Well hello!

I think it’s safe to say I am a little bit obsessed with perfume. I have what you might call an embarrassment of riches in that regard, and the collection is ever expanding despite my constant promises to myself to stop buying more. What can I say, I’m weak willed when it comes to perfume. It’s a good thing my addiction is fragrance and not crack cocaine, that’s all I’m saying.

So this morning, as so often happens, a delivery occurred. The postman probably thinks we’re running a business from here with the amount of packages we get every week, between my perfume, Mr A’s watch parts/tools etc, and female offspring’s endless Amazon purchases of, well, literally anything. Today’s delivery was bottles of Cartier’s ‘La Panthere’ and Scherrer’s ‘Nuits Indiennes.’

Nuits Indiennes was a blind buy but sounded right up my alley, so I took a chance. Fortunately I love it and am wearing it today. I believe this bottle is an older formula - as far as I can tell, the newer version has an all green box instead of green and gold, and a gold band on the cap instead of a green band. Feel free to comment if I’m wrong! Either way, this is a gorgeous oriental floral - rather fruity and a little bit aldehydic to open but drying down to a warm amber/benzoin/vanilla/Tonka/heliotrope with a musky, civety kick. The animatics are subtle though, so nothing to be scared off by. Just yummy! 

La Panthere I already knew I liked. I’d previously bought a little 9ml purse spray to try it but as I was burning through that quite fast I thought I might as well buy a full bottle. And talking of bottles, I just adore the cat face cut into the glass on this one. I attempted to capture it on camera but it just didn’t want to show it’s face today. I’ve only become enamoured of Cartier perfumes fairly recently when my daughter gifted me a bottle of Baiser du Dragon at Christmas. I’d never tried them before but now all of theirs I’ve tried, I love. Cartier just get me! La Panthere is gorgeous - it’s classed as a floral chypre but it’s a very modern take on this genre without drifting into sweet patchouli territory like some so called modern chypres do.There’s a superb rendition of oak moss here but overall this is a clean and elegant scent.