Because, really, who doesn’t love a white floral musk? That’s the notion Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s in-house perfumer, banked on when she created the French jeweler’s first major women’s scent since 2006’s Délices de Cartier. Coupled with top notes of pink pepper and juniper berry; a heart of white rose, cyclamen and lily of the valley, and a drydown of musk and woods, it’s a gorgeous scent to take you through late winter and into spring. One spritz and you’ll immediately sense the soft composition of this scent that’s bright and fresh.
A word that comes to mind? Bright. Compared to the existing fragrance stablemates, Cartier de Lune is noticeably more subtle–targeted at, perhaps, the new Cartier woman (not to mention a younger one, to boot). To reflect the decidedly different mood of this scent, Cartier even departed from its signature scarlet shade in favor of a moonstone-inspired flacon done in shades of white and blue with a silver metallic cap engraved with the moon.
$75 (1.5-oz.) & $98 (2.5-oz.), available exclusively at Saks