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A rather ordinary cumin-vetiver perfume with mediocre performance
This review is based on original sample of Cartier Declaration EDT that I got from one of the grey market sellers (not a decant).
This is considered a classic from Jean Claude Ellena. But for me, it is an entirely uninteresting fragrance. The overall personality of this perfume is that of dry spices and generic woody notes. Unfortunately, there are no complementary notes to relieve some of the dryness.
The opening is an amalgam of dry culinary spices, mostly cumin. Within a few minutes, vetiver comes up strongly in the heart notes, along with a whiff of some woody notes . But I do not get anything else reported on Parfumo or Cartier website. These missing notes - orange and cardamom - could have lit up some of the plainness of Declaration. The vetiver and cumin persists deep into the base notes with little development. Fragrantica lists no less than 22 notes for this perfume, which leads many users along magical garden paths paved with illusory accords.
The performance and sillage are mediocre on my skin. Declaration survives on my skin for less than 6 hours, tapering off as a skin scent soon after. It lasts longer on my clothes.
In summary, this is a mature cumin-vetiver scent that is inoffensive and plain. It may work well as an office perfumes until someone mistakes the cumin for body odor. Declaration is too ordinary for me to consider buying it. Tous 1920 The Origin EDP is a very cheap alternative ($23) if you really need a cumin-vetiver scent.
This is considered a classic from Jean Claude Ellena. But for me, it is an entirely uninteresting fragrance. The overall personality of this perfume is that of dry spices and generic woody notes. Unfortunately, there are no complementary notes to relieve some of the dryness.
The opening is an amalgam of dry culinary spices, mostly cumin. Within a few minutes, vetiver comes up strongly in the heart notes, along with a whiff of some woody notes . But I do not get anything else reported on Parfumo or Cartier website. These missing notes - orange and cardamom - could have lit up some of the plainness of Declaration. The vetiver and cumin persists deep into the base notes with little development. Fragrantica lists no less than 22 notes for this perfume, which leads many users along magical garden paths paved with illusory accords.
The performance and sillage are mediocre on my skin. Declaration survives on my skin for less than 6 hours, tapering off as a skin scent soon after. It lasts longer on my clothes.
In summary, this is a mature cumin-vetiver scent that is inoffensive and plain. It may work well as an office perfumes until someone mistakes the cumin for body odor. Declaration is too ordinary for me to consider buying it. Tous 1920 The Origin EDP is a very cheap alternative ($23) if you really need a cumin-vetiver scent.