L'Envol Cartier 2016 Eau de Parfum

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7.8 / 10 459 Ratings

A popular perfume by Cartier for men, released in 2016. The scent is sweet-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Honey

Gaiac wood Iris

Iris

Musk

Perfumer

Mathilde Laurent

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Scent

7.8459 Ratings

Longevity

7.6395 Ratings

Sillage

6.9396 Ratings

Bottle

8.1407 Ratings

Value for money

7.8154 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 07/29/2025.

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Reviews

20 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/06/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

HugoMontez
80 Reviews

HugoMontez

Top Review 10

I love you, honeybear

There's a trend specially in niche to create a scent that evoques a fake sophistication and pretentiousness. I don't know why but people go crazy over that type of scent.

They usually say that's "niche quality" which I don't agree at all, mainly because there isn't such thing as "niche quality". Niche means availability and price, not quality.
Don't get me wrong, I love many niche fragrances and indie ones, as much as I love designer ones, as long as they smell good, are unique and well blended. But the hype around overrated niche brands these days is enormous.

This Cartier is a true high quality woody fragrance and very unique (as many other fragrances from this brand). This one is focused on honey and fresh violet leaves. Not a typical combination but a successful one. It starts out very fresh and sweet with a big dose of violet leaves and ambrosia (honey). The gaiac wood is melted in the honey accord, giving a slightly creamy and woody tone to the composition. The experience is incredibly smooth. The fragrance become more airy, less sweet and with a touch of musk in the drydown.

Overall, an airy, fresh and sweet woody composition, with an aura of elegance around. Very long lasting (8+ hours), and completely unisex in opinion.

It's unique, interesting, mature yet modern, and a must buy for people who apreciate Woody floral musk compositions or just want to have a great modern masculine fragrance.

EDIT: this one became instantly one of my favorite fragrances. The composition is so well blended and unique, and very wearable! Sometimes we have super creative stuff with low versatility but this is a easy reach during the colder months.
Mathilde Laurent is a incredible nose and deserves more attention. Stuff like this, Roadster or Declaration Parfum are classics from the brand and even Herba Fresca and Pamplelune from Guerlain are great example of fresh yet interesting compositions.
Overall, L'Envol is fantastic and deserves the 5* in my book.

5/5

10/04/2022

9
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Elysium
888 Reviews

Elysium

Helpful Review 9

Surprising Moment

One of the most graceful masculine perfumes of our age, wonderfully combining dew-soaked violet flowers, sparkling, moist and sweet like a warm spring morning and bright, ethereal honey. It is a perfume they have talked little about, and of which they talk even less today. The masses have barely noticed it, perhaps because it is not punchy or weird enough for the niche audience and not conventional enough for those looking for more traditional men’s fragrances, but this delicate and carefully assembled concoction in my opinion is a great example of the art of perfumery. Ambrosia, the nectar of the gods of ancient Greece, considered capable of giving immortality, was the inspiration for the perfumer Mathilde Laurent. Envol, which means flight, is an airy, translucent perfume. It is woody oriental, with the note of honey replacing the classic coumarin. Not a pure, syrupy and sticky honey, you don’t feel the waxy side, but just a hint, a whisper. I think it deserves more attention than it has received, such as Pasha de Cartier Eau de Toilette or Déclaration Eau de Toilette.

On my skin, and my nose, L’Envol begins with something powdery, perhaps aldehyde, like a cloud of the floral iris. I get it clearly, dusty, not buttery, and not Dior Homme Original (2011) Eau de Toilette or any lipstick and makeup variation. There is a sense of something herbaceous that appears after a few moments, with a tinge of aromatic lavender, a taste, not dominant, and not too fougère. In the greenish hues, there is also sage, but it is only a faint impression. I don’t get honey shades at first. Instead, iris and violet leaves are more conspicuous. And then, there follows a moment that takes me by surprise, the entrance into the heart.

The beauty of golden honey appears in the heart and becomes the protagonist of the show after the dust has subsided somewhat and moved to the back, even if it does not completely disappear. It is delicate honey, like that of acacia, characterized by a splendid light colour, with a silky consistency and a very soft, light and floral scent. The mellifluous substance takes advantage of the woody and smoky notes of guaiac with a fine subtlety similar to pipe tobacco, and the more flowery ones of violet, which add a light touch without being too metallic. Although there is almost an overdose of violet leaves, the resulting scent is not as strong as #he wood, for example. Through the base, the guaiac shows up early in the heart. The transition from an initial dustiness to a sweet smokiness is astounding.

At the base, there are more woods and mosses, and the honey takes a back seat along with the iris. Guaiac wood is dominant and slightly leathery, along with clean white musk with no animal smudging, providing stability and durability to the entire composition. Guaiac will be the last scent left when it comes down to a skin scent. The base is warm, the cloud now encloses a modern not too earthy patchouli which prolongs the herbaceous aspect injected by the violet. You might think of sticky incense in there, but I guess it comes once again from the many facets of guaiac.

Beautiful honey and fresh, airy woods with hints of iris and violet on a bed of patchouli. It’s light and bewitching, and the soft honey musk makes me dizzy. Envol has an oriental cut but stays fresh until the end and is perfect for transitional seasons, such as spring and even better autumn. It is probably not the best choice for the hottest summer days. Not an overly projective perfume, not too strong. It is very long-lasting and lasts on the skin for several hours, so safe enough for the office, as well as for a night out, dinner, or even a date. Not entirely masculine, L’Envol is a fragrance designed for men, but not a caricature of virility. I loved it.

I base the review on a 100ml bottle I have owned since January 2020.

-Elysium

02/06/2017

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

L'ENVOL

It is possible to notice that from the bottle to the advertisement the jewerly brand Cartier spared no cost in what seems to be its new pillar within the male universe of fragrances - L'Envol de Cartier. It is rare to see a brand investing in this way for a public other than the female, but perhaps for the way the perfume seems to position the brand is targeting the users of the great sales success of its competitor Hermès. But the main difference is that while Terre d'Hermes was constructed as an iteration of the Declaration with a very clear woody mineral direction, L'envol is ambivalent from the target audience to the perfume itself.

The mental image that came to me as I reflected on L'Envol was that of an optical illusion figure that has several figures hidden within it, waiting to be revealed according to the perception of each one. L'Envol is both a fragrance of transparent honey and a perfume of sweet and iris or a violet scent with a light touch of leather a la Fahrenheit. Everything is within its aroma and it is curious how you can perceive each of these facets every time you apply L'Envol on the skin. They lead to a base that is also multifaceted and although harmonic is ambivalent in its nuances. Sometimes the mineral materials dominate and seem to produce a similar base between the Terre d'Hermes and the Marc Jacobs Bang. Other times, there is a slightly musky and foul musky that produces a ghostly touch of oud. Or was it perhaps a well-built use of Gaiac wood?
L'Envol just seems to want to be inconclusive, familiar enough that it is easy for its nuances to be grasped but distinct and complex enough to stand by itself. Its ambivalence certainly makes me think of perfume that has great potential to please the female audience and be a shared creation. It is a fragrance that at the very least requires a little more time to appreciate the beauty of its identity - which is both positive and negative points, depending on the expectations of each one to it.

10/28/2020

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

CigiScent
14 Reviews

CigiScent

Helpful Review 3

Classy, classic, floral, honey...

I got this fragrance in the beginning of 2020. I asked a coupon for a niche fragrance store for Christmas, but instead got a coupon for our local designer fragrance store. A bit bummed I went out to check what they had. Being bored by the 4 scent profiles you get in 80% of the designer fragrances, I smelled this Cartier. I always liked the Cartier fragrances, they always are quality, have class, and are not too focused on the craze of the moment.

In the beginning, I was kind of surprised by it. You get the iris, but not in a "I want to sell a lot of perfume so I make my own version of Dior Homme". It is not powdery at all, but elegant iris, with a very classy honey note that stays kind of fresh through the life of the fragrance.

There is a very subtle smokey guaiac wood supporting it.

This is a fragrance that is ideal for fall and winter. It is not loud, it is a classy fragrance, but it has a really good fragrance experience. You get a nice scent bubble for about a whole day. So longevity is good. Nu beast projection, but this is not what most wearers of this type of classy fragrance seak.

This is a more mature fragrance, but not old smelling. I would say 30 and up.

One of my favorite designers at the moment and can be had for a steal at the discounters. Contrary to a lot of reformulated designers that can be had at the discounters, this one is still high quality. I guess the reason that you can have it for cheap is that it is not a great commercial success.

07/29/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 2

Violet leaf-inflected honey/hay

I am still not sure if L'Envol is just plain great or if it stands out simply because it's swimming in a sea of male designer dreck. Mostly I think I am just relieved that a designer is finally giving men a fragrance that has obviously very high quality raw materials, and has a coherent beginning, middle, and end. Also, it is joyfully clean of the harsh woody-ambery aromachemicals that get hurriedly stuffed into male designer perfumes these days to boost its power and projection. Give me natural-smelling and quiet over screaming power top any day. Please.

Of course, this was done by Mathilde Laurent, who has authored all the perfumes in the first tranche of the beautiful, uber-pricey and exclusive Les Heures collection for Cartier. So we should assume that a designer fragrance would contain some of her hallmarks, such as rendering a striking idea in a classical, easy-to-catch manner but not strictly commercial per se.

L'Envol does contain these hallmarks. It is quite smooth, blond, and easy to wear, but features a bite in its tail that surprised me and struck me as gutsy for a commercial male designer. Putting aside all the talk of honey and powdery patchouli (of which there is a lot, in a subtle, sheer way), what really struck me about L'Envol was the strong violet leaf presence it has. When joined to the slightly musky tobacco-like feel of the patchouli, the violet leaf makes me think of both Cuir Pleine Fleur by Heeley and 1000 by Patou. By association, therefore, there is a slight Fahrenheit vibe to L'Envol - not really similar but inexorably linked through that sharp, green 'petrol'-like violet leaf note.

The base notes really stick out for me here because in comparison to the relatively light and airy topnotes and middle notes, it is quite heavy - thick, earthy, tobacco-like, with that slightly pungent violet leaf exerting its pleasantly bitter presence. Moving backwards from the base upwards, the general tone is one of gentle, powdered translucence. The honey note is cleverly layered with a silvery iris for space and air, and thus doesn't read as heavy, boozy or animalic. At the top, I thought I smelled a very good quality bergamot oil, because it opened on a bitterness I associate with citrus. However, bergamot is not listed, so I must assume that the bracing, bitter freshness comes from the violet leaf or some unlisted fruit note.

In the middle, the (clean) patchouli and the honey formed a pleasant sort of 'honey tea' note - a translucent chamomile tea with a spoonful of honey. It is very subtle, refined, slightly powdery, and not too sweet. Anyway, I think L'Envol is a fabulous male designer release and worth checking out for fans of violet leaf in perfumery, such as Cuir Pleine Fleur and 1000.

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