Eau de Cartier Essence d'Orange
Essence d'Orange is Cartier's study in citrus literalism: orange and bergamot in the opening are direct and unwavering, making no effort to hide behind herbs or florals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Patchouli50
- Iris10
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readEssence d'Orange is Cartier's study in citrus literalism: orange and bergamot in the opening are direct and unwavering, making no effort to hide behind herbs or florals. Violet at the heart is a single floral pivot — delicate, slightly powdery — that prevents the composition from reading as cologne without weight.
Virginia cedar and patchouli in the base provide a clean, dry finish with enough woody texture to anchor the citrus memory. It is brief by design, a fragrance that does not overstay. Within its intentional constraints — three notes per tier, unisex, minimal — it is precisely what it intends to be.
Scent twins
In this family
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