Roadster

Cartier · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2008

≈ $85 · 100ml · approx. retail

Roadster is an aromatic-fougère men's fragrance launched by Cartier in 2008, the first masculine scent composed by house perfumer Mathilde Laurent. It opens with sharp fresh mint and bergamot before settling into a sweeter woody-vanillic drydown of patchouli, vetiver, vanilla and labdanum.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

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Perfumer

Mathilde Laurent

French · 8 in collection

A French perfumer who trained at ISIPCA and spent over a decade at Guerlain before becoming Cartier's first dedicated in-house perfumer in the mid-2000s. She is celebrated for an artistic, conceptual approach to fine fragrance.

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