Water Paris

Water Paris is Perfume Parlour's take on Cartier's Eau de Cartier, Christine Nagel's masterwork of subtlety. It opens sparkling and fresh with yuzu and bergamot lifted by a faint coriander, then a green heart of violet leaf, a powdery touch of violet flower and a crisp lavender give it that clean, verdant, airy signature. The base is a soft trail of white amber, musk, patchouli and cedar. As a budget interpretation it captures the elegant, perfectly-unisex, hot-weather freshness of the original well, though it renders the violet-leaf accord flatter and the whole thing even lighter and shorter-lived than the already intimate Cartier. A clean, refined daytime scent for spring and summer, the office and casual wear.