Cartier has launched La Panthère Elixir, a new flanker to 2014’s La Panthère fragrance for women…
The scents landed on the wrong part of my brain
Maybe it was just me, but the scents landed on the wrong part of my brain, knocking on reason’s door. Scriabin leaves you with enough questions as it is, and here were more. Salonen’s and Thibaudet’s sensational performance of “Prometheus” — transparent, nuanced and colorful — had no need for further tickling the senses.
— From a review of the San Francisco Symphony's production of Scriabin’s “Prometheus, The Poem of Fire,” scented by perfumer Mathilde Laurent. Read more in Symphony, scents in San Francisco: Does adding smells to performance make sense? at The Los Angeles Times.
The diffusers were timed to match the music
Onstage, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet practiced his solo part in “Prometheus,” which the San Francisco Symphony will perform March 1 through 3, while the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen listened attentively to the wooden vortexes as they were being tested; the sound they made while emitting smoke, he noticed, was nearly a G.
Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s longtime perfumer, who had designed the scents, double-checked notes on her iPad. For this day’s test, without the orchestra, she wanted to be sure the diffusers were timed to match the music. So they were going to play a recording overhead.
— Read more in Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall at The New York Times.
Cartier Oud Vanille ~ new fragrance
Cartier has launched Oud Vanillé, a new fragrance in the brand’s luxury Les Heures Voyageuses oud series…
A more holistic vision of the history
“Since antiquity, humans transformed walls, stones and also plants to survive. So, in this laboratory, I wanted to show that to give a more holistic vision of the history—which is nature and chemistry—and everything is in everything.” [Mathilde] Laurent’s poetic, artistic vision celebrates not just the perfume as product, but the actual art of making it as well. “I would say cooking is the neighbor of perfumery. Mixology is the neighbor of perfumery. Gardening is the neighbor of perfumery. And I wanted all these neighborhoods to be present in the laboratory,” she explains.
— Cartier perfumer Mathilde Laurent on her new laboratory in Paris. Read more in Cartier's Mathilde Laurent Is Redefining The Art Of Perfumery at Gotham.