like green floral vanilla like guerlain angelique noire then odds are you'll love this. To me this a greener more Jasmine version of eau duelle diptyque. It has this clean rich girl type smell. It's kinda simple but at the same time it's not. This is just a classic fragrance and I cherish my bottle!!! Both the Jasmine and Galbanum smell clean in this I know sometimes Jasmine can have a weird wet dog smell and sometimes dirty or dated just like Galbanum can sometimes smell old, dated, just not good lol. This isn't that. This is a green vanilla with slight floral nuances! Just beautiful 😍 I will say I also have the older version the must de Cartier Gold and I kinda like it a touch more than this one. That one has Osmanthus in it and creates a tad more depth. The juice of my older must de Cartier Gold now matches this bottle because the juice is so old the vanilla has turned this beautiful deep dark red color and the glass is clear. Only way I can tell them apart is on the front had this clear stickers with the notes listed and one has Osmanthus and the other doesn't. But being this one is newer it'll probably be easier to get ahold of than the older version must de Cartier Gold and then remember that instead of a clean glass the old version will most likely be red as well because of the aged vanilla. These are 100% definitely worth a smell they are beautiful and one of those scents that smell differently on every one so you'll never smell like someone else and who doesn't like a beach upscale green vanillic perfume 😉 out of the two must de Cartier and must de Cartier Gold, I prefer the depth and almost watery green floral with the vanilla that 2015 version is lacking in.

My signature perfume Must De Cartier I eventually found back in the early 80s after years of searching and testing fragrances and returning home empty handed with a sad unfulfilled look on my face much to the disappointment of my late husband. From that point on my late husband would always get me Must De Cartier for My birthday and he always gave me wads of cash to go buy more every time the sales were on, I often returned with 5 or 6 Must De Cartier products and a beaming smile on my face. It also meant when prices skyrocketed i did not have to worry as i had quite a large stash tucked away. When friends and other people ask what fragrance i am wearing I often reply Must De Love AKA Must De Cartier because it reminded me of my beloved late husband Kevin. Because it had took me so long to find a perfume that I absolutely loved I squired away a number of unopened bottles knowing one day it would possibly be discontinued. I was in my late teens and knew nothing about fragrances back then just that i had found the one that screamed my name. The only time had had heard the word reformulation back then was on TV adverts for shampoos conditioners hair colours etc lol Making products better supposedly. So you cam imagine my disappointment when i decide to treat myself to a new bottle for my birthday in 2013 10 months after my husband had passed. I was so disappointed in the reformulation that i returned home empty handed and comforted my self with a quick sprits from 1 of the bottles in my stash draw curtesy Kevin :-)

this is what i consider a masterpiece. i own a 10 mL pure parfum of must de cartier from the 80s (the black bottle that comes in a leather case) and idk if this has the same note breakdown and it's Fragrantica's inaccuracy for listing 3 notes, or if this actually has 3 notes. in any case, this DOES NOT smell as simple as a Fragrantica's note breakdown. what DOES this smell like? cigarettes, green smoky galbanum-originated cigarettes on a bed on mature, not creamy but mellow-white floral full vanilla, not powdery/boozy/too floral, just the perfect amount of vanilla to still keep a warm background but i can see how someone WOULDN'T consider it as gourmand. it's old yet so modern. i don't like to use cliche words like timeless and elegant to describe it, but i'm lacking better descriptions. it's not for everyone since galbanum and the cigarette vibe is prominent. but it is a 15/10 in my book.

Oh my joy with the one encased in the golden flacon! Superbly subdued vanilla. It’s like seeing glints of pink in a sea of emeralds swathed in sunset. Gladly, the parfum doesn’t have the persistence of citrus notes. This one could possibly be one with Guerlain’s L’Arte et la Matiere line. I am trying to glean a somewhat chocolatey or a cola-ish accord because of the combination of amber and vanilla but it has been tamed! The galbanum is the star with vanilla as its partner. How could someone create something powdery and vanillic while giving off sophistication? I would like to note that the greenness here somewhat suggests something scrubbed clean and then freshened up with herbal tones but it’s so beautiful. Forgive me if my words don’t convey properly the pronouns it merits but everyone get a hand of this!

I think this is quite a good reformulation. It is less balsamic and oriental than the original formulation - the green notes have been given a boost, while the balsamic notes are softer than in the original. However I still love it, since, despite some small changes, it still smells closer to the original than it has for some years. (For those who have not experienced the original, this is a striking green oriental featuring sweet, ambery/balsamic notes cut by an incisive galbanum note. It was chosen, quite rightly imho, by Michael Edwards in his book "Perfume Legends" as one of the greats of 80s perfumery.)