Cartier Declaration D'un Soir Eau De Toilette Spray for Men, 30 ml

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Really impressive how nicely the scent says masculine while being a rose frag, it's a beautiful scent. I wish it were more of a soft and smooth rose with possibly some boozy amber, but it’s far from that. This is due to the dominant note in it being the smell of rose, mixed with sandalwood and lots of pepper as well as hints of cardamom and nutmeg to make it a very masculine rose fragrance (which is pretty rare). Sure, there is a certain synthetic quality to both of them, which is also quite striking and blatant, but it doesn't bother me at all with both scents. it is not 'typical' man's concoction, but soft, all-day-long lasting, lingering in the air around a wearer and leaving a nice trail, very- very beautiful and classy, not like majority of man perfumes that i find are a 'punch' in the nose.

A few days ago i wrote a review stating that i didn't liked this fragrance, BUT i decided to give it one more chance and OH MY GOD i admit that i have changed in a very radical way my opinion about this scent, i dont know what happened to me when i first sprayed this that i didn't liked it, i dont know if it was my body chemistry at the moment or that i was recovering from a terrible cold/flu that my nostrils were not in the mood for the smell of this beauty, but now IM IN LOVE WITH IT, I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

The original declaration is very much in the background and pops up from time to time, which is a good think. In Paestum Rose, the rose note is also augmented by wood, but Paestum Rose’s rose is denser and syrupy and its “wood” note more solid. A few hours into the dry-down this is a fairly safe fougere fragrance leaning on some rose to give it some more complexity.

It is unreal how leafy, natural, airy, green, realistic, fresh and earthy that Mathilde Laurent was able to make this fragrance. 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). Mme Laurent chose to do an evening/formal variation not in the usual way—say, by adding a ton of woody amber and tonka bean and bumping the concentration to Parfum—but through the addition of a gorgeous spiced rose, still sparklingly transparent: a figurative boutonnière for the wearer’s buttonhole, in the famous signature scarlet shade of the perfume’s house to boot. It's very versatile, you can use it when you want it because it will not hit you in high temperatures or go unnoticed in the cold. Spicey feminine rose smell, and its the pepper that makes it not feminine (if that makes sense) - its hard to put into words, but this is the ultimate rose for me.

The rose stays pretty linear on my skin for hours while the spiciness from pepper and cardamom keep it super fresh and far from being too floral or overly girly, although I can't detect any of the sandalwood. He asked me a few questions and straight off showed me a few bottles that were much closer to my olfactory preferences. The rose itself is gorgeous: spicy and a dark enough to be little gothic, with plush, velvety winey damascones darkened with a complex hint of black pepper.

There are other rose-based fragrances I like - Intense Cafe (used lightly) or Dsquared Potion Royal Black to name a few, but the rose in those fragrances are less dominant than this one. I would like to assign both to different seasons because of their different characters In my opinion, Déclaration d'un Soir with its on the one hand clearly coming along, but on the other hand overly obvious spicy rose, but still introverted and the warming impression rather fits into the cold season and L'Homme Ultime with its loud, flowery fresh and cooling kind with rose in the background rather into the warm season. This smells like you took the opening of Fille de Berlin and then it dries down into Jardin En Mediterranee. Its transparency makes it a good choice in warm weather, when a more conventional rose might choke someone out, and its spiciness makes it especially enjoyable in autumn.This scent is if Moschino’s Toy Boy accidentally knocked someone up and decided to raise the kid and become a loving father. Inspired by a comment from Fresh21 on L'Homme Ultime, I thought about making a little comparison and just seeing how far these two fragrances from different houses might have similarities and differences. Its a very elegant and sexy smell, its a very masculine rose not a feminine one, and along with the spices it creates a very pleasing, manly, elegant, sophisticated, soft and strong scent at the same time. If Déclaration d'un Soir evokes images of grandmothers or anything feminine, for that matter, you simply lack the maturity and sophistication to appreciate rose in a masculine fragrance.