Fragrance Notes
Scandal Pour Homme
Eau de toilette is the lighter way into this one, and the Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Gift Set is the version to give a man who wears fragrance to work rather than to make an entrance.
The composition is three materials wide. Clary sage opens it, herbal and dry with a bitter green bite and a faint winey warmth, and it is a far more interesting first impression than a sharp top note would have been. Tonka bean follows underneath with a low, powdery sweetness, the kind that smells worn in rather than applied. Vetiver finishes, rooty and dry with a whisper of smoke, cutting across the sweetness so the scent keeps its edge. There is no fourth material and no hidden stage, so what it does in the first half hour is what it does all day, at a decreasing volume. That makes it an easy thing to buy for, because nobody is going to be surprised at hour three.
At toilette strength the whole thing is lighter and a little brighter at the top, which makes it easier to wear in daylight, in an office or in warm weather where the heavier concentration can feel like too much. It still lasts a working day, but it keeps closer to the skin and asks less of the room. That is the practical argument for this box over a stronger one: it is a present for a man who would rather be noticed at conversational distance than from the doorway, and it will not get him talked about in a lift afterwards.
The house behind it is French, built by a designer whose womenswear was first shown in 1976 and whose Paris boutique opened in 1984, with perfume following in 1993. Puig has held most of the company since 2011 and has made the fragrances in house from 2016.
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