Cartier · 2014 · Mathilde Laurent

La Panthère

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Fresh gardenia and a trace of rose and jasmine over soft animal musk, settling onto mossy patchouli.

Cartier says

You’ll smell gardenia, musk and chypre.

More from Cartier’s description

It also mentions Historic chypre, Mythical animal musk and Fresh gardenia.

The house’s page

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The drawn La Panthère bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

La Panthère’s scent picture, a draft: gardenia, musk, patchouli, bergamot, oakmoss, rose drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

La Panthère, when you spray it: Bergamot, Geranium

As it settlesheart notes

La Panthère, as it settles: Gardenia, Chypre, Rose, Jasmine

What staysdry-down notes

La Panthère, what stays: Musk, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What Cartier names

GardeniaMuskHistoric chypre

What the label names

26 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.

3 citrus4 herbs & lavender10 florals2 woods1 sweet2 spices1 musks2 powder1 earth & moss

Citrus3

Bergamot oilLimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals10

Rose oilJasmineGeranium oilGeranyl acetateMajantolGeraniol (rose)Benzyl salicylateAmyl salicylateCinnamyl alcoholCitronellol

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices2

beta-CaryophylleneIsoeugenyl acetate

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Powder2

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)Anise alcohol

Earth & moss1

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

Not for the smell12

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Yellow n°5Orange n°4Red n°33Red n°4Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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