Fragrance Notes
Le Beau
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Beau is three materials and it became popular on the strength of just one of them.
Bergamot opens it alone, sharp and bitter, and it lasts only a few minutes. Its job is to stop the fragrance being sweet from the very first second.
Coconut is the heart and the reason people buy it. This is not the suntan-oil coconut of a summer fragrance: it is drier and woodier, closer to the husk than the flesh, and that restraint is what makes it wearable as a men's scent rather than a holiday one.
Tonka bean finishes it alone. Sweet and nutty, it extends the creaminess of the coconut and gives the fragrance its warmth and most of its staying power.
With only three notes there is almost no development. What you smell in the first ten minutes is what you get, which is unusual and part of why it reads as so distinctive.
How Le Beau wears
It lasts a long time and projects strongly for something so simple. Warm weather suits it best, and it works for day and evening alike.
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Beau Eau de Toilette, launched in 2019 by Jean Paul Gaultier, whose fragrance line began in 1993.
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