Cartier · 1981

Must de Cartier

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Toilette

Sharp green galbanum and bergamot over jasmine and powdery notes, drying down to vanilla, sandalwood and patchouli.

Cartier says

You’ll smell galbanum, jasmine and vanilla.

More from Cartier’s description

It also mentions Powdery notes, Green notes of galbanum and Fresh galbanum.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Must de Cartier’s scent picture, a draft: galbanum, jasmine, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, lemon, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Must de Cartier, when you spray it: Galbanum, Bergamot, Lemon, Geranium, Sweet orange, Mint, Lavender

As it settlesheart notes

Must de Cartier, as it settles: Jasmine, Rose

What staysdry-down notes

Must de Cartier, what stays: Vanilla (vanillin), Patchouli, Virginia cedar, Peru balsam, Coumarin (new-mown hay), Galaxolide (musk)

What’s inside it

What Cartier names

GalbanumJasmineVanilla

What the label names

36 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.

7 citrus8 herbs & lavender11 florals4 woods2 sweet2 amber & resins1 spices1 musks

Citrus7

Bergamot oilLimoneneLemon oilBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender8

PineneSpearmint oilLavender oilTurpentineLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineolCarvone

Florals11

Geranium oilRose oilJasmineGeraniol (rose)FarnesolCitronellolBenzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalGeranyl acetateCinnamyl alcoholMajantol

Woods4

SantalolPatchouli oilCedarwood oilVertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins2

Peru balsam oilBenzyl cinnamate

Spices1

beta-Caryophyllene

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)
12 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell12

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Benzyl benzoateYellow n°5Red n°4Ext. violet 2Red n°33Sodium sulfate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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