Fragrance Notes
Gaultier Divine Elixir
Nobody buys Gaultier Divine Elixir Parfum Refill 200ml by accident. It is a bulk purchase for someone who has already settled on this fragrance and would rather fill the bottle they own than pay for a new one every few months. The quantity is substantial and so is the concentration, which makes the arithmetic straightforward: at one spray a time, and one spray is the right amount here, 200ml of an elixir will last a very long time. It also cuts the packaging considerably, which is worth something if you get through fragrance at any rate at all.
The composition inside is two materials and does not pretend otherwise. Tuberose is the headline, a heavy, creamy white flower with a fleshy texture and a faintly rubbery, green edge that keeps it from being merely sweet, and at this strength it has serious carrying power. Tonka bean is the other half, warm and soft with a dry dustiness and a bitter undertone, and its job is to round off the flower and anchor it so the whole thing lasts for most of a day.
Quentin Bisch composed it. With nothing else in the formula the interest lies entirely in how the two are balanced, and the fragrance shifts across a wearing only in the ratio between them, ending softer and warmer than it starts.
This is an evening and cold weather fragrance aimed at women, and it is emphatically not one to spray liberally. Buy the refill once you are sure, not before.
The brand is French and began on the catwalk. Its founder showed a first women's collection in 1976, opened a Paris boutique in 1984 and entered perfume in 1993 with a corset shaped bottle that has stood for him since. Puig took majority control in 2011 and brought the fragrances in house in 2016.
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