Cartier L’Envol (Mathilde Laurent; 2016) & Guerlain Coriolan (Jean-Paul Guerlain; 1998) perfume reviews –

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In recent months, I’ve found myself thinking what a shame it is that Cartier L’Envol seems to have vanished for good. Released as an eau de parfum in 2016 (has it really been nine years??) with a follow-up eau de toilette coming a year later, it was an attempt on the part of in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent to bring something genuinely new to the realm of masculine perfumery — a landscape that was and remains almost entirely populated by timid, generic clones. At that time, Chanel Bleu was already six years old and Dior Sauvage was marking its first anniversary, so it was brave of both Laurent and Cartier to present the public with a composition that was markedly different from those two blockbusters. Sadly, their boldness didn’t pay off.

To read the rest of this post, which considers the link between L’Envol and Fahrenheit, and examines how Coriolan fits into the post-1980s timeline of masculine perfumery, please click on this link to my Substack: Lost Over The Horizon – perfume reviews – Cartier L’Envol & Guerlain Coriolan.

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[Review based on samples obtained by me.]

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