Fragrance Notes
Chestnut
SandalwoodScandal Pour Homme Absolu
Chestnut is not a material you meet often in men's fragrance, and it is the first reason to pay attention to Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme Absolu Parfum Concentré.
It smells less like the raw nut than like the cooked one: starchy, faintly sweet, warm and a little floury, with none of the oily richness of other nuts. That gives the fragrance an unusual texture, soft and almost edible without being a dessert. Mirabelle plum sits with it, a small yellow plum with a honeyed, slightly tart sweetness much brighter than the dark plums usually used in this register, and it lifts the chestnut so the composition does not sit flat. Sandalwood runs underneath both, creamy and smooth with a dry, resinous warmth, and it holds the other two in place for hours.
Three materials, assembled as a parfum concentré, which is the important part. The high oil load gives this considerable depth and weight, so what would be a simple idea at eau de toilette strength becomes dense and quite rich here. Expect strong presence for the first two hours and then a long, close, sweetish warmth that lasts well into the next day on fabric. One spray is usually sufficient. Cold weather and night time suit it, and summer does not. It is the most unusual of the men's Scandal bottles and the one to try if the dry men's Intense struck you as too austere and the Elixir range as too sweet. Released in 2024 and composed by Nathalie Gracia-Cetto, Quentin Bisch and Christophe Raynaud.
The house is French, founded on clothes and in the perfume business since 1993, with Puig as its majority owner since 2011 and the fragrance operation brought in house in 2016.
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