Fragrance Notes
Scandal Pour Homme
Weddings, dinners, a first date in a restaurant: the Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Gift Set suits the occasions where a man wants to smell good without the fragrance arriving in the room ahead of him.
Three materials make it. Clary sage leads, herbal and dry, with a green bitterness and a faint boozy warmth that gives the opening some gravity. Tonka bean sits below and provides the sweetness, powdery and low, more like warm skin than like anything out of a kitchen. Vetiver runs underneath, dry and rooty with a thin line of smoke, and it keeps the sweetness from softening the whole thing too far. It is a short composition and behaves like one, holding a single clear idea for as long as it lasts.
At eau de toilette strength it is the moderate version. The top is a touch brighter, the body a little lighter, and it stays nearer the skin, which is exactly what you want in company. It still runs for a working day, and it will not have gone by the time you get home.
As a gift it is well judged for a man in his twenties or thirties who wears fragrance but does not collect it, and it is better in autumn and winter than in heat. The boxed set does the presentation for you, so it can be given exactly as it comes, which is useful if you are buying late. It is also a sensible first bottle for somebody who has never been given fragrance before, because nothing in it is difficult.
The house came to fragrance from clothing. Gaultier showed womenswear in 1976, opened his own Paris boutique in 1984 and launched a perfume in 1993, and the business has been majority owned by Puig since 2011, with the scents made internally from 2016.
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