Cartier · 1998 · Jean-Claude Ellena

Déclaration

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Toilette

Zesty bergamot and orange with warm cardamom over dry cedarwood and juniper, with a hint of oakmoss.

Cartier says

You’ll smell cardamom and cedarwood.

More from Cartier’s description

It also mentions Spices, Freshness and Woody notes.

The house’s page

Press one to keep this perfume on your shelf.

The drawn Déclaration bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Déclaration’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, cedar, virginia cedar, bergamot, sweet orange, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Déclaration, when you spray it: Cardamom, Bergamot, Sweet orange

As it settlesheart notes

Déclaration, as it settles: Citronellol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Déclaration, what stays: Cedar, Virginia cedar, Oakmoss, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Cartier names

CardamomCedarwoodFreshness

What the label names

21 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

6 citrus5 herbs & lavender5 florals2 woods1 sweet1 spices1 earth & moss

Citrus6

Bergamot oilLimoneneBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender5

PineneCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals5

Citronellol (rose)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Geranyl acetateGeraniol (rose)Farnesol

Woods2

Cedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

beta-Caryophyllene

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For more

Terre d'HermèsHermès · Some of its own wearers call Déclaration a cheaper copy of it$145 for 98 mlIts notes add flint and grapefruit and leave out cardamom.

“You could try Cartier Déclaration EDT, it's very similar but way more subtle than Terres.”

Reddit comment, r/fragrance, 2025 · 1 vote

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Bottled ElixirHugo Boss · shares cardamom and cedar (Atlas cedar)$115 for 100 ml
La Nuit de L'HommeYSL · shares cardamom and cedar (Atlas cedar)$105 for 100 ml
Tabac 28Le Labo · shares cardamom and cedar (Atlas cedar)$545 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.