galloping horse
this is a fantastic fragrance like horses in a meadow, just perfect
Cartier L'Heure Fougueuse IV was released in late 2010. This will be an instant classic - tea, horse, hay perfection. Notes of magnolia, bergamot, vetiver, mate, lavender, musk, coumarin and oak moss.
Cartier Les Heures de Parfum is an exclusive collection introduced in 2009 and created by Mathilde Laurent.
From Bois de Jasmin - (five star review) "the moment I applied L’Heure Fougueuse on my skin, I immediately fell under its spell. A few jasmine petals among the green tendrils, a hint of tobacco smoke, an illusion of warm, salty skin… What do they evoke? Perhaps, the scents of leather gloves, which still hold the perfume of its wearer, of a vintage purse, or of an old book with dried flowers between its pages. At any rate, when a perfume allows me to indulge in fantasies, it wins a place in my heart."
From Musette at Perfume Posse - "It’s phenomenal. I get a huge blast of clean, slightly-green hay, coupled with that sharp, acrid smell that says ”barnyard’…… then, about 5 minutes into it, that all smooths out and it gets weird, compelling and way fabulous – not perfumey at all, more essential/elemental…..but seriously groomed and refined. A scent of elegant contradictions."
From Olfactoria's Travels - "This was the one perfume to rule them all, the one to find them, the one to bring them all and in the darkness of a Cartier Boutique bind them… L’Heure Fougueuse opens with a slightly animalic, the teensiest bit dirty idea of a horse. That interesting and complex note is accompanied by bergamot and lavender, adding an air of freshness, of outdoorsiness, of movement even. I get the feeling this fragrance is dancing in the breeze, speeding along with a galloping horse, pick your metaphor. What I mean is it is the antithesis of stagnant and rigid, it is airy and open – moving."
Patty at Perfume Posse - "You get a whiff of something that smells just a little off/dirty/funky, as Denyse puts it, and then it just relaxes into the embrace of the other notes with a sigh. A horse’s neck is one of my favorite things to smell, and that’s what this feels like to me, followed closely by my memories of being snuggled up in the hayloft with a book – blended together. Fairly (! understatement! ) intoxicating. The longer it is on, the more beautiful it gets, as the notes merge and soften, taking that memory you started with and weaving it with light and burnishing it with gold until it is your memory, but better."
From Grain de Musc - "But it's hard to tell whether this slight animalic funk is given off by the mount or the rider: its slightly cuminic tinge conjures human sweat – not the pungent blast you catch in the subway during summer evening rush hours, but rather that faint reminiscence of a human presence unlaundered vintage clothing gives off when you iron it.
And this is where L’Heure Fougueuse achieves its “rightness”: the sensation of being haloed in a scent that somehow manages to slip under any specific male or female persona to convey a feeling of humanness in all its animal glory – as I wrotein my preview of the new Heures de Parfum, the first times I wore L’Heure Fougueuse, I kept instinctively swiveling my head to find out whose smell was so compelling (rather than who was wearing such a lovely fragrance)…"
this is a fantastic fragrance like horses in a meadow, just perfect