L'Envol Eau de Toilette (2017)
by Cartier

L'Envol Edt is a brighter kind of version quite loyal to original formula which is slightly now re-orchestrated on proportions and notes-dosage. Citric top notes (mostly orange and lemon) are delicately spicy-incensey and more prominent (kind of more durable on their splashing/watery resinous fluidity) but equally smooth in the end and kind of honeyed, resinous and suedish. The woody presence (guaiac wood) is still seasoned, vaguely incensey, leathery and musky. Dry down is refined, urban and musky-suedish with a melancholic undertone (which is super refined, toned down on woodiness and kind of super modern and metropolitan a la Ulrich Lang Nightscape).

“I love L’Envol, but I wish the sweet top notes lasted a little longer.”

*finger of monkey’s paw curls*

Honey money watch and wallet
Drink it breathe it eat it call it

TJ blind buy holy grailer
Cinematic mind-blown trailer

Blame it on the guaiac wood
Not like perfume's understood

Rocked my world with E D P
Rubble bounced with E D T

Beehive royal ovulation
Citric chypre combination

Feel that smell?
Ev'rywhere

All day long
It's stll there

Magic moment music maker
Melifluent fluid faker

Mead messiah Maid Mathilde
Your ambrosia now my shield

Nervous system integration
Ol' factory fascination

'Lectric lightbulb limbic wires
'Lumined laser's lathing fires

Nervibronic frequintessence
Kleptron bro-san moss fluorescence

Sense the ghost note mystery
Au Ra buzzing like a bee

Apparatus bulbous bottle
Knurly nozzle metal throttle

Spray some lose some smell some more
Win some bin some 'til you score

Cartieric pillarama
Field emergent left-turn drama

Paper loser tragedy
Eye of skin required to see

Fibonacci Cart coorsive
Etchy sketchy steely forcive

Terre d'Hermèsive collar nut
Twist it wrong to close it shut

One-piece flash lamp flask for flanker
Paperweightish twist-top tanker

Lovely liquid light deluxe
Lampy dampy ampy flux

Vaporescent ourobori
Bumpy clumpy 'lectric tori

Close the bottle 'round their wires
Silence vapor's thermal lyres

Thank the Maker for this making
Meadful mother's liquor's faking

Raise a glass or bottle downed
Here's to one more 'lightful round.

Hmmm....I sprayed both the EdP and this EdT version on both wrists to do a no-holds barred comparison between the L'Envol siblings.

This one just seems to to be a sharper, less likable version of the the EdP which, admittedly, took a while for me to warm up to. It seems a bit hollowed out and casualized versus the EdP; perhaps it has followers who could appreciate the signature musky-honey vibe of the L'Envol series, but don't want the intense, formal quality of the EdP.

Don't dislike it, but the EdP has won me over and the EdT just is difficult for me to appreciate in contrast.

It is interesting to compare this to the EdP version. This has a prominent citrus note (kind of orange-lemon) which is bright and at the same time round & smooth. The guaiac word has a spicy-wood note. The honey is of a resinous, honeycomb sort. Pleasant scent, but it has a bit of a "fresh" note which suggests "inoffensive office-pleaser" rather than anything really striking.