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Le Male Pride Edition
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Pride Edition Eau de Toilette 125ml is the citrus and white flower reading of the house's men's signature, made for a celebration and built to be worn in daylight and in heat.
It opens on blood orange and yuzu, and the pairing is cleverer than a straight orange would be. Blood orange has a deeper, slightly jammy sweetness than a standard one, with a bitter rind underneath, while yuzu is all sharpness and aromatic peel, with a bitter green edge to it. Between them the first ten minutes are genuinely bright.
The middle is where the fragrance gets its character. Neroli and orange blossom come from the same tree but smell nothing alike: neroli is green, cool and slightly bitter, distilled from the blossom and closer to a leaf in feel, while orange blossom absolute is warmer, heavier and more honeyed, with a soapy sweetness that reads as expensive. Having both means the floral heart is lit from two directions at once. Musk is the only material in the base, soft and skin like, and it is there to hold everything close rather than to add an idea of its own.
Five materials, assembled with some care. As an eau de toilette it is lighter on the skin than the Elixir bottles in the same family and far easier to wear in summer, with three or four hours of real presence and a soft trail after that. Reapplication is not a sin at this strength. It suits daytime, warm weather, outdoor events and any occasion where the sweeter Le Male bottles would be oppressive. It was released in 2022, composed by Natalie Gracia-Cetto and Quentin Bisch.
Gaultier opened his first Paris boutique in 1984 and launched his first perfume nine years after that, and the corset bottle introduced with Classique in 1993 remains the house's best known object.
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