CaFleureBon Celebrates Bastille Day Part 2: NEW FRAGRANCE Cartier Baiser Volé: + Stolen Kisses Draw

 

 

[Well, if you believe François Truffaut, they are !]

Cartier Brooch circa 1935

 

Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent brilliant in-house perfumer and author  of Les Heures, has woven a web both haunting and complex with her latest labor of love, and the soliflore subject is The Lily.

 

A   Pure Floral A unique exploration of the three facets of the lily

Fresh The leaves of the lily

Floral The petals of the lily

Powdery The pistil of the lily

 

 

 

Now, I do not normally like to tease you, dear readers, but this was a very long day, and I am bone-weary.

So please, allow me to fully review this for you very soon; I have oodles of hand-scribbled notes made on the Amtrak ride home 😉

 

 

Today, the very gracious and cordial team from Cartier invited a select group of editors to view their presentation at the elegant Surrey Hotel penthouse suite .

[Our intrepid E-I-C Michelyn Camen is still convalescing, so I attempted to fill her shoes.]

 

 

Mathilde Laurent is busy at work on her next fragrant project in Paris. Mme Laurent was the recipient of the 2010  French Foundation Fragrance Specalists Prize for her stunning   La Treizième Heure de Cartier 

 

This Friday, July 15th, Nordstrom’s will launch Baiser Volé exclusively…it will retail for $100 for 1.6 oz. Meanwhile, I  would like to offer a  small   decant  of this beauty to a fortunate reades, and dear friends this is a winner. Leave a comment  on your favorite Cartier fragrance or fragrance by Mathilde Laurent to be eligible. Draw will close July 16, 2011.

 

–Ida Meister, Senior Editor

Aujourd hui C'est  Le jour de la fete nationale (Bastille Day in the USA similar to our fourth of July)

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28 comments

  • Isa says:

    My favorite Cartier are Délices and Déclaration. The first one smells like pastries (yum!) and the second one like Indian meals 🙂
    I’d love to try Baiser Volé. Thank you!!

  • Ceil says:

    I love love La Treizieme Heure de Cartier. And I like and wear most Cartier fragrances…a favorite being Le basier du dragon. I am hoping to get to smell the new fragrance soon since I am going to Nordstrom’s this weekend.

  • Sandi says:

    I like L’Heure Diaphane but then again depends which side of myself I want to express. It also could be L’Heure Mystérieuse!

  • Maureen says:

    I have never tried a Cartier fragrance and I would love to be entered to win this. Thanks

  • london says:

    I’m not a big fan of any of the Cartier fragrances I have tried so far. I liked XIII but it was too similar to Patchouli 24 (though probably better but not so much so to justify getting it when I already had more of the Le Labo than I would ever need as it’s so strong and I only wear it once a year).

  • Holly F. says:

    My favorite Cartier that I’ve tried thus far is Must de Cartier… so smoky and sensuous! I would also love to try Baiser Vole. Thanks for the draw!

  • Bobsainttropez says:

    Le Lys….. Mon jardin en est rempli.
    Son parfum enivre mes narines et mon esprit.
    Ses effluves sont une invitation dans un rêve poudreux, doux.
    Le nom de ce parfum me fait penser au célèbre tableau de Fragonard éponyme : Le baiser volé.
    Je crois que je vais acheter ce parfum pour ma collection.

  • ElizabethN says:

    My favorite Cartier fragrance is La Treizième Heure! It is a stunner…I would love to try this new one, since she is so talented that it must be good.

  • sara levy says:

    I would love to make Baiser Vole my favorite Cartier! My current favorite is Must de Cartier Clair de Jasmin. Please enter me into this wonderful drawing. Thanks.

  • Asali says:

    That is very easy:-) Favourite Cartier is definitely ‘So Pretty’, which really is a wonderful fragrance, and Mathilde Laurent has created many of my favourites, no. 1 being ‘Attrape Coeur’. I am looking forward to reading your review of Baiser Volé. Thanks a lot.

  • karin says:

    OHHHHH!!!! I’m crazy about Mathilde Laurent!!! She wooed me with Attrape Coeur, which is my HG of HGs (I can’t stop saying how much I love it). And Cartier’s La Treizieme Heure has me mesmerized – had to get a bottle of it. I actually tried Baiser Vole at Nordstrom yesterday, and am so excited about it! It’s definitely an ethereal, beautiful scent. It remind me a bit of L’Air du Temps – a floral with a bit of spice. Thanks for the draw… 🙂

  • Tiara says:

    Looking forward to your review of this one! And get well wishes to Michelyn!

    I love Déclaration!

  • Natalia says:

    Declaration is my favorite Cartier fragrance, although i do like the unpopular with the critics Delices as well

  • Michelyn Camen says:

    Tiara
    The review will be done by Ida
    Suzanne those were the prices given to us by lartisan in an official press release
    here is the information I recieved but will have more info soons. “To answer your question, Mon Numero #10 (the only one that will be sold in the US and exclusively at Barneys) will retail for $200 for a 100ml bottle. #10 is sold in our boutiques in France but not at any department stores or other retailers. Barneys locations in Japan will also carry #10 from September. North American customers will be able to buy it at Barneys”. I will try to follow up!

  • Felicia G says:

    I must say that I love the House of Cartier and I have said on more than one occasion that I do not think they get the attention that they deserve in the market segment. I love so pretty,eau de cartier, Panthre, Must and also declaration.
    I have had scented candles from Cartier and they were drool worthy. For men, I have always enjoyed Pasha and eau de Cartier. I love so pretty most in the form of lotion. I had a few editions of all of these scents at one point. I recall so pretty in a bubbled glass bottle it had a lavender tint and I had a gold panthre and also a more fruity green colored one. I love and respect Cartier very much and was happy to have been a member of the Cartier family as an intern many moons ago on fifth ave. Twas a most glamourous time for me. I can not wait to smell this I am dying to whaft it…I mean it this is excitement for me I may have to make my husband pull over at Nordstroms for me this weekend:) Thanks for this elegant draw from such a glamourus French company on Bastille Day:)

  • Candice says:

    What a lovely article…My favorite Cartier is Must (prefer the vintage parfum which is deliciously dark now:)
    Thanks for offering such a lovely draw!

  • Sue says:

    Wow, Mathilde Laurent and lily! I love the note, especially as it’s the meaning of my name. Bit of an emblem, so to speak.

    My favorite Cartier fragrance is Le Baiser du Dragon, so I hope I’ll love this stolen kiss just as much! I love Mathilde Laurent’s work, especially Shalimar Eau Legere and Attrape Coeur. 🙂

  • Masha says:

    Mathilde Laurent is talented indeed! My favorite is L’Heure Mysterieuse, a fabulous incense-based scent.

  • Irina says:

    pamplelune-the first “big love” in my short parfumista career
    I would love to try any of her creations
    Thank you

  • Michelyn Camen says:

    Irinina I love pampelune it is is one of my favorite refreshing scents
    I miss the Cartier must Edp of the 80s nothing smells quite like it
    Mme Laurent is a talent

  • Tara says:

    I’m not normally a lily fan in perfume but this one sounds something and with Mathilde behind it what else could it be? My favourite Cartier is L’Heure Fougueuse but I am dying to try La Treizieme Heure, especially after the love in the comments. Many thanks for the draw.

  • kastehelmi says:

    Mmmm lily on a hot night! Must de Cartier *was* my favorite (I have a little bottle and wear it on rare special occasions. Then I tried Must II-the same narcissus only fresh, springy, without the Oriental accompaniment. I am a sucker for narcissus though. If Cartier could make narcissi bloom in the 2 Must perfumes, I can only imagine the fresh lushness of a lily-based perfume with such an alluring name and raunchy ad-spread….

  • Claudia says:

    My favorite Cartier is VI L’Heure Brilliante, with notes of lemon, flaxseed, gin and aldehydes this makes a great warm weather fragrance……and my favorite Mathilde Laurent fragrance is Guerlain Guet-Apens renamed Attrape Coeur.

  • TaffyJ says:

    I haven’t tried any of the Cartier fragrances, but I am looking forward to sampling several, especially Baiser Volé. It looks like a trip to Nordstrom’s is in order.

  • Tama says:

    My favorite Cartier, just because it is so strange and somehow beautiful, is l’Heure Fougueuse. I tried it and was laughing so much – I smelled like the animal barns at the county fair. In a very good way. Not many perfumes list a horse note.

    I was nervous to try this, because Baiser du Dragon Did Not Work in a very Bad way. But it sounds like it might be okay.

  • Hernando says:

    I sampled Roadster/ Roadster Sport and was not really impressed. I do love Panthre. Bought it for my wife a few years back and was a hit. Gave my daughter Delices De Cartier Eau de Parfum (mini bottle) which she enjoyed. Need to delve into some of the scents referenced here.