Eau de Cade

For some reason this fragrance is listed twice on this website, with slightly different notes! Where this page lists bergamot, cedar, pink pepper, juniper and labdanum, the other one lists juniper, sandalwood, rosemary and immortelle (plus bergamot, which is not listed, but its avatar is right below the description!) However, trust me, these are not two different fragrances, but the exact same Eau de Cade - only listed twice... and both times with wrong notes. :) I don't know who is responsible for this confusion, but the truth is that this beautiful scent contains all of the aforementioned notes, and I bet there's some coriander or saffron in it as well. As I have described in my review on the other EdC page, I bought this scent for my husband, but I ended up wearing it myself. It's a beautiful fresh spicy fragrance, completely unisex. I find it quite similar to Volutes by Diptyque; on paper, these fragrances share only a couple of notes (pink pepper and immortelle), but the overall olfactory experience is surprisingly similar. If you're looking for a gorgeous fresh spicy scent, but cannot afford Volutes, Eau de Cade is a very good substitute, and much cheaper.

Cade is a heartbreaker. Something that smells this delicious, this subtlety perfect must, by the cruel universal laws of equilibrium, have abysmal performance. If you are one of those who are suspicious when reviews talk of poor longevity, no sillage, etc, I encourage you to try Cade. You will find out the true meaning of low performance. It goes on lightly- a beautiful, ephemeral juniper, peppery scent that is one of the nicest things I’ve experienced. It is exquisite. I want to bathe in this scent. But I jest not, this scent lasts two hours before it is virtually undetectable. It’s an EDC at best, but more like a spritz of water with essence of juniper. A true “what could have been” fragrance- rightfully discontinued, but if they brought it back with greatestrength, I’d be the first to buy. Update: I've worn it often since I've bought it. It's such a great scent- there is no way to overspray this so just keep on spraying throughout the day.

I bought this scent for my husband, but I ended up wearing it myself. :) Eau de Cade is another winner from L'Occitane, tailor-made for colder weather. It's a simple yet beautiful composition, but I must observe that the notes in the description above are not entirely correct, as there are many more ingredients than listed. The opening is mostly bergamot with spices (rosemary, corriander, cloves) and other ingredients include immortelle, cedar, juniper and sandalwood, with the last two being especially prominent. This has now overtaken Guerlain's Vetiver as my favourite men's scent (although I would definitely classify Cade as unisex). I cannot wait to wear it during the winter months!

It smells very fresh and pleasant. When I was buying it, I was deciding between this and Cade and Lavender and liked this one the best. I only later realized though, that the performance is not the greatest. The smell however is amazing to me. I think you could wear it anytime of the year, except maybe on very hot days. It smells expensive and natural, although I'd expect that for 50€/100ml. One con besides the weak performance is the sprayer, which is not that high quality. The paint on the plastic start to peel of after only a couple of uses.

Eau de Baux gets a lot of love on this site but when I tested it alongside Cade, I much prefer Cade. It is well groomed gent but very confident, understated and with a lot of sunshine and soap. The juniper is not gin like rather it perks up the cedar to produce the warm wood effect. Bergamot is not that obvious at any stage but again peps it all up to be fresh and sunny. It is not sweet but not bitter either. Smells very natural. Projection is very polite and longevity good. If it was cheaper I would defo buy a full bottle.

Why, just why, would you discontinue the perfect fragrance for men? Oh, the disappointment when he told me he’d ran out and I searched to find him another bottle, only to find there isn’t one out there... maybe we would have savoured those final sprays if we had known! I don’t have much to add that other reviews haven’t covered already - yes, longevity is average, yes, you need to reapply. But it was SO worth it. My hubby’s got some great fragrances, but none of them will beat his beloved Cade!

Cade is an amazingly underrated scent. It is a very refined woodsy scent. You can definitely smell the juniper, cedar, and pink pepper. It has a great dry down. Probably average on longevity and projection, but a very solid year round scent. As others point out, this is best worn on skin. Certainly very masculine and feels like I put this on after cutting up some cedar firewood. Very well done. 9 out of 10.

It reminded me the mighty Gucci pour homme I for about 2 hours before it became very close to the skin. I hoped it would be similar to Leau Bleu de Issey because of the juniper but on my skin pink pepper and cedar are more dominant than juniper which makes it for me a sweet woody scent rather than fresh spicy minthy woody scent. Lo:5/10 Si:4/10 Smell:8/10 i wish it lasted more..

This is a gorgeous fragrance. The opening is nothing amazing i'll be honet, but as it develops it becomes something really special. On my skin I get the juniper berries, but I also smell what I can describe as fruity violets. Lasted about 4 hours, and didn't project heavily. I really like it, also love the no nonsense packaging. Very good indeed.

Like most L'occitane fragrances, this one smells very natural and high quality for the price. A very gentle and refined barbershop fragrance that can be worn all year around. The funny thing is that this is apparently discontinued, but the Cade line still their main man's line for grooming products. So why did they discontinued the fragrance?

I went to buy Eau des Baux , but turned up buying this . This is so very nice full of spices ! Even my wife liked this more than Eau des Baux and this time i went with her choice . I feel Eau des Baux is more of a hype this is is genuily good .. GO TRY IT GUYS !!

Smoky juniper, cedar, a touch of tobacco, leather, dries powdery. Love the shaving cream!

Too bad it's been discontinued. Excellent barbershop fragrance that can be worn anytime.

I am begging for this one to be brought back! It was Your best male fragrance!

To my nose, it has similar vibe with Christian Dior Homme.

I detect all of the notes listed except the bergamot. Primarily cedar and juniper accented with the pink pepper and thickened up with labdanum. A bit of a rustic babershop/fougere feel. Smoke from a cedar wood fire drifting up into cold, clean mountain air. This one gives me eight hours longevity. It sticks pretty close to the skin and doesn't leave a trail. I have gotten some compliments on it. A unisex scent that leans a little "masculine". Any age range can wear Cade well. The brown bottle is nice but the sprayer is pretty bad. Best during fall and winter. Good for any occasion. With the weather finally cooling off I'm reaching for this more. This is not my favorite scent but it's good. Safe for work, smells nice on your man or woman, decent performance. Not too shabby!

Fizzy! It smells like sherbet or something fizzy, I don't know what that note is, but it's great. I've loved this fragrance for a long time, only ever putting it on in stores. But today I purchased it (because I had a $25 off coupon) and I'm very happy with my purchase. It's woody and spicy and a bit sweet. It smells like this place I like to go to in the summer. It's secluded, dry and woodsy. There's a small stream and a bridge made from a tree trunk. The sun beats down on the wood and that's what you smell. Nature. If you like woody scents, this is for you.

Not bad. No wow factor here, but not bad. I read it as primarily as a juniper berry scent. It doesn't last very long on my skin, but you can also use the Cade bath gel, shampoo and all the other associated products to boost the scent, I suppose. I get the impression this is good for men who don't especially care about fragrance, or for very young men. I prefer Eau des Baux from this house. I suspect most do as well.

Manly, dry, woody, but gentle scent. Not as sweet as Eau de Baux (which is also nice). I tested all of the L'Occitane scents with a lady friend and she liked this one the best. This is a very well behaved scent and does not radiate far. For me it becomes a skin scent after only a few hours, unfortunately. The aftershave balm of the same name is also very nice and oddly lasts much longer than this cologne version.

This is a very standard but impressive fragrance. L'occitane fragrances are geneally pretty universal in the fact that they can be worn on many people's skin easily. I like how this is very basic in ingredients yet it still smells great. For me the appeal is how natural the ingredients are. Good ftagrance