La Panthère Cartier 2014 Eau de Parfum
La Panthère is built around gardenia, a flower Cartier's in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent worked for years to capture without artificiality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 accords.
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- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Floral50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Strawberry
- Rhubarb
- Rhubarb
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readLa Panthère is built around gardenia, a flower Cartier's in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent worked for years to capture without artificiality. The heart opens warm and slightly creamy, osmanthus lending a faint apricot edge that reads as skin-close rather than fruity. The top notes — rhubarb, bergamot, a trace of anise — provide a bittersweet lift before the floral deepens.
Oakmoss and leather in the base push this into chypre territory: green, earthy, with enough tension to prevent the gardenia from going candied. It is a modern floral chypre in a tradition that otherwise went extinct.
Scent twins
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