Délices de Cartier (2006)
by Cartier

I seem to be missing the point here. Délices de Cartier's sweet “froot” flavored top notes are so intensely chemical that they call to mind cough syrup or some kind of floor cleaning liquid, rather than perfume. I’m not sure that the transition to a maudlin violet and dense, fuzzy amber much improves matters. In fact, the combination of cloying sweetness and harsh woody ambers in Délices de Cartier’s base notes comes remarkably close to the oppressive gluiness of my least favorite masculine gourmand scents - things like Lolita Lempicka au Masculin, A*Men, and Le Mâle.

Highly indelicate, if you ask me.

OMG! I love this perfume, it is sweet and lucious at the same time. When I wear it, it makes me feels delectable. Even though it is very sweet, it always seemed very crisp not too rich. I don;t like sweet frarances because they remind me of chocolate cake when you eat too much its like you are overindulged...too sweet it becomes bitter. I kept waiting for this point in Delices but it was always crispy sweet. I loved it. Simply irresistible

The deep cherry on top is young & delish but I couldn't get past the musky older basenote. Bottle is really lovely though the scent is schizophenic but i'd say 50--ish women should love it for the holidays.

I loved this in the store, and the bottle just added to my delight. Once home it went unused because I made the mistake of reading Luca and Tania's review, where they refer to the Delices EdT as 'vile fruity.' As a newbie to the world of fragrance, I decided I must be wrong, and couldn't possibly like this 'fruity vile' (as they called the perfume). I took one sniff and was subsequently and irrationally biased against my purchase! Okay, now back to the fragrance which I decided to re-try, and I DO like it. Yes it's sweet--I like sweet! Yes it's a bit heavy handed, but the excess is great for this time of year. And there is a hint of booze (kirsch others have mentioned) which I'm quite partial to. After the initial blast of candied FRUIT the subsequent development is quite nice. Warmly sweet, slightly vanillic, a hint of liqueur, and VERY pretty I've re-found the love. Now WHY did I sell my bottle?! :)

A rather sweet cherry brandy scent that eventually descends into bland generic territory.

I must be honest I tested this scent only once, so maybe my assessment can be a little premature, but isn't this way too sweet for its own good?

I mean, I like -or I should say, love- sweet scents when they are done right. They have a sense of exotic charisma, and maybe not for everyday, but once in a while wearing a feminine, or masculine sweet fragrance feels almost like a gift for both genders. They offer a hedonistic extravagance and excess. But the 'sweet' in question must have a reason in its existence, and balancing sensibility. Delices de Cartier is just sweet to be sweet I think. Too much sweetness with nothing Earthy balancing it. There are floral sweets and there are fruity sweets, and then there are very overly done, syrupy sweets which are simply sickening. Delices is in that latter category.

I think the sweet notes must be a little tongue-in-cheek, humorous and interesting. Unfortunately, Delices feels much like Angel by Mugler, Wish by Chopard or Flowerbomb by V&F. I have a certain tolerance to Flowerbomb, but I detest the rest. Delices does not feel well-made, nor original, but rather I daresay 'cheap' and insipid. Which is terrible, since Cartier creates unbelievably gorgeous scents: being every time on point - one hit after the other.

Much like Angel and Wish, Delices comes in a gorgeous bottle -a true work of art by all means- and a big hype, but the juice inside just does not deliver. That being said, the bottle looks much better in pictures actually. I will still keep my rating neutral, because as sickening as it is, Delices still comes off better than half of the sweet scents out there, and is a new venture for Cartier. However, it just doesn't feel precious, glamorous and decadent as a piece of Cartier jewelry when Must de Cartier, Panthere and Le Baiser fulfill position and stimulate that metaphor perfectly.

I would recommend trying some other scent from Cartier, if you are a new to the Cartier scent portfolio and wish to explore what the famous house has to offer.